Tubby Smith resigns, taking Minnesota job

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All the Florida AD has to do is show this thread and I am sure others like it on other boards to Donovan.

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If Billy Donovan (or anyone else) succeeded here, the 2046-2047 UK team would play in the new, 30,000-seat Donovan Arena, in the city of Donovanville in Donovan County.

He is currently the second most popular coach at the University of Florida. (See also: Bear Bryant leaving Kentucky.)

Edited to add: If Donovan is UK's choice (which I think he likely is), UK WILL outbid Florida. Period. If he really wants to stay at Florida that much, why does he not have a contract for next season?

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Because you don't have any idea about what's going on at UF with Billy D? I won't say there isn't a small chance he could go to UK, but every factor besides stadium size leans other wise. Billy has always declined contract talks during a season and openly said he would wait until after the season to extend because he didn't want to get in the way of what the players did in coming back. Christie Donovan just said she would never go to Lexington and that Billy doesn't want to go anywhere. Obviously that isn't concrete or anything but Billy has openly talked about the pressure at UK and has said he doesn't want any part of it. He's also mentioned the arena isn't a big deal and we have one of the best practice facilities. We just did a lot of upgrading despite that. More is coming. I would also say that UF will match any UK offer financially speaking.