Good stuff. Thanks for the update. Charlie
On 1/17/2017 9:06 PM, Ken Kirkley wrote: > I went to see Scott Strickland speak to the Gator boosters in Orlando > tonight, nice event. > > I went alone and when we walked in I approached a group that was talking and > it happened to be Stumpy Harris, pretty cool. Then before the event got > started, I was standing near the back and lo and behold, The HBC is coming > in, got a chance to chat with him and thank him for all the years of > enjoyment. > > The event itself was interesting, it was billed as an update on the > facilities and there was a folder on each seat with artist renderings of the > baseball, softball and football facilities. Coach Spurrier got up to talk > first and introduce Scott. He told a couple of stories, one in particular on > the origin of the God is smiling on the Gators phrase. > > When he was coach, Jamie Speronis would organize the walk on tryouts. One > day Coach was walking around the field and came across this player and asked > him his name and where he was from. The player says I'm Tremayne Allen and > I'm from Nashville. Coach says, what brought you all the way to Florida? > Tremayne's response was God was smiling on me to which Coach responded me > too, and the Gators. > > Scott (he was asked during the session what to call him and he said Scott), > is a really likeable guy and you can tell he knows his stuff and will get > things done. He started off talking about the $100+ million we have spent in > facility upgrades over the past 16 months, but also talked about the $250+ > million left to go! He has been around quite a bit with stints at Auburn, > Tulane and Baylor before Miss St. Greg Byrne, the new AD at Alabama is the > one who hired him back to Miss St as Associate AD. Scott was promoted to Ad > when Greg left. > > The Q&A had a few good questions, one about why we don't schedule better > teams rather than 2 patsies, one about noon starts for September games and > one about the ref bias against Florida. The last one got HBC fired up and he > grabbed the mic to basically say yeah, it's true. He said every time he > would complain, he would get reprimanded, but it would start to even out > after that for a while... > > Afterwards I asked Scott where he thought we ranked as far as football > facilities in the SEC, while he didn't answer directly it was clear he > thought we were way behind and in the bottom 1/3. > > All in all it was fun, they showed highlights from all sports fro this past > year on the big screens before and after and had nice appetizers and a cash > bar. They are doing the same in Jacksonville next week and in Tampa the last > week of the month. > > Ken > > > > Sent from my iPad > -- -- GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GatorTalk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
