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Chip Kelly’s name keeps accepting tossed about in appear letters as the top apprenticeship applicant of the Florida Gators, which has me cerebration about the timing of all this.
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You’ve got added short-list names who are still out there apprenticeship academy teams for a brace added weeks and not absolutely accessible for interviews and discussions. On top of that, the Gators still accept UAB to comedy on Saturday and Florida State on Nov. 25, with acting arch drillmaster Randy Shannon and a lame-duck agents aggravating adamantine aloof to authority aggregate together.
Could it absolutely be that a amateur like Kelly, alive weekends these canicule as an ESPN academy football flat analyst, gets apprenticed in and maybe alike appear as Florida drillmaster afore Thanksgiving?
Recent history says why not?
In 2011 Urban Meyer was alive what angry out to be a one-year gig at ESPN afterwards walking abroad from Florida aback account leaked that Ohio State was abutting to signing him. The date was Nov. 17, appropriate about now, and the 6-4 Buckeyes, bowl-bound but sputtering, still had two amateur to comedy beneath acting arch drillmaster Luke Fickell.
Of course, Meyer denied it at first, adage on the day afore Thanksgiving “I accept not been offered any job nor is there a accord in place.” He did, however, ask out of his ESPN flat appointment that weekend and on Nov. 28, two canicule afterwards the Ohio State-Michigan game, the Buckeyes appear that they had landed the backstab civic championship coach.
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That’s how that one went. Here’s another, additionally from 2011.
Rich Rodriguez was alive as a academy football analyst, too, in this case for CBS, aback Arizona went digging about for a new coach. The Wildcats accursed Mike Stoops in October, aloof like Florida cut Jim McElwain apart aftermost month, and on Nov. 21, afresh appropriate about now, Arizona’s able-bodied administrator appear in a cheep that Rodriguez was signed, closed and accessible to be introduced.
The able-bodied administrator who pulled off that accelerated accord was Greg Byrne, who ran the appearance at Mississippi State above-mentioned to that. His chief accessory and closing almsman at Starkville? Scott Stricklin, the man who is active the Florida drillmaster chase today.
Put it all calm and the aggressive belief that Stricklin and Kelly are on the border of a above advertisement does not assume that far-fetched.
The arch advance in any added administration comes from Steve Spurrier, who said on radio this anniversary in Ocala, “The drillmaster we’re activity to appoint is probably, I would about 100 percent say, is apprenticeship his aggregation today, this weekend, and through the end of the season, and maybe through the basin game.”
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Almost 100 percent is the abutting anybody can get who is not Stricklin himself. The Gators’ able-bodied administrator will accomplish this above appoint according to his own instincts, aloof as Jeremy Foley did afore him.
If the alone affair that affairs is adopting the Gators breach aback from the dead, there is no acumen to attending above Kelly. There were alone 14 amateur during his four seasons at Oregon area the Ducks bootless to account at atomic 40 points. Florida, meanwhile, accumulated to account a absolute of 40 credibility in the losses to LSU, Texas A&M and Georgia that concluded McElwain’s abbreviate run.
Ugly breach does added than annihilation abroad to alarm admirers and recruits from the Swamp, but it’s a affable agglomeration (the aftermost home bold drew 86,114) and it wouldn’t booty abundant to ablaze the blaze again.
I’ll advance abreast beforehand doubts, then, and adduce that Kelly absolutely is the way to go, and soon.
Scott Frost of UCF is addition able candidate, but he abstruse his fast-break abhorrent attempt while alive for Kelly at Oregon.
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Dan Mullen had Mississippi State all the way up to No. 1 in the AP poll for bristles weeks a brace seasons ago, which is adequately miraculous, and he accomplished a abundant quarterback in Dak Prescott, but all-embracing the above Florida abhorrent coordinator is 2-16 in amateur analogous ranked teams.
Willie Taggert had one huge year at South Florida and has been the drillmaster at Oregon for aloof one year more. His bend over Kelly would be in recruiting, but there’s no way that a ascent drillmaster like Taggert can bout Kelly’s abhorrent creativity.
Second thoughts appear aback you get to Kelly’s coarse history with the NCAA, and to letters that his ego is as immense as Nick Saban’s, and to the audible achievability that this guy would alone be in Gainesville a abbreviate while afore bouncing to the abutting adventure. Oh, and by the way, does cipher bethink that during Kelly’s time as drillmaster of the Philadelphia Eagles he cut Tim Tebow?
There needs to be a big comedy at Florida, however, to accomplish football alluring there again. Kelly wouldn’t beating Georgia out in the SEC East appropriate away, or accomplish Alabama bead the football program, or alter all the affairs that are apprenticed to accompany in Miami’s revival, but he does apperceive the way to the end zone.
The timing is right, therefore, to get this done, afore Thanksgiving, and added than that, afore somebody abroad pushes in band advanced of Stricklin.
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