Color me jaded...
Hate to say it, but I've seen nothing which makes me think we are going to right the ship.
the Moos hire has eery shade of the Riley hire, in that it was completely out of left field. For whatever reason, the leadership at our school continuously chooses to make head scratching hires at multiple levels.
Instead of making moves to hire individuals that Conventional Wisdom says would have a good chance of succeeding, we make these oddball hires, and then the media machine that is the OWH, LJS, Et al. cranks up, and begins to construct a narrative to convince us all why Coach "X" or AD "Y" was a good hire despite many of us knowing in our gut that something smells. They use buzz words/phrases like "sneaky good hire", "under the radar", etc., etc
This is a pattern which repeats itself over, and over, and over. Rinse and repeat.
I don't know what to think about this whole coaching situation. I do know that in the absence of any verifiable detail, the shortest distance between two points is a straight line, which makes me think that if Riley were going to fired, it would have happened already. I also don't believe that Eichorst was fired SOLELY because of Riley. Eichorst had many issues, Riley was just one of them, and the blowout loss was the straw that broke the Camels back.
Whether you want Frost, Campbell, Patterson, Fuentes, whoever your dream candidate is. If Moos truly does intend to hire a new coach, and is playing a figurative Chess game right now, then he made a colossal stupid opening move by Painting himself into a corner and saying no mid season coaching changes. IMO, he should have been decisive, fired Riley, and given his program the one month lead that Florida now has.
If I had to guess at this point, I think Riley is retained for another year.
Like i said, I expect us to go full "Nebraska", and figure out a way to screw this up. We will either retain Riley, or hire some candidate out of left field that no one saw coming. It will be interesting to see what the narrative is this time...