What went wrong for Dan Mullen & Florida Football?

@fazefromwish7694

2 жыл бұрын

Playing calling

@fazefromwish7694

2 жыл бұрын

And Bama

@Iceify_

2 жыл бұрын

I think his horrible recruiting tactics and unwillingness to change his personnel led to the downfall

@fazefromwish7694

2 жыл бұрын

@@Iceify_ okay

@juwanhunter8005

2 жыл бұрын

I believe the pressure got to him fans wanted to see big time recruits coming to Florida but he couldn't get half of them he lost some of his staff members also he made really stupid calls during some games like Kentucky and the defense of the LSU game finally he must have forgot what Florida fans once you start winning they'll be kind to you but start a losing streak they'll want you out of there he's not ready to be a big-time coach also he started the wrong quarterback

You can deal with the off field antics if you are winning but it gets old quick when you start losing. Kirby said it after the Florida game, it doesn’t matter how good of a coach you are if you don’t recruit at the top level you aren’t going to have sustained success. Dan doesn’t like recruiting and it shows a lot more at a place like Florida then it ever would have at Mississippi state.

@davidalexander828

2 жыл бұрын

Kirby is constantly recruiting so is Nick Saban so is Mark Stoops at Kentucky. You want to keep a program at the top or constantly keep building a program you have recruit all the time. 35% to half of the recruiting was already done for Mullens at Florida on name recognition alone was already done. It was the other 50 to 65% part of the recruiting that Mullens had a problem with. Then his after the game press conferences after a lose was an embarrassment to the university. Then celebrating like they just won a super bowl over a FCS Samford that just scored 52 points on your defense does not look good.

Crazy how every major team in FL has woefully underperformed over the last several years. There was a time where Miami, FSU, and UF were the best of the best.

@alecbaldwinsnotpropgun

2 жыл бұрын

More FL recruits are going out of state. Georgia and Alabama recruit like hell in FL

@timothyblack3322

2 жыл бұрын

@@alecbaldwinsnotpropgun, I am a Florida State Seminole, As much appreciation as Coach Bowden received, it is the 36 years of tenure at FSU, and the man won football games. Today we have NIL, the transfer portal, without sitting out anytime, and we have the coaching carousel. I hope UF learns from the mistakes FSU has made recently. The NCAA is dead and without power. I hope we don’t destroy the Student Athletes and the ability for doors to open by obtaining a college education. Congratulations on your win over my Florida State Seminoles. Protect yourself in those coaching Contracts.

@rlwalker2

2 жыл бұрын

@@timothyblack3322 Those with mouths and money actually run the programs in the state of Florida and are NOT the folks that should be calling the shots. They got FSU coach Mudra fired "mostly" because he liked coaching the team from the press boxes so he could see the field clearly and letting his offensive and defensive coaches call the shots for the players. He clearly had the team almost rebuilt and ready to roll when he was fired. Bowden's dark side was accepting all the praise and allowing no credit for Mudra who had a heck of a job in front of him after Jones allowed the team to rot. Now the same type crew controls the program at Florida. High praise going in; then the order to fire everyone when they don't have the requisite wins. Since Stricklin listens to them he really ought to be replaced if anything is to truly change at Florida.

@nathanielstiles1769

2 жыл бұрын

Schools out of state put more money into facilities, recruiting etc . The best talent in the state started going to those schools with better coaches and facilities

@timothyblack3322

2 жыл бұрын

@@nathanielstiles1769, That maybe true to some manner but academic funds that are distributed by the Florida Legislature to the only tier one universities of FSU & UF by their academics maintaining rankings in the top-20 by USA & World Report for Public Universities. Athletic & Academic Scholarship Student Housing built in 2014 is perhaps the best in the nation. The Indoor & outdoor practice facility is also on par with Alabama & Ohio State. The Stand Alone Football Facility money has already been raised and should be completed in 2023. This is something new with some schools already completed; such as, Clemson with this slide player can slide down and Oregon with the largest Stand Alone Football Facility in the country, but it has lots of empty rooms. It is only been 8 years since FSU won the National Championship. Florida State rushed to hire Willie Taggart who was overwhelmed from day one until he was fired. Coach Taggart never recruited a quarterback and was not a good recruiter, FSU plummeted recruiting rankings and left the cupboards bare. I think Coach Taggart has shown improvement with so many close game (-3 points), and overtime games this season. The transfer portal without having to sit out a year is not fair to the universities is destructive. In real life you sign a contract it is binding. NIL is insane! Deon Sanders at Jackson State landed that quarterback by giving the #1 recruit in the nation by giving him $1 million by a Sports bar chain, and Ohio State paid a recruit $1 million as well. Since Urban Meyer left UF they have been a carousel of coaches that has came only to be fired. The University of Florida is paying more than $1 billion for coaches not to coach at UF. The State of Florida has never paid universities for athletic purposes. It has been the Athletic Programs that have generally supported the Academics by sending a ton of money to their university. I fear college football is being destroyed. Nick Saban continues to be a force to be reckoned with for some time. The NCAA has lost all its authority. We must recruit better and figure out how to deal with NIL $$ funds.

