re: The Lost Year: Houston Nutt, Gus Malzahn, Mitch Mustain (Article Link Inside)

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So basically, he recruited a bunch of players for his offense, the HC and DC wouldn't let him run his offense, so he left...got it.

What an a-hole!

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This sounds familiar to the AU story too. Of the trio of Gus/Gene/Hootie, Gus is the only man with a coaching job.

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So basically, he recruited a bunch of players for his offense, the HC and DC wouldn't let him run his offense, so he left...got it.

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Huh?

He recruited Mitch his first spring here.

Williams and Cleveland had already flipped from Florida.

All three were buried on the depth chart, Williams had his moments, but turned the ball over too much/dropped easy passes which isn't going to get you on the field with Nutt as the HC.

He wanted to play 5 wide, even tho we didn't have but 5 WRs on the depth chart and had 3 better players lining up at RB.

He was allowed to install the Wildcat package (although he wanted to use Hillis as receiving snaps with McFadden in motion, it was Nutt's idea to put Mcfadden at QB where he played some in HS and the speedy Felix in motion), his HS trick plays, and passing plays using the formations already in the play book.