Who should Mullen's replacement be?

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There are plenty of good candidates out there. The only thing in the way is stubborn Dan. We need to fire him so we can get his replacement. I hope USCe beats us so SS will fire Dan.

Billy Napier is a homerun imo. Dynamite recruiter and offensive mind also. Winner. Plus he has served under both Dabo and Saban for 5 seasons each (10 total).
 

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There are plenty of good candidates out there. The only thing in the way is stubborn Dan. We need to fire him so we can get his replacement. I hope USCe beats us so SS will fire Dan.

Billy Napier is a homerun imo. Dynamite recruiter and offensive mind also. Winner. Plus he has served under both Dabo and Saban for 5 seasons each (10 total).

Definitely entitled to your opinion, but might want to pump the brakes. I was living in G'ville when Cousin Eddie was hired and quite a few people including callers to the local radio rag where the hosts thought any gator coach was outstanding, used that exact same WORD when opining on the Cousin Eddie hire. Turns out he was an OH-fer!
 

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The more I think about the Mel tucker hire the more I don't like it. Someone said some of us were scarred by muschamp and that would be correct. You can bet your asss I'm scarred by muschamp. That was the worst coach in our history. We hired muschamp as an overreaction for saban thumping our ass. And now some of us wanna hire a kirby assistant and hope he's better at what kirby does. Because they thumped our ass.Well, I haven't seen kirbys defense or recruiting fall off since tucker left. It's actually gotten better. After 2 years of a run heavy offense I can already see the offensive recruits headed fsu all over again. Us losing games we shouldn't because we can't throw the damn ball. Eff that
 

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The more I think about the Mel tucker hire the more I don't like it. Someone said some of us were scarred by muschamp and that would be correct. You can bet your asss I'm scarred by muschamp. That was the worst coach in our history. We hired muschamp as an overreaction for saban thumping our ass. And now some of us wanna hire a kirby assistant and hope he's better at what kirby does. Because they thumped our ass.Well, I haven't seen kirbys defense or recruiting fall off since tucker left. It's actually gotten better. After 2 years of a run heavy offense I can already see the offensive recruits headed fsu all over again. Us losing games we shouldn't because we can't throw the damn ball. Eff that

He seems like a great coach. I’m just not sure he fits what UF needs because of his defensive background. If I woke up tomorrow, though, with him as head coach, I wouldn’t be angry.
 

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He seems like a great coach. I’m just not sure he fits what UF needs because of his defensive background. If I woke up tomorrow, though, with him as head coach, I wouldn’t be angry.

Meh, I need to see another year or two before I trusted a DC. I watched us flop around for 10 years trying to produce an offense. It's just so much harder to produce than a good defense. Offensive coaches seem to still be able to recruit guys from the defensive side. Oddly enough mullen's recruited the defensive side better. I don't think it's impossible to hire an offensive minded coach that can also recruit.
 

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He seems like a great coach. I’m just not sure he fits what UF needs because of his defensive background. If I woke up tomorrow, though, with him as head coach, I wouldn’t be angry.

Offensive oriented head coaches... I would rather have Doug Pederson than another defensive oriented head coach.
 

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There are plenty of good candidates out there. The only thing in the way is stubborn Dan. We need to fire him so we can get his replacement. I hope USCe beats us so SS will fire Dan.

Billy Napier is a homerun imo. Dynamite recruiter and offensive mind also. Winner. Plus he has served under both Dabo and Saban for 5 seasons each (10 total).
I can't say any coach out of the sunbelt is a homerun. But he does have a very solid record and was a good recruiter. I read an article on him the other day. How detail oriented he was and how wasnt gonna take the south Carolina or Tennessee or any other losers job. Declined interviews for both. His one blemish is his association with butters. Ugh. If we're putting our main emphasis on recruiting he'd be a coach to look at.
 

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Billy Napier is a homerun imo. Dynamite recruiter and offensive mind also. .
I guess run left, run right, run left, run right is an offensive "mind" of some sort.

He was on Muschump's OC short list for good reason.

Such absolute garbage.
 

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I can't say any coach out of the sunbelt is a homerun. But he does have a very solid record and was a good recruiter. I read an article on him the other day. How detail oriented he was and how wasnt gonna take the south Carolina or Tennessee or any other losers job. Declined interviews for both. His one blemish is his association with butters. Ugh. If we're putting our main emphasis on recruiting he'd be a coach to look at.
Declined interview always means they laughed at me.

