So Bovada has released their betting odds on who they feel are the most likely candidates for the soon to be vacant Florida head coaching gig. And the current favorite is a coach from the state of Oklahoma, but that coach is not named Bob Stoops.
Oklahoma State’s Mike Gundy has been installed as the betting favorite with 4-to-1 odds. Stoops, however, is included on the list with 11-to-2 odds. Here is the full list of their current candidates/odds:
Mike Gundy 4/1
Jim McElwain 9/2
Bob Stoops 11/2
Dan Mullen 11/2
Rich Rodriguez 7/1
Mike Shanahan 7/1
Steve Spurrier 8/1
Hugh Freeze 8/1
Gary Patterson 12/1
Gus Malzahn 12/1
Thoughts?
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My money is on Mullen. He already has ties, He’ll be able to bring in better athletes at UF, Florida over Mississppi, and there is no pressure to win now, but lots of talent. He’d be stupid to not take it. Pending his contract with MSU I see Mullen out.
From everything I’ve heard, Mullen isn’t a pleasure to deal w/ and the Florida AD is not his biggest fan. I don’t think Mullen is very likely at all, actually.
Outside of FSU, Gundy would love their nonconference schedule and only 8 conference games in the east. I bet he would rather have this slate than what he has today. From East, LSU and some other school.
Georgia
Kentucky
Missouri
South Carolina
Tennessee
Vanderbilt
Sources at Florida say Mullen will not be considered.
Mullen has already turned them down once and they hired Coach F-Bomb.
With what Mullen has built at MSU I don’t think he is leaving.
Are there confirmed reports of Gundy communicating with Florida or being communicated to by Florida?
Not sure how there could be at this point.
Interesting how good these guesses are without such reports.
Some of them are obvious, but Mike Gundy. That isn’t a top ten coaches name.
I respectfully disagree. Gundy has done really well at OSU. This have regularily been ranked, have won the conference and are usually pretty dang competitive. I think they had one of the best teams in the nation the year they beat Stanford in the fiesta bowl.
Agreed. Les Miles got that program jump-started, and oSu plays a weak-ass schedule year in and year out. They finally stepped out on a limb and put Florida State on there, but we’ll likely see them go back to Florida Atlantic, UTSA and Savannah State in the near future. They lucked into a combo of Weeden and Blackmon, both of whom wanted to go to OU, but neither got the offer and moved on elsewhere.
Malzahn, Stoops, Spurrier are probably not interested, and Shanahan should not want to go college. Gundy and Rodriguez would be poor choices for Florida, so I am all for those two in order to keep Florida where it is. Patterson, Freeze, MacElwain would all be upgrades from the previous coach. I wish they would take Strong even though that would make Florida good in the future.
Kind of hope it’s Gundy. Or Strong. Though rumor is they want an offensive coach.
I want Gundy to stay where he is. They might actually get a good coach if Gundy leaves.
I’m going with these.
Bob Stoops 0.0
Al Groh 4/1
Dan Mullen 3.14196/1
David Cutcliffe 9/2
Ty Willingham 2/1
Gary Gibbs 10/1
Jim Harbaugh 20/1
Chan Gailey 30/1
Turner Gill 5/1
Though he is a dork of the highest order, Gundy could do well at Flor-ida. Makes the most sense based on this list.
2nded.
Dork of the highest order….i just spit water out of my nose. Funny! He is a DORK!
He’s not just a tool, but a Stanley power tool.
Dorks everywhere take offense at being compared to MG.
What about Tim Tebow’s odds? heh. In all seriousness, Florida’s a great gig – they should be a sleeping giant just in need of the right coach to bring them back to promenence. They play in the SEC and have a great recruiting region.
It’s crazy to think at how Michigan and Florida are both struggling considering the recruitment they have at their disposal. I mean, our very own Jerry Montgomery landed them some huge fish in the short time he was there.
Yeah I think if Harbaugh and San Fran part ways then he jumps up to a 5 or 6 and 1 chance because of his success at Stanford. He runs a “SEC style offense” I also like the Gundy, Patterson calls. The downfall for Patterson may be he is a “defensive guy” and with the last two Florida coaches being “defensive guys” and it working out bad they will probably go Offensive with the next hire. Petrino may be a dark horse with the way Louisville is doing this year!
Doesn’t Petrino have like a 10M buyout or something?
If one assumes they will go with an offensive-minded coach, I think Rich Rod makes a lot of sense. They could probably offer a salary close to Muschamp’s and get him. Gundy and Malzahn already make around $3 million a year.
AD is on the record. RichRod will not be considered.
If Mike Gundy does go to Florida would he take his brother? What’s the odds on that?
Apparently Brian Kelly is getting a push…
As of the time of this comment, Bob Stoops is currently the betting favorite at 15/4. Gundy just behind him at 9/2.
Those numbers have changed …
Rich Rod or McElwain would be my best guess (McElwain with the slight edge) for who would be most likely to get that job. Unless Bob finally decides that fourth time is the charm…
I’ll bet Jim McElwain 😉