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The last year was crazy.

I mean, there was a lot of midseason guys are getting fired. That means

midseason. Guys names are all over the hot seat conversations and the hiring potential

conversations. So your name was in there. You'd experienced that before. A couple of cycles,

actually. But it became pretty apparent last year. This is probably the year it's going to happen.

But like go back to

Halloween go back to October if I showed you a fast forward it's going to be

Florida how realistic or believable would that have been to you not very

believable yeah yeah I you know right wrong or indifferent I've been really

fortunate to be in this position

essentially every year's head coach where your name's brought up and that that means you

have a good football team with a good staff and you're winning which is a positive um i knew there

would be opportunities um didn't know exactly what all would or wouldn't be available

to me, but I didn't think Florida was maybe going to be the right fit or the right timing

for whatever reason. As the process unfolded, the more that became clear to me what this

thing looked like here and maybe what the fit looked like for me, it really became more transparent that this is where I felt led

and where I felt like I fit the best.

I think anybody watching this, chances are they've never been up for one of these jobs.

So they look around the SEC, for example,

and you get your Florida and your Auburn, Bama, Georgia,

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