Same for Mullinz.
 

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Unfortunately UF won't have many quality options. IMHO they just need to hire a really good recruiter and hope in the next 4-5 years a young an up and comer is available to take over a talented roster.
 

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Not sure either would leave but out of the two you mentioned, Dabo would be the most likely to be persuaded.
 

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Not sure either would leave but out of the two you mentioned, Dabo would be the most likely to be persuaded.

Dabo is being exposed this year. He’d be an upgrade to an extent but there are serious cracks emerging at CU.

And that is also devastating to anyone who used him for a “give him time” argument.
 

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Dabo is being exposed this year. He’d be an upgrade to an extent but there are serious cracks emerging at CU.

And that is also devastating to anyone who used him for a “give him time” argument.

Don't disagree with that assessment. Plus he has an easy road in the ACC.
 

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Dabo is being exposed this year. He’d be an upgrade to an extent but there are serious cracks emerging at CU.

And that is also devastating to anyone who used him for a “give him time” argument.

I think Dabo would be a grand slam hire but also not remotely possible. Look at the talent he's brought in at QB, WR, RB and DL since he's been there. I know Saban has done better at RB but I'd say Dabo is better or as good as him at QB and DL recruiting. He's kicked UF's ass recruiting in Florida every year, imagine what he could do recruiting Florida talent from UF. Dabo's 5 star QB has been his downfall this year, that kid has looked awful the few times I've watched him.
 

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I think Dabo would be a grand slam hire but also not remotely possible. Look at the talent he's brought in at QB, WR, RB and DL since he's been there. I know Saban has done better at RB but I'd say Dabo is better or as good as him at QB and DL recruiting. He's kicked UF's ass recruiting in Florida every year, imagine what he could do recruiting Florida talent from UF. Dabo's 5 star QB has been his downfall this year, that kid has looked awful the few times I've watched him.
Dabo would kill it here. He's likely bama's first call once saban retires. The fact that they are struggling b/c their highly touted qb turned out to be bad shouldnt be an indictment on him at this point. They are stockpiled with blue chip talent, win big games in impressive fashion, and have won in the playoffs, beating bama twice for national titles with different rosters and QBs. Tell me who else has done that.

question marks about dabo :rolleyes:
 

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Dabo would kill it here. He's likely bama's first call once saban retires. The fact that they are struggling b/c their highly touted qb turned out to be bad shouldnt be an indictment on him at this point. They are stockpiled with blue chip talent, win big games in impressive fashion, and have won in the playoffs, beating bama twice for national titles with different rosters and QBs. Tell me who else has done that.

question marks about dabo :rolleyes:

Only thing I will say is Dabo nailed it as a CEO with his hires on offense and defense...he's lost a portion of his offensive staff, if Venebles ever grows some balls and becomes a HC, will Dabo be able to strike magic again?
 

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Only thing I will say is Dabo nailed it as a CEO with his hires on offense and defense...he's lost a portion of his offensive staff, if Venebles ever grows some balls and becomes a HC, will Dabo be able to strike magic again?
theres always an if with anyone in that regard. what should be the standard is if they have a history of making the right choices the majority of the time, and correcting errors in short order. I think its an overwhelming yes for him on that. You can only do so much with asstistant attrition. If you identify, hire, develop and succeed with talented young coaches, eventually they will move on to bigger things. Its the way it works. Again, i dont think there's much other than a bad qb that is the issue this season. If they had another watson, sunshine or the kid who came before watson (forget his name) I doubt wed even be having this convo. Dabo will ensure a couple of outstanding prospects are on the roster for next season and that will be the end of it.
 

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Dabo would kill it here. He's likely bama's first call once saban retires. The fact that they are struggling b/c their highly touted qb turned out to be bad shouldnt be an indictment on him at this point. They are stockpiled with blue chip talent, win big games in impressive fashion, and have won in the playoffs, beating bama twice for national titles with different rosters and QBs. Tell me who else has done that.

question marks about dabo :rolleyes:
Bad qb play can make the whole team look bad. I guess the other qb's transferred because he picked a young guy to start. And in Dabos defense, uggelleiagaga looked when he played last year. Dabo is still an elite coach.
 
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