Florida has too good of a football program to hire a coordinator

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yet Foley has done it twice with bad results both times. Agree, disagree?

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To be fair we were blindsided in 2002. Spurrier left unexpectedly. Foley wanted Stoops and didn't get him and had to get someone (This was in January).

After Urban quit the first time, Stoops was actually lined up to be the coach, but Urban came back and Foley fell in love with Champ.

Who knows what happens this time.

Mullen should be the target. And he should leave. He will never be as hot as he is now. He can get into the SEC East, which improves his odds for success. This is a no-brainer.

i agree, foley needs to target national title winning head coaches.

yep, best coach for UF. He understands the sec, he has a sec and national title. He knows how to recruit a hot bed state, and has plenty of ties to south florida thanks to LSU. Les is the perfect gator

Florida is a giant. Top 5 head coaching gig. Great money, great facilities, great athletic department, and most importantly great talent in the state for recruiting.

They should throw 5 million + at their top candidates. I'd throw 7+ at Chip Kelly and see if he waivers from the Eagles, but I doubt he will.

That's pretty much the same as saying they're too good to hire a lower-tier HC from, say, the Mountain West Conference. It's not a question of the program's quality, it's a question of trying to catch that one up-and-coming coach that could pay off big time. Keep in mind, most of the true elite are hard to drag from their current positions. Saban was a lucky strike, as was Spurrier. OSU got Meyer because Tressel (another lower-tier hire) was on the way out at the same time Urban was faking health issues to escape the SEC. And so on. Even coaches with top-notch resumes aren't a guarantee, as RichRod's career shows. Or take Kelly's career at ND. It's looked decent, but it averages out to middle-of-the-road for a program like UF, where the demand for dominance following coaches like Spurrier and Meyer would eventually catch up with him (as it might at ND.)

UF hired Muschamp because he had a sterling reputation and was heavily in demand. He was assumed by most to be the HC-in-waiting at Texas (another program that would be consider "too good to hire a coordinator.) Florida was hoping to catch a future Hall of Famer on the upswing rather than gamble with the likelihood that a proven but not yet elite HC would become elite at UF.