every time someone suggests Dan Mullen as our next coach, another cleat gets its wings
I’m not going to lead with that recruiting comment because I don’t need to. Dan Mullen didn’t get fired for that recruiting comment. He got fired because he built a losing culture once he got his players in his program and because he went 2-9 across his last 11 P5 games. He’s Collins without the branding.
Mullen had great seasons his first two years at Florida with the guys McElwain recruited. I’ll give him credit there. But he wouldn’t be coming into nearly as stacked a roster here as he had in 2018. Once he got his guys in his system, it started going downhill.
You can look at the no.13 finish in 2020 as a success, but that’s only if you ignore the way that season ended. Going into the LSU game, Florida was #6 and sniffing at the door of the playoffs. Take care of business at home against an awful LSU and then on to the SEC championship—win and you’re in. Instead, a dude throws a shoe, giving the Tigers a much needed first down on their game winning drive. That’s a game where it shouldn’t have even been that close that LSU could’ve won off that penalty. Then Florida rattles off another two straight losses, including a Cotton Bowl that the team didn’t really show up for (and we got the old “our team would’ve won but we don’t care” routine that we seem to get every time an SEC team loses a bowl game.
Then we come into his last season, 2021. Again, including the last 3 games of 2020, Mullen goes 2-9 against P5 opponents in this span. One of those wins is Vandy. While those losses include Bama twice and georgia, they also include a loss to last-in-the-West LSU and a 23-point loss to South Carolina. After a loss at Kentucky that season, Mullen was asked if he was outschemed, and he replied that more total yards. Wonder where Collins learned it from.
A win against FCS Samford interrupted Florida’s losing streak. They put up 70 on them! Problem was, they gave up 42 points at halftime, the most in Florida history. At the following press conference, he dropped some kinda excuse/pity party about how calling a win disappointing was “disrespectful to the game”.
You want insane loyalty to bad assistant coaches? (You’re used to it as a GT fan) Mullen’s your guy. Asshole press conferences with no accountability? Ditto. Deteriorating, losing culture? Yep
Mullen had a great tenure at Mississippi State for their standards. But Florida wants to be competitive with georgia, compete for the conference title, and not give up 52 to an FCS team. Mullen showed he can’t do that at Florida, and they have more resources than GT. If he couldn’t do it at Florida with a Florida budget, why would he be able to do it here with a GT budget?
A Mullen hire to me is acknowledging that GT doesn’t want to compete for the ACC. I’d rather have Collins back. Pull the plug entirely and all that jazz.
I’m not going to lead with that recruiting comment because I don’t need to. Dan Mullen didn’t get fired for that recruiting comment. He got fired because he built a losing culture once he got his players in his program and because he went 2-9 across his last 11 P5 games. He’s Collins without the branding.
Mullen had great seasons his first two years at Florida with the guys McElwain recruited. I’ll give him credit there. But he wouldn’t be coming into nearly as stacked a roster here as he had in 2018. Once he got his guys in his system, it started going downhill.
You can look at the no.13 finish in 2020 as a success, but that’s only if you ignore the way that season ended. Going into the LSU game, Florida was #6 and sniffing at the door of the playoffs. Take care of business at home against an awful LSU and then on to the SEC championship—win and you’re in. Instead, a dude throws a shoe, giving the Tigers a much needed first down on their game winning drive. That’s a game where it shouldn’t have even been that close that LSU could’ve won off that penalty. Then Florida rattles off another two straight losses, including a Cotton Bowl that the team didn’t really show up for (and we got the old “our team would’ve won but we don’t care” routine that we seem to get every time an SEC team loses a bowl game.
Then we come into his last season, 2021. Again, including the last 3 games of 2020, Mullen goes 2-9 against P5 opponents in this span. One of those wins is Vandy. While those losses include Bama twice and georgia, they also include a loss to last-in-the-West LSU and a 23-point loss to South Carolina. After a loss at Kentucky that season, Mullen was asked if he was outschemed, and he replied that more total yards. Wonder where Collins learned it from.
A win against FCS Samford interrupted Florida’s losing streak. They put up 70 on them! Problem was, they gave up 42 points at halftime, the most in Florida history. At the following press conference, he dropped some kinda excuse/pity party about how calling a win disappointing was “disrespectful to the game”.
You want insane loyalty to bad assistant coaches? (You’re used to it as a GT fan) Mullen’s your guy. Asshole press conferences with no accountability? Ditto. Deteriorating, losing culture? Yep
Mullen had a great tenure at Mississippi State for their standards. But Florida wants to be competitive with georgia, compete for the conference title, and not give up 52 to an FCS team. Mullen showed he can’t do that at Florida, and they have more resources than GT. If he couldn’t do it at Florida with a Florida budget, why would he be able to do it here with a GT budget?
A Mullen hire to me is acknowledging that GT doesn’t want to compete for the ACC. I’d rather have Collins back. Pull the plug entirely and all that jazz.
