SOURCES: Coaching rumors Part III

[TheDouglas78]

If that In all kinds of weather site says its Freeze I am going to have to chuckle some but I will hope its true.

I would be shocked with Ole Miss reportedly offering $5 mill/year as of 4 days ago.

 

[Gator Fever]

I would be shocked with Ole Miss reportedly offering $5 mill/year as of 4 days ago.

If true his agent is probably milking this for all its worth.

 

[deuce]

When Hell freezes over!

 

[alcoholica]

Andy Staples was on Finebaum and he talked about UF coaching searches. He said he covered 2 football coach searches at UF and the basketball search when Billy quit and then came back. He said not to trust any rumors until after the season that come out because Foley keeps thing close to his vest. He also suspects that UF will hire a search firm to make contact with agents. That way UF could cleanly say that they didn't contact coaches or agents. He said UF did it after Zook and could have already started

 

[TheDouglas78]

If true his agent is probably milking this for all its worth.

Wouldn't you if you were his agent. He got a raise to $3 million a year last December.

 

[playzwtrux]

The thread for a bloated thread is now bloated.

 

[RedHead-Gator]

First time post! Just jumped ship from the other place!!!!! Glad I found you guys!

 

[Ray Finkle]

Welcome aboard new guy! Ox, time for round 4 please and thanks

 

[soflagator]

He probably got that from here - Foley said he had to win out and many believe SC would have been enough - we will never know I guess.

Pretty obvious to me that he was done following Mizzou. In every one of these cases, Foley has been clear that it's about the overall direction of the program. There's no way he's setting that standard of winning out, especially with as many variables as there were. The night of the Mizzou game, we could've lost to VU or Usce and still mathematically made Atl. If his job is still up in the air, no way he gets fired for beating Usce, uga, EKU and fsu, and making Atl, which could have easily happened.

You could also tell from body language that WM was a different person from in the past 3 games. I felt that it was probably over then, but now I'm about as close to 100% as you can get.

 

[Bullag8r]

These PRETZELS are making me THIRSTY!

 

[78]

I was a bit surprised to read this evening that Charlie Strong doesn't have a buyout per se at Texas. It's a financial penalty in the form of owing an amount equal to the total compensation that Texas would be obligated to pay any of the assistant coaches who remain employed by Texas 60 days after Strong terminates. That strikes me as very workable for Foley if he really wants the guy.

Thoughts?

 

[the_alphagator1906]

[QUOTE='78;n112776]I was a bit surprised to read this evening that Charlie Strong doesn't have a buyout per se at Texas. It's a financial penalty in the form of owing an amount equal to the total compensation that Texas would be obligated to pay any of the assistant coaches who remain employed by Texas 60 days after Strong terminates. That strikes me as very workable for Foley if he really wants the guy.

Thoughts? [/QUOTE]I

Very possible. However, Foley said he wanted an offensive guy as the next coach. I know Strong doesn't get in the way of his OC but I just don't see it this time around. We are a year to late again. I think it would be a PERFECT fit for us but we are just to late. I mean, who would walk away from Texas to come to Florida? I love the Gators but lets be serious....we have the SEC network...Texas has the Longhorn network.

 

[78]

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Very possible. However, Foley said he wanted an offensive guy as the next coach. I know Strong doesn't get in the way of his OC but I just don't see it this time around. We are a year to late again. I think it would be a PERFECT fit for us but we are just to late. I mean, who would walk away from Texas to come to Florida? I love the Gators but lets be serious....we have the SEC network...Texas has the Longhorn network.

First of all, Foley didn't specify an offensive coach, he referenced a coach whose team had been successful offensively. Strong was that at Louisville. Re why he would leave Texas for Florida, are you serious? Strong has obvious ties to UF and recruits the state of Florida better than any of the coaches we're looking at. He'd be a PERFECT recruiting fit for the job.

 

[78]

The thing that makes me think Strong isn't a viable candidate is Strong himself. He's a man of integrity and he knows damn well that Texas went 14 million into its pocket to bring him to Austin a year ago. He'd probably be at ethical odds over leaving this soon.

 

[gatormandan]

Strong isnt coming.

 

[TheBigClaw]

Time to get Strong was last year, unfortunately Foley wasn't smart enough to dump Champ after last years Debacle

 

[soflagator]

[QUOTE='78;n112791]The thing that makes me think Strong isn't a viable candidate is Strong himself. He's a man of integrity and he knows damn well that Texas went 14 million into its pocket to bring him to Austin a year ago. He'd probably be at ethical odds over leaving this soon. [/QUOTE]

This is correct. I could just about guarantee that if the two jobs were on the table, he and his family would take UF in a heartbeat simply because of how much he's talked about them enjoying their time here over the years. But I think he's a "stand by my word" man, and wouldn't leave at this juncture for any amount of money.

That's exactly why I wanted to grab him last year. Similar to WM, he has tremendous loyalty and I could see being the face of UF football for a long time. Unlike WM, however, he'd already proven to be a competent HC with a bright future.

 

[GatorJ]

Gotta be Chip Kelly

I would piss myself. That would be the biggest homerun hire.