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Do whatever you have to do to keep Sully at Florida!
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From: gatornews@googlegroups.com [mailto:gatornews@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Shane Ford
Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2016 7:48 AM
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Subject: [gatornews] [SUN]: Foley: Expects O'Sullivan to stay at UF
Foley: Expects O'Sullivan to stay at UF
Florida coach Kevin O'Sullivan has the Gators in the NCAA Tournament again.
Matt Stamey/The Gainesville Sun
By Robbie Andreu
Gainesville SUN Staff writer
Published: Wednesday, June 1, 2016 at 3:41 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, June 1, 2016 at 3:41 p.m.
DESTIN — In response to rumors that Florida baseball coach Kevin O'Sullivan is a candidate for the vacant Texas job, athletic director Jeremy Foley said Wednesday he expects O'Sullivan to remain at UF, where he has built the Gators into an elite program.
"We have a great relationship with Sully, he has a great relationship with us," Foley said at the SEC spring meetings. "I expect him to be our baseball coach a long time."
Foley does not seem overly concerned about reports out of Texas that O'Sullivan is a candidate to replace the legendary Augie Garrido, who was let go by the Longhorns on Monday.
"All I'm worried about with baseball is Friday night," Foley said. "Obviously, we have a lot of quality coaches at the University of Florida. He's not the first guy to get mentioned when there's an opening somewhere.
"I go through that with every coach I've had almost my entire tenure. It's a credit to the University of Florida, it's a credit to them, but those are rumors and whatever have you. He's one of the best in the country. I'm sure he is mentioned for a lot of jobs. When Billy (Donovan) was around here, he was mentioned for every job that ever came open, because he was really good. Sully's the same way."
Foley was asked if he would do anything to keep O'Sullivan if other schools approach him.
"We hired him. We've watched what he's built. We wanted him to make our program relevant, and I've say he's done that over and over and over again," Foley said. "We have a tremendous relationship with Sully. I know how he feels about the University of Florida.
"We have a reputation of taking care of our coaches. College athletics is a coaches profession. I say that in terms of athletes come and go. They're only there a finite period of time. To have a really good program you need really good coaches. When you have a good one you work like heck to keep them. We have a pretty good track record of that."
Foley said upgrading McKethan Stadium is part of a master plan that is being developed at UF. Foley said O'Sullivan is not making any demands about upgrading the baseball facilities.
"Sully's not a guy banging on the door, 'I got to have this, I got to have that.' " Foley said. "I think that's why Sully is successful. He's just come here and gone to work, he's recruited. He's built something special."
Hoops schedule almost done
Foley said UF is close to finalizing its basketball schedule. It's been a tougher than usual process because the Gators have had to set up neutral site home games in the fall due to the O'Connell Center renovation.
"Mike Hill, who handles that for us, got a text for us and said he got another game. I think that means we need one more game," Foley said. "Again, trying to piece together the fact we don't have an arena for the first month and a half of the season. Mike's done a great job there. I think it's all coming together, but I think we need one more game."
Two of the neutral site games will be in Jacksonville. The Gators also are playing games in tournaments in Orlando and Sunrise.
UF plans to play its first game in the renovated O'Connell Center in December, after fall graduation ceremonies.
"That's the intent, but the first event is going to be graduation," Foley said. "We plan to have a game there, but all that will be announced once the game is finalized."
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