Luke Fickell + a blank check for assistants, analysts, facilities, and recruiting would return us to elite status.
At this point, any (potentially elite) HBC should demand the blank check, as I believe Saban did in 2006. It's the only way to be a consistent playoff contender.
I suspect, to my dismay, that the stewards of Gator football will never open the checkbook. I fear we are consigned to be, at best, a second tier SEC program competing for ten win seasons and NY6 games. UF may not be a playoff contender for a long time.
Those of us who want elite football are like conservatives. We're obviously right, but the people who run the world are idiots.