Just for grins, let's go head coach shopping

[Gator CPA]

I hear Les Miles wants to coach real bad.

 

[MJMGator]

I hear Les Miles wants to coach real bad.

He already did coach real bad.

 

[Renard904]

We aren't in position to turn up our noses at Chip Kelly. Besides, his defenses at Oregon were solid.

Yeah, I wasn't referencing Chip Kelly. I don't mind an offensive minded coach. Just be competent enough to hire good defensive coaches. Big12 coaches just doesn't even acknowledge defense as an important aspect of the game.

 

[Zambo]

I wonder how DJ Durkin is gonna do at Maryland?

 

[Sundaysunday]

I don't want anyone off of the Saban coaching tree.

 

[Sundaysunday]

Well, I'll mention the guy no one has talked about: Josh McDaniel. How is it he has an OL that never let's Brady get his jersey dirty. McDaniel would be my choice. But I have to say Franklin would be cool too but the train left the station on that one....

I'm starting to the think an NFL guy could do the trick. We actually won games when Quinn was our D Coordinator. I will selectively forget about Fat Charlie.

 

[InstiGATOR1]

What a thread, my comments without quoting each person:

A. I am in the no Fedora camp. I have never understood the infatuation with him. And of course Strong would not be on my list either.

B. I agree that the Muschamp hire made more sense at the time from the point of view of a UF administrator than the McElwain hired did. That said, McElwain, as terrible as he is, is better than Muschamp in my view. So despite trying, UF did not do worse after Muschamp.

C. I was thinking today who would have believed in the Fall of 1984, that a current UF employee would later become AD and high back to back football coaches based in large part on their UAL connection and a desire to copy UAL. If you were following UF in 1984, it is just mind boggling.

D. As for the various coaches listed, I like Kelly, Gundy, Fuente and I am sure there are other good candidates out there.

E. Frost might be like McElwain a guy that thinks so little of UF, he does not even include them on his buy out exemption list.

 

[AugustaGator]

I'll take Larry Culpepper.

 

[Sundaysunday]

I heard Briles is available for cheap.

I kid I kid

 

[t-gator]

Hindu already makes over $4 million and Pickens will pay more to keep him. Add to that we don't pay top dollar for hires; it's not happening.

Him and pickens dont exactly like each other.

 

[Gatorbait_007]

Fleck? Thoughts

 

[BMF]

Worrying about how good or bad our defense will be should not even be a consideration for a head coaching candidate. If the new head coach can recruit like most UF coaches before McElwain, we'll have the athletes to have a top 20 defense.

We need to clean house on the offensive side of the ball and bring in a proven head coach that knows offense. This sh*t-show needs to come to and end asap!

 

[divits]

I'm watching Frost.
The timing of his rise and Mac demise could match up perfectly, and being at UCF, he may be making the connections we will need in recruiting in Florida.

We'll see what he does this season.

Yup. My choice. I've seen enough of him already to know he's going to be a very hot commodity very soon and already better than what we've got by a large margin. He recruits well, his players love him, he actually knows offense and it shows and his players are big , fast and well coached.

 

[ATXGator]

Charlie would bring in the defensive players, a good OC and most importantly he would not put his nose in the offense

Yeah... that worked out great here in Austin

 

[KronoGator]

A&M will have Chip Kelly signed up way before we even think of firing Mac.

 

[ATXGator]

Fuente is too late and would be too expensive for us to start b/c its how we roll. Hate Fedora, but you are entitled to your opinion. watch his games and he sux at game management. And cares ZERO about defense. Single handedly loses games he should win by calling silly plays when things are working. Love the guy at Navy, but those guys are usually married to the triple option. I thought Paul Johnson would tweak his system to a more read offense when he left Navy for GT, but he has not. I was wrong, and you can't win with that at the highest D-1 level anymore. I am not a fan of Gundy, but I understand the talk. No opinion on Whittingham. Not saying your list is bad, I just would have liked to see us take a shot at Harbaugh 3 years ago when he was out there. Or to have called David Shaw. Look it can be done. Look at how the guy at Colorado has really straigtened things out there in 3 years and that place was a complete trainwreck. Finding the guy is the answer. Fooley clearly had ZERO eye for under the radar talent. I doubt Stricklin does either.

Harbaugh was never coming here. He wanted to coach at Michigan because that is where he played.

 

[T REX]

Fuente's not leaving Va Tech to come here.

Kelly is going to get hired by A&M or ND.

Fleck's buyout is rather large I think. Frost?

I don't think Stricklin has the balls to can Mac with Foley looking over his shoulder. Foley's gonna screw us and screw us...probably until he kicks the bucket. Retired my ass.

 

[ATXGator]

This thread in itself is depressing.... I haven't seen one name that really stands out.

Fleck is still unproven
Gundy hasn't even won theBig12

I just doesn't seem like there is a great coach out there, yet we know what we have isn't working... I feel like we could be in for another 5 or 6 years of bad football

 

[KronoGator]

You know who it has to be...


Kerwin Bell

 

[Gatorjunky47]

You know who it has to be...


Kerwin Bell

I'll take him as a OC,... All day everyday