This date is very important, but I think the real date is the Butters hiring. There was enough of a program left for the right coach to salvage it after Muschamp....but Butters sank this thing to the very bottom.
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THIS x1,000,000
When chump was canned, we had a very good defense, it kept mac in most games the first 2 years, The RIGHT hire then, would have had us with a great defense and even an average offense would made us actually competitive in every game. So recruiting would have been better, which would have turned things around. But a half azz 3rd place Mountain West coach was a very bad decision, along with his hire as OC.
That is what officially put us under, Mullen is just dirt over the casket.