Jeremy Foley Quotes (40 Quotes)


    Errors in officiating occur in all sports at all levels. The University of Florida has certainly been on both sides of this conversation as most teams have.

    In my opinion, it should have been handled better. Before the game starts, if you have an idea that's going to happen and there's nothing you do about it, it makes you wonder how much planning went into it.

    The passion is what makes him special. I tell our athletic staff members all the time, you need to have passion. That's what separates great people from average people.

    Why not us Why can't we be champions in basketball, too.

    The reason 2008 and 2013 worked is because those are 14-week seasons. Trying to put Miami in a 13-week season, our schedule is tough enough as it is. With 14 weeks, it does give you another open date to play with.


    Learn from your mistakes, always self-evaluate. Great leaders are thinking, evolving. And John Wooden was a great leader.

    We're just celebrating this victory right now.

    In the final analysis, it was apparent to me that something's not working here, ... I know that's kind of nebulous, but it's the truth. It's hard to put a finger on it exactly, but it certainly just didn't appear to be working as we all envisioned.

    On November 20th, UF and FSU will compete on the track, and on the 26th, the teams compete on the gridiron. This is the first time this rivalry has been promoted through another sporting event like this, and we want to thank Checkers for their outstanding support.

    Part of the conversations with (Miami athletic director) Paul Dee is they are about to put 120 million in renovations in the Orange Bowl. If they do that, it's not a concern. The contract has an out, if that work doesn't get done, then we would play it in Dolphins Stadium.

    I learned a long time ago, when it comes to discipline you don't get 100 percent acceptance of what you do.

    Yeah we went on probation, but we made out all right. After all that talk of whether we were a basketball or football program, those girls in spandex made us proud. Florida was a true gymnastics school.

    That's still a possibility. Neutral site games are an issue with television right now. Who owns the TV rights That's obviously a marquee ballgame. Both schools' television partners are going to want that.

    When the NCAA added the 12th game, we wanted to look for years where there was a 14-week window to the season to give us flexibility in picking a date for this series. The 2008 and 2013 calendar years allow us to do just that. In every other year, there are just 13 weeks to play 12 games, giving you less flexibility to schedule games and opponents.

    Billy told me he was tired of losing early and determined to figure out what was wrong and fix it. I could tell he was serious and it was bothering him.

    First of all, Urban has brought together a fan base that was fractured. We were not having as much success as we were accustomed to, and here in Gator Nation people expect us to be successful. People look at Urban, look at his record, and they like what they see.

    The guy has been here for three years this is his football team, ... He's worked extraordinarily hard. It would be inappropriate for him not to finish the season. It would be inappropriate for the kids, too. We didn't think that would have been right in our opinion.


    Donovan is not worried about the pecking order at the University of Florida. He knows how he's treated.

    It's not a bunch of losers here making excuses. It has nothing to do with the outcome. They beat us fair and square. It's just a matter of running your business the way it should be run and the way this league wants it run.

    The years that we do have the flexibility, we want to schedule them.

    He's got a presence. You walk into a room and you can tell he has a little something about him. Obviously you look at the job he's done at programs that have been less than successful. ... I think he can coach. I think he does a great job with his players and has a tremendous work ethic.

    The effects of Hurricane Katrina are nothing short of tragic and we know there is a tremendous need for assistance. Floridians . . . understand the amount of work the affected areas have in front of them.

    Obviously we're paying attention but right now everything looks fine,

    I do know that you've just got to be honest and open.

    We appreciate the support of the Jacksonville community to keep this traditional rivalry in Jacksonville through 2010. The week-long festivities in the community and the pageantry surrounding the game are unmatched in college football.

    That was something you don't see every day. It's obvious people are very exited about the University of Florida football, and it's obvious people are thrilled that Urban Meyer is our coach.

    Keith is just flat-out outstanding. He is a tremendous administrator and will bring passion, great organizational skills and a strong work ethic to that role. He is one of my closest friends. This is a grand slam for the University of Central Florida.

    I think to have that tradition that we want, to be recognized as one of the best, you have to have a few of those (championship) banners up there. That's what Kentucky has, Indiana has, North Carolina, Duke.

    You have 90,000 fans come every Saturday, and you have 12,000 come for basketball games. So there's 78,000 people that probably live and die more with football. That's not going to change. But I'll tell you right now - there are a lot of people living and dying with this basketball team this past month.

    Do I call Phil Fulmer during the season Obviously Spurrier's the coach of one of our opponents. We'll be watching him with interest but we're competing with him now. That doesn't mean we don't shake hands or we wouldn't have a beer together, but we're competitors right now and that's just the way it is.

    Billy said last week he didn't think there was a place in America that had a better commitment to basketball. Obviously we're a football school, but you'd be hard-pressed to say we're not a basketball school right now.

    Are we a basketball school the way Kentucky and Indiana are Not yet. That's the goal. Will we get there That's the goal 15 years from now.

    We've got to talk about it. It seems to be the league has made a commitment to it and everyone has to make the same commitment.

    This just reaffirms what we've been saying all along This is a big-time basketball school with a big-time basketball coach. Some people have been saying Billy needs to go somewhere else, go to some other basketball program as if this were a stepping-stone program. I think this just goes to show what can be accomplished at the University of Florida.

    When the situation starts going downhill, it's hard sometimes to push it back up, ... I think the situation got out of control, even for him.

    I just think to try to put Miami in a 13-week season, our schedule is tough enough as it is. If there are 14 weeks, that gives you another open date to play with there. That's why we did it. I think the series is good for the state, and so does Paul Dee. But it's just not a series that's going to work out on a regular basis.

    I think it's a huge home-court advantage. I think the fact that everybody is on top of the court, the job the students have done making that a difficult place to play ... people say how loud it is in there. It's a different environment.

    That way when it's time to hit the ground once the season is over, you're already off and running. The timing is never ideal in a coaching change. I talked to former coaches, NFL GMs, television folks. I picked people's brains and checked out the Internet to find out as much as I could. Indiana has time to do that. I didn't talk to any school or coaches but did hire a consultant to gauge the interest for us.

    He's embraced football from the day he's walked onto campus. He's not competing against it. You've heard him say that 1,000 times. He's not worried about a pecking order at the University of Florida.


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