Hopefully the chemo and radiation treatment applied Monday won't kill the patient. If only Grantham had been amputated before the beginning of 2020.
Right now, keeping Grantham this year is the biggest mistake of Mullen's career.
Flat out arrogance IMO. All 3 schools felt like they were above the ‘arms race’ and just rested on our laurels and past success. Meanwhile Bama, UGA, Clemson, Ohio St decided to go “all in” on their football programs and now the big 3 are trying to play catch up but are in such a big hole it is making it very difficult to get out of. Those other programs have also raided the state of Florida for talent. It isn’t necessarily the coaches fault although all 3 schools have made some poor hires but mainly and administrative problem that got it all started. IMO Miami is in the biggest trouble because they just don’t have the money to compete with the big boys. That is my opinion anyways.
Yep Foley being cheap probably contributed to it some but I still think a top recruiting coach might have had us top 5 area most years but the facilities had become a real big issue by the time Mac got here.
It’s not just facilities either but that is a part of it for sure but it is also things like support staff, etc. Saban and Bama were the first ones to start the support staff craze and hiring all these back room people. We were late to that party as well.
Nope Norvell isn’t very good but I agree FSU has improved. It will help Norvell that the ACC is an absolute crap fest right now. It’s the worst it has ever been.
Not sure what was said about Jimbo or Muschamp for that matter cause that seems so long ago but if you are referencing Norvell he is 7-12 in the crap ACC so not exactly spectacular. Again it will help that he’s in a crappy conference as far as the rebuild goes though.
IMO, that negative body language stemmed from the fact that he had just realized that Grantham may have not just killed his own career, but Mullen's as well. You can almost see him thinking "why did I believe you when you told me the problem was the DB coaches?". I had heard they were friends, seriously doubt that's still true, but had Mullen let him go after last year, he could have salvaged the friendship. So it really was a lose lose lose lose lose all the way around.
THIS!!!
I can't remember the timeline but wasn't Saban in the NFL when they hired Shula?
I'm just curious to see if this is that crazy off year like Brian Kelly had that 4 year win at ND. Most all other years he's competed for playoff spots or at least top ten spots. Top 25 at worst. Or is Mullen dead man walking?
Shula came before Saban.
I just want a CEO type. I don't care if he has a defense or offense background. Many(including Michi, Numbers, etc) claimed Chad Morris was the machine behind Clemson. That was so off. The current coach and the last one were offense guys. They lack/Ed the CEO skills to have a complete team.
What rise in the directional schools? Yes UCF had their run for a minute under Frost and 1 year with Huphel. USF is down, FAU has Willie Taggart,. and FIU can't travel to recruit and got used pads from Mississippi State (Butch plans to retire). The directional schools have been up and down for years. I guess the only up is that they are now D1 and not D1AA. The only consistent one was UCF that had good years under O'Leary, Frost, and Huphel. They did get promoted to P5 but that's about it. Florida is big enough state to have 5 P5 schools but only has 4.
Do you honestly think Kirbs is a better head coach than Mullen?
