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What really happened on our last coaching search
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All idiot and no savant...I likey. The snide remark that is - the potential hire not so much. I
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There’s nothing in that article that some of us have said from day one. I appreciate and respect those who want to “give a man a shot” but it’s who we got, exactly as expected. Just took 4 years to extend our misery.
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But at the same time you would think all that mullen is and is not was clear to his boss by the time he gave a raise, extension and buyout. So what is with Stricklin? He said they evaluate on the daily. Most of us knew before end of last season Mullen was a fraud.
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anyone paying attention for his first 9 years at Mississippi State could see who he was.... good coach, bad CEO.
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What struck me is how much the pumpers relied on one year he won 9 in a row, which was no small accomplishment, but failed to acknowledge the end of season slide where they ended up just inside the top 20. No #1 team finishes almost outside the top 20. Then, there's that pesky little unacknowledged fact that he had a losing season before coming to UF. "But he won at Miss St". Well, sort of. One year he did reasonably well on balance. Maybe two.
Good OC with top talent. The conundrum is, he can't recruit top talent. Definitely, often unprepared.
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Even if that exchange never actually occurred, it's clear neither Havesy nor his boss understood what the purpose and value of recruiting was.
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However we wound up with Mullen, he looked like a decent (not great, not a total bust) hire for the first years. Then he showed he's a straight-up Fool by floating interest in an NFL job, insulting Gator Nation, treating end of season games as optional scrimmages, kissing Marco's ass after blowing the LSU game to prove how WOKE he is. Then sent everyone home instead of preparing for Okie in the Cotton Bowl that he downplayed as a waste of his precious time and of course got us blown out embarrassed on the national stage because he quit on his job, UA and Gator Nation. And he continued to lay down this whole year by keeping his incompetent friends on staff, fielding soft, unprepared teams that continually embarrassed us underperforming all year. Did anyone NOT think he was gonna get his azz fired?
No love lost for Dan, he's an immature prick who doesn't possess the common sense to know when you land your destination dream job you do everything in your power and more to succeed. Dan quit like a spoiled kid when the NFL told him to FO. Only an idiot would place that as a higher goal than being HBC for the Gators.
His abject stupidity blowing his own balls off while being gifted $7.6M a year should be a mandatory case study in UF psychology curriculum.
Good luck to UA and Gator Nation in pulling ourselves out of this quagmire by landing a hire that is the exact opposite of cousin eddie.
No love lost for Dan, he's an immature prick who doesn't possess the common sense to know when you land your destination dream job you do everything in your power and more to succeed. Dan quit like a spoiled kid when the NFL told him to FO. Only an idiot would place that as a higher goal than being HBC for the Gators.
His abject stupidity blowing his own balls off while being gifted $7.6M a year should be a mandatory case study in UF psychology curriculum.
Good luck to UA and Gator Nation in pulling ourselves out of this quagmire by landing a hire that is the exact opposite of cousin eddie.
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Great post. The job was too big for him, requiring more than he was willing to give. He knew the players he had signed were not as good as the players that were being drafted. He just knew. How more fans are not insulted by his perceived preparation to depart to the NFL while leaving UF with a mediocre roster. What a selfish douche he is revealed to be. But there are many on other boards that feel sorry for poor Dan.
He was not going to be an NFL HC so what was his plan, OC? What a moron, protecting his crappy staff at the expense of UF.
I am sure you know what Matt Corral said about Mullen's stumbling, bumbling emissary Gonzalez sent to California to appease he and his family while stupid ass Mullen lined up his choice for QB. "we do our own evaluations". Good for you stupid ass. That's why the cupboard is bare. Matt Corral's HS film was first class. He has a multitude of designed QB runs. He was sneaky, difficult to read, accurate with long throws, and an actual DT QB. Off the field issues? That's a joke. He was never in trouble. Moreover, Mullen's QB of choice one class was dismissed for behavior issues that were not hidden during the recruiting process. It's all about Dan Mullen being FOS, a hypocrite, and one that talks about of both sides of his mouth. "We deal with facts".
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I couldn’t disagree with this more. The signs it wouldn’t work were there year 1, and blown up for everyone (who chose to look objectively) to see in year two. Many just failed to see it because we won a bit more than with McElwain (of course we did btw) and everything Gator is good mindset.
First, in what should have been his initial boost great recruiting class, we produced a dud with a bunch of non-qualifiers and transferees that never suited up for a single game.
Year two had three major signs we could/should see. First, again - the recruiting. Second, Trask replacing Franks due to a shattered ankle showed us all very clearly Dan’s talent eval skills.
Then, when all doubt was removed, his 4th quarter slow down offense down 14 (taking large chunks between plays in addition to running the ball like it was the 2nd quarter) showed he was not playing to win. He just wanted to get close. If there was any doubt he was not competing to win, and avoid the of risk a more lopsided loss, he clarified it in his post-game when he bragged we had improved and we’re only 7 points away. BS. Grantham should have been fired after that game, yet Mullen kept him to ruin 2020 and threw us all the finger with 2021.
Sorry you missed the billboard sized signs earlier. BTW - if you get in an accident (hope you don’t), there is a guy named John Morgan who has a law firm that he suggests could really help you.
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Yes, that second class was smoke and mirrors. One DT and a few guys that play at 240. A plethora of OL "candidates", one never showed up, and three might not have played yet. Then the five guys that were the buzz when they committed- four star players we had no idea the staff was in on, which made it look like they were actually working. Then it turned out none of the qualified. Stricklin claims they review the program daily. Well, that class should have alerted him that something was really wrong. It's also clear that the UF AD made concessions for Mullen which did not exist in the Spurrier era as all of those eventual non quals were allowed to visit.
The first Mullen class(2018) included not one single player from their recruiting efforts in Mississippi and the Southeast. Nobody followed which means to me they had no relationships. That was another clue.
Then the following class(2020), when we needed big DL badly they netted three(?).
The other boards make doofus Dan out to be the king of the portal while georgia and alabama stuff every class with high four and five stars out of HS.
