You know how much it pains me to agree with you. But damn, when you are right, you are right. I'm not the first person to see where the wheels came off, but it started with "The Shoe".
Grantham doesn't even pull the idiot out.
The defense last year was on Grantham, not Mullin's fault really, just bad hiring judgement, it happens. Defense doesn't even know where to line up when the ball is snapped, most often out of position, undisciplined, offsides in critical situations, totally discombobulated.
Team goes into the crapper in the bowl game. Can be blamed on numerous things including Grantham.
Mullen keeps Grantham. Totally on Mullen.
Fast forward to 2021. Mullen continues to back Grantham. Mullin has confrontation with Strickland when Grantham shits the bed yet another year, this defense is nowhere as crappy as they are coached. Against USCe and Missouri the offense shits the bed, after Grantham is shitcanned the defense plays decently against Missouri with an assistant coach. Hmmm.
Smells like sabotage to me after Todd the Toad was sent packing. Mullen picked the wrong hill to die on. Sucks, I was in his corner. He made his own bed, and shit in it.