This is the first season since lon Kruger that I purposely didn't tune in to a few games. I decided to go to bed early rather than watch the game last night and I'm glad I did. I feel bad for Mike White I think he seems like a nice guy but it's getting clearer and clearer to me that he is not cut out for this job. I think he will get one more year because of the Johnson situation, and I think he would have gotten another year anyway because of covid.
If we had gotten knocked out in the first round last year, and ended up getting knocked out early this year, I think he might be gone... But covid saved him the embarrassing exit that was almost certainly coming last year.
Don't get me wrong I'm not going to be excited about whoever we hire anyway unless we go out there and really spend some money after we fire White. When Billy Donovan left I said I expected that to be the end of any sort of Florida basketball dominance. I hope to be proven wrong. I am thankful that we had all the amazing years under Donovan that we did, and I expect that our program will join the SEC carousel of being just another team that can occasionally compete with Kentucky and makes the tournament every other year. Our only chance to stay on top was to try to make a slam dunk hire after Billy left to continue riding his wave... Instead we hired an up-and-comer who had never even made the tournament.