Report: Florida 'preparing to hire' veteran SEC assistant away from Auburn
Florida is reportedly looking to hire a veteran SEC assistant coach away from Auburn.
According to John Brice of FootballScoop, the Gators are “preparing to hire” Wesley McGriff. UF is remaking its defensive staff. Cornerbacks coach Torrian Gray and safeties coach Ron English were let go following Florida’s loss to Oklahoma in the Cotton Bowl.
McGriff has multiple decades of coaching experience and familiarity in the SEC and the Sunshine State. His first taste of the SEC came at Kentucky in 2001 (running backs coach) through the 2002 season when he was cornerbacks coach. After a stop at Baylor from 2003-06, McGriff landed at Miami, coaching defensive backs back from 2007-10. He was Vanderbilt’s secondary coach in 2011 before going to Ole Miss in 2012 as co-defensive coordinator.
McGriff was with the New Orleans Saints 2013-15 before returning to the college ranks. He was Auburn’s secondary coach and co-defensive coordinator in 2016 before leaving to take the defensive coordinator at Ole Miss. After two seasons at Ole Miss (2017-18), McGriff returned to Auburn as secondary coach in 2019.
He wasn’t stellar at Auburn and was awful at Ole Miss. This doesn’t seem like the answer for Florida’s defense.
OU committed a 35 point GANG RAPE of FLORIDA!!!! The gators are making moves in order to just cope! They have no idea where they are or what they’re doing!!!! While the gators got gang raped, UGA defeated a highly ranked UNBEATEN CINCINNATI. I think in the real world. That makes UGA the east champion! But y’all did beat our B TEAM, allowing you to pretend. Imagine if you didn’t, how bad your season would have been? As always UGA ends in glory and Florida is just trying to get dressed!!!
Hey gators, did OU ever give you your underwear back??? They didn’t keep it as a trophy, did they????? Don’t forget to wash them. I know Dan sniffs shoes. And dirty underwear is his secondary addiction!
PS. But I believe he has plenty of old shoes to do him for now!!! If not, wifey can go collect some. Trade kisses for filthy shoes, LOL.
King Negan
Question. Did coach Mac get coach of the year when he BACKED INTO THE SEC EAST CHAMPIONSHIP???? Honestly I cannot understand how Florida can lose 4 games. Lose to a team with 3 WINS AT HOME! Then get gang raped by OU by 35 points. Yet still win coach of the year!!! How does this work?
PS. Wifey is still just kissing kids to get their smelly shoes for Dan, right??? Dan surely hasn’t sent her on a kiss a$$ tour for votes also??? Shameless!!!
King Negan
What do you gators plan to do? All your decent players are leaving. And the recruits Danny boy recruited are just so so with nobody to coach them. Not to mention many are going in the portal to make room for the next inept swagger tongue wagger!!!!!! And your current recruiting class is 11TH and going backwards somehow!!!!
While there is real serious talk out there. That UGA might start out ranked #1 in the country! JT Daniels is coming back. Which means officially. UGA has 3 5 star QBs!!!! And this time they are distanced just perfectly apart. All 3 seem pretty happy at this point.
That’s pretty bad news for Florida!!! Considering our WRs rival Alabama at this point and are getting better!!! Imagine if JT and gang get a whole spring and fall camp with these guys!!!! MY POINT IS, A DIRTY HIT WON’T CHANGE THE GAME THIS TIME!!! IT COULD MAKE IT WORSE!!! And our running backs are always good hence the title RBU!!!!! And our O LINE will be ready to BURY YOUR D LINE!!!!! Somebody call the undertaker for the Florida defense please!!!!!!! WHAT HAPPENED TO THOSE 5 STAR TRANSFER RUNNING BACKS??? NOBODY HEARD FROM THEM ALL SEASON. SO PREDICTABLE!!!
Mullen knows as much about using a running back as he does running a football team!!! Nothing at all!!!! I can’t comprehend why any 5 STAR RUNNING BACK WOULD TRANSFER TO FLORIDA??? Leave clemson for Florida???? Please something BAD is going wrong there you can bet. HEY MR 5 STAR RUNNING BACK. TAKE MY ADVICE AND TRANSFER TO UGA OR ANYONE WHO WILL ACTUALLY USE YOU!!!!!!
REMEMBER ALL TRANSFERS PLAY!!!!! NCAA ONE TIME OFFER!!!! You still have that transfer. Florida doesn’t count against you. MULLEN IS A CLOWN AND WILL ONLY THROW YOU THE BALL. HE CAN’T USE A RUNNING BACK!!!! HE DOESN’T KNOW HOW!!!!!! UGA DOES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hopefully the NEXT FLORIDA TRANSFER PORTAL GUY WILL BE A RUNNING BACK THAT CAME FROM CLEMSON!!!! UGA would be his best bet or auburn!!!! But not Florida!!!! Florida is the last place any running back needs to be!!!!
The running backs for Florida, all have ability. But they are never used!!!! Their O LINE blocking schemes are all wrong for a true running back!!! HONESTLY THEY DON’T EVEN THROW TO THEM, ENOUGH TO MATTER!!!!
Any 5 STAR on the gators that wants to actually WIN. Y’all all have ONE FREE TRANSFER!!! UGA is going to be ranked near the top in the country. WE HAVE 3 ELITE QBs! And all kinds of WRS!!! And all kinds of DEFENSE COMING BACK!!!!
