Would Anthony Grant have been successful at Florida?

No

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rather than fired at the graveyard job he ended up taking

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instead of trying to save a struggling one

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Make up your mind.

Going to be a tough sell this time around. They forced out his predecessor and hired a rising star and hot name and he flamed out. It will be interesting to see what route the search takes. Also, Mal isn't around for this hire, so it could be a different philosophy.

He would probably have more talent but his style is just so....confusing. Bama constantly runs down the shot clock on every possession and then somebody drives with 5 secs left to shoot and gets it blocked or tries a pass that is intercepted or he heaves up a 3. Pretty much a 30 percent chance of scoring each trip.
There is no flow to the offense, guys standing around, no set plays that are worth a flip. This is why Bama lost games in the final minute. I don't know how many times instead of running a play we waited at mid-court until 5 seconds and then tried to run a play. Puts too much pressure on the players.

I think in an assistant role where there is no decision making or at a school like VCU that is basketball only and plays a much weaker schedule he's fine.
I don't think he would do much more at UF than get to the tourney. He would never win much of anything. Ask Florida fans if they would like to replace Billy with Anthony. That'll give you a pretty good answer.

Grant was successful at VCU. He had trouble translating that to Bama.

It also had a lot to do with Florida's population booming and the great increase in in-state talented that resulted. Not to take anything away from Donovan because he's the best coach we've ever had in any sport and this is his program, but there's too much in-state talent now for us to not be successful.

Compare that to a state like Alabama that produces one or two Top 150 players a year. The only SEC state that has had less talent of late than Alabama is South Carolina.

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No. God himself could not make that offense Grant runs into a winner.

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He switched philosophies about mid-way through his tenure. It was bizarre.

I don't think so, not near the level they've been.

I figure you can take Donovan's record, and add 4 losses or so each season (similar talent level, worse coaching). So for Donovan's GOOD years, Grant would have bubble teams. Years Donovan slid in on the bubble, you'd have NIT teams. Off years (like this year) you'd be awful.

Hate to derail this, but you have to figure Grant is about like LSU's Johnny Jones, maybe worse. What would Billy Donovan have done at LSU the past 2 years? I think deep runs with LSU's talent. Jones at Fla, you'd be worse off.

edit- I consider Grant to be a worse recruiter than Jones. Jones is getting legit players to LSU, while nobody is going to Alabama. If Grant had gotten players like Martin, Mickey, and Simmons to come, Alabama would likely be in LSU's shoes.