"Former OSU coach Pat Jones said Monday UF had offered Gundy the job before hiring Mullen"

I have a hard time believing Gundy turned down UF to possibly stay at Okie Lite or go to Tenn. UF is hands down a much better job than either of those.

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I have a hard time believing Gundy turned down UF to possibly stay at Okie Lite or go to Tenn. UF is hands down a much better job than either of those

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It depends on how much money they were willing to offer

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It depends on how much money they were willing to offer

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Well apparently their back up plan was Mullen @ $6m per

So Gundy used UF as leverage against UT to get that astronomical offer

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Mullet with jorts would be mind blowing

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Mullen with jorts is close

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Damn, Florida is a better job than UT by any objective measure.

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Is Florida paying $8 million a year?

IF this is true, there is still a lot of ambiguity about the “offer”. There are usually offers, counter-offers, and other negotiations before a coach accepts the job.

Maybe UF felt Gundy was angling for a raise, or Mullen entered the picture while they were negotiating.

I doubt a lot of legwork and negotiations took place, a contract was sent to Gundy, then he decided he would rather stay in Stillwater, only to bolt to Knoxville a few days later.

I don’t doubt that we may have reached out to him at some point when they were gauging interest of various candidates, but don’t think it got to a point where he was offered the job. Mullen has been in the works since their Ole Miss game.

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IF this is true, there is still a lot of ambiguity about the “offer”. There are usually offers, counter-offers, and other negotiations before a coach accepts the job.

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Florida may have offered Mullen $5M, he said no, so they offered Gundy $4M, he said no, then Florida went back to Mullen with $6M.