Mike White's coaching star is dimming quickly. When Florida hired White after Billy Donovan (in retrospect, BD's record at Florida was un-real: 2 Nattys; 3 Final 4s; 6 Elite 8s in a 9 year stretch) left for OKC, it seemed like a sound hire as White was young and had success at La Tech, but the Gator program went into reverse under White.
Here how White's program ranked since 2017:
2017 #5
2018 #22
2019 #26
2020 #32
2021 #41
2022 #55
Notice the trend? White's teams play at increasingly slow pace, which isn't fun to watch, and he's not known as a great tactician on either offense or defense. White's act at Florida had gotten stale, and he was well aware that his time at Florida was coming to end, absent a major turnaround in 2023. You don't leave as Florida's basketball coach to take the inferior Georgia job (UGA's last 5 basketball coaches have been fired; it's a coaching graveyard), unless you are trying to beat the inevitable pink-slip and realize that UGA may be your last chance for a fat contract.
There are some great young coaches in D1 basketball, and don't understand why UGA, after the Tom Crean disaster, would hire another coach from a Power V program, who is heading in the wrong direction. Like Currie did at WF, hire a kick-ass mid-major or low-major coach, and let him build a program. In 4 years, UGA will be a bottom-tier SEC basketball program, and they will be looking for another coach again.