- Sep 18, 2014
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While on ESPN's Championship Drive this evening....Todd McShay said something interesting about the UF coaching search. He first says that a lot of young coaches do not want to go to the SEC because of Saban and the pressure to win right away. He then references Scott Frost and said that he was a special circumstance because of Nebraska but coaches like him are not interested in the SEC. He then mentioned Chip Kelly and said Chip told UF no because of the same reasons....too much pressure and an unrealistic fan base. BUT THEN he said something interesting....he said "MULTIPLE" coaches told UF NO before that settled on Mullen. He says it almost in passing but I caught it and thought it was in direct conflict with what we have been told by SS and what Dooley wrote in the GS today. In essences, both SS and Dooley said that Chip was never offered the job and they were concerned with Frost desire to coach his team in their conference championship and bowl game. It appears that there were more options UF was looking into than what we have been led to believe and more than one told then "no thanks". Pay attention @ around the 30 second mark.