As the late, great, Casey Stengel would have said,
"who woulda thunk it"? (or was it the late, great, Yogi Berra?) Three years removed from Will Muschamp, and all of the frustration of his tenure, and the Gators are looking for a new coach, again. Don't let your Bulldog friends tell you it was because we lost to the Doggies. That just made it easier to grease the skids on Jim McElwain's sled out of Gainesville.
I'm not going to write much of my two cents here, because you can read every article I link to, so I'll start with Pat Dooley of the Gainesville Sun, who was our guest speaker in 2016. And as he wrote,
the McElwain Era Began to Unravel Early On. Pat has a lot of videos on the Gainesville Sun, but if you're like me, you might prefer the written word. However, they're all pretty good. He also has a weekly article entitled "The Back Nine," as in the back nine of a golf course. This week's was excellent, and
here it is. So who's gonna be our new coach? Only AD Scott Stricklin knows. But here's
his take on that.
After being our guest speaker for two of the last three years, it would be unfair to not include Zach Abolverdi and the site he works for, SEC Country. Zach does a lot of podcasts, but he and his colleagues have written some great articles on this, including a deluge on Sunday detailing the reasons why Mac's gone, and who Stricklin should be looking at. Their site is
soooo good, with
soooo many good articles on all of this, that I'm just going to provide
the link to their site, and as you load it, just keep clicking "Load More" on the bottom of the page to find what you're looking for. They have a great article on each of the possible successors.
Oh, and by the way, did I tell you that ND transfer Malik Zaire is
finally going to start on Saturday at Mizzou? It's about time, and it's something that might not have happened if Mac were still coach. A 7-4 regular season record is still possible, as well as an "average" bowl game. But I think it wouldn't be if Franks were the QB. We'll see how Malik does, and guess what? If he does well, there's still the possibility he might come back next year if the NCAA will grant him another year due to his injury at ND, to run what could be a spread option offense.
It all starts Saturday, and we'll see you at Buffalo Wild Wings (one time only), at noon, to see how it begins to turn out.