{"id":185314,"date":"2026-03-10T07:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T07:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/185314\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T07:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T07:08:11","slug":"florida-head-coach-hot-board-top-candidates-to-replace-kelly-rae-finley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/185314\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida head coach hot board: Top candidates to replace Kelly Rae Finley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida\u00a0has parted ways with head coach Kelly Rae Finley, sources told On3. Finley has been at the helm since 2021 and has accumulated a 93-75 record.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here are eight early names that I\u2019ve heard could be in the mix to take over with the Gators. <\/p>\n<p>This job is specifically tough to forecast, because it is an SEC job, but the resources haven&#8217;t been there as of late. <\/p>\n<p>Will they go for the splashy hire? Here are some names that stretch a few routes they could take.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida\u00a0has parted ways with head coach Kelly Rae Finley, sources told On3. Finley has been at the helm&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,13088,22053],"class_list":["post-185314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-plus","tag-womens-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}