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Maybe or maybe not. He wouldn't have recruited Grier though.
We totally agree on the second part. I'm not saying that as necessarily a knock on Mullen, either. I love Danny Wuerffel, but I don't think he would have lit it up in the Nebraska offense of the same era. I don't think Tommy Frazier would have been great in the Fun n' Gun. That doesn't mean they weren't both perfect for the coach's system they were playing in.
Since the first part is speculation all we can go on is what he's doing now. Franks is clearly not a guy built for what Mullen wants to do - but he's got more tools right now than EJ. I think you can make an analogy for that situation and the TH/WG situation. Personally I never thought the mobility difference between Treon and Will was as great as the announcers liked to make it out to be - and Will was a FAR better passer and he was at least willing to run. That's why I think he would start WG and work hard on getting whatever guy he had brought in ready to take over. I do think he would have gone out and gotten someone who was a better fit for his system in his first class even with WG here. I guess you can say that's what Butters did with LDR - but he wasn't exactly the blue chip that EJ was.