Florida is losing another member of its ultra-successful athletic department.
Mike Hill, the executive associate athletic director for external affairs at UF, has accepted the job of athletic director at North Carolina-Charlotte.
“He did a phenomenal job at Florida,” said Florida athletic director Scott Stricklin. “We benefited from him being at Florida and Charlotte gets the benefit now. We’ll get someone good, but he won’t have the institutional experience of Mike.”
Hill had been working with the University Athletic Association for 25 years.
“It’s a perfect fit professionally and personally,” Hill said in a release. “In the end for me, it was an incredible professional experience and a wonderful opportunity personally to go back to an area that’s home. The program has a really strong foundation and a history of success. There’s a lot to build upon and cultivate and grow. The athletic facilities are outstanding, really terrific for any level you might consider in any conference.”
Jumping ship before the storm hits over facility improvements.
Really?! The guy gets offered a position as AD at another school and you call it jumping ship? Some people don’t realize there is life outside of Gainesville
Lateral move at best; not an AD at a power 5 school.
Wow. What an ignorant post…
Construction of the stand alone facility was planned to start this past December. It’s now been pushed back, likely several years. It was reported by the site that starts with 3 numbers but I haven’t seen it anywhere else.
The new timeline hasn’t been announced and will not until the coming months. Lots of meetings but no sense of urgency. I might be wrong but I don’t think the new timeline will sit well with the football fans.
I love to feel the Gator envy oozing from trollers!!
Die hard Gator fan and alum here. Sorry you disagree but that doesn’t make me a troll.
I have never been critical of Coach Mullen or Coach White as evidenced by my posts. I am not a fair weather fan like many fans on here who start crying for firing this or that coach or bench this or that player whenever we lose a game we should have won.
A brief search finds no support for this contention, do you have a link?
As requested. Not sure if I can post a link to a competing site but let’s try anyways. It was the only site that reported the original timeline with a Dec 17 construction start date. Everyone else glossed over it but maybe it was forgotten.
https://florida.247sports.com/Bolt/Florida-Gators-Football-Scott-Stricklin-addresses-delays-to-facilities-projects-114687603
Coach Mullen’s comments just last night said he was “glad they hadn’t started the new stand alone facility yet”. It will be built and the average fan will never walk inside of it. It’s simply a better way for the coaches and players to go about their everyday routine. Mullen said the student life center is way, way, way ahead of what others have. Lack of facilities is a small part of our problems. Poor recruiting was the number 1 problem.
Mullen also said “Now the day-to-day football operations building, we are way, way, way, way behind.” Those who support the party line may lean towards not sweating it. Those who think critically and independently may lean towards believing we are way behind and need it post haste. Maybe you are right that the lack of a stand alone football facility only plays a small part in recruiting and winning. Maybe Mullen will win and bring in a top 5 recruiting class without it. Maybe the majority of Gator fans don’t care that construction has been delayed probably by a few years so that the administration can get the design right and it incorporates Mullen’s input. However, I do care. We’ve been hearing for the past few years that our facilities are way behind and that it has hurt our recruiting which leads to not winning. Have we not? I don’t want to hear that excuse for the next few years when we had it planned to be under construction by now but the new administration chose to quietly delay it with no announcement of a new timeline. I don’t know for certain how much it affects recruiting or winning but it certainly wouldn’t hurt to have it sooner rather than later. As such, I will be critical of the administration for it to be expedited, not delayed.
So we are currently way behind other schools, or we are behind the agreed improvements. I think we all can agree of the first, I see no evidence of being way behind on the new facility, perhaps somewhat behind.
The link above placed the original construction start date at Dec 2017. There’s no revised timeline and plan made public yet. I think they are planning to build a brand new baseball stadium first before starting the stand alone facility. My guess is it’s been delayed by several years.
More Gator envy!!
Second comment you’ve made that adds nothing to the conversation. Even trolls offer more food for thought.