Well, yes. That’s one thing I don’t get. Like I said, we should have
picked up a Roy Williams (not theRoy Williams, Sandy). We should have
picked up a Nick Saban for football.
I wouldn’t say Saban brought any baggage, or any boring games.
Instead, the elite program of the SEC gets two “potential” great guys.
Whether he is or not, McElwain should look like the second coming of
Knute Rockne with this team. The talent is there. All they need is
someone with an actual plan for offense.
Muschamp should be ashamed for throwing away the career of Jeff Driskel.
At any rate, if we’re elite, let’s go get an elite coach.
I can’t wait to see who the project is Jeremy brings in for the three
time national champion gymnastics team.
All this grousing aside, I will be firmly supportive of our coaches,
whoever they are.
Oliver Barry, CRS, GRI
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*On Behalf Of *John Bowers
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I also think that “only” paying $2 mill a year was a factor. White is
young, obviously talented, a Florida native, and plays “uptempo”
hoops. Jeremy had a tough decision, he went with what he thinks is
correct. With all Jeremy has done for UF, we need to get behind the
new guy. And the new football guy, too, whatever his name is. Heh heh….
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I respectfully disagree. Besides the fact that I am no fan of Roy
Williams, a lot of those guys will cost a ton of money and bring along
baggage or a boring style of play.
I was on the Archie Miller bandwagon, but the basketball talking heads
are gushing so much about this guy, that I'm starting to really warm
up to this hire.
On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 10:47 AM, mail.bobparks.com
<http://mail.bobparks.com> <[email protected]
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I'm not impressed. If Florida is an elite program we should get an
elite coach. A Roy Williams, not another project.
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Dooley: Foley gets his guy
Florida athletic director Jeremy Foley was pumped up after hiring
Mike White on Thursday. (The Associated Press)
*By Pat Dooley <http://www.gatorsports.com/personalia/patdooley>
Gainesville SUN Columnist*
/Published: Thursday, May 7, 2015 at 10:06 p.m.///
/Last Modified: Thursday, May 7, 2015 at 10:55 p.m.///
It was Monday morning and Jeremy Foley was choked up. He was
saying goodbye to Billy Donovan, his close friend and best hire as
Florida's athletic director.
On Monday afternoon, Foley made a phone call that would shape the
immediate future of Florida basketball. He dialed up Tommy
McClelland, the young athletic director at Louisiana Tech, to let
him know he wanted to talk to McClelland's basketball coach.
On Thursday, Foley was pumped up.
He had hired the coach to replace the irreplaceable.
“You're gonna love him,” Foley told me Thursday night. “I know
this happened fast, but he blew us away.”
Mike White, 38, fits all the parameters of a Foley hire. He's
young, he has a great personality, he has had success but not so
much that Florida had to pay ridiculous money to get him here.
Foley has a track record of rewarding coaches who do well here,
not somewhere else.
The hiring of White happened so fast it caught a lot of people by
surprise. The surprise wasn't that they hired him, but that they
hired him so quickly.
But you have to understand this — once coach Scott Brooks was
fired by Oklahoma City, Foley and his staff prepared for the
worst-case scenario. They started looking for a new coach before
Donovan was even talking to Thunder general manager Sam Presti.
That's what you do when you are an athletic director. You don't
wait until the bomb drops, you start moving when you hear the
planes overhead.
“Our antennae were up,” Foley said.
And the one guy they kept picking up on the radar was White, who
might well be the next big thing in college basketball. He is
energetic and knows the state of Florida. His team plays
fast-tempo basketball, which was crucial for Foley to find.
After 19 years of Billyball, nobody wanted to see Deflategate,
basketball-style.
Then there is this — White and Louisiana Tech have been to the NIT
three straight years. That shouldn't excite anyone, but if you are
at Louisiana Tech you had better win your conference tournament if
you want to dance.
I could mention this — he turned down Tennessee and has already
won at Florida State.
Now you're warming up to the guy.
Or this — Florida basically traded Jeff Driskel for Mike White.
Point, Florida.
But these are all trivial points that pale in comparison to the
biggest one. Just like it was the right time for Donovan in his
career to leave Florida, it was the right time for White in his
career to come to Florida.
Time will tell if this was a good hire. It makes a lot of sense.
There were other coaches on speculative checklists, but most of
them were bloggers' dreams. Foley knew who he wanted, vetted him
and went after him.
Certainly, this is now an athletic director with two new coaches
with limited track records in the sports that matter most. If
nothing else, it makes the coming years around here really
interesting.
The bottom line is that a new era has begun for Florida
basketball. It has been so long since one started, it's difficult
to remember when it did. Here's a clue — Michael White was a
sophomore point guard at Ole Miss when Donovan started his career
as UF's coach.
Now, White takes over an elite program, one that Donovan started
building when White was trying to find a way to beat the Gators as
a player.
Now, White's their guy.
Now, he has the chance of a lifetime.
There have been a lot more splashy hires in the SEC over the last
two years. Bruce Pearl, Rick Barnes, Ben Howland.
This hire had much less splash. But what matters are the ripples.
/Contact Pat Dooley at 352-374-5053 <tel:352-374-5053> or at
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>. And follow
at Twitter.com/Pat_Dooley <http://Twitter.com/Pat_Dooley>./
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