Wasson: Is Florida a top-5 job in the SEC? Not anymore
There are very few things in the college world we can agree on, all of us, without exception:
- Offensive holding is a brutal, drive-killing penalty – no matter the down.
- Morning kickoffs are an abomination and should be banned.
- Coaches are hired to be fired.
Now that we’ve established that, especially with No. 3 in the case of current/future ex-Florida coach Billy Napier, it is high time to consider the soon-to-be opening in Gainesville.
It was not too long ago that the head football coach at the University of Florida was a pretty plum job. Once Steve Spurrier awakened the fan base with his Fun ‘n’ Gun brashness in the early 1990s, it was off to the races for Florida. Expanding The Swamp was easy with all that Bull Gator money flowing in, and it was sexy to be a Gator for arguably the first time in program history.
Even after Spurrier became disenchanted with rising criticism for only winning 11 or 12 games a year and bolted for NFL riches in Washington, Gainesville was still the place to be. Granted, no one wanted to be the guy who followed the guy, which is why FireRonZook.com was a bookmarked website even on Ron Zook’s first day replacing Spurrier.
Zook lasted 3 years, but Florida was still plenty juicy enough for another run of national prominence in the form of Urban Meyer. Yes, Meyer’s tenure molding the roster into the Swamp Kings that won 2 more national titles, another Heisman Trophy and kept defense attorneys on retainer lasted 6 glorious seasons. But in its wake left the Gators not poised to continue the run but instead flounder in the tall grass.
Will Muschamp was lauded as Meyer’s replacement but never caught traction. Jim McElwain was run out of town after just 3 seasons of ordinary. Dan Mullen appeared poised to deliver Greatness V3.0, but the powers-that-be weren’t satisfied with his 69.4% winning percentage.
That brings us to Napier, and the existential question of: “Just how good is the Florida coaching job?”
Conventional logic would tell us that the answer is “middling at best,” given that the Gators haven’t sniffed an SEC title since Meyer hoisted the hardware in 2008. Yes, Mullen won the SEC East in 2020, but Florida’s 8-4 record wasn’t top tier that season or any season. Heck, McElwain won 2 SEC East crowns in 2015 and 2016 before a spectacular flame-out in 2017 that included reported death threats against him and animosity between McElwain and Florida officials from the very jump.
And the aforementioned mediocrity, combined with the resurgence of Florida State just up the road, Georgia just across the border as well as Nick Saban’s dominance at Alabama, just keeps mashing down Florida’s stroke in the college football landscape. A little like pre-Spurrier Florida, Gators fans have little to celebrate – though the current bunch can at least remember the echoes of the past and dream about the future.
Ah yes, the future. Given that the “For Sale” signs surely will pile up on Napier’s front lawn any day now, you gotta wonder who will take/fall for the opening he is about to create.
Having two upper-case legacies wafting about on the periphery of the Florida program (Spurrier still has an office at Florida Field, for Saban’s sake …) only stunts the would-be successors. The new world of NIL riches has already bitten Napier and those wealthy Bull Gators once (Jaden Rashada ring a bell?), so traversing said new world will only be more challenging.
Just how good is this Florida job?
One could certainly make the argument that it barely cracks the top 8 of SEC head coaching positions. The gigs at Alabama, Georgia and Texas are certainly top tier, and coaching at Tennessee, LSU and Oklahoma aren’t far behind at all – all 6 primed and capable of winning a national championship with the proper alchemy of talent, luck and coaching excellence.
Beyond that plateau, though, it gets tricky.
Florida fans do not want to hear this, but its program is akin to those at Auburn, Missouri, Ole Miss and Texas A&M – aspirational, sure, but not equally blessed. They’re like MAC quarterbacks, in that there is some fatal flaw in all of them that keep strong collections of talent from becoming truly great.
Billy Napier will be gone soon in Gainesville, because we know all coaches are hired to be fired – especially ones that can’t seem to get out of their own way. But can Florida’s brain trust (engineered by Scott Stricklin, who can’t be on the most solid of ice at the moment himself) really attract top-tier talent for a second-tier gig?
There are very few things in the college world we can agree on, all of us, without exception.
Add another to the list: Florida wants to be great again, but will the Gators find another giant redwood like Spurrier or Meyer amid the seemingly limitless forest of Napiers?
“Is Florida a top-5 job in the SEC?”
