Dan Mullen @ Florida...So Far....

[Dekle]

Haven't seen this here. Pretty good read.

Florida football: Let’s take a minute to appreciate what Dan Mullen is doing at Florida

 

[PCGatorAlum]

Great article.

 

[jdh5484]

Without a competent run game, Mullen’s offense has played 7 of their 8 SEC football games, as well as a salty Miami Hurricanes defense, with one hand tied behind their back and yet they still rank 38th in scoring offense (Florida’s 2nd-best mark this decade!) and 36th nationally in yards per play (3rd-best).

 

[TheDouglas78]

Written by the same dude who was complimentary of Butters for allkindsofweather…., so fluff piece is a fluff piece.

 

[Durty South Swamp]

dekle is working hard for that chief pump trophy.

 

[jdh5484]

dekle is working hard for that chief pump trophy.

I get there's a whole glass half-full / glass half-empty thing ... but the author of that article floated the keg.


By himself.



On an empty stomach.

 

[Mr2Bits]

Its amazing to me that article has so many stupid UGA fans thumping their chest thank UF for hiring Mullen.....that crew needs to stay out of their own stash

 

[TheDouglas78]

Its amazing to me that article has so many stupid UGA fans thumping their chest thank UF for hiring Mullen.....that crew needs to stay out of their own stash

When you opponent likes your hire, like they did for McElwain.. there is an issue with your hire.

 

[RocketCityGator]

Haven't seen this here. Pretty good read.

Florida football: Let’s take a minute to appreciate what Dan Mullen is doing at Florida

Look, l generally like what Mullen has done. And looking at Frost and Kelly now, hindsight 20/20, he was the correct hire. But until he upgrades the staff, improves recruiting, and beats Georgia, meh.

Obviously, I'm still pissed over the way we looked against a beatable Georgia team

 

[Gator By Marriage]

When you opponent likes your hire, like they did for McElwain.. there is an issue with your hire.

Meh. The Georgia fans I know like the hire, but many are nervous. The FSU & UT fans I know, not so much - they don’t see beating UF any time soon. Personally I don’t give much weight to any of that and neither should you. Were you pleased LSU hired Orgeron? I was. This season it’s working out pretty well for them.

 

[AugustaGator]

Look, l generally like what Mullen has done. And looking at Frost and Kelly now, hindsight 20/20, he was the correct hire. But until he upgrades the staff, improves recruiting, and beats Georgia, meh.

Obviously, I'm still pissed over the way we looked against a beatable Georgia team

Why I like Mullen? All I have to do is... and all is grand!

 

[jdh5484]

Look, l generally like what Mullen has done. And looking at Frost and Kelly now, hindsight 20/20, he was the correct hire. But until he upgrades the staff, improves recruiting, and beats Georgia, meh.

Obviously, I'm still pissed over the way we looked against a beatable Georgia team

Diddo.

 

[TheDouglas78]

Meh. The Georgia fans I know like the hire, but many are nervous. The FSU & UT fans I know, not so much - they don’t see beating UF any time soon. Personally I don’t give much weight to any of that and neither should you. Were you pleased LSU hired Orgeron? I was. This season it’s working out pretty well for them.

So we aren't worried because two fanbases who programs are tire fires don't think they are going to win soon? Ok... that is where you argument goes extremely south.

 

[NavetG8r]

It's a very good article, but he's going to need to recruit better to get past that 10 win mark and be a real NC contender. We'll see if 10 win seasons end up attracting better talent or not. I'm not confident Mullen will be willing to make the necessary changes. I like him, and think he's a very good coach and does a really good job of developing kids. I just haven't seen anything yet that points to him being able to recruit at an elite level. He may win a NC at some point if he can ever get a real difference maker at QB. Maybe Jones will end up being that guy? Or maybe Anthony Richardson? We'll see I guess.

 

[oxrageous]

Basically, what that article says is that Mullen has put together inadequate talent combined with awful play on the field (i.e. no running game), yet the team is 8-2 anyway.

Just imagine how good Mullen could be if he actually assembled talent and got them to play well?

 

[jdh5484]

Basically, what that article says is that Mullen has put together inadequate talent combined with awful play on the field (i.e. no running game), yet the team is 8-2 anyway.

Just imagine how good Mullen could be if he actually assembled talent and got them to play well?

That.

 

[SGG]

Its amazing to me that article has so many stupid UGA fans thumping their chest thank UF for hiring Mullen.....that crew needs to stay out of their own stash

Here’s the thing with UGay fans. Every single one of them know that Smart will only win a National Title if he just absolutely lucks into one. They have a hard time admitting that out loud, but they know in their heart of hearts that it’s true. He’s a pretty piss poor, Muschampion, game day coach(he seems to save his best against UF for some inexplicable reason), and a lights out recruiter. Every time he loses a game, or makes a bone headed decision during a game, they’re ready to run him out of town on the first thing smoking.

 

[TheDouglas78]

Here’s the thing with UGay fans. Every single one of them know that Smart will only win a National Title if he just absolutely lucks into one. They have a hard time admitting that out loud, but they know in their heart of hearts that it’s true. He’s a pretty piss poor, Muschampion, game day coach(he seems to save his best against UF for some inexplicable reason), and a lights out recruiter. Every time he loses a game, or makes a bone headed decision during a game, they’re ready to run him out of town on the first thing smoking.

They know that Kirby doesn't have half the Xs and Os that Mullen has. But Mullen so far hasn't come close to showing he can pull in the type of talent Kirby has. You can only coach up Talent so far, before the waves of talent will over take your well coached talent. Also the most recent meeting between the two schools had one team that looked completely lost and poorly coached, and it wasn't the side both sides expected to look lost and poorly coached.

 

[DocZaius]

With regard to recruiting,Mullen do it alone - there has to be some $$ poured into it. It's no surprise that Georgia is pulling elite talent with the amount of money they've poured into facilities and recruiting.

The cost of college football recruiting — and winning — is now through the roof

From fiscal years 2016 through 2018, Georgia’s football recruiting expenditures totaled just over $1.5 million more than any other of the nation’s 52 public Power Five universities, according to figures reported to the NCAA and obtained by the Courier Journal and USA TODAY Network in partnership with Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.

At Georgia, such spending has marked a dramatic upturn that has accompanied Smart’s arrival after the 2015 season.

From 2016 to 2018, Georgia exceeded its budgeted amounts for football recruiting by millions to collectively spend more than $7 million, well ahead of No. 2 Alabama (roughly $5.56 million) and No. 3 Tennessee ($5 million).

Georgia’s football recruiting expenditures have more than quadrupled in recent years, going from $581,531 in the 2013 fiscal year, when Mark Richt was head coach, to roughly $2.63 million in 2018 (not adjusting for inflation).

 

[Gator By Marriage]

So we aren't worried because two fanbases who programs are tire fires don't think they are going to win soon? Ok... that is where you argument goes extremely south.

No. My point is I don’t put faith in opposing teams fans bases opinions. The FSU & UT fan bases hating our having Mullen means as much to me as Ugly fans loving it. There may be plenty of reasons to worry about Mullen, but Ugly fans wanting us to keep him ain’t one of them.