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THIS
Remember, Muschamp had considerable exposure due to his "HC in waiting" status at Texas. Even though he had zero HC experience he was seen as an "it" hire. It's a damn shame he could never solve the offense side of things. I loved his fire on the sidelines.
I think Mullen would have been a tough sell to UAA and fan base. All we knew about him at the time was he was a solid OC under one of the pre madonna (sp, seems like the right thing to do here) offensive minds in the game in Meyer. And I'm not sure he would have accomplished much as he needed time to grow into the HC role. I think there's a decent chance his tenure would have been 3-4 years as he figured things out, and if he wasn't able to accomplish what Meyer did he might have been shown the door anyway.
I don't necessarily agree that he was "the right hire". But he certainly was groomed to be a head coach and he would have been somewhere, even if UF had not hired him. But there's really no reason he couldn't have done what Kirby is doing at UGA. Instead, he came in and made the wrong OC hire (and repeated it)....and he meddled too much on that side of the ball. He was doomed from the start. Then he made excuses, blamed Meyer, acted like an *******, etc. I just think Foley panicked and then thought he was going to pull a Billy Donovan type hire w/ Muschamp and it failed. After Zook he should have known better.....