There are several posts in this thread mentioning Bronco Mendenhall. Sure he's an innovative coach and an interesting man. He is a good coach for programs like BYU and UVa. But for an SEC program that want to win the SEC I don't think so.
Before the Orange Bowl game Mendenhall said Virginia might get blown out but if they hung together and were in the game he would consider it a moral victory if they lost a close one. To be that's something akin to Butch Jones Champions of Life and Tax Slayer Bowl talk. That won't get you very far in Tuscaloosa, Baton Rouge or Gainesville. Even if you're coaching Virginia you still have to have the mindset that we're coming to Miami not to look at the scenery but to beat the damn Gators. That kind of Bronco Mendenhall mindset will earn you the Mike Shula barbecue sandwich award in the SEC.
In the SEC as Lane Kiffin said at his introductory Ole Miss press conference "we don't want to be good; we want to be great". Mullen didn't leave Starksvegas because he wanted to come to UF to win some moral victories against Georgia and LSU. No, he came here because he wanted to run it down the throat of LSU, Georgia, and FSU and get a statue built.
UVa only builds statues to great historical figures like Thomas Jefferson then wants to tear them down when the political winds blow another way. UF builds statues to Spurrier, Wuerffel, and Tebow for eternity. Sure UF is a good academic institution but we don't worry like UVa does if a winning football program will tarnish our reputation. We're UF dammit; not Stanford. The only SEC school Bronco would be a good fit is Wonderbilt.