Georgia fan here, Mullen’s biggest flaw was the way he handled adversity. He loved blaming everything but himself, and loved taking shots at other coaches instead of letting the games speak for themselves.

@justrich9873

Жыл бұрын

And keeping Todd Grantham.....

as a Mizzou alum, I was amused to see that losing to us was considered so horrifying that he needed to be immediately fired.

@markconner3234

2 жыл бұрын

He was gone after the SC game. Besides..ya pulled that win out yer ass

@jasonedenfield7189

2 жыл бұрын

Mullen was gone after South Carolina.

@donkeydonkey8681

Жыл бұрын

No, it was Kentucky. You guys just cemented the deal.

As a Florida fan I think you really underplayed the recruiting aspect. He consistently underperformed in that aspect, and when asked about it he had a few quotes downplaying it’s importance, like “we’ll talk about it during recruiting season”. At a program like Florida, it is always recruiting season, and I believe that was the number one reason the AD decided to pull the plug

@jonpike9991

2 жыл бұрын

Ron Zook recruited a lot players before Urban Meyers once those kids left Florida has been down hill

@dawgpost90

2 жыл бұрын

I'm a UGA fan. Trust me. I've talked plenty of crap about that recruiting comment. That being said, I truly think he just misspoke. He was always awkward in his press conferences. I think he was looking to say something like "Let's talk about the game we just played. We'll talk about recruiting later." It just came out in the worse way possible. If that is how he meant it though...then yeah wow. I just find it hard to believe that the coach of a program like UF would actually say that seriously. Obviously you would be aware that the optics of that would be horrible. Idk

@AlmightyMauMau

2 жыл бұрын

Let’s keep real: Remove Urban Meyer and Spurrier from the history of Florida football and the Gators have always performed like this. Florida has a delusional fan base like USC and Texas

@muddywaters2818

2 жыл бұрын

@@jonpike9991 pshhh Zook’s players were mostly all gone by 2008. 2008 those were all Urban’s players.

@jordanhutton5787

2 жыл бұрын

@@jonpike9991 Zoom didn't recruit Tebow, he didn't recruit Percy Harvin or Aaron Hernandez, not did he recruit Carlos Dunlap or the Pounceys. Basically the pillars of those Urban Meyer FLA teams

In Florida, a large population offers a lot of talent. But it attracts a lot of competition. A 5 star recruit in Naples will get offers from Florida, FSU, Miami, *AND* Notre Dame, Ohio State, Georgia, Alabama, etc. At Mississippi State Mullen only had to compete against Ole Miss and, to a lesser extent, USM. Fewer prospects, but a lot less competition. And so Mullen could focus on play calling and development, not recruiting. Hence the success at MSU ... where if you beat Ole Miss and challenge Alabama, and make it to a bowl game most years you'll be seen as a success. At Florida, if you don't win the SEC Championship and at least compete for the national championship ... you're out.

Pretty sure he ended up coaching QBs for Urban Meyer because they worked together at Notre Dame. Meyer was the WR coach there while Mullen was a GA. Could be wrong, but I think that’s the connection

@adityag485

2 жыл бұрын

Nah he was with Urban from the start, he literally coached with him at Bowling Green went to Utah with him and then came to Florida as a result and coached QB's like Leak and Tebow and won 2 Natties as the OC

Clock management, keeping inept coaches on his staff, moral victories, excuses, horrible press conferences, garbage recruiting, bad mouthing other coaches, are just a few of the reasons Mullen failed. Remember This is the guy that started Feleipe Franks over Kyle Trask. If Franks doesn’t get hurt, they probably go 8-4 that year.