AL and Oklahoma. That’s it. Florida wasn’t relevant in football until Spurrier came to town.
True, and I’ve said this before … Florida has been playing football since 1906, yet did not win an SEC until 1984. Florida fans can be arrogant without any real foundation.
They got that from Spurrier. One of the biggest dbags in the history of the sport
Relevant enough that the SEC commissioner’s office had to strip them of titles in 84 and 85
“It was not too long ago that the head football coach at the University of Florida was a pretty plum job.”
15 year ago was a long time ago.
When you are old, 15 years was just yesterday.
Well, 15 years ago Barack Obozo was in his first year of office.
We must liberate ourselves from the past and relish in our joy.
“We must liberate ourselves from the past and relish in our joy.”
So much joy!
Wow. The vultures are circling.
The coaching carousel is without a doubt a pain. Changing a coach after 3 or 4 years doesn’t seem like a good formula. UF certainly has a big decision to make.
Do you guys really want to keep doing this? Nevermind that some of the blame is on Dan Mullen but c
**….Dan Mullen but can imagine his can CBN make the program better than he found it.
Can’t type today…..
**….Dan Mullen but can one imagine CBN making the program better than he found it.
Mullen seemed to be a good fit at Florida in the beginning- It’s almost like he torpedoed his own chances in Gainesville. Hard to understand how he fell out of the good graces so quickly. And deliberately.
I think Mullen was one of the coaches that despised the new cfb. Chip Kelly seems to be another one. The portal and NIL have them to the point they just want to call plays. I also think Mullen over valued himself and thought an NFL team was going to call him and he could ride away happy.
If CBN were winning 7 or 8 games (or had even done that ONCE), it would be one thing. All the fans I know were pretty levelheaded when CBN was hired – no one was screaming that we needed to be in the playoffs or even the SECCG. The bar this season was a low as it could possibly be – if we made a bowl game and went 7-6 most fans would have taken it as a sign that things were maybe moving in the right direction. But tell one one program in the SEC that would tolerate a new coach having three straight losing seasons in their first three years with no signs of improvement.
“But tell one one program in the SEC that would tolerate a new coach having three straight losing seasons in their first three years with no signs of improvement.”
Vanderbilt.
That was too easy Ron. Nice.
Ellis Shoe, I mean it was a pretty easy target.
Have you seen anything that looks like improvement under Napier? Remember Jim Donnan? His record was WAY better than Naps or Mullen and he was gone after 4 years.
“Remember Jim Donnan? ”
I remember the bumper stickers that read “Donnan of a new era.”
Puns can be amazing.
oh pleez $7.5m is pretty plum – napier makes more than Venables -napier has it made for life
Tell me about it…
Maybe the Bull Gators cut the cord after a convincing win over Miss State. I’ve seen it happen.
Highly likely. Almost certain if the Gators lay another egg in Starkville, which isn’t beneath them at this juncture.
If they can’t beat Miss State, they’ve sunk to a new low.
Florida has money and one of the best recruiting bases in America. Throw in a pretty solid history with championships (both national and conference) and they are definitely one of the top jobs in college football. I’m not sure how to rank in a conference scenario, but I think there’s Bama and then a list of other schools with pretty equal weight- Georgia, Auburn, TN, LSU, TX and Oklahoma. Outside of the SEC I look at historic programs like Ohio State and then schools like USC and Michigan. But yes, Florida is a top tier job in my opinion…
The Gator job is indeed “top tier” if a person who applies is thinking about working three or so years and then raking in a multi-million buy-out check. LSU amd Aggie fans know what it feels like to waste money that could have gone into an NIL pot or a soon to be direct pay for play scheme. The Tigers credit the Gators for shutting down the Louisiana “Hire Napier – look at what he.has done at Lafayette” crowd. Paying players in the daylight also changes everything. Saban would still be coaching if that hadn’t happened. Thanks again Gators and better luck next time. And, Kiffen isn’t your answer.
I ain’t no Gator fan (at all!) but I give respect where it is due. Florida is a tremendous school for the right coach. There is not an SEC school that hasn’t been through this at some point (Alabama, LSU, Texas, Alburn, Ole Miss). Look at the dumpster fire that happened with my Vols prior to Heupel.
The right coach is really, really hard to identify for a program. I remember when Tennessee let Fulmer go. I remember thinking: “Okay, but you better know what you are getting into”.
