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2015 Coaching Carousel
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He has a career record of 106-6.
Pat Forde for Sports Illustrated...
"Sources: Jim McElwain a leading candidate for Florida job"
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/source...ding-candidate-for-florida-job-011656592.html
"Sources: Jim McElwain a leading candidate for Florida job"
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/source...ding-candidate-for-florida-job-011656592.html
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Sparkles couldn't have picked a better year to find success with the rammies
if Sparkles is offered the job and doesn't take it he will probably never get a better offer again-
Gator fans are underwhelmed
http://www.gatorcountry.com/swampga...elwain-a-leading-candidate-for-uf-job.304895/
Has Saban been sighted looking at Gainesville real estate yet?
Gator fans probably think they should be picking from Saban, Miles, and a couple NFL guys.
They should remember that their best coach in any of their memories came from Utah when they were in the MWC, and he hadn't recently been a coordinator in the SEC.
Not saying that Sparkles is anything like Urban but a little perspective.
Sparkles is a good coach. If he was less of a goofy looking guy, people would take him seriously.
Spurrier won more games at a higher percentage while rebuilding and takes exception to your comment.
If that guy is so great how come tOSU isn't more creamy?
Urban won two of their three national championships, if that is what they aspire to.
UF update. Hugh Freeze has offer in hand, Ole Miss scrambling to match and keep him. Sparkles has had conversations with UF and is a "leading candidate" per Pat Forde. I have my doubts Freeze will leave Ole Miss if they match or come close...he is a local boy made good there. Word is Foley wants to move on this soon, so it could be an interesting week.
They didn't aspire to that until Spurrier showed them the way. They were not a very good football program for most of the years before Spurrier and I believe he accepted the job while they were on back to back NCAA sanctions.
Spurrier did great things with them.
Point is that they should know better than to look down their noses at a MWC coach. They would ttakke that level of success again, in an instant.
Sure they would.
Urban Meyer went 10-2 and 12-0 at Utah. He showed he could recruit and that he could coach. He was a hot commodity because they destroyed most of the teams they played that 2nd year. At that time Boise State was not in the conference and their really was no peer. Meyer also did not have $7.5m buyout.
Is McElwain that good of a coach, really? I haven't watched enough of their games to know. Rams seem to complain a lot when he's lost, and the level of competition was pretty low this year. The only >.500 teams he beat this year were BC and USU. Granted they were losing a lot before he came. Did he recruit Grayson?
Please note the bolded from the original post. Urban had taken Utah to some BCS level wins.
The point is that for UF fans to look down their noses at a guy from the MWC is not logical considering their own history. The normal path for hiring quality coaches is to either take a guy who is successful in a lower level conference or a guy who is a coordinator at a top program, Sparkles has both on his recent resume.
The other path is to hire away a coach from another high level program but as much as they might disagree, Florida is not in a great position to do that.
Meyer didn't have the $7.5 million buyout but at that time revenue streams were much smaller. UF's media revenue stream was a fraction of what it is now. Big $$$ are a new reality.
McElwain hasn't done as much as, say, Urban Meyer, in his two years at CSU. I think the P5 schools are all going to pass on him in this round of hirings to wait and see what he does in the next year. Especially after losing to BSU and to a lesser degree losing to AF. He needs to pull off the undefeated season to really move fast like Meyer did. I also think he has to absolutely kill it on the recruiting trail along the way for his name to rise to the point where some school is willing to pony up $7.5mm (or some fraction thereof for the naysayers).
He is. Great remains to be seen, but the guy can coach. He lost his best offensive player in the offseason in Bibbs and then won 10 games, running an offense a completely different way. Grayson was not recruited by him, but McElwain had to convince him to say because he and Fairchild had issues.
Lots of smoke around him right now. These things tend to become self-fulfilling. Even if Florida doesn't take him somebody else does just so they can get him before a different school does.
This is a year that a number of schools have openings who have the money to hire who they want to get.
I listened to his post game radio interview after they beat CSU - guy was raving about the team, said it was his favorite, most satisfying team he'd coached. Very genuine. He fits well there and is an excellent coach.
Big Money Ag friend of mine says that if Muschamp goes somewhere besides A&M it won't be due to money. They are pretty much giving him a blank check. Doesn't mean he'll end up there but the Brinks truck is loaded.