@adityag485

2 жыл бұрын

The reason that he switched so late was that the year before Kyle broke his foot in practice the week he was supposed to start so we didn't know he was fully recovered and ready

Fun fact Mississippi state was ranked number 1 in the very first CFP committee rankings

Dan Mullen did not fail at Florida. He did quite well there. The problem is the nearly impossible expectations of some schools in the SEC. I mean, some SEC schools expect their team to go 12-O every year, or the coach needs fired. Some Georgia fans are calling for the firing of Kirby Smart because he lost one game. It's insanity. The SEC has chewed up and spit out a lot of really good coaches.

@PENS68

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah that is a true statement. I get they are a really good football conference, but sometimes you have to have reasonable expectations, your not going to go undefeated every year and yeah there have been some really good coaches at SEC schools chewed up and spit out, because they don't give them a chance. The University of Texas is like that also. They expect to go 11-1 or 12-0 every year, which just isn't going to happen. They change coaches more than any school I've ever seen. Schools need to learn to give guys a chance. You can't build a winner without stability at the head coaching position. I remember Nick Saban went 7-6 in his first year at Alabama, but he wasn't fired after one season. He didn't win the championship until his third year and look at them today. They win, because they are stable. You look at Dabo at Clemson. He took over a mediocre Clemson squad and turned them into a consistent winner. You have to give coaches a chance and not expect to have them come in, and just turn everything around like that. Florida is going to have give Napier a couple of years, because Mullen basically left the cupboard dry for him in terms of recruits and players.

@Michael-jw6et

2 жыл бұрын

@@PENS68 Exactly right. You have to let a coach build his team and culture. Sometimes it takes a little bit. I mean, Dan Mullen took Florida to the SEC championship last year against Alabama - and he is fired this year? It's nuts. I give Napier and Brian Kelly a lot of props for their courage to come into the SEC.

Mullen won with McElwain's players. Period. Ultimately, he couldn't recruit. Plus, his staff just wasn't strong enough. Grantham had two decent seasons and two bad ones. Last year's defense was historically bad (dating back to 1917). The inflection point ultimately was the shoe throw in Year 3 against LSU, derailing that run and hinting at the undisciplined football we'd witness this season. When the best offensive players sat out of the bowl game against Oklahoma, it was a harbinger of looming struggles. His 2019 recruiting class was overrated and bit him in 2021. This year's recruiting class is historically bad, dipping to 8th or 9th in the SEC and 30-43 nationally. When you lose to Kentucky for a second time, have UF's worst loss to South Carolina in school history, allow a national record of points to an FCS school, lose to a mediocre Missouri team, have the worst SEC record at Florida since 1979, go 2-9 in the most recent 11 games against Power 5 opponents...you're done. There was no way to recover.

@shawnmack11

2 жыл бұрын

Kyle Pitts

@davidalexander828

2 жыл бұрын

Kentucky in football is not the same program it was 10 years ago. They have constantly been improving every season since Stoops took over at Kentucky on and off the field and they keep improving. Like in recruiting Kentucky use to hope for a national top 50 recruiting class. Now they are look at getting a top 15 national recruiting class or better. Like this year Kentucky and Alabama are the only two teams nationally to score 2 touchdowns or more on Georgia. We will see if Michigan can do that. Even the HOF former Georgia coach said on the Paul Finebaum before the season began that Mullen is on the hot seat in Florida. Then said Kentucky keeps improving the way they have been in the last 7 season in 2 or 3 years they will be Georgia in football and will go to Atlanta. Now if Napier can turn Florida around then it will be a 3-way race in the SEC East. But Florida is going to have to give the guy atl least 3 years to start seeing results. Now the question is will Florida do that or fire him after 2 years and give him the standard 12 million dollar buy out.

@joeg4707

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidalexander828 UK should only out-recruit Florida in basketball.

@davidalexander828

2 жыл бұрын

@@joeg4707 They are now out doing Florida in football now.

@joeg4707

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidalexander828 It shouldn't happen, and that's why Mullen is gone.

He didn’t evolve on offense or have a good enough defense to give his team a chance to get over the top. Stayed loyal to guys too long and as you mentioned chose the wrong guy at QB.

@clhawkins19

Жыл бұрын

Based on what Florida’s QB this year is doing, the kid he picked was better.

Danny is gonna be OK. He made around 30 million at Miss St. And made 20 or 30 at Florida. The Gators still owe him 12 million over the next 5 or 6 years. And when he's ready to coach again, he'll make another 30 or 40 million over the next decade or so.

