It is very odd to see the most rational, level headed poster here so pissed over a couple kids decomitting. You'd have thunk we just lost to ga southern again.
Ironic that you mention this. How much of that game and that season as a whole was due to a "burn it down" approach and "culture change" from WM two years earlier. You can't purge a roster or class and not have it bite you. Hopefully the worst is behind us, Napier keeps making strong hires and we finish strong.
You keep preaching this narrative that Napier's hard-a$$ed approach won't work and has never worked. And it's just not true.
I think my ranting has muddied my point. I'm not against Napier's hard-assed approach. That's not what I'm saying is dangerous. I'm saying the scorched earth policy of burning down a class, which will likely bleed over to huge turnover on the current roster, is what hasn't worked. You just don't have the time to do that. We saw it with WM, and we've seen it elsewhere. By the time you get strictly "your guys" who totally buy in and are an exact version of what you envision, you're on the hotseat or already fired. Winners don't need to do that, which is why we won the SEC with Hall's leftovers(some good, some bad, but nothing like our later classes under SOS), and Meyer won a NC with guys like McCollum twins, a MWC transfer and Reggie Lewis roaming the secondary. Culture change is fine and needed, but not while mortgaging the present. You can use Saban as an example, but he's also an outlier because he's the best in the business.
I also don't like the idea being thrown out that anyone who committed to Mullen is automatically garbage and have provided evidence to support that. Nor do I think
every kid needs to be told to wait. My issue was with Gibson, and the rumors of us telling everyone to not sign. It seems like maybe McClellan is sticking, so maybe we're good there. Believe it or not, you can like the hire, support the coach but still point out potential mistakes he's making.
And what recent history has shown is that when we have to start rationalizing moves and defending decisions that a large portion of people are disagreeing with, it's usually not a good sign. Whether it's completely changing UF culture and identity(WM 2011), pursuing a 3rd top flight RB in the same class, which costs us one instead(WM 2011), letting dozens of players transfer with no effort to stop them(WM 2011), bringing in a garbage staff and pretending that 2-3* players will be fine(JM 2015), letting Grier leave because he had to and was bad(JM, 2015), forcing out our best recruiter for Knox(DM 2018), bringing in Grantham(DM 2018), etc., the story doesn't end well. So we'll have to hope this is the right move and be trusting once again. But it doesn't mean we can't question things in the process. Let's move on.