That is a disgrace. Our best recruiter is Charlton Warren, ranked 52nd by 24/7 Sports. To put that in perspective, Texas A&M has 5 recruiters ranked better than that. Texas A&M has 5 coaches/recruiters better than our top coach/recruiter. That means they will consistently bring in better players at every position than Florida.
This kind of thing is a leading indicator for future success. Mullen never won anything at Miss State because he couldn't recruit top players. And his recruiting at UF isn't much better at Miss State (around the mid to bottom of the SEC). At Miss State, he averaged about a top 25 class. So far, it looks like he may bring in about a top 15 class at UF. He is a better coach than than the last two frauds that we hired, but he's not a better recruiter, and if past is prologue, he'll finish about the same as the level of his recruits -- about 15th in the nation.
That's pretty good, but not the Florida standard that he talks about. That standard was set by Spurrier and Urban Meyer. He's never actually met that standard, though he's a decent game day coach. He just doesn't have the recruiting talent those two coaches did, and he doesn't recognize publicly that it matters. Shame that he has this glaring defect. He won't be able to cover it up more than a few years.
This kind of thing is a leading indicator for future success. Mullen never won anything at Miss State because he couldn't recruit top players. And his recruiting at UF isn't much better at Miss State (around the mid to bottom of the SEC). At Miss State, he averaged about a top 25 class. So far, it looks like he may bring in about a top 15 class at UF. He is a better coach than than the last two frauds that we hired, but he's not a better recruiter, and if past is prologue, he'll finish about the same as the level of his recruits -- about 15th in the nation.
That's pretty good, but not the Florida standard that he talks about. That standard was set by Spurrier and Urban Meyer. He's never actually met that standard, though he's a decent game day coach. He just doesn't have the recruiting talent those two coaches did, and he doesn't recognize publicly that it matters. Shame that he has this glaring defect. He won't be able to cover it up more than a few years.