At a minimum you have no facts to support the first 3 of these items, and the fourth item is smoke and mirrors.
Florida Offered
Really? Or did Florida have a preliminary meeting with SF to see if he'd consider an offer? Only SF knows the answer...not you, nor Beckton.
SF wasn't Serious about said "offer"
You want to argue about a hypothetical? We don't even know if he was offered, how much he was offered, or anything else. Play by yourself.
Money Wasn't his primary motivator
Who really knows but SF? I suspect coming home was of great value to him, being around MD/TO was of great value too...as was landing his lifelong dream job. Getting a HUGE offer with all those extras made this a no-brainer for him. Did the money matter? Of course it did, he wouldn't have come for $2 million. How SF ranked his motivators, no one but SF knows but money was a big one, perhaps the biggest...he wasn't coming for peanuts. Heck, what other school would basically doubled the salaries of his entire staff along with his HUGE offer? NONE.
Florida could possibly outbid us
Maybe...but clearly they didn't bother trying. We don't even know if they made any offer, let alone if they would in their wildest effort pay SF and his staff what we did. Silly making such arguments.
You are basing a lot on a glib off the cuff comment by an assistant with no details or actual support for his comment. Have a nice day.