Florida athletic director Jeremy Foley has been on top of the athletics game for a long time. He was responsible for hiring guys like Urban Meyer and Billy Donovan at the University of Florida. He also had some other great hires in the smaller sports like Kevin O'Sullivan for baseball, Rhonda Faehn for gymnastics and Amanda O'Leary for women's lacrosse.
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According to Mark Long of the Associated Press, Foley will retire today (Monday).
AP source: Longtime Gators AD Jeremy Foley, one of the most successful sports leaders in the country, is retiring today
— Mark Long (@APMarkLong) June 13, 2016
https://twitter.com/gridironnow/status/742357298752983040
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Foley was the athletic director over one of the most successful eras of athletics for the school and saw over 20 national championships of some kind won under his watch. Foley is 63 years old and has been at Florida since he was an intern at the ticket office in 1976. He was actually named the interim athletic director in 1986 before Bill Arnsparger was named the head man in 1987. When Arnsparger resigned in 1992, Foley was named the permanent AD and the rest is history as they say.
