GCMB Poll: Five possible scenarios

[78]

Convention says you finish out the season and determine what's best for the program. Convention is for librarians and administrators. We're a message board. Screw convention.

Let's consider thinking outside the box.

What's the best course of action given the fact that we have two weeks to prepare for Georgia and it couldn't get any worse?

 

[oxrageous]

Would Spurrier interim his beloved Gators for half a season? I think he would.

 

[GatorArts]

I said name Spurrier Interm. Rip the bandaid off now, focus on finding and hiring the best guy out there the rest of the year... hopefully get someone in time to sway recruits.

 

[GatorJ]

Spurrier interim is the correct choice.

Bring in Babers or Kelly next year.

 

[diehardg8r]

I don't think he'd want the job to be honest with you. You can't make chicken salad out of chicken shyt. Now, if it can be done, he'd be the one to do it.

 

[78]

Would Spurrier interim his beloved Gators for half a season? I think he would.

Are you kidding? He'd love that scenario, and who knows? He may do well and want to stay longer, relieving of us the heat to immediately find the best possible long-term solution.

Gator Nation is one happy camper.

 

[OcalaGator83]

I have said it before and I will say it again, you will never convince me that if the administration went to Steve and said look, we need 2 or 3 good years out of you to rescue the program while we line up the right guy long term, are you willing to do it, that he would turn it down. A chance to be the savior of Gator football yet again and cement his legacy as the greatest Gator of all time? No way he turns it down.

 

[Gatorraid81]

Let Spurrier interim, it will show everyone what a competent play caller can do with these players. It has got to kill him inside to see this offense look so inept, when we do have talent to do great things with.

 

[oxrageous]

I have said it before and I will say it again, you will never convince me that if the administration went to Steve and said look, we need 2 or 3 good years out of you to rescue the program while we line up the right guy long term, are you willing to do it, that he would turn it down. A chance to be the savior of Gator football yet again and cement his legacy as the greatest Gator of all time? No way he turns it down.

The only way he would even consider it is if he had an all-star cast of assistants to recruit for him. I don't think he wants a full-time job anymore.

 

[GatorJ]

The only way he would even consider it is if he had an all-star cast of assistants to recruit for him. I don't think he wants a full-time job anymore.

For sure.

 

[ThreatMatrix]

Do you want to know what I wish would happen or what I think is the best possible scenario.
Best case is Mac takes a job somewhere and we don't have to pay his buyout.

IMO I don't think the boosters that end up paying for these buyouts are going to pony up more money this year (they are still paying Chump) until there is a savior coach to be had. I know I wouldn't. However in the mean time I would be handing down the ultimatum of getting rid of Nuss/Nord and demanding a plan for fixing front 7 recruiting.
Edit: Let me add this isn't to evaluate Mac - it just buys time to hold recruiting together and for the buyout to reduce until we find a savior.

I would love to see Spurrier interim but I was called crazy when I suggested that. I think Spurrier might do it for little money. Don't know if don't ask.

 

[Gatorraid81]

Another thing that makes this staff so pathetic, is how they coach scared all the time. That's one thing that would change immediately if Spurrier were to take over.

 

[GMDGator]

Mac ain’t going anywhere before next season... we’re stuck with him

 

[Gatorraid81]

Do you want to know what I wish would happen or what I think is the best possible scenario.
Best case is Mac takes a job somewhere and we don't have to pay his buyout.

IMO I don't think the boosters that end up paying for these buyouts are going to pony up more money this year (they are still paying Chump) until there is a savior coach to be had. I know I wouldn't. However in the mean time I would be handing down the ultimatum of getting rid of Nuss/Nord and demanding a plan for fixing front 7 recruiting.
Edit: Let me add this isn't to evaluate Mac - it just buys time to hold recruiting together and for the buyout to reduce until we find a savior.

I would love to see Spurrier interim but I was called crazy when I suggested that. I think Spurrier might do it for little money. Don't know if don't ask.

Knowing our luck, our AD would match any offer that another team made to Mac to keep him here.

 

[gatormandan]

Knowing our luck, our AD would match any offer that another team made to Mac to keep him here.

 

[Concrete Helmet]

Another thing that makes this staff so pathetic, is how they coach scared all the time. That's one thing that would change immediately if Spurrier were to take over.

When you coach with one foot on the brake your players often play the same.....

 

[gatorkev85]

I think a much more realistic scenario would be SOS taking over play calling for the rest of the season if Mac let Nuss go. I don't think he would take over as HC, he don't want the responsibility this late in his life.

On a side note I want to say that SOS had good things to say about Frank's before the season started so it's very telling that Mac and Co. Have not developed him so far.

 

[gatormandan]

SOS had good things to say about Frank's

Well, SOS can see a QB that he could develop and I am certain he would be much much better after one season under SOS.

 

[GR8 2B]

Well, SOS can see a QB that he could develop and I am certain he would be much much better after one season under SOS.

I don't see SOS taking any active role in coaching. He voluntarily resigned his last active coaching position midway through the season. He obviously hasn't taking an active role in the coaching here since coming aboard as ambassador emeritus, although we don't know how much that may have been limited by Mac. What's he got to gain? His legacy is intact. He's already on top of the mountain. I say let Mac & Co. finish out the season. Line up Petrino, Brohm, Frost, or Gundy, and bring them in immediately after our last game in an effort to salvage the incoming class. The replacement hire should absolutely be dependent on who they want to bring in as a DC.

 

[gator1946]

I can't see anyone, who is not on the staff, taking over this mess in mid season, not with out the Moniker of head coach. I can't see Spurrier trying to get this mess up to speed in just the few weeks left in the season. There's more wrong than just the play calling. You have to know how to run a play before you try to run it. That's a risk of embarrassment that no one would take.

Except maybe Spurrier. You never know what he will or won't do.