Instead looking a the character of the coach, schools are looking a victories ie $$$$$$.
This is not just a Florida issue. You have Georgia fans that wanted to get rid of Richt for years, why? Because he hasn't won the big game.... yet everything they ignore everything good he has done. It's not so easy to win every game. imho
Obviously i dislike UGA fans for the most part, but they have some legitimate concerns when it comes to Richt.
Besides not winning the big game, UGA has lost the top recruits in a loaded state for the past 7 years with the only exception being the "legend" class. UGA's best players have been from out of state actually. Murray, Marshall, Gurley, Marlon Brown, Stafford, AJ Green, Moreno etc..... On that front UGA is doing well, but it's pretty sad what UGA has been doing in state with evaluations, and lack of effort.
Richt is a good guy, that we all know but whatever he is doing or not doing with the type of kids he is recruiting is not working. UGA has been involved in more arrests and criminal type activity than anyone in the SEC by a large margin over the past 10 years, sans the Meyer era. Meyer has criminals in his programs running around all the time and does not care, he just wants to win. Richt on the other hand suspends and attempts to discipline his team, but it isn't working and its become a pattern year after year of big time UGA guys getting into a lot of trouble off the field.
I've already mentioned it, but i still can't get my head around how UGA loses all of its states best players to Bama, Auburn, UT, USCe, FSU and UF consistently. Year after year the top 20 kids in GA are plucked by out of state schools. Luckily GA is such a loaded state that UGA is still able to put a lot of talent on the field with only landed 5 out of the top 20 and a bunch from the next tier in GA. UGA recruits well out of state which has saved Richt's ass.
UGA has done more with less than any program not named Phil Fulmer. As a UT fan i can see the same sort of problems. Both were good men, both were well liked by everyone that knew them, both could close on recruits when they felt like recruiting, both had boatloads of talent that underachieved in college consistently, both had a lot of guys getting into trouble year after year, both had good records year after year but had a ton of head scratcher losses and never won the big games.
I think its a terrible idea to fire a "good" coach without having a better coach ready to sign the papers, but UGA has had years to see the writing on the wall. Surely some big name by now would have been interested in coming to UGA i would think. I think its unwise to have a kneejerk reaction after a bad season and fire a good coach that had an offyear or injuries etc....but its a good idea to evaluate each year and i would have come to the conclusion awhile ago that Richt is not the guy to bring home a championship.