Kelly, Herman or Butch....win, win, win situation for us, period.
I know Golden has snake bitten us on "up and coming" mid major coaches; but two different situations.
Golden comes from Al Groh; Herman, Urban Meyers. Golden came from a coach who's had minimal success; while Herman comes from a championship pedigree.
Golden took a Temple team and couldn't beat a top 25 team and best year was a 9 win season after several years there. Herman already beat two top 15 teams, won 11 games first year w out of position players and made it to its conference's championship game.
Literally apples and watermelons. Could Herman fail here? Sure; but we could literally say that about every single candidate.
Herman is a solid Beast in the making and would murder it here.
Kelly took an OU team who's claim to fame was Gary Payton, and Phil Knight and created a powerhouse with his innovative style. OU are not recruiting the top talent in the country; their class rankings are consistently outside the top 20 but we would never think that.
Take Kelly's scheme w So Fla talent and my gawd! The only knock on him is the other side of the ball...but if we could land a top notch D coodinator and the landscape of college football will slant to the small private school in Coral Gables again.
Butch is who he is...arguably the greatest talent evaluator in the last 30 years. Knock on him? Game day questions...but w the right staff, So Fla will be locked down and in a couple of years, we could possibly have the best stacked team in CFB...again.
We can't put all of our eggs in one baskets, but we can't keep dismissing top tier coaches making up bull ish reasons.