I dunno. Some SEC fans are pretty mean to their coaches if they are not in a national title hunt every single year. I do not even live down there, but still heard plenty of nastiness directed both at Meyer and the coach at LSU, too, in the national media and on sports discussion boards. Madness!
And neither one destroyed a forty year winning program like Rodriguez did with Michigan, either.
In fact, both of their teams had pretty good seasons especially considering Florida was undergoing a rebuilding phase.
I am sure Ann Arbor will be aswirl with rumors that Meyer will be heading here.
He and Harbaugh were supposedly the top two picks for the new coaching job once RichRod is fianlly fired.
You would have to be nuts to try to pick up the pieces of the UM football program at this point, though.
(Do not know how long people down there have known this was coming, but Detroit sports talk radio (which my hub inflicts on me regularly) has been saying for at least a week that Meyer was leaving Florida. Supposedly he is honked off at the University for pressuring him back to coaching before his health was ready for him to be back (or so the sports radio rumors say).
They say there are three possibilities:
1. his heart is bad and he is taking a long (possibly permanent) medical leave from football
2. Denver Broncos job
3. University of Michigan job (he supposedly had a clause in his contract with Florida that he could leave at any time without penalty if he got a job offer from Michigan or Notre Dame).
My guess is that #1 and #2 are most likely).