@theman1412

2 жыл бұрын

All these fired coaches are in great shape financially :)

@adityag485

2 жыл бұрын

@@theman1412 Well he was a good coach the guy took a 4-7 team and went to three straight NY6 games and an SEC championship with them

The way he found Mullen is probably bc urban Meyer was the wr coach at ND

Great video, keep up the goodt work.

Great vid 👌🏾

I think it might have been a blind loyalty to players and coaches. That explains why TG stayed so long, the right QB never started, and why there wasn't a push to recruit guys better than the ones you have.

This was a good look into coach mullens career.....thanks

Thanks for making this

@ScottFisherCFB

2 жыл бұрын

No problem!

This was an awesome video. Your content is awesome Scott. You should definitely do a video on Justin Fuente

@ScottFisherCFB

2 жыл бұрын

I will!

Billy Napier will be Florida's next HC. Great hire if it happens. Also, I found it surprising that Florida has had 7 different head coaches since 2001, while UGA has only had 2.

@charlesbartlett2569

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelcarpenter9004 Spurrier spoiled Florida fans. However, Strickland is right in saying that the resources at Florida are good enough to compete at the highest levels every year.

@Victory1981

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelcarpenter9004 Oh, the Gators had good teams before Spurrier as well. The Gators had good teams going back to the 1920s and before that.

@Victory1981

2 жыл бұрын

But yeah, we became a national powerhouse in the 1980s. Before that, we couldn’t win the game that could get us over the edge, but we had good teams none the less.

@uf1978

2 жыл бұрын

Thats because UGA was content with a 9-10 win season with Richt! And UGA has won nothing since 2001!

@j.thompson9345

2 жыл бұрын

@@uf1978 ???? Define nothing....

That fire track is back

can u do a video on why Justin Fuente failed at Virginia Tech??

@ScottFisherCFB

2 жыл бұрын

i will!

Great video again Scott, keep it up. My 2 cents on what went wrong for Mullen can be summed up by this: At Miss State there were lower expectations and down years were tolerated as long as they made a bowl and beat Ole Miss every other year or so. But more than that, there's a lot of under-the-radar raw talent in Mississippi that are not heavily recruited outside of the State, and often took some time to develop into great players. Thus, Mullen did well getting these players without having to fight off bigger programs and was able to get them to their potential in 2-3 years, keeping them bowl eligible yearly with an occasional down year here and there. At Florida he tried to do the same exact thing, going after lesser sought developmental players instead of instant impact recruits and basically tried to build the same exact team that he built at Miss State at Florida. The issue with that is the expectations at Florida are way different, and just being bowl eligible more often than not is not going to be accepted there. Also, there are a lot of highly regarded, highly recruited players in Florida, some who can make an instant impact as Freshmen, who generally are the majority of any of the Big 3 (Miami, UF, FSU) when those teams are good. But Mullen didn't care for recruiting enough to fight for those prospects (especially since Alabama, UGA, Ohio State, and Clemson also started raiding the State for those players), so he did not build the type of roster that produced the teams he coached when he was Urban's OC, and the results ended up being more similar to his Miss State teams than Urban's Florida teams.

@Kaiserboo1871

Жыл бұрын

Talking about MSU’s low expectations rings true. Let’s just say that the years before Mullen were called the Dark Age by MSU fans. Mullen stepped in and gave us hope again. He gave us a team that could get winning seasons, go to bowl games, and beat Ole Miss on a regular basis.

Mullen was going to be gone at the end of the season. The Missouri loss just sped things up

Urban Meyer was the receiver coach at Notre Dame ('96-'00) when Dan Mullen was a Grad assistant ('99-'00). When Urban got the head coaching job at Bowling Green (2001-2002) he took the young Mullen with him and made him his QB coach. Mullens was an assistant under Urban Meyer until 2008 when Mullen took the head coaching job at Mississippi State. That's how they met.

In the last two minutes in the first half against Kentucky 2021, he let the clock run out and did not try to score because he did not trust his QB. Then against Missouri, he did the same thing in the 4th quarter when Miss missed a game-winning field goal. Missouri ended up winning in OT, lol. That is not the Gator standard🐊.

6:43 thought the guy in front was Luka Doncic😂😂

Please do a video on Texas Tech situation with Adam James and Mike Leach

Scott Fisher can you do a video on all the fired coaches this season please?

