Florida HC’s since Spurrier

I’d kill for 2 nattys.
Just pointing out they haven’t really done much outside of the Urban/Tebow years.

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I’d kill for 2 nattys.

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You don't want the third?

They have won or tied for the East division 8 times since 2003.

3 national titles the last 28 years

It's not just since Spurrier.

Since WW2, only Spurrier and Meyer have been "hits" as coaches.

Their coach with the 3rd best winning percentage since WW2 is... Dan Mullen.

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Outside of Spurrier and Meyer, Florida is an incredibly mediocre program.

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Almost every program in America is like this. Pointing this out as if it means something is the worst take in all of these discussions.

Let's take out Bobby at FSU or Dooley at Georgia.

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Will Muschamp

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This is the best hire UF made. The logic for hiring Muschamp was ironclad but no one knew or had any indication that he would be bad at hiring OC's. He tried, but he was just terrible with the offense. Then he got a very bad string of luck with injuries. There may not be 3 guys in the history of CFB that know more or have been better defensive coaches than Will Muschamp. But he just screwed up with offensive hires. Muschamp grew up in Gainesville. I played football against him in youth league, briefly went to high school with him. Good guy from a good family. It's a real shame it didn't work out for him. I still remember his mom being on the field, crying, at his last game as UF coach. His father ran the high school I attended with him. He was a really good guy.

If Will ever figured out the offensive hiring bit, he would be a fabulous head coach.

Our biggest problem the last decade and a half is that we have not found a transcendent QB. We’ve had good coaches but average to below average college QBs.

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Almost every program in America is like this. Pointing this out as if it means something is the worst take in all of these discussions.

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This is not true at all.

Take out the top two for Bama (Saban and Bear) and you still have Wallace Wade, Frank Thomas, Gene Stallings and Bill Curry. Bunch of hall of fame coaches there.

Take out the top two for UGA (Smart and Dooley) and while it's not as good as Bama... it's still pretty good. Wally Butts and Mark Richt are both excellent coaches with great winning percentages in the cfb HOF.

UGA's had just 7 coaches since WW2. Four are in the college football hall of fame. Another is Kirby Smart who has a pretty good chance to end up there. The other two are Johnny Griffith (10-16-4 in 3 seasons) and Ray Goff (46-36-1 in 7 seasons). They're the only two UGA coaches since WW2 who've won less than 60% of their games

Jim Donnan is a bit of an edge case. He's in the HOF for what he did at Marshall. But he won 67.8% of his games at UGA. He's our Mullen/Graves.


UF... they've had 13 coaches since WW2. Spurrier and Meyer were awesome.

But other than them they have 6 guys who've won less than 60% of their games (Napier, Muschamp, Pell, Dickey, Woodruff, Wolf)

They've had 5 other guys who've won in the 60%-70% range.
Mullen - 69.4%
Graves - 68.6%
Hall - 68.6%
McElwein - 64.7%
Zook - 62.2%

All but Graves are generally viewed as failures by UF fans for various reasons.

Then they had their two hits (Meyer and Spurrier).

UF has a much lower percentage of coaches they've hit on than UGA... or most other schools in the same general "prestige" level. UF basically had 12 years under Spurrier, 6 under Meyer and MAYBE you include the 10 for Graves of successful stints. That's just 18-28 years.

UGA? 22 years under Wally Butts. 25 years under Vince Dooley. 15 years under Mark Richt. 9 years and counting under Kirby Smart. THat's 71 years post WW2 of successful/HOF level football for UGA.

It's NOT the same for every school.

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Outside of Spurrier and Meyer, Florida is an incredibly mediocre program.

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The data is solid....for the entirety of their existence other than 15% of it Florida has been, at best, an also ran mediocre program. Why they insist on denigrating what their lord and savior the old ball sack accomplished at one of the more dysfunctional programs in CFB is beyond me but their refusal to accept that they have been mostly shite and Spurrier proved they did not have to be mostly shite is a major factor in their remaining shitty. You can't demand more when you won't admit you ain't been shite and insist that you have always been a front runner...how you going to demand to be what you are????

95% of Florida’s football success has been achieved during the Spurrier and Meyer eras.