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Blake DowlingApril 14, 2018

Do you use Facebook for your business, lobbying firm, campaign for not running for Mayor or just personal use? If so, read on. Have you seen an endless stream of news about the social media site? Such issues as pay-to-play for who sees what posts, ad prices going way up, millions of users data lost […]

Joe HendersonOctober 24, 2017

University of Florida football coach Jim McElwain has mishandled a potentially explosive situation, and that’s true whether or not death threats were actually directed at him and those in his program. Something isn’t adding up here. At his regular news conference Monday, McElwain dropped a bombshell about that subject in an almost offhand way. After […]

Associated PressOctober 19, 2017

In an era when it’s increasingly difficult to get fans in the stadium, it apparently isn’t so hard to get them into new rituals. Average attendance at the Football Bowl Subdivision level has dipped nearly 6 ½ percent over the last six years — from 46,632 in 2010 to 43,612 last season — and lagging student interest during the […]

Scott PowersMay 26, 2016

If Florida’s top college football coaches actually ran Florida’s universities, life mentoring would begin the moment a student arrived and not end for years after he left. As that student makes his way from high school to finding his place in college, someone would be there to help. As that student strives to understand what might be important […]

Scott PowersMay 18, 2016

Gov. Rick Scott‘s two-day summit to link education to jobs set for Orlando next week will feature many Florida college, business and Republican leaders as well as the football coaches from the University of Florida, Florida State University and the University of Miami. The Degrees to Jobs Summit, set for May 25 and 26 at […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 23, 2015

Jeb Bush Jr. came to Jacksonville earlier in the summer for a high-powered fundraiser for his father. On Saturday, Bush will be in Gainesville for something equally high-powered: the Fiorentino Group tailgate before the Tennessee/Florida game. The tailgate begins two hours before kickoff, and will prove to heighten interest in one of the signature tailgate […]

Blake Dowling: Where does Facebook go now?

Joe Henderson: Death threats at UF? Either way, coach mishandled situation

Social media helping college teams start new traditions

If football coaches ran higher education: Trust, mentoring, ‘Chomp! Chomp!’

Rick Scott’s Degrees To Jobs Summit to feature football coaches

Jeb Bush Jr. featured at Fiorentino Group UF tailgate