Get Well Soon man!

Address the Lincoln Reily coaching situation

Thank you

"Beating Mizzou in a monsoon" understatement of the year! All I remember that Thursday night is it DIDN'T STOP POURING

Hope you are feeling OK scott...

Florida was obviously working furiously behind the scenes in searching for a candidate to replace Mullen way before his termination. One of the things the Ragin Cajuns did was really upgrade their facilities which helped recruiting immensely and as we all know recruiting is a Huge factor in success: One is Not going to win the Kentucky derby with a plow horse no matter how well one trains it.

Nice!

Mullen went 21-5 in his first 2 years with primarily McElwain recruits. Starting in 2020 the wheels were wobbling with an 8-4 record which included losses in UF's last 3 games. We all know the wheels came completely off in the disaster of 2021. Recruiting top talent is a must in the SEC or else teams that don't are generally doomed to 2nd tier status at best or league cellar-dwellers at worse.

@adityag485

2 жыл бұрын

The 8-4 record is sorta not representative of the team cause the last two losses were against the National CHampions who we played closer than anyone and the last game everyone sat out

Trask was named the starting QB over Franks going into the 2018 South Carolina game in Gainesville but then Trask got hurt in practice that week. The Gators pulled off a huge comeback in that game (had great seats for that one) with Franks as QB so they stuck with him until his injury the next season. I think Mullen knew Trask was better but Trask would either get hurt or Franks would do just enough to keep his job in 2018.

2:22 seeing Aaron Murray in a Florida shirt hurts my soul

Do a what happened to Cody Kessler or Landry jones

Who make your thumbnails @Scott Fisher

@ScottFisherCFB

2 жыл бұрын

I make them haha

Wow, is that Aaron Murray in a Florida shirt at 2:20.

@SmoothCxramel

2 жыл бұрын

That's what I said 💀

Video on FSU next

Yeah we hadn't lost to Kentucky in 31 years and then in 4 years he lost to them twice that literally has to be the worst coaching stat ever

@adityag485

2 жыл бұрын

Nah not really its just that Kentucky became good and when he came in it was a weird dynamic in his first year like great win but a couple bad losses

Bears should look at him as OC. He’s legit play calling

Kentucky football is the reason mullen and coach o both got fired😂😂!!!

He started coaching with Meyer as his QB coach at Bowling Green.

Great Qb coach I wish Auburn would hire him he probably wants a head coach job though

As a Kentucky fan, he will bounce back ✊🏽

14:50, Wasn't he saying A&M had a lot of fans at the game, for a 2020 college football game :)

and you should break down the failure of notre dame football in 2005-08. Theres a lot to cover there

Oklahoma and Notre Dame will now be pulling more dominoes down. Wouldn't be shocked if Mullen gets that next job soon. Everyone knows that if he upgraded his staff he was a threat to reach the CFP at Florida. Mullen also has to get over his infatuation with a quarterback with a run first option being his ideal. Trask showed how well his play calling works with a quarterback that can hit the receiver full stride.

Expectations are at a completely different level in Gainesville . If you can't get a top ten class at Florida every year, you aren't even trying. In Starkville developmental players are accepted. Mullen is a great X's and O's guy, but he couldn't recruit.

1:57 Jesus… what could have been 😳

@tfg_grizzly

2 жыл бұрын

Whyd he have to steal a laptop 😭😭😭

@top_floor_boss

2 жыл бұрын

@@tfg_grizzly how you steal a laptop and write your name on it😭😭

It was that 2020 LSU game that really started Mullen's downfall. Mullen had the nerve to treat that game like it would be an easy win. He completely looked past them to the point of not playing Kyle Pitts. That may have been a historically bad LSU team, but it was still LSU and loaded with talent.

Maybe you could make a video on Ralph Friedgen and why he never got another head coaching job after being fired by Maryland despite the fact he did well there and they've been terrible since letting him go.

One thing he kept talking about how close they played Alabama instead of planning for the next opponents.

I think Mullen would do good as a power 5 OC. Great actually. I’d like to see Kentucky hire him. He doesn’t have what it takes to be a HC, but if he realizes that himself and concentrates on just being an OC, he would be one of the best.

Thanks

He is the first coach who ever made me afraid of the miss st bulldogs as an Lsu fan

Only thing I’d add to this video is the fact that he had a RB by committee scheme which didn’t help the offense… Pierce the best RB never truly got the bulk of the carries as he should have

Michigan's sitting starters are what birthed 3 good years at UF. Ironically, sitting starters for Oklahoma was Mullen's beginning of end.

