***BREAKING*** SOURCE: Hugh Freeze is top coaching target

[OcalaGator83]

So if Stoops had gotten shut out today should he be crossed off the list too? Ole Miss had six turnovers. Teams have bad games, it happens. Didn't Arkansas shut out LSU the week before? They aren't pushovers anymore.

If he was blanked by the Jayhawks, then yes, I would cross him off the list. But I'm not interested in straw man arguments filled with theoreticals. And you misrepresented what I said. I said not scoring a single point against them was inexcusable. When was the last time Florida was blanked? A supposed offensive guy gets shut out by a (now) 2-5 SEC team, and I'm a bad guy for not being impressed?

 

[Nautigator]

Don't want him. Flash in the pan, good for Ole Miss, not for us.

 

[Coach9]

He will have his best record in the last three years in the SEC of 4-4, and will sign an extension.

If he wants to be comfortable and cash checks he'll sign the extension. If he wants to be NC winning coach he'll head for the sunshine state.

 

[alcoholica]

Let me address this further. There are hundreds of coaches. Jeremy Foley, by all accounts and taking into account his history, has very specific parameters he looks for. I don't believe Andersen falls within those parameters, so I don't personally believe he'll be a candidate. Hence, he's not worth the bandwidth in breaking down his coaching career. That doesn't mean he isn't a good head coach. That doesn't mean he couldn't be a good head coach at Florida.

I think Foley, right or wrong, is rather obsessed with getting a coach that's familiar with the SEC.

Do you think Foley would absolutely disrespect Slive on his way out and poach an SEC coach?

There is a connection between Machen and Andersen, which is worth mentioning. It's a pretty accepted assumption that Machen had as much to do with the Urban hire as Foley after Foley's last coach search failure. To dismiss someone because you haven't heard is pretty irrational. Google him, look him up a bit. He appears to be a legit candidate.

 

[LeeForThree]

You mean when teams stop trying to defend the run, the offense is exposed. Ole Miss's offense is the opposite of Auburn. Auburn can't beat you passing, Ole Miss can't beat you running.

To be fair though we have about 6 RBs that would be the starter on Ole Miss. Freeze has recruited well at most spots, just not RB.

 

[TheDouglas78]

If he wants to be comfortable and cash checks he'll sign the extension. If he wants to be NC winning coach he'll head for the sunshine state.

Would he be, has he shown what it takes to have that killer instinct? What it takes to truly run a top 5 program. He might be where he truly deserves to be.

 

[oxrageous]

A supposed offensive guy gets shut out by a (now) 2-5 SEC team, and I'm a bad guy for not being impressed?

I don't recall saying you should be impressed, nor calling you a bad guy. But it's true that Ole Miss has a bad QB. I'm not going to judge a coaches entire career or what I think he could do with the resources at UF on one game.

 

[alcoholica]

If he wants to be comfortable and cash checks he'll sign the extension. If he wants to be NC winning coach he'll head for the sunshine state.

If he's smart, he'll sign a huge extension with Ole Miss while they still want to. If he posts 3 yrs at UF like he is about to at Ole Miss, this fan base would....well.....www.firehughfreeze.com

 

[TheDouglas78]

To be fair though we have about 6 RBs that would be the starter on Ole Miss. Freeze has recruited well at most spots, just not RB.

Lee, don't you know reading the threads, that Jones falls down after first contact, and the only backs we truly have is Taylor and Lane.... Second, just like Muschamp with the Offensive line and quaterback. It's his own fault that he hasn't recruited a position of need when it has been a need. But it also his offense fits his other stops as well.

 

[Okeechobee Joe]

Freeze didn't have his team ready to play. He had beat Presbyterian which is like Florida beating EKU. He had a week off to prepare for Arkansas. Everything was still on the line for his team because if Ole Miss won they would have still been theoretically capable of winning the SEC West. I know that would be a big "if". How does a team go from 7-0 and ranked number 3 and now looking at an 8-4 season. Somebody is going to be playing in the Egg Bowl with egg on his face and his name is not Dan Mullen.

 

[oxrageous]

Do you think Foley would absolutely disrespect Slive on his way out and poach an SEC coach?

I think Foley would hire who he thinks is best for the program, period. This frowning on "poaching an SEC coach" is friggin' ridiculous.

 

[soflagator]

No coach is perfect and they all have their bad days. But I'll admit that a 30 point shut out is concerning at this stage of the game. Really no excuse for thàt.

 

[Coach9]

Would he be, has he shown what it takes to have that killer instinct? What it takes to truly run a top 5 program. He might be where he truly deserves to be.

It would seem that any coach that has gotten to this level would have the hunger to get to the next level. To be a champion though, you have to have solid QB play. Hugh has Good Bo and Bad Bo. Will has practice Jeff and game Jeff. Watching Ole miss today was like watching one of our games when we are getting nothing out of the QB position.

 

[LagoonGator68]

Rain negated his talent

 

[TheDouglas78]

It would seem that any coach that has gotten to this level would have the hunger to get to the next level. To be a champion though, you have to have solid QB play. Hugh has Good Bo and Bad Bo. Will has practice Jeff and game Jeff. Watching Ole miss today was like watching one of our games when we are getting nothing out of the QB position.

So we get a guy who doesn't pull a guy for bad Bo, similer to be Driskel. Sounds kind of like Muschamp to me. If a guy isn't producing, and you are being shut down and physically manhandled you pull the guy, especially when they knew there was no threat of the running game from the very beginning of the game. Arkansas has a really good defense, but if you are playing for a shot in the playoffs (which they still had a log shot at) at just completely manhandled, that says something about the coach.

 

[oxrageous]

So we get a guy who doesn't pull a guy for bad Bo, similer to be Driskel. Sounds kind of like Muschamp to me. If a guy isn't producing, and you are being shut down and physically manhandled you pull the guy, especially when they knew there was no threat of the running game from the very beginning of the game. Arkansas has a really good defense, but if you are playing for a shot in the playoffs (which they still had a log shot at) at just completely manhandled, that says something about the coach.

Okay, we got it: Freeze can't coach.

 

[alcoholica]

Almost 500 posts, in before the sequel

 

[Coach9]

So we get a guy who doesn't pull a guy for bad Bo, similer to be Driskel. Sounds kind of like Muschamp to me. If a guy isn't producing, and you are being shut down and physically manhandled you pull the guy, especially when they knew there was no threat of the running game from the very beginning of the game. Arkansas has a really good defense, but if you are playing for a shot in the playoffs (which they still had a log shot at) at just completely manhandled, that says something about the coach.

Doesn't look like they have much behind Bo. Or at least anyone that Freeze has much faith in. There is definitely some similarities.

 

[TheDouglas78]

Okay, we got it: Freeze can't coach.

Didn't say can't coach, but there is coaching at Mississippi and doing well. And coaching at Florida. To assume the two things are equal, is a poor assumption.

 

[oxrageous]

Didn't say can't coach, but there is coaching at Mississippi and doing well. And coaching at Florida. To assume the two things are equal, is a poor assumption.

You're right. It should be a hell of lot EASIER coaching at Florida with better resources and an easier division.