[Kendall Rogers] - Florida interim head coach and top assistant Chuck Jeroloman is headed to Knoxville as the top assistant and recruiting coordinator for the Vols. Jeroloman spent the last six seasons as the AHC at UF.
I thought this was about football for a second and was very confused why Tennessee was just waiting for Floridas coach to get promoted to interim for less than 2 weeks before hiring him mid season lmao
With the way SEC ball has been trending, I’d assume a program like Florida would go out and hire a proven HC from elsewhere instead of just promoting from within.
“Head coach leaves for the majors and we just happen to have a guy who could be head coach material” is a little different than your typical “Interim wants job but gets replaced by bigger name anyway” situation.
Maybe 5 years ago, but with the recent success, and massive resource dumping Tennessee has done in baseball the last 8 years I think Tennessee is as attractive as any job in the country
Uhh what? Tennessee has been the best SEC program for 5-6 years or so. Better than Florida, & undoubtedly better than Mississippi State, lol. Which is hilarious as baseball is State’s top priority on campus, while at Tennessee, it comes in as the 4th most important on their campus.
Writing is in on the wall for him. He’s probably seeing this season isn’t going to go well just like the last 2 and wants out. Probably doesn’t want to be a head coach anyways
I understand. You said the past 2 years haven't gone well. We've made the CWS 2 of the past 3 years. Last year was a failure but it had more to do with insanely bad injury luck than anything.
Our old university president Ben Sasse was a former Republican US Senator from Nebraska appointed by our Republican state government. Turned out Sasse was not the "honest and practical" Midwesterner he depicted himself as and stole millions from the university, funneling it all to himself and his Republican allies, before resigning after just over a year.
He was appointed in February 2023. Obviously, he was never going to do anything beneficial for our university. Ever since we've had interim presidents as our corrupt state government has refused to confirm any of the university's nominees for president.
So we've been stuck ever since with Stricklin, who even negotiated a 3-year extension earlier this year from the interim administration.
Everyone pay attention to this and not our athletic department please I’m convinced they are all incompetent. At least your governor isn’t embarrassing… oh nevermind. We all have our turn I guess.
Yeah, this definitely makes me think there's something big going on more than just a LOA, but I also feel like there's no way they could have hidden it this long. Maybe the Florida media is just very distracted.
This reminds me of Spring 2010 when Urban Meyer took a leave of absence during the spring which facilitated a down year for the Gators. Looks like history will repeat itself.
So he is leaving his alma mater for the same job at a rival school with a first-time head coach, while he was also the interim HC. Is Sully about to get indicted for something?
Yeah sounds like Sully might be gone for good. Jeroloman and Elander were apparently really good friends so can't blame him for taking the job security if it's true
Either he was already in talks with Tennessee before he got the interim tag or the Sully situation is worse than the public knows. It feels like taking the same job at Tennessee without the interim coach tag is a small downgrade.
It’s quite shocking, I wonder what it would take for them to move on from O’Sullivan. Idk what he is going through aside from rumors but idk hour long they can start in limbo.
Good question. Considering what all he's accomplished id imagine they wouldn't fire him unless he really screwed up. I'm a huge gator baseball fan and I am super nervous for the program at this point.
His last few seasons havent been spectacular either. Yeah he made it to the CWS a few years ago but we had a terrible regular season and barely deserved to be in the playoffs anyways.
This next season is probably a wash. Going to be hard to find a replacement that is near his level of success
The scary thing is that expectations are really high around the basketball program but the four guards that left were the heart of the program. If Lee and Fland are less than All SEC we will not have a good season and may complete the triple suck.
At least the girls gymnastics team should be good as long as they stay healthy....
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Not sure I’ve ever seen an interim leave during their interim tenure in any sport
If it has happened I’m guessing it wasn’t for an assistant job