As a Gators fan I would love to see Lane Kiffin to Florida. I think he would bring that offensive spark we need and recruiting wouldn't be much of an issue for him in Gainesville.

@alecbaldwinsnotpropgun

2 жыл бұрын

Need better and more disciplined players. A decent QB wouldn’t hurt either

@markpowers5051

2 жыл бұрын

oh Hell no! I don't want lane kifflin at Florida. Just NO!

@marthabethlewis7348

2 жыл бұрын

sorry....no Limp Kitty at Gainesville!

@jimmytreadway3195

2 жыл бұрын

please god no

@adityag485

2 жыл бұрын

@@markpowers5051 I wanted Lane Kiffin at Florida or Brian Kelly more than Billy and I'm a current student so that's saying something

Some coordinators are just not HC material" Examples: Will Muschamp, Da Mullen, Chad Morris as well as others.

Nebraska needs to hire Mullen as the OC ASAP cause Nebraska as a fan is looking for a top hire !.

Mullin always had DISCIPLINE trouble per a player of his. NO Discipline ever where he went. So he FAILED soon after taking over 2 to 4 yrs it showed and the players would commit mutiny on him.

I was at that Carolina game literally one of the most depressing loses in my fan career… by the time we played mizzou I was pulling for them because we all knew if he lost that game he was gone…. He lost the locker room and the discipline was awful. We were the worst penalized team in 2020…. So yeah

I was at that game when State rolled in to Tuscaloosa at 7-0. Had some state fans sitting in front of us. What a great game. Few things bring me as much joy as beating the absolute shit out of a Dan Mullen team.

High energy? Umm, no. Especially in season recruiting. Zero energy or emphasis.

Yeah and if everybody remembers that game we would have lost to Kentucky three out of the four years he was there but when Frank's got hurt Kyle Trask came in and save the Day cuz we were literally down 19 points when he came in and he brought us back to win or Mullins would be 1-3 against Kentucky

@juanosorno8153

2 жыл бұрын

The right quarterback never started.. weird

Florida had contacted Napier after the South Carolina game. Mullen was already gone.

And w video

Marco Wilson

Mac didn't get "2 SEC Titles," no he only got 2 "SEC East Titles." Big diff, esp. in "Title Town," AKA: Hogtown.

Can you do Ronnie Letson

"The 3 Ks" lol

What happened to Pat Sullivan? Why isn't he coaching anymore!

Should've stayed with us all we wanted was 6-6 and a bowl game every year lol

Your next video could be on why mizzou will never get to win the SEC championship or a national championship.

Well now florida just lost to an 0-7 no-name team (texas southern) in a relative blowout, so seems like the whole program is failing.

Ursinus is pronounced Er-Sinus, not that it matters since no one will ever hear bout it again, haha. It's so insignificant, that I grew up 15 minutes away and didn't know it existed until I was 18 and they were at a college fair.

What's the difference between Mullen ,Scott Frost, Harbaugh

@lickmyballs6940

2 жыл бұрын

Mullin is the best of the 3

@henrymyrickjr.6572

2 жыл бұрын

Harbaugh eats his boogers and won't be looking for a new job. That's the difference

At what point will someone look at Scott Stricklin and wonder if he is the right person to be athletic director? The women's basketball coach (his hire) was being abusive to the players, and now Mullen's downfall.

He's going to make a big comeback

You left out the 06 championship that he was a huge part of also

@troyingramtroy123

2 жыл бұрын

They had Tebow,Harvey,leak,Hernandez and stacked defense's.

It’s funny that you mention Manny Diaz. Get ready to do a video on him lol his time is coming to an end with the Miami Hurricanes

Florida's football facilities are subpar compared to other tier one programs. Sometimes shiny wins the day.

Mullen's judgement in QBs was woefully off. Trask was obviously better than Franks, but Mullens stubbornly left Franks in and we suffered until Franks got hurt. Fast forward to Jones and Richardson and it's the same deal over again. I'm excited to see what kind of team Napier builds at Florida.

