Florida athletic director Jeremy Foley has twice hired coaches with no head coaching experience to lead the Gators and it hasn’t worked out.Will Muschamp followed a similar path to Ron Zook at Florida. Zook was gone before the end of this third season. Muschamp’s fourth season will be his last. He was forced out Sunday, with two games left.Foley followed Zook with Urban Meyer, a coach with a track record for winning big with creative offenses. Conventional wisdom is that Foley will go that route again.Here are some possible candidates:-Rich Rodriguez, Arizona. His three terrible years at Michigan, where he was a bad fit from the start, are outweighed by all his success at West Virginia (60-26) and now the Wildcats (24-12). A spread offense pioneer who built recruiting ties to Florida while with the Mountaineers, the 51-year-old Rodriguez checks a lot of Florida’s boxes. He also has a great relationship with his current boss, Arizona AD Greg Byrne, who showed nothing but faith in Rodriguez after the Michigan debacle. Is Byrne enough to make Arizona a destination job?-Dan Mullen, Mississippi State. Meyer’s former offensive coordinator is having his best season at Mississippi State, but he’s not a one-hit wonder. He has steadily built a solid program in Starkville. …
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