This article ranks CDM as the #13 coach currently employed, Kirby Smart is #8, Gus Malzahn #14.
I am hoping Coach Mullen climbs the ladder a few rungs in the coming years.
https://www.cbssports.com/college-f...ge-football-coaches-entering-the-2018-season/
Unfortunately, every word of that is true.
We would have laughed if Tinerc had hired Mullinz as their sixth choice, which they were allegedly hours from doing.
Yeah that article really sums up the data on Mullen quite well. All we can do is hope he can be better with better talent.
BTW, I took this data and combined it with data on talent for UF's schedule
UF: Coach 13, five year Talent 14, average 13.5
Charleston So: 66*, 137**, 101.5
UK: 46, 31**, 38.5
Co. State: 66*, 79**, 72.5
UTn: 57, 10, 33.5,
Miss St: 58, 25, 41.5
LSU: 56, 6, 31
Vandy: 50, 45**
UGa: 8, 3, 5.5
UMo: 55, 42**, 48.5
SoCar: 37, 21, 29
Idaho: 66*, 128**, 97
FSU: 34, 4, 19
*are teams not ranked among the 65 power 5 coaches and arbitrarily assigned 66.
** are not in the top 25 talent rankings here:
https://www.cbssports.com/college-f...football-teams-with-the-best-players-in-2018/
so the prior year's final talent ranking
https://247sports.com/Season/2017-Football/CollegeTeamTalentComposite
is used as a proxy:
This clearly points out why I looked at this schedule and said that 10 wins are the minimum acceptable number of wins this season or Mullen was NOT the right hire.