Florida baseball coach Kevin O’Sullivan sat in a royal blue chairback seat behind home plate at McKethan Stadium on the first day of fall practice, watching his team warm up from a distance as a fan approached him.
Three months earlier, rumors surfaced that he was leaving UF to become the next head coach at the University of Texas.
“Thank you for staying,” the fan told the coach before she gave him a hug. “It was going to be a hell of a drive to Texas for a home game.”
O’Sullivan, wearing blue gym shorts and a neon orange shirt as fiery as his personality, lifted the sunglasses from over his eyes and smiled.