PS. ANY ELITE PLAYERS THAT WANT TO WIN. TRANSFER TO UGA TODAY!!!! DON’T WAIT BECAUSE WE’RE FILLING UP FAST!!!!!
King Negan
Stop posting on Gator articles and fix the fraud in your filthy corrupt State you leghumping LOSERS!!
Too weird. Negan posting…then responding to his own posts with a short story. I think we see the name and scroll on past by now.
To glad2bsec
Yep. I’m sure most of us do exactly that. I don’t think I have ever read a Negan post in its entirety.
I like the hire. His dbs have never thrown a shoe.
Word is he knows his way around S. Fla./Miami pretty well. Maybe some of those leaving the state might stay now. I kinda like the shoe toss event. We should do it at least once every game before halftime. Since it’s only a 15 yd. penalty we have the whole 2nd half to get over it. Make it a every game tradition, we can call it “The Marco”
tailwhip99……..Not you to? How bad has Mullen’s shoe sniffing become??? He sent his players to get shoes. Then he has been sending his wife with Kisses for dirty shoes and underwear!!!!
If it has gotten so bad that now he needs the fans to. This is sick!!! HIS WIFE WAS BAD ENOUGH!!!! IT’S TIME FOR DAN TO GO IN SOMEWHERE!!!! HE NEEDS HELP!!!
PS. Mullen is a chronic sniffer and he needs an intervention fast!!!!
King Negan
mrtruth………That is probably true. But as stated this seems like a strange hire. I mean why hire someone totally new, who is no better than the one who got fired? And he might not be as good!!! The problem is with Grantham. His we’re going to blitz on every 3rd down is just too easy to predict and too easy to beat!!!!!
I’m betting this is nothing more than a good ole boy hire!!! Another pal for Mullen and Grantham to yap at!!! It will do nothing for the defense except make things harder on those who possibly were about to break out!!! Mullen has NO CLUE how to fix the defense. Not to mention, he is going to need it!!! NEXT SEASON THE OFFENSE WILL SUCK ONIONS!!!!!
Y’all all just got a glimpse of next season. With FLORIDA losing by 35 points to a 2 loss big 12 team. While UGA without a good part of their team BEATS AN UNBEATEN HIGHLY RANKED CINCINNATI!!!!!! To ONCE AGAIN end the season with a much much better record and HIGHER RANKING!!!!!
I hope beating the UGA B Team will hold you over for a long while!!! Because next season UGA once again begins to DOMINATE and OWN THE EAST!!!! We are the PEOPLE’S CHAMPIONS right now already!!! Florida is a long running JOKE!!! 2020 CHUMPIONS OF THE EAST AS OPPOSED TO CHAMPIONS!!!!!
Y’all were supposed to be a SHOE’IN and instead A&M, 3 win LSU, BAMA and OU all gave you THE BOOT!!!! Hail to the real CHAMPIONS OF THE EAST GEORGIA BULLDAWGS!!! 2 losses always beats 4, with the last one being a 35 point VIOLENT GANG RAPE!!!!!!!!!
PS. Did OU ever give you your underwear back?????
King Negan
44-28 and your last title in 1980… you should really be throwing stones… LOSER!
I wouldn’t say hiring away from Auburn. He’s wasn’t staying on as a coach anyway.
Yeah, it’s more like he was pretty much in the coaching carousel portal anyway.
As long as Grantham is there , the rest of the conference has no worries. One new retread coach can’t fix him.
UF’s defense was outstanding in 2018 and 2019. Grantham deserves the opportunity to try and fix the defense in 2021.
Nature, your not implying that DAN’s RECRUITS SUCK, are you??? And it couldn’t be that besides sucky players. Maybe the league has figured him out??? He’s not much of a mystery!!!!
3rd and Grantham!!!! Make it 2nd and Grantham to be tricky! Then save 3rd down for Mullen to screw up!!! I have it and I mean I have it!!!!! Just like tailwhip wants.
From now on it will be 3rd and Mullen. Which really means Grantham takes 3rd down off. And it will become 3rd and MARCO!!!! Toss the shoe. A GUARANTEED 15 yards of backward motion. Called THAT GATOR SWAGGER!!!
PS. It’s settled. No more 3rd and Grantham. He gets 1st and 2nd DOWN! Because 3rd down is that GATOR SWAGGER TIME!!!! It might work with SEC REFS!!! I’m betting they miss half of them!!!
King Negan
Weird, just very strange.
I just wanna say thank you to all of you that have ignored Negan’s troll dissertations! Nice job! Keep it up!
@Mister2bits…I was thinking exactly that
Yup same here.
I think Gators Breakdown on YouTube had a short post that shed some light on the hire. It’s a combo of coaching and connections to high schools.
They (Fleabags) all keep repeating the same old tired retread of a short story. Makes skipping over very easy when you already know what it says. I’m just glad they keep coming back. Means we are consuming (and i mean obsession like consuming) their attention, and that makes me warm and cozy, almost like getting a kiss from Mama Mullen..
Ditto
Ha he doesnt know what to do. He is replying to himself.
Crazy rants on the internet, that’s the mark of a busy, sane, well-rounded person.
Just saw this… I will ignore the filthy troll from here on out. Maybe he can go and fix his filther corrupt cheating fraud State?
Being ignoring for a while now.
Don’t know much about this guy except that he is supposed to be well connected in the South Florida area and that is a hotbed of talent.
I still want to see T Rob come back to Hogtown
McGriff wasn’t great. Take him. You’re doing us a favor.