Again: If The BUM had simply up and left, even after all the phony BS and melodrama and smoke-blown-up-the-whole-world's-@$$ I would have felt pretty much as you do, E-, just laughed and said "Good Riddance!"--even the coaches that he's apparently taking have NOT been exactly DAZZLING in their duties of late, and are quite replaceable, as you say.
It's how he went AFTER them, and, in the case of Durkin, who is also "Recruiting Coordinator", the way that this was part of a larger, quite sleazy and underhanded (and still ongoing) play to steal a portion of our prospective prized-recruits--and again, doing it "under our noses" from within our own Athletic Department, covertly begun from his "courtesy office" in Football Operations days, possibly WEEKS before rumors of "serious talks" with tOSU began to surface (I have this on pretty reliable authority from within the program--and Coach Boom was STEAMED when it came out, is STILL quietly furious with the whole deal), and had to be threatened with being barred from the facility before he finally backed off; he apparently carried on his maneuverings the last few days by telephone, and we'll find out how much he accomplished (and how much damage was done to what WAS otherwise bound to be a superb recruiting class).
I can NEVER "forgive and forget" the way this all played out. Bad enough how we came to see how things really were, all that phony hand-wringing and drama at the end of the last 2 seasons, but the way those seasons played out, AND the dawning realization in their aftermath of why he REALLY left: he'd run the program into the ground and left us little in the way of talent and character with which to rebuild. Now he tries to suck us dry AGAIN, try to take the fruits of his replacements' labors with him to give him a "fresh start" at his NEW job? That doesn't bother YOU, E-?
Tell you what: if they DON'T get any of our commits, and HARDLY any of our uncommitted "fence-sitters" and/or "rivals'-commits-who-are-leaning-our-way", I'll laugh it off and give you props for not "worrying needlessly" like me...But if they screw-up our class, play any kind of roll in breaking up what up 'til now was falling into place as one of the best in the nation, maybe even "one for the books", we will revisit this discussion: THEN we'll see how you feel.
Once again, I have put myself in the position of hoping-against-hope that I am WRONG, that I am the one who ends up looking the over-amped alarmist. Better that, though, than having to say, "I told you so". I HATE having to say that. I REALLY don't WANT to have to say it. Again.
(PS The funny part in all this is that I hadn't even THOUGHT along these lines until YOU put it in my head, E-...THAT'S when I called my "contact"/friend/family connection (it's through an ex-inlaw, who I've been buds-with ever-since, within the UF Athletic Dept.) and asked a few questions and, after not TOO much resistance, got a trickle, then a flow, then finally (by the third time we talked) a regular AVALANCHE of info.--believe me, I'm still being pretty discrete: there's much more to all of this...for now, suffice it to say that there's a lot still-to-be-revealed--a kind of move/counter-move stand-off that awaits Meyer's next moves before the sh*t may REALLY hit the fan; OUR Head Coach, staff-that's-solid, and even Foley himself are prepared to "fight fire with fire", if necessary, but are waiting to see if Meyer's "need and greed" will out-weigh his concern for his public image before taking that battle out into the open...in other words, from what I gather, it may well be Urban Meyer's vanity that could keep this from getting out of hand.)
