Teague on Us fundraising: Things have been very good. I’m excited about the prospects

[Mulligan]

he hasn't written for gh in a long time, he now has his own blog that he writes for and touts it as "we" when ever he refers to the site. he may have a staff writing for him there, otherwise why would he refer to himself as we?

Maybe it's because his ego is big enough for two.

 

[station19]

Is GW still on the GH staff? If so, the recent spike in heavy duty trolling is completely over the top. If on the GH staff, can he ban himself?

I could actually respect him for that.

It might hurt though.

 

[PartoPitinosPosse]

I think you are wrong on this count. Florida has one of the best Athletic Departments in the country, their non-revenue sports do very well. Golf, Tennis, Soccer, Swimming are all great at Florida. Alabama's golf teams are both in the top 5 in the country right now and they draw thousands to their women's Gymnastics. Georgia has great programs. The SEC for some reason doesn't give a rip about basketball (except Florida & Kentucky & the occasional surprise team) and it gives the appearance of only caring about football. There is no reason whatsoever to drop any non-revenue sport except for maybe a lack of schools fielding teams (i.e. men's or women's gymnastics), the savings is so minimal compared to the overall budget of the department. A program like gymnastics probably costs maybe a 1/2 million and the department's budget is like 75 million? Nonsense. Baseball, for example, only has 10 scholarships (not 20 that was posted here by someone).

It's about time someone with some vision has laid out a plan and they will probably do it in stages and not wait until all or close to all $190 million is collected. I'm hoping that it happens sooner rather than later!

Well, I was going to mention, "with the exception of Florida", but I knew I'd end up going into too much detail and turn an already long winded post into a novel. But yes, Florida is not your typical SEC school. They seem to care about all of their athletics, and also their academics and research. Florida would make a great B1G school.

And yes, several SEC schools have very good athletic programs outside of Football, but UMn has a Men's Gymnastics team that is ranked 5th in the nation right now, doesn't mean the Univ of Minnesota cares much about the sport, or that Minnesotans care about the sport, or that Gopher fans in general care about the sport, as I don't see ANY Gopher fan EVER mention the sport here at the Gopherhole. Our Dance Team has won 2 Natl Titles every year for the last 5 years in a row, yet other than the day after its announced how they did at the Championships, the Dance Team doesn't get a lot of attention from Gopher fans in general or Minnesotans in general, either. And I don't read threads about how the Dance Team is going to get a new Practice Facility built for them, or how they should get a new practice facility built for them, etc..

I know that several SEC teams regularly rank among the Top 25 of the Sears Directors Cup, including Tennessee, Georgia, Florida as was already mentioned, Auburn and Alabama are ranked up there quite often as well and possibly 1 or 2 more as well. But how much do the fans in general or the people of the states they are in or the universities themselves really care about those other sports?! Hey, I might be wrong? It may just be the SEC fb an bb fans that I converse with that give me that impression, and I'd be interested in knowing more facts about this in fact. And I might add as well that maybe its just other MENS sports that they don't care about outside of Fb and Bb? Title IX may have forced them to care about womens sports, and the weather down there in SEC land gives those schools a natural recruiting edge in comparison to most northern schools, so I'd hope that they are good at baseball, softball, cc, track & golf among others.


Again, I grant that I could be wrong about this, so I'm not upset in any way that you called me on this.