@adityag485

2 жыл бұрын

Trask didn't start because he broke his foot the year before at practice the week he was supposed to start and Mullen didn't know if he was fully healed, Richardson and Jones was a combination that Richardson kept getting injured and while brilliant he was inconsistent, and as UF student I'm not that excited for Napier we could've gotten better

@MehIgotnothing

2 жыл бұрын

@@adityag485 I'm a Swamp native not a transplant, and at this point Napier can't do any worse than previous coaches. We'll know what he's about soon enough.

@adityag485

2 жыл бұрын

@@MehIgotnothing wdym he can’t do any worse he’s come into a situation where there’s a high bar set he has to take us within a couple of years to multiple NY6 bowls and win most of them and an Sec championship or is he isn’t up to scratch and individually he needs a Mackey TE a heisman finalist and multiple 1st round picks

Poor staff management, poor player management, and mediocre recruiting.

Mullen was too loyal to mediocre, at best, assistants. Grantham, the DC, is a perfect example. Mullen should have dumped him last year. He let his personal relationship with him cloud his professional commitment to winning...

Mullen failed at recruiting top LBs' for that 3-4 defense. He also failed to recruit or develop a few tough & hard hitting safeties. Mullen mage the admin upset with some of his press comments. Mullen was reprimanded by NCAA for a minor recruiting violation (text messaging a recruit). This didn't sit well with the Florida admin. The bottom line is when you lose, the big donors pressure the admin. I wish Dan the very best and I think he would make someone an awesome OC.

I think we need to consider that most upper tier programs have the mentality that it is either in the playoffs working on a National Championship every year or the program is a bust........or "at least" SEC Championships. When you have a legacy coach like Steve Spurrier or Nick Saban it basically causes the downfall of over 90% of the coaches in the league around him. If you did an analysis of all the other SEC schools when Spurrier was around you would find almost ALL of the other SEC schools went through several coaches during his tenure. The same thing with Saban (even more with Saban because he is truly a once in a lifetime or even GOAT among coaches). It is ironic that some SEC programs-coaches where able to capture lighting in a bottle so to speak and win an NC for a year while Saban was coaching Alabama. But then within a few years those coaches where fired or moved on. That speaks for how strong the SEC is capable of being as a league. At least a few of these coaches would have stayed on at the elite SEC schools and would have had more success but basically NO COACH was going to successfully compete with Saban and Alabama consistently during his tenure. Even Urban Meyer would have been second fiddle to Saban. Now that Saban is on his final stages of coaching you will begin to see a coach or two squeak through and take him on. KirbyS at Georgia might come to mind. IMO Kirby will NEVER be Saban so the good news is once Saban retires I think you will see 2-3 coaches and SEC programs with great coaches and competing for the top prize year in and year out. So if Florida finds a young up and coming truly great coach then the timing might be right to get back to competing and getting SEC titles and maybe get one more NC Title. No way will Florida find a future Saban clone but for sure it is possible they find someone really good. But be cautious because the same can be said for Auburn, LSU and some of the other upper tier SEC schools.

You said pertaining to this year that after a while the players didn't care and it was basically Mullen's fault? Zach Carter said after the FSU game that the players on the team are competitors and none want to lose. I didn't see anyone QUIT out there during the year. There was poor tackling and mental errors which led to penalties, but does that equal, "they no longer cared?"

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this video was made before the FSU game, also what else is a player gonna publicly say?

You should cover the downfall of spencer rattler

Bruh you gotta be more interested in the research of these videos more than cranking them out faster than others

The true down fall of Dan Mullen was leaving State the way he did. The starting QB experienced a traumatic leg injury (against Ole Miss no less) and he says after the game he's all in on staying. He was gone by the next Sunday. However, after being someone who watched Dan Mullen coached teams for the better part of ten years I can say this, his biggest flaw is that he becomes predictable. I got to the point I knew what play he'd call every 3rd down. His predictability rubbed off on Grantham as well.

Obviously a recruitment thing, as stated by many. With all that high school fertile ground, there's no excuse. The next great Florida coach will pretty much go to the IMG Academy, build a fence around the school, and build a bullet train traveling non-stop from Bradenton to Gainesville.

Florida only wants to be playing annually for the national championship, which requires the top recruits and no rebuilding years, or the coach has failed. It will never happen but those with the mouths and money will insure that Stricklin acts as they wish. In addition to Mullen being fired, Stricklin also needs to go. You considered Mullen's comment, that the bowl team wasn't his while 8 of his best players sat it out, as a negative comment. It was spot on. Not only was it spot on but those with mouths and money probably expected him to win that game. Not going to happen.