I’m a Gator. I think I’m gonna puke.
We finally get a good coach after a trio of dunces and now we get saddled with this bucket of shit as the school president?
sick.
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.
I had that same reaction at first, as well.
Then I looked at his record at Midland University, and I must say, he’s probably about as “conservative” as you’re going to get for a University President, outside of maybe Liberty University.
And he’s out of Washington DC. So I think UF did us a solid.