What kind of boost, if any, will Florida get from interim head coach Randy Shannon? The Gators had dropped three straight games under Jim McElwain before he was essentially fired last Sunday. Shannon, the former head coach at Miami and UF’s defensive coordinator, will leave the Gators’ sputtering offense in the hands of coordinator Doug Nussmeier. Expect a few new wrinkles under Shannon, but the Gators are who they are: a flawed offensive team with few proven playmakers. “We just have to keep coaching the guys we have,” Shannon said this week. “I tell the coaches, ‘This is not the NFL.
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