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The Buckeyes will play Monday in the College Football Playoff national championship game. The Gators finished a strong close to the season with a wining record (and real momentum) for the first time since 2020.
But Bjork and Stricklin — friends for years as rival athletic directors at Ole Miss and Mississippi State, respectively — are in this stand together. Throwing tens of millions of walkaway cash at a coach who doesn’t work is one untenable
When asked that week by USA TODAY Sports if he had a response to boosters who said they had procured the money to pay Napier’s $28 million buyout, Stricklin said matter of factly, “Tell them they can give that money to Florida Victorious.”
Florida Victorious is the university’s collective, and it should come as no surprise that after a strong showing in November – including wins over LSU and Mississippi – the money started pouring into Florida Victorious.
