First requirement is that the candidate have been a head coach before, we do not need another Zook or Duncechump experiment. We are Florida, not a program with training wheels.
Chip Kelly, Les Miles, Bob Stoops.....all not coming here so just mark them off the list.
My Top Five, In No Particular Order:
1. Fuente - grab him now or never, once he gets entrenched at VT, he would be hard to pry away.
2. Fedora - stop #2 on his head coaching career, done well to clean up mess Butch Davis left at UNC, got screwed against Clemson in ACCC game last year.
3. Niumatalolo - a stretch, only if he hires a top notch OC and scraps the triple option, disciplinarian that would have already shown Callaway, and likely the other 8 suspended players, the door permanently.
4. Gundy - he is a man, pay the man and give him the keys (he is #1 on my personal list right now, and we can get him)
5. Whittingham - would be hard to pry from Utah, but a legit HC.
Guys like Morris, Frost, and Babers are still relatively new on the HC scene and need more time.
A wild card name to toss out there is Narduzzi at Pitt, he is only 17-10 or so there as HC so far, but he did beat both the ACC (national) and Big Ten champ last season.