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Search Advanced search…. Everywhere Threads This forum This thread. Search Advanced…. New posts. Search forums. South Walton's Community Website. Install the app. Donovan to Orlando Magic? Thread starter JB Start date May 31, JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. I meant no harm. My heart is in Florida. After signing a contract with the Magic on Friday, Donovan, who is fresh off leading the Florida Gators to back-to-back national titles, decided he wants out of Orlando.

Donovan had been waiting Monday afternoon to hear from Magic owner Rich DeVos to find out what Orlando would do with him. It looks like neither side wants to continue the relationship. Donovan has been at his home in Gainesville, Fla. Florida athletic director Jeremy Foley has indicated he won't comment either until there is a resolution. Sources told Katz that Donovan called Foley on Saturday morning and said he was really struggling with the decision to leave, and he wanted to come back.

The prevailing mood among sources close to the situation has been that Donovan would remain the head coach at Florida, the recruits and staff would stay intact, and the Magic would then hope to hire former Miami Heat coach Stan Van Gundy, the leading candidate to replace Donovan.

Representatives of Spurs assistant coach P. Carlesimo have been contacted, and Pistons assistant Terry Porter also is considered a candidate. As long as Donovan is still under contract with the Magic, Florida will back off and let the process unfold. The search for a new Florida coach obviously has been put on hold. Sources said that Florida expected the contract negotiations with Donovan and the Magic to last a few days. Sources said the Magic are trying to get Van Gundy before the Kings make him an offer.

Donovan, according to sources, just hopes to reach a resolution soon so he can resume his coaching duties for the Gators. Sources said the Magic pressured Donovan to make a decision last week, and Donovan, who admittedly had gone back and forth on the idea, finally agreed to take the job.

But problems arose Friday when Donovan held the first of two news conferences. The issue was the order of events. Florida officials felt the Magic should hold the first news conference, since they were hiring Donovan. At that news conference Friday, Donovan was greeted by a standing ovation from the Magic staff.

On to the NBA, briefly. Donovan was drafted by the Utah Jazz in the third round No. The reunion lasted through March, with Donovan averaging 2. No suit on the street, so he hit the hardwood. Donovan briefly worked on Wall Street before turning again to Pitino, who took him on as a graduate assistant at Kentucky.

That soon flipped into an assistant coaching position. And just a few years later, he became the youngest head coach in Division-I at 28 years old, taking the gig at Marshall University. A quick turnaround and a first prospect. Racking up a record and a regular-season Southern Conference championship, Donovan quickly positioned the Thundering Herd — and himself — for future success. The build toward dynasty begins.

Taking over a team that had finished 5th, SEC East , Donovan ground out the first two middling seasons before a breakthrough third in , when the Gators went and advanced to the Sweet Sixteen as a No. That team was led by a pair of freshmen who went on to impressively long — and overlapping — championship-level NBA careers: Heat lifer Udonis Haslem and 3-point bomber Mike Miller.

That notably made Donovan one of a select few to play and coach in a Final Four. A lull, and then that back-to-back.