Florida will be back at the top again. It’s just a matter of time (and finding right coach.
The writer of this column is a doofus. Florida, like Tennessee, has the five key features required for the right HC to win championships. Those, in no particular order, are:
1. A history of winning championships
2. A rabid fan base that fills an 80,000+ seat stadium for ALL home games year after year
3. Thousands of wealthy boosters ready and willing to fund top HC contracts and top NIL deals to lure and retain all the HC’s desired players
4. Rich HS recruiting grounds within a 400-mile radius
5. Top level facilities and staff to find, recruit, sign, develop and coach up top level talent.
Now it’s just a matter of zeroing in on the right HC and making him an offer he can’t refuse.
“1. A history of winning championships”
UF does not have a history of winning championships.
I hope you’re not about to argue about the definition of the word history Ron.
“I hope you’re not about to argue about the definition of the word history Ron.”
UF has a total of 3 national championships. 1996, 2006 and 2008.
If you want to argue “history of winning championships” I’d say ok, look at Alabama, Notre Dame, Michigan and USC.
I don’t want to argue about semantics.
The history of CFB is divided into two distinct eras, pre and post integration. In the post integration era (1971-2024,) SEC programs such as Ole Miss and Mizzou, which are doing very well now, haven’t won any championships. I mention those two because Kiffin and Drinkwitz are candidates #1 and #2 for the Gators, once they part ways with Napier.
Kiffin and Drink have very high opinions of themselves. Most P4 HCs do. But, history is working against them ever winning a NC at their current schools. That cannot be said for either Florida… or for that matter, Auburn.
So, if they choose to stay put, it’s for reasons other than maximizing their chances of winning a NC.
Right Ron. We should probably just erase from our minds the national championships in 96, 06, & 08. Also the eight SEC championships should be forgotten as well (or the 13 total we’ve played in). UF knows nothing of success and should expect nothing but mediocrity and be a bottom dweller in the SEC. Why would any fan want to sit and watch such an atrocity or boosters give a dime to the program??? You must be as mentally challenged as you sound.
“That cannot be said for either Florida… or for that matter, Auburn.”
Not true. NIL and the playoffs have helped.
“You must be as mentally challenged as you sound.”
Ah, here we go. I point out facts and you throw out some insults.
Ok she/her, here goes. UF is not a powerhouse in football. Never has been.
The only historical powerhouses in football are Alabama, Notre Dame, USC and Michigan. They all have 11+ championships.
Cry all you want. Throw out as many insults as your whittle heart desires, but it won’t change the fact that UF is not a football powerhouse.
So Ronnie took exception at having “a history of winning championships” which Florida does in spades both national and SEC. Of course the other 4 points StL made are without dispute and so is the first even if Ronnie and all the other doofuses that have posted similar comments want to argue otherwise.
Like the great Bear Bryant said, all Florida needs is the right coach and that statement has been proven true by SOS and Urban. Pile on as much as you want now dummies but it will be proven again when we hire the right guy
“The history of CFB is divided into two distinct eras, pre and post integration.”
Have fun telling USC, Notre Dame, Al, etc that their old championships don’t count.
“Ah, here we go. I point out facts and you throw out some insults. Ok she/her, here goes. UF is not a powerhouse in football. Never has been…”
What’s the matter rhonda? Orchiectomy still have you in a bad mood? Or perhaps the vaginoplasty is a little to loose for your liking…such the she/her loving drama queen you be, donnieboi. Nothing a few rounds of harmone injections can’t take care of.
“Have fun telling USC, Notre Dame, Al, etc that their old championships don’t count.”
Ronnie, I can’t believe you left out Princeton to make your pathetic point. Give it up girl…3 natties qualifies as history…with love, Clemson
Emilio, I’m still a little groggy after a visit earlier this morning with a half-crazed Pakastani endocrinologist who has a fetish for overly aggressive fine needle aspirations of unsuspecting, otherwise innocent thyroid glands while cackling like a former vice-president with no platform, so it took a while to read through Wasson’s article. At first it seemed to be nothing more than a hit piece for no apparent reason, so I read it a second time and still could not discern what the purpose was.
Then I read his resume, including the stops at none other than the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the LA Times – the latter no doubt not referring to the Panhandle of Florida – and it became clear that the drive-by was inspired by the neo-journalistic mantra, “If it bleeds it leads”.
