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TLDR
No you like to read into things.
My argument is against people that are now saying Dan is horrible when a couple weeks ago we were going to run the table etc.
I’m just keeping it real by saying he’s not as bad as the predecessors, and he stabilized the program and it’s trajectory…my position why he was hired…which can be debated/challenged. I have no proof just all other options were ruled out.
Anyone who thought he was going to win championships here were delusional. He’s a steady Eddie…a caretaker….and if another UK happens this year (team was not ready for the game) a poor one.
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Let me state it differently…Dan is not leaving us in worse shape than he arrived. The two before can’t say that.
I'm not certain that we're in worse shape, but I also don't see many areas he'd be leaving the program in markedly better shape either. As for the steady argument, I could agree with you until Saturday. I will admit that I go into most games with a lot more confidence that we'll ultimately win somehow, someway, more often than I did with the last two clowns(minus the middle stretch of 2015 when we still had WG). But the game Saturday shatters that perception. I'm supposed to be in Columbia next month for my first away game in a decade, but am suddenly rethinking that.
The bottomline, as I've said numerous times, we can't be an upper-middle tier team for very long with our schedule. We either take a step forward or fall. The combination of uga, Lsu, fsu, ut, plus the occasional crossover team, miami, etc. means that if we don't dominate in recruiting then we'll be looking up to 4-5 teams a year talent-wise, which doesn't work. Saturday was a perfect example. I don't put a ton of stock in jersey color or logos on the helmet. Uk is a considerably better team than they were for decades, and they should play us tough. The difference between close wins, like we saw with Zook, WM, JM and even Spurrier is that at the end of the day, talent won out. Mullen has elected to not put a premium on ensuring that's the case via recruiting, and has therefore put us in a position where teams like Uk aren't a step down in talent across the board. So between the mix of teams that rotate in being powers, and then throw in midlevel teams that are effectively on par with us and will occasionally have a good night, this becomes 8-4/7-5 very fast.