(10-06-2012 11:05 PM)sierrajip Wrote:  

(10-05-2012 09:06 PM)Inigo Wrote:  

(10-05-2012 08:54 PM)sierrajip Wrote:  I know this sounds like a line, but the thing that UCF is missing right now is the money to send GOL packing. Nothing more, nothing less.

No.
President Hitt and the big money boosters like O'Leary. That's why he is still there.

Maybe Hitt, but the so called big money boosters, you will have to prove that to me.

There is nothing that can be "proven" as I don't think there are any printed statements out there saying "We Believe in O'Leary!" from the big money guys.

I can just tell you that I'm not talking about boosters who pay $1000 per year so they can sit on the 30 yard line at football games. I'm talking about the ones who have given hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars so they can have their names on the buildings. The kind of boosters who UCF turns to to help pay entry/exit fees or to lend a corporate jet. The type of boosters who front the money to buyout coaches and bankroll new ones. Those boosters have not lost confidence in O'Leary. It is those types of boosters (and yes, we have few), along with Hitt, who will decide when O'Leary goes if he chooses not to willingly retire before his contract is up after the 2015 football season.

If the big money guys decided O'Leary needed to go, there would not be much issue coming up with $3 million for the buyout after this year. Unless O'Leary chooses to go willingly, or Hitt decides he needs to go, or the big money guys decide he needs to go, George O'Leary will be UCF's coach for 3 years after this one.