re: Florida Fined for Competition Area Policy Violation

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Stricklin hasn't exactly been knocking it out of the park on his hires either. Think Napier will play out well, but there's a lot to be desired in his management of other coaches.

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Stricklin's main issue has been not firing mediocre-to-bad coaches.

Mullen was a mistake, but he was put into a bad situation with Mac deteriorating seemingly out of nowhere and Chip kelly jerking him around along with Nebraska firing Riley to bring Frost home.

To my knowledge, he never had to make a football coach hire at Miss St, so this was his first time going through that process in less than ideal circumstances. He had to triage and ended up with Mullen. I hated the hire, but truth be told, it could've been worse.

The mistake he made with Mullen was extending his contract and giving him a raise after he went job shopping in the NFL. The first 3 years of Mullen went much better than I thought they were going to, likely because he lucked into Trask (who had help from Pitts and Toney of course).

I do agree, however, that I don't have total faith in Stricklin's ability to manage personnel, based on his track record. But considering the circumstances, it would've been better for him to make his first mistake back in 2015/16 (had Muschamp been able to survive one more year) than have Foley mail it in with a lazy hire and then have Stricklin make his first mistake through trial by fire on a coaching hire out of nowhere in 2017.

I think if he had more time and expectations of having to make a new football HC hire coming in, he might've had done better.