3-point stance: Florida's extra million

1. As the Associated Press reported, the salaries that Florida will pay Will Muschamp and his staff add up to about $1 million less than what Urban Meyer and his staff received in 2010. I asked Gator athletic director Jeremy Foley: what happens to that seven-figure windfall? “I’ve got my agent negotiating,” Foley joked. As it turns out, nothing happens. “It just goes into the general operating budget. It will be used for whatever. It’s hard to say it will used for more bats.” Ho hum. Just another Gator million.

2. The coaching profession is full of very talented men who never catch a break. Then there’s Ryan Walters, who became secondary coach at Arizona only three years after he served as captain of the Colorado Buffaloes. Walters, 25, had been a graduate assistant for Mike Stoops. Walters took the opening that Duane Akina left when he returned to Texas after only a few weeks in Tucson. Walters may be a good coach. Sometimes, it’s better to be lucky than good.

3. Dude Hennessey played for Bear Bryant at Kentucky. He took a 30 percent pay cut from his Louisville high school to work for Bryant at Alabama in 1960. It paid off. Hennessey served as an assistant on four of Bryant’s national championship teams. He became a fixture in the athletic department, a storyteller who kept the coach’s legend alive through anecdote, mimicry and sheer adoration. Hennessy died Wednesday at age 81.

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