Would the Gators hire a Bulldog?

On March 19 it Dusty May was publicly linked to the FAU job. Since that day Gators head coach Mike White has done a great job of keeping the names of coaches he is interested in talking to very quiet, let alone anyone that White has actually interviewed.

Monday afternoon a GatorsTerritory.com source told us via text that “There are a million candidates and everyone [sic] hitting him.”

By Monday night one name did surface – Georgia assistant coach and former Bulldogs forward (2001-2004) – Jonas Hayes.

Hayes was on Mark Fox's staff for six seasons. First as director of operations then five years as an assistant coach. Hayes' main responsibilities at UGA are recruiting and developing post players. Hayes played a big role in the development of All-SEC players Marcus Thornton and Yante Maten. He was Georgia's lead recruiter on five-star guard Ashton Hagans, who committed to Georgia but then reopened his recruitment shortly before Fox was fired.

According to a source in Georgia, there might be something to the Hayes chatter we picked up on but Hayes has other options too. One of those options is staying at Georgia on Tom Crean’s staff. Reportedly Hayes talked to a few schools over the weekend and also in the past couple of weeks. Now, it's a matter of if Hayes receives a job offer, what that offer includes and Hayes deciding if that offer is better for him and his family than what he currently has at Georgia.

Would Hayes, who averaged 8.6 points and 4.9 rebounds during his playing career with the Bulldogs, really leave Georgia to work for its rival? We've been told that if Florida were to make an attractive offer to Hayes “the alma mater thing would not stop him” from accepting.