Fred Kolb

German dude at home in America | @UF graduate- Class of ‘15 | Amateur film critic & occasional guest on @RewindMoviePod | Just a guy with opinions.

[Fred Kolb @FredtheGerman]

@TampaDan I want his take on what has been happening on my post if he’s going to invoke it to advance his political agenda. Either he agrees that I stole a spot at UF despite everything he knows about me and is willing to acknowledge it or he doesn’t, in which case I’ll concede your point.

[Fred Kolb @FredtheGerman]

@TampaDan What Dan failed to mention is that we know each other. We were in the same fraternity and he‘s well aware that I’m not some rando who stole a spot at UF. But of course he wants to score political points, so why acknowledge that? Much easier to throw me under the bus instead.

[Fred Kolb @FredtheGerman]

@JohnCanner12635 Almost too painful to bear tbh

[Fred Kolb @FredtheGerman]

I’m so tired of my alma mater sucking at football, failing to hire competent leadership, and parroting inflammatory MAGA propaganda. 15 years ago I got into UF on an appeal by describing the challenges I overcame as an immigrant. Today they’d throw my letter right into the trash.

[FLORIDA @UF]

.@EDSecMcMahon is correct. DEI is discriminatory by design, antithetical to the purpose of a university, and incompatible with the pursuit of truth.

The University of Florida has already acted on that conviction. In December 2025, our Board of Trustees adopted institutional neutrality and embedded an anti-DEI mandate within the presidential contract itself, ensuring that no university funds, public or private, will underwrite DEI at this institution.

Dr. Stuart Bell stands with Secretary McMahon, the Board, and the people of Florida on this. He is ready to lead UF forward as a university defined by merit, rigor, and the pursuit of truth.

[Fred Kolb @FredtheGerman]

@BamaGator1963 The honest answer is, no idea. Colleges don’t usually reveal the exact criteria they use for accepting students and “merit” is made up of so many factors including grades, standardized testing, extracurriculars & volunteering that it’s hard to quantify what ultimately got me in.

[Fred Kolb @FredtheGerman]

Bad news for everyone in the comments. If you want to take my spot away, you're too late. I got my degree years ago already. Good news for you is the next generation of immigrants applying to college won't be as fortunate. You won. UF has become exactly what you want it to.

[Fred Kolb @FredtheGerman]

@paperstreetsoup You do realize that that’s how college essays work right?

[Fred Kolb @FredtheGerman]

@Noyb2021 No doubt. But they’ll still be bad at football

[Fred Kolb @FredtheGerman]

@Tad507 You can tell me whatever you’d like. It’s still a free country 🤷‍♂️

[Fred Kolb @FredtheGerman]

@SteveKirkland09 You should probably sue anyway. Seems to work wonders for people these days.

[Fred Kolb @FredtheGerman]

@AriWasserman Also, if you opt out of your conference title game because you‘re too afraid to compete, sure, feel free to, but that means if another bubble team goes instead and wins, they get to take your spot in the playoff because you sat at home idle and missed a chance to prove yourself.

[Fred Kolb @FredtheGerman]

This is why I was always skeptical about the “good guy, bad coach” narrative. A good guy would have recognized his obvious limitations and learned from his mistakes. Instead, his arrogance took the whole ship down with him. No sympathy whatsoever. He had his chance & blew it.

[Edgar Thompson @osgators]

Billy Napier’s insistence on play calling at UF a key role in ouster https://t.co/nPKcDpDSSN

[Fred Kolb @FredtheGerman]

Not quite what I meant when I said I wanted someone to get the boot after the Miami game.

[Graham Hall @GrahamHall]

BREAKING: Florida QB DJ Lagway is back in a walking boot, @Swamp_247 has learned.

READ:
https://t.co/0iaBXixrGf

[Fred Kolb @FredtheGerman]

@alex_kirshner @Slate Fair analysis, but I do think people tend to overstate Florida’s status in college athletics. This is the first major sign of life in either flagship sport for us in a decade, and with the new & harsh reality of what it takes to win titles, we had clearly fallen behind until now.

[Fred Kolb @FredtheGerman]

At what point, if it happens often enough, do you get to call it strategy instead of dumb luck? Aged 20 years over the past 20 days, but it’s awesome to get to celebrate something big for the first time since I started at Florida in 2011. Hell of a tournament. Go Gators! 🐊🏀🎉

[Nicole Auerbach @NicoleAuerbach]

Florida led for 64 total seconds and won the national championship game.

[Fred Kolb @FredtheGerman]

@joshjurnovoy I was a little confused why you would have talked about an 80s movie in your podcast about new releases but I honestly didn’t question it lol Mississippi Burning is great though. One of my favorite Gene Hackman performances

[Fred Kolb @FredtheGerman]

Speaking of whom, anyone else miss the days when the biggest awards controversy of the cycle were some awkwardly phrased song lyrics about how awesome the nominees are?

[The Hollywood Reporter @THR]

‘Love Hurts’ Star Ariana DeBose Is Grateful That She Got to Present Ke Huy Quan’s Oscar “Free of Any Controversy” https://t.co/eYfO5SnWI4

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

CARTOON OF THE DAY

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

I’m a little confused. I thought the tariffs were going to bring a golden age of economic prosperity, pay for IVF, eliminate the debt, and ensure countries stopped ripping us off!

Why would we trade away that bounty for a few mounties on the northern border?