Think I’ll change the bandage on my neck, smoke a cigar and throw a few rocks at passing cars, maybe taking a nap and then read it again in the hope to find any merit in it.
I’ll pause my self-imposed comment exile to point out that the brief bio at the bottom of my writing is just a sampling of my journalism stops — which also includes covering the Florida Gators for both the Associated Press and The Gainesville Sun. ;)
Carry on.
Good going there Neal! Looks like you got under his skin.
Your point, beyond questioning Mr. Wasson’s qualifications to write this hit piece, is well made. What makes any P4 program a destination job is independent of its current W/L record, or the poor quality if its last few HCs. It’s structural, like Nebraska not having much recruiting territory around it.
Florida will return to the top five when they hire the right coach again. And the right coach doesn’t have to be clever, or highly emotional. He just needs to get his team to play disciplined, aggressive football, with some offensive imagination, which Napier couldn’t do. The talent he can recruit, because it is UF in the middle of the state of Florida, will take care of the rest.
David, we’re all sufficiently impressed; thus, I suggest that you go back to your self-imposed exile if that’s that best you’ve got.
Dismissed.
The historical divide between pre and post integration is critical because it did serious harm to championship prospects of most southern schools, Florida included. In the post 1971 era, Florida (3) has as many NCs as Notre Dame (3) and more NCs than Michigan (2.) And none of Florida’s were shared.
I don’t know how this post ended up here. It was meant to go to Ron, above. Fat finger, I guess.
“In the post 1971 era”
Ok, so only championships after 1971 count….
After 1971, the talent playing field got leveled between north and south. Then the south emerged as the recruiting hotbed it is now.
Heck, we can draw the line at 1992, when NCs stopped being media beauty contests and started being settled on the field. In that 32 year era, only Alabama has more NCs than Florida.
Any way you slice it, Florida has championship history.
“Any way you slice it, Florida has championship history.”
Yes, if you’re at least 30 years old sure. If you’re older…not so much.
For most people, history begins the day they’re born. 1971 is a cutoff that covers most of most living Americans’ lives.
Not saying that what came before doesn’t matter, but most people need to look it up.
I Would Love To See Trent Dilfer Take Over. He is Doing Wonders with His Current Team. Just Putting That out there……
Dilfer is a first class tool. He’d be a perfect fit.
TDilfer has an Elite 11 camp for H.S. QBs that is packed during the summer…recruiting And D.J. Lagway could only be bettter.
According to Ron Mexico, Florida has never been a top 5 job in ANY conference. They have always been trash. They got lucky when they won any kind of championship. Conference and national.
Smh. I’m new on here but I have noticed one consistency in every article that I read about UF. Ron Mexico!
I’m a Georgia Tech fan, so I know that I can’t really talk much trash about other teams. But Troll Mexico is going to talk crap about UF no matter what. Doesn’t that get exhausting? I don’t know, maybe that’s what a lot of people do on this site. But whatever helps you sleep at night, Ron. That’s his right I guess. Just kind of sad to me
Ron hasn’t been the same since his start down the gender affirmation process, he’s one angry critter. I’m hoping once he gets the 36D implants he’ll be a kinder, gentler gal.
You should introduce Ronnie to Delandman Humper. Sounds like a perfect match.
DogHumper hasn’t been the same since her impregnation by her younger brother, Bill.
I’ve tried STL…not even d-man can stand to be around donnievenezuela, which is odd because d-man likes everyone, especially a man with teets…
“Florida has never been a top 5 job in ANY conference. ”
UF is in the SEC, she/her.
“They have always been tr ash. They got lucky when they won any kind of championship. Conference and national.”
You can’t read. I never posted that, liar.
“I’m a Georgia Tech fan”
Not a grad? Who knew..
“But Troll Mexico is going to talk cr ap about UF no matter what. Doesn’t that get exhausting? ”
I’m so sorry facts escape you. No, it doesn’t.
“Just kind of sad to me”
Am I supposed to care?
I hear you, Ron. And yes, I did graduate from Tech.
You said that unless you’re one of two or three schools that you don’t have a history of winning championships or that your school has never been a powerhouse unless that school has won a ridiculous amount of championships. So you’re saying that Georgia isn’t a powerhouse right now because they haven’t won 10 national championships?
GT fans are smart.
GT students/grads are smart. Fans are fans.
