Marcus Freeman is Black, there's no way the Bull Gators would even consider him, and honestly, he's at a school that runs circles around UF in regards to support and resources. One thing I've learned from my trip to Gainesville is that UF justifies their entire existence through an accident of geography and history. Their SEC membership is literally ALL THEY HAVE. You talk to their fans, that's the thing they lead with. Not their titles, not their Heisman winners, them being in the SEC.
It's almost like they know that they are the third most relevant program in the state historically, and they have to talk about the one thing that FSU and Miami most likely will never have to assuage their egos.