I know, I know: All you want to do is read about and discuss the future head coach of the Florida Gators, and why he should be Scott Frost or Dan Mullen or Mike Leach or Lane Kiffin or Chip Kelly or Steve Spurrier or the reanimated corpse of Bear Bryant.
But Florida’s probably playing four more games before that head coach is hired, and the man coaching them gave me a reason to really root not just for the team I love but the guy in charge of it on Monday.
Right at the end of the press conference, Associated Press reporter Mark Long — because of course it was Mark Long — asked Shannon about what Scott Stricklin told Shannon about “your chances for this job” on a full-time basis.