Sources: Chip Kelly in negotiation to potentially be the next head coach of Florida

A lot to address here:

1) There's not a lot of talent in Tennessee, period. The plurality of talent in the state in terms of location is in/around Memphis. The truth is Tennessee is one of the least talented states east of the Mississippi, in terms of NFL talent per capita (which is obviously the type of talent you need to be at the top of a P5 conference). Of the surrounding states, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Arkansas all have more NFL talent per capita. Tennessee's problem now is that (with the exception of Arkansas) there is at least one Power Five team in each of those states that is currently a better program than Tennessee. Some of these programs are large regional/national brands that will dominate their own state AND take the best recruits from other regional states, i.e. Bama, Georgia, Clemson. Tennessee is even behind Kentucky, South Carolina, and Missouri as of 2017, in terms of the shape of their football program. 

2) Tennessee has never relied on Tennessee talent when they've been good, so to imply that Tennessee is a better job because you can recruit locally and be good is ludicrous. Let's look at Tennessee's best players on their best teams in the last 25 years: Eric Berry (Georgia), Michael Munoz (Ohio), Peyton Manning (Louisiana), John Henderson (Tennessee), Arian Foster (New Mexico/California), Jerod Mayo (Virginia), Donte Stallworth (California), Albert Haynesworth (South Carolina), Jason Witten (was raised in DC but moved to Tennessee for High School), Peerless Price (Ohio), Tee Martin (Alabama), Jamal Lewis (Georgia)....you get the picture? Tennessee is only good when they are getting star players from other states in the region, and sometimes recruiting nationally in California, Ohio, etc. Very few of the Tennessee players you know that have carried their team to the top of the conference and nation are from Tennessee.

3) Why is Tennessee obviously a better job and a bigger challenge with a higher reward than Nebraska? Both are in the weaker (by far) division of their conference. Both are in worse shape than multiple teams in that division, with a national contender at the top of each division. Both would require beating an elite program from the other division every time in order to win their conference. Nebraska has more all-time wins than Tennessee, a higher winning percentage, more Heisman winners, more conference titles, and more national championships. Tennessee's athletic department has slightly more money that Nebraska's, but both are Top 25 in terms of revenue. Tennessee's stadium is larger, but Nebraska's is still over 80,000 (and nicer to be honest). The winner of the Big Ten is regarded equally as the winner of the SEC. I think Nebraska is the better job in 2017, and I think many people would say the same.

4) As for your comment about Eason, I'm not going to sit here and continue to follow up with you to relitigate that. I live in Georgia and know people who know him and who are Georgia fans that would not badmouth an elite talent on their own team without cause. National recruiting experts have heard the same things. Magnus on our own blog here has heard the same things. When people all over the country all hear the same thing about you, for multiple years, and some are eye-witnesses, 99% of the time it's true. If it acts like a coke head and sniffs like a coke head, then it's a coke head.