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Paul Daugherty
Paul Daugherty has been an Enquirer sports columnist since 1994 and has been chronicling Cincinnati sports since 1988. He has covered almost every major sporting event in America, as well as five Summer Olympics. Along the way, he has been named one of the country's top-5 sports columnists four times, and Ohio columnist of the year on seven different occasions. Last year, he was voted 2nd-best sports columnist in the country, by the Associated Press Sports Editors.

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Thursday, April 05, 2007

Billy Donovan

He sounds like he has seven toes out of Gainesville, doesn't he? Count me as one who doesn't get it. If Donovan leaves Florida for UK, it's strictly an ego move. He didnt go to school at Kentucky; he was an assistant. He didnt grow up there. Florida will match the money. Even with consecutive titles, Florida won't have the unrealistic expectations and its attendant pressure. Florida is warm. Donovan has shown he can recruit basketball players to a football school. The UK Mystique is a memory. The only reason to switch jobs is to hear the Big Blue faithful tell Donovan how great he is. Is it worth it? We'll see. If I were Donovan, you couldnt get me out of Gainesville with a stable of thoroughbreds and a lifetime supply of Jack D--, er, Maker's.


2 Comments:

at 9:48 AM Anonymous Anonymous said...

Have you ever been to Gainesville? Central Florida is not the same as coastal Florida, my friend.

Tubby Smith was a lousy recruiter, and he still managed to win 20 games a year the entire time he was at UK. Kids will always want to go there. If Donovan goes there, he could have just about any recruit in the country.

The support at UK cuts both ways. There is no other program that is supported as strongly as UK.

There's a story that when Florida was in the tournament for the first time under Donovan, there were more UK fans there rooting for the former assistant than were UF fans rooting for their team.

He'll go to UK, because every game is a 23,000 sellout, and at Florida, people only care when you make the tournament.

I'm not even a UK fan, but I think your evaluation of the situation is off. It's probably one of the best jobs in CBB.

 
at 12:01 PM Blogger Andrew Warner said...

ESPN just broke into their regularly sheduled program to announce Donovan is staying at Florida.

Good move by him.

 
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