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The administration fuched this up, but keeping Mullen wavering since UGA.... We knew what needed to happen, and Stricklin didn't have the balls to do it. This class was screwed by the managements inability to make that hard decision everybody knew had to happen except the deepest of the mullenites. This is what is what worries me about the next hire, if this admin is too scared to do what is right when it needed to be done for years what else are they willing to except. Stricklin has set his cash cow back years, unless he absolutely gets a hire I don't know that's out there. We all knew he was going to crash and burn, the job of the management is to see it and cut bait before it happens.
How many times did we hear that we should win the final 4 games and that might save him for another year? I don't think they envisioned the implosion and were caught flat footed. For that matter most of us here didn't think it was definitely this season until halfway through Usce. I'd always felt like he got 2022 until that night. But yes, I agree that they mismanaged things in large part. I do, however, think that the decision yesterday was certainly better than next Sunday. If there was any chance of us rallying for fsu, he had to be gone. And now we don't have to worry that a win actually hurts us by granting him another season. But I honestly feel like this was always going to be a really tough transition class because of what we actually had(or didn't have) and how shaky things were with several commits. The right hire will correct it to the best of his ability and we move on. This is where the portal becomes our friend. If we can keep Evers, get some momentum in the portal and start work on a solid bump class, things get corrected fairly quickly in my view.