Let's hope Hovde was smart enough not to get involved.
Golden to University of Florida - Hovde to follow?
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8legs1dream
Graduate Assistant
how in the world did this guy become head coach at a school like Florida in the first place. 1 average season, 1 below average season, and 1 above average season as a head coach in the WCC qualifies you to be a P5 coach now? Crazy world we live in.
Sounds like Golden is fighting it - which is a bit strange. If their are text messages or pictures involved - that will be difficult to fight. But he stated he is looking to file a defamation suit.
I would imagine the assistant coaches are not involved or would hope - in terms of participating in the stalking, pictures, etc. BUT - hard to imagine they didn't know it was going on and stayed quiet or suspected it and didn't do anything about it. That is what is more likely to be the case, and still would look bad on them. Unfortunately - if this comes to light for any of them, it could be a career ender. You pay players or cheat your way to the top - that can be forgiven in due time. But when it comes to harrassing students, especially female students - I don't see a way back from that.
All this means is that Florida could have a job opening soon. Two big schools - UVA and Florida - may be looking for new coaches after this season.
I would imagine the assistant coaches are not involved or would hope - in terms of participating in the stalking, pictures, etc. BUT - hard to imagine they didn't know it was going on and stayed quiet or suspected it and didn't do anything about it. That is what is more likely to be the case, and still would look bad on them. Unfortunately - if this comes to light for any of them, it could be a career ender. You pay players or cheat your way to the top - that can be forgiven in due time. But when it comes to harrassing students, especially female students - I don't see a way back from that.
All this means is that Florida could have a job opening soon. Two big schools - UVA and Florida - may be looking for new coaches after this season.
The allegation that this includes the entire coaching staff seems like a lot of conjecture/guilt by association. I doubt the head coach is showing his d*ck pick posts with his coaching staff and having laughs about it. But then again, if you know anything about Urban Meyer's coaching tenure at UF and the level of shit he and his players got away with, maybe it isn't.
Agreed - I am just thinking, maybe he was bragging about the girls on campus, or girls he was running into. Probably what would make this worse is if these girls went to the school with their allegations, and they were swept under the rug by the administration. Or if the coaches had a hunch or knew something was going on, but stayed silent. Its a bad look all around. You could sit and argue - Golden is innocent until proven guilty, and while that might be true in theory - in reality, once these allegations are out there, it is assumed guilt until he can prove 100% nothing happened, and that is going to be difficult.
kind of surprised Florida let Golden coach last night. I get the legal presumption of innocence, but you could suspend with pay pending investigation. I just can't imagine multiple girls are pursuing charges of stalking, harrassment and dick pics without easily retrievable evidence.
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Agreed - the evidence should be easy to come by in this case, which makes his defamation counter suit that much more odd. And I was shocked as well they let him coach, kinda gives the appearance Florida is not taking this seriously??? I agree with you - suspend with pay, remove him from games, let him coach in practice, until more clarity is received.
He may be guilty, and if he is i hope they throw the book at him.
But women can lie (Duke lacrosse case, Columbia mattress girl, Brett Kavanagh, and so on). So it's not beyond imagination.
I know things like this put the university in a tough spot. Sounds like they are doing what they are supposed to - time will tell.
sure, but if the claim is about texts ... they pretty likely have the texts or the ability to retrieve them.
So, must be more to this story than is out there. The university received the complaint in Sept. and has been investigating. The story didn't break til last week though. And still, UF hasn't suspended him etc. after over a month investigating. As many have said, allegations, if true, should be easy to see and University would suspend as they investigated if there was almost anything evidence wise pointing to even possible truth. Yet here we are and Golden talking about defamation suits. There is more to this story! And i suspect its gonna be some wild story!
anyone remember the old 80's movie "Porky's"?
might need a lineup! lol
might need a lineup! lol
