Mike White may have left Florida because of a subset of fans who are difficult to please, and are never satisfied unless a coach delivers multiple championships.

That’s the view of long-time Florida writer Pat Dooley, a former columnist with the Gainesville Sun who now hosts a podcast, called “Another Dooley Noted Podcast.” Dooley believes that’s what led White to accept the Georgia job over the weekend.

“The first couple of years he didn’t let it bother him,” Dooley told the AJC. “Then, it got to him. It frustrated him. They literally drove him out.”

The programs have contrasting basketball histories, especially in recent years, and to an extent the fan expectations follow those wins and losses.

Florida went to the NIT in 2016 and is headed there this season. Between those seasons, the Gators went to 4 straight NCAA Tournaments, and advanced to the Elite 8 in 2017 and winning at least its first-round game in the other years. Florida is 1 of only 6 schools to win a game in each of the last 4 NCAA Tournaments.

Meanwhile, Georgia hasn’t won an NCAA Tournament game since 2002, and the Bulldogs are 7-10 all-time in the NCAA Tournament.

While White was 142-88 overall coaching the Gators, the Bulldogs were 114-119 over the same stretch.

“If he has the same exact record he had at Florida, the Georgia fans will erect a statue,” Dooley said.

Part of the trouble for White was that he followed Billy Donovan, who went to 4 Final Fours and won back-to-back national championships.

Donovan led Florida to four Final Fours and back-to-back national championships in 2006-07. Donovan then left for the NBA in 2015, in part because the “Gidiots” got to him, too.

“Same old thing: ‘You never want to follow The Guy,’” Dooley said. “He gets compared to Billy, and there never will be another Billy at Florida. What Billy did at Florida was unbelievable, and he did it at a school where nobody gives a (hoot) about basketball. And now that’s what Florida has to do now. They have to go big or go home.”