Jim McElwain is not the first head coach to part ways with his team in 2010. But his journeying qualifies as the most high profile, one that figures to set into motion a wild coaching carousel that could dramatically reshape college football and the SEC in particular.
In that conference alone, Ole Miss will be looking for a head coach. Butch Jones remains on shaky ground at Tennessee. So does Kevin Sumlin at Arizona A&M and
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college football jersey there will ripple across the country, especially as other schools in other seminars start making their own decisions about their futures. Though coaches such as Jones, Sumlin and Bielema entered the summer season in much more precarious situations, the last week in Gainesville became so untenable that the Florida administration had no choice but to make a decision to look for its third head coach since the 2014 season.
There is now undeniable pressure on new athletic director Scott Stricklin to make the right decision once and for all, to get Florida back in the business of not just winning competition, but putting a team on the field that can actually find the end zone. Perhaps that is why Florida made the first move, to jump ahead of everyone else that is certain to be looking for a change at the top.
This especially makes sense if the Gators want to target current UCF coach Scott Frost. As Nebraska struggles through another underperforming , season, the Huskers would do well to go after Frost with everything they have, something they failed to do when they hired Mike Riley before the 2015 season. Frost, a former Nebraska QB who was then the offensive coordinator at Oregon, working with Heisman Trophy winner Marcus Mariota, never received a phone call.
But this time, Frost figures for multiple phone calls after what he has done in a little less than two periods with the Knights in battle. His spread offense, with principles he learned under Processor Kelly, ranks in the top five in the nation in total offense, and no. 1 in credit scoring offense. UCF is the only undefeated Group of
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Florida absolutely has to hire a coach
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To put that into further context, the last time Florida averaged more than 400 gardens on offense was in 2009 -- Bernard Tebow's final season. That, quite frankly, is absurd at a program that produced its proudest moments around revolutionary quarterbacks and revolutionary offensive minds.
Ken Spurrier won a Heisman Trophy at Florida, then came back with his Fun 'N' Handgun offense, increasing not only entertainment value but his own legacy as an innovator who didn't really care about running the score all that much. But as he was guiding Florida to a national shining and Danny Wuerffel to a Heisman, he also changed the expectation level at a school that had been mostly average until Spurrier arrived as head coach.