Two summers ago Todd Golden was the golden boy coach. He had steered San Francisco to their best finish in years, had landed one of the best jobs available in the spring, and had national writers following him around doing a performative dance about his analytics based approach to recruiting.
But the season started and the Gators were worse than they were the year before under Mike White, who took the job at Georgia to get out from under the hot seat. Florida wasn’t bad, they just weren’t particularly good, either. They had no losses to teams outside of 81st in KenPom.