Florida’s Coaching Search Begins: Lane Kiffin, Jedd Fisch, Jeff Brohm?
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 21 October 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Billy Napier is out at Florida after a 3-4 start, and Bruce and Stew break down who’s next in Gainesville. Is Lane Kiffin tempted to leave his Ole Miss setup for the Gators’ national championship history and elite recruiting base? They debate whether the Florida job is still a blue blood destination in the NIL era, or if programs like Ole Miss have closed the gap.
Jedd Fisch emerges as an intriguing candidate with deep Spurrier connections and Florida ties, while Jeff Brohm's elite play-calling and upset wins over top-5 teams make him a target — but would he leave his Louisville alma mater?
Bruce and Stew also discuss Eli Drinkwitz and whether James Franklin could make the jump from one fired situation to another. Plus, the guys analyze contrasting statements from Florida State AD Michael Alford and Wisconsin AD Chris McIntosh about their embattled coaches, and make their picks against the spread for the week’s biggest games, including Texas A&M at LSU, Ole Miss at Oklahoma, and BYU at Iowa State.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, don't hold your breath for something to happen today, but boosters, you may want to get your wallets ready because this ain't looking so good. |
| 0:17.5 | Welcome to the Audible presented by Trader Joe's. I'm Stuart Mandel, joined as always by Bruce Feldman. |
| 0:24.7 | No Rob Russo today, as he always says when I'm gone, he is on assignment today. And that actually is an accurate depiction. |
| 0:32.6 | Today, first of all, every episode of our show is on YouTube at Audible Show. |
| 0:38.1 | You can find all our episodes there. |
| 0:40.1 | Today, it's Tuesday. |
| 0:41.8 | We pick our games against the spread, make our picks against the spread for next weekend. |
| 0:46.8 | But Bruce, since the episode aired on Sunday, to nobody's surprise, Billy Napier finally got fired at Florida. |
| 0:57.1 | You could just tell by the tone of the press conference afterward and the questions and his reaction that I think everybody knew it was coming. |
| 1:04.1 | But now that it has, we turn our attention as we always do. |
| 1:08.0 | Who's next at Florida? |
| 1:09.6 | Who do you think's next? |
| 1:14.4 | I think one of the first calls that Scott Strickland the AD is going to have at UF is to look and say, hey, Lane Kiffin, do you want to stay in the SEC |
| 1:22.3 | and come to a place where people have won national titles? I know it's going really well for you, |
| 1:27.0 | and now all your |
| 1:27.9 | family and extended family is settled in very nicely to Oxford. But let me remind you, no one's won a |
| 1:35.8 | national title there at Ole Miss really since the sport has been integrated, and they've only had two |
| 1:42.1 | top 10 seasons in the last 50 years. That is not a great history. |
| 1:49.7 | Florida has the best recruiting pool in the country. Doesn't mean Lane and everybody else |
| 1:54.8 | outside the state can't try to poach it and get some of those players. But one's more of a closer to a blue blood than |
| 2:02.6 | certainly the other. And Lane has spent a lot of time in Florida. Certainly, you know, he did |
| 2:08.3 | very well as the FAU coach when he really kind of kick started this second act of his coaching |
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