Yes, they typically are, JTF. I think the traditional faculty up there, coupled with the engineering reputation of the school, still promotes critical thinking even in this day and age.
Geography and the recruiting grounds alone keeps UF as a top CFB job. About every top program has gone through something like this before, Michigan/USC being a couple of the latest!
“Michigan/USC being a couple of the latest!”
USC hasn’t been the same since Pete got them put on probation in the mid-2000s. Michigan had one great year in what, 30 something years?
I would argue Michigan has had three great years, with the third being truly special. That said, the guy who brought them to special, like Pete, has moved on to the big show. And they’re about to find out he left the cupboard pretty bare.
“Great” to me is winning it all.
That’s an exceedingly narrow definition of “great.” By that definition, Auburn football has only had two “great” seasons in its entire “history.”
“That’s an exceedingly narrow definition of “great.””
Yeah, and?
“Auburn football has only had two “great” seasons in its entire “history.””
AU has two championships. Great.
AU has 9 undefeated seasons in it’s history. UF has never ever ever ever ever had an undefeated season. Ever.
2004 was a good year that fell short due to the famous BCS debacle. Could have been a great year had they had a chance to play for a title. Oh well.
AU has had other good seasons – see: 1993 and 1983.
Good is not great. Good is the enemy of great.
McElwain upset the powers that be by saying the Florida name wasn’t enough anymore and demanded better facilties, to which the AD said they would do and then didn’t. Serves Florida right to be in the wastelands of college football
There may be some truth to this article, but I don’t understand how Wasson arrived to some his conclusions.
“The gigs at Alabama, Georgia and Texas are certainly top tier, and coaching at Tennessee, LSU and Oklahoma aren’t far behind at all …”
First, the six schools mentioned do not have open positions, so any potential new hire would have to follow a successful coach. Yet Wasson notes this about Zook …
“Granted, no one wanted to be the guy who followed the guy …”
So I am not clear how this applies to Florida but not any other program.
How is LSU listed as a better SEC gig when they fired a coach two years after winning a national championship?
All six of these schools listed have gone through a similar cycle that Florida is currently experiencing.
I think a few people here have already mentioned that what distinguishes Florida from other schools is the talent available in-state. Without looking at any other factor, I believe this makes the Florida job rather attractive. The only difference between Florida and the other schools listed (except for Texas) is that Florida will have to compete with other in-state programs (FSU, Miami) for in-state recruits.
So on point with this.
Lane Kiffin to Florida rumors will be spreading like wildfire soon enough.
Kiffin, Drinkwitz, Heupel, Cristobal, Franklin, Freeze, Day?
And not a single one of those names will ever coach at UF.
I think you are right. The only 2 of those I think may would be Franklin, who has had ample time but just can’t seem to get over the hump and there is some grumbling in Happy Valley, and an outside chance for Drinkwitz simply because there is much more talent to recruit in Florida than Missouri. Though I really don’t think either of them take the job if offered. As far as I know, the same thing that kept Kiffin from taking the AU job will keep him from taking the UF job.
Ultimately, you may be right. What kept Kiffin from taking the Auburn job was his family’s express wish to remain in Oxford. I don’t believe that sentiment will change much this time around and the Florida and Auburn programs are on very similar levels.
“I don’t believe that sentiment will change much this time around and the Florida and Auburn programs are on very similar levels.”
LOL you sure suck at lying.
Which part am I lying about Ron? The part about Kiffin’s family having the same sentiment about remaining in Oxford. Or the part about UF and Auburn being on similar levels?
I agree with Ron and Tidefan.
I’m not sure of a Power 5 proven coach who would consider that job unless he got an obscene amount of money thrown at him.
They may have to settle for a middle of the road Power 5 coach or another proven G5 coach.
Chadwell, the Boise coach, Chip Kelly or Jim Knowles at Ohio State, heck..even the NDSU head coach would make sense. The last two that left there have both had a modicum of success at Wyoming and Kansas State.
Never say never.
This could and should be a plum job. Academically UF is the best public school in the SEC, maybe except UT. It is smack in the middle of a big time football crazy state. The culture and weather is first rate ( I would take Gainesville over Tuscaloosa or Norman or Athens any day). Cost of living is much cheaper than Austin, without the arrogant attitude. They have a great stadium that sits almost on top of the field and is very intimidating. Austin and Knoxville are probably nicer and more hip towns. Expectations are sky high everywhere. Michigan hated Harbaugh until his last week at the school. They hate the coach at Ohio State, even though he wins 12 games a year. The FSU coach won 13 games last year and they are trying to run him out of town. Grow up everybody. These 8 million dollar a year jobs are very tough and you have to win.
