You missed possibly the worst performance by a UF team in modern day Gator history. I honestly can't think of a more worse game. At least in the loss against Georgia Southern we were down to our noodle arm 8th string QB. No excuse for the performance we had vs the Cocks.
It was bad no doubt but you must have already forgotten some of the games we had with Muschamp & McElwain as well. There were a few stinkers mixed in there with those guys as well.
There were some bad ones. The bowl loss to Louisville was bad. However I still can't think of one as bad as the SCar loss. A bad team. A first year coach. A blowout.
Remember the Missouri and Vandy losses on our home field under Muschamp? The game where Missouri beat us by like 25 points and only had 150 yards of offense. That was pretty bad.
The Missou game sticks out in my mind. That was in the Swamp, it was a disgrace. I think it started with the kickoff, if my memory is working. I just looked it up. 42-13. And Missouri sucked that year.
It seemed like most collegiate programs were getting away with raping women during that time. It seemed they were ready to nail their coach, Gary Pinkel, for mishandling the rape cases that happened under his watch. Pinkel then announced his resignation along with him being diagnosed with non-hodgkins lymphoma. Not a word of the sexual assault incidents once Pinkel left.
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Yes that’s is. I think they somehow got 42 points and didn’t have many offensive yards. They scored every way possible that game if I recall.
You may be in a little bit of denial yourself.
If history repeats itself, neither UF or Mizzou have won 3 straight in this series history, at least not since Mizzou joined the SEC.
I’m not happy about this season and with Mullen but he’s been a much better coach at UF than both Muschamp and McElwain. I do think people seem to forget how bad it was. Mullen in his first 3 years took UF to 3 straight NY6 bowls and that was taking over a severely broken program from what Muschamp and McElwain did too it.
Yeah I don't know about that. Mullen is a smarter, more capable coach, as far as getting an offense going. But he's shown some very concerning characteristics that may be non-starters to run a program like UF. He appears to be a terrible recruiter. That's a non starter. He makes a ton of excuses. That's a non starter. He's shown arrogance to the point where he can't even acknowledge obvious problems with his program, let alone the ability to fix them. In my opinion, he's shown a concerning lack of fight and competitiveness, and his team has done the same. I'd give him a chance to show he can do better. But he needs to understand how dramatic the improvement has to be. His teams play two or three games a year where they look like top-5 teams and he seems to think that's good enough. He needs to understand that Meyer and Spurrier's teams played 10-12 games like that a year.
You don’t know about what? If he’s not a much better coach or done much better than McElwain or Muschamp? I’m not sure exactly what you are getting at?
There's a lot involved in being a coach. Mcelwain was a total clown, so disregard him. As far as Muschamp, Mullen is a better coach, but the program may have been in better shape under Muschamp because he could recruit. If you blow him out, at least you've got a good roster for the next guy. Bottom line is both were fired in disgrace, so if you're hanging your hat on "oh he's better than Muschamp and Mcelwain" that still leaves you a long way to go to be an acceptable coach at UF.
Muschamp was terrible. He was 28-21 (.571%) in 4 years and only finished in the top 15 once in 4 years. Yes he could recruit but he was so bad at everything else. Mullen is currently 34-14 (.708%) in 4 years and finished in the top 15 3 times in 4 years. They aren’t even comparable. Heck even Jim McElwain had a better record than Muschamp at UF. That is how bad Muschamp was.
You are SO right.
Anyone talking about McElwain and Muschamp in defending Mullen is saying fans are overreacting. You’re saying at least he’s not that bad. And we’re saying being better than two coaches that everyone agrees were terrible is not the standard.
I realize it's a different sport, but the gator hoops team defeated a very good, experienced and well coached FSU team while battling the flu bug. Mullen used that as an excuse for his team.
I never heard a single reference to the flu bug with the basketball team until a day later.
But you guys are also saying fire Mullen and get Kiffin or Freeze. That's a sideways move at best.
I’d keep Mullen and give him a chance to get recruiting and defense sorted out. And ordinarily I’d agree that it’s crazy to talk about replacing him after one bad year. But A lot of what I’ve seen this year from Mullen makes me wonder if he really wants this job. He might have thought this was a three year stopover on the way to the NFL. If he’s not motivated to fix the obvious problems, then best to move on.
