As a Graduate of UF, I’m taking a wait and see approach. Remember the State Legislature is solid majority Republican and the Governor we all know about.
If you think back about FSU they received far more state money during the 90s and early 2000s versus UF because they had some very powerful alumni in state government and were run by John Thrasher who was a powerful state senator before becoming President of FSU, their entire stadium was pretty much built with taxpayer money because they put a few classrooms in there and called it educational, when it was nothing more than a brand new stadium.
If Ben Sasse leaves the athletic department alone and works closely with the Republican legislature and increases the funding for UF then he will be a success.
All the recent UF Presidents have been academics, who struggled with the legislature, perhaps Sasse can turn that around.
The problem is there is a civil war underway (which we are winning) within the Republican Party and this turd is firmly on the other side. I detest RINOs even more than I detest the current Democrat Party. The RINOs are their lying weasel-like enablers and 5th columnists who are every bit a part of the Establishment and who work to prevent the real changes in government policy most of us want to see.