You threw in Gainsville’s “costing of living” as a selling point and I LMAO. Just imagine how far you could stretch $8M a year in a low cost of living area.
Gainesville over Tuscaloosa ok, but Norman or Athens? I guess it took awhile for your screen number to take affect.
I doubt he has ever been to Athens.
Comparing the Florida job to Missouri… this article is an insult to everyone’s intelligence. What a tough job where you can go 3 consecutive losing seasons without getting fired in the hottest recruiting state with one of the best public universities in the country with a legacy of championships…
Legacy is good NYC. Just don’t use the word “history,” or Ronnie may need to correct you. ;)
UF is better than Misery.
Emilio, NYC is safe from Ronnie’s corrective scorn only if he does not first observe what he just said repeated back in quotation marks. This does not mean that the recipient of scorn has a short-term memory deficit, but rather simply is a more modern evolution of old Tampa Gator’s previous mission to inform and educate we lower beings. See? I fixed it for you! :)
In the new SEC it’s really a top eight: Alabama, Oklahoma, Georgia, Texas, LSU, Tennessee, Texas A&M and Florida. Of those, two — Alabama and Oklahoma — are top jobs because of both modern historical tradition.
The other six are top jobs not because of history or tradition, but because of varying ratios of backyard access to recruits and lots of booster money.
Florida now has great facilities to go with its backyard access to recruits and booster money, so yes, it is a top job that many top coaches would jump at.
Tennessee does not have ready backyard access to elite recruits but it’s a historically winning SEC program with an amazing stadium, Haslam family money and outstanding facilities.
Steve Spurrier is 79 and has not interfered with any of the head coaches since his return to campus. His specter will loom over the program whether he has an office on campus or not. Urban Meyer is a non-factor.
The author, based upon his LinkedIn profile, is a job-hopping former graphic designer whose “work” in major national newspapers probably consists of news stringing, since nothing in his experience suggests significant feature writing experience.
But the larger point is that Mr. Wasson does not seem to understand the intense competitiveness that drives elite coaches, who will seek every advantage to reach the top in the fundamentally unfair game of college football. Those advantages exist at Florida.
OU isn’t a better job than the others based on what they did back in the day. No one outside their fan base really cares. UGA, Texas, and LSU are all better jobs. UF should be.
Agreed. According to this author, UF is not a top five job because they haven’t won the SEC championship or a national championship recently, but in the past 10 years in the SEC, only Alabama, Georgia, and LSU have won any of those, so using that logic, all other SEC programs are not good jobs, which is certainly not the case.
Guess we’ll find out who’s right in the near future.
Ridiculous. Fla is certainly Top 5 if for no other reason than their location in a great recruiting state. Their problem is they haven’t had a Top 5 SEC coach since the Human Grease Spot resigned after 2010.
Imo Top 5 jobs in no order based on location re recruiting, size of fan base and cash: Ga, Tex, TexAM Fla Ala. Tenn is getting there.
Doubters are always right until they are not. Florida was a terrible job until Steve Spurrier showed its potential. Urban Meyer’s offense wouldn’t work in the SEC until it did. Those who doubt Florida as a top job are right until the right coach proves them wrong. Florida May look like a dumpster fire right now, but it’s only a matter of time until someone turns it into a powerhouse again. I think it will be sooner rather than later.
Firing coaches every three or four seasons for the last 20+ years (except Meyer who got out while the getting was good) is a formula for turning a top-tier job into a dumpster fire that top coaches who otherwise may have been interested years before will want to avoid like the plague. Alabama, Auburn, Texas, Texas A&M, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Florida all have been in this century or are currently in that situation. If the Gators want to get out of it, they’re going to have to pony up a lot of money and be sure they get the right guy this time; otherwise they’ll be right back here in a few years which will only make the matter even worse.
Why is Scott Stricklin still employed? He needs to be first to go and not get anywhere near another coaching search. I’ve heard James Franklins name now-wtf!!!!
I swear to god I will abandon supporting all UF sports if that guy doesn’t go and SOON! It’s so obvious he is the problem!!