Seriously, WTF is with this?
University of Florida presidential hopeful and U.S. Senator Ben Sasse apologized Tuesday for what he said was “the single ugliest, most scandalous thing” about his record: calling the SEC trash.
“I should confess that it is true that in 1981, as a 9-year-old, I did regularly decree that the SEC was ‘trash,’” Sasse said during his interview with the board of trustees. “That was wrong. If I could get the freedom to revise and extend my remarks, I should have said that Georgia, Alabama and LSU were trash.”
Hardy har har.
It’s one thing for a coach to stir up the rubes in the offseason with trash talk, but a university president meeting with the school’s trustees? If that went over well, I’m not sure who it reflects worse on.
Then again, this is Florida we’re talking about.
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He should know what trash looks like. If he unsure he can attend their next home game. Or just take a walk about around Gainesville. There’s a reason FU is in the asshole of Florida. FTMF
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I say hire that ass wipe as leader of local squatter’s in hogtown, FU board should promote this dickhead today as the head FU bus driver…#FTMF
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If a prospective UGA President told the Board of Trustees that Gators eat boogers, they’d probably count it as a plus. Maybe better to say that over a couple of cocktails rather than an official meeting though.
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If he wants to turn Hogtown into a refuge for Husker has-beens like Scott Frost or Turner Gill, that is just fine with me.
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Did hear of numerous student body members speaking out against his hire, FU alums love this guy and it appears he is the only one up for the hire…#FTMF
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He left out Tn.! One more sign the gators have aligned themselves with the vols in some unholy Urange Alliance! (Is auburn Nxt?)
War and politics certainly makes for some strange bedfellows!
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Sorry if they are in together need to end with salute to All of them.
F.A.T.M.F.
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No cure for stupidity. As Forest would say. “Stupid is as stupid does.”
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I hope that he is a disastrous hire for them.
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As the blog’s resident Ben Sasse fanboy (I own a Ben Sasse 2024 t-shirt), I’m willing to overlook what was obviously a tongue-in-cheek joke. I’m just disappointed he ended up there. The Senate is going to be worse off without him and he ends up at Florida. Lose-lose.
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When you been reduced to the President of your University making jokes like this, well then you have a lot bigger problems than I thought… LOL
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That dipshit has bigger fish to fry. Every time he parks in his designated parking spot he has to worry if the pissed off student protesters are going to vandalize his car. I’ve never seen such grass roots vitriol from students to the hiring of a school president. And they never had Michael Adams, sheesh.
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As someone who attended the 2003 actually-peaceful protests at the President’s Office following the Harrick mess, I can assure you that students/protesters have become much more emboldened in the past 20 years or so – no one even thought about vandalizing the car with the Georgia “1” vanity plate.
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Vanity being the key word there 🧐…reminds me what Mr. Zimmerman used to say…
“Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don’t criticize
What you can’t understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is rapidly agin’
Please get out of the new one
If you can’t lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin’”
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Did he leave the trustee meeting at half time? Then he’ll fit right in.
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I didn’t know Sasse was going to be the president of UF. That seems like a very odd decision for him. He’s one of the few people in Congress that I respect and now he’s leaving for the damn Gators. Lose–lose.
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You can’t sling a dead cat in Florida without it hitting Florida Man.
Methinks Sasse is going to learn all about trash firsthand.
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To paraphrase Coach Spurrier, you can’t spell “Sasse” without “ass.”
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You might call him smug. I called him one of the few respectable people in Congress who actually tried to do his job rather than being a cable news/Twitter personality.
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Still scratching my head at how Sasse ended up at Florida. His smug “everyone is corrupt and biased except for me” attitude would’ve been a much better fit at Auburn.
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I wonder if he was wearing jorts and a wife-beater while giving his speech.
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Pat for the course with this huge douche bag. Wow.
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