re: Is every coach in the West very good to elite?

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averages 8 wins annually with this season having us ranked 12th in the nation. Mullen is a very good coach, not elite, but very good.

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Mullen beats 4 Conference USA - HBCU - Sun Belt teams, beats Kentucky and/or Vanderbilt, Arkansas (when they are terrible) or Ole Miss (when they are terrible) and loses to everyone else.

Now - if he gets over the hump this year then ok. LSU was a great start. But here are Mullen's wins :

2009
Jackson State (1AA)
VAnderbilt (2-10)
MTSU (10-3, SunBelt)
Kentucky (7-6)
Ole Miss (9-4)

2010
Memphis (1-11)
Georgia (6-7)
Alcorn State (1AA)
Houston (5-7)
Florida (8-5)
UAB (4-8)
Kentucky (6-7)
Ole Miss (4-8)
Michigan (7-6)

2011
Memphis (2-10)
La Tech (8-5)
UAB (3-9)
Kentucky (5-7)
UT Martin (1AA)
Ole Miss (2-10)
Wake Forest (6-7)

2012
Jackson State (1AA)
Auburn (3-9)
Troy (5-7)
South Alabama (2nd year of football)
Kentucky (2-10)
Tennessee (5-7)
MTSU (8-4)
Arkansas (4-8)

2013
Alcorn State (1AA)
Troy (6-6)
Bowling Green (10-4)
Kentucky (2-10)
Arkansas (3-9)
Ole Miss (8-5)
Rice (10-4)


Mullen has 3 wins over 10 win teams in entire tenure : MTSU (Sun Belt), Bowling Green (MAC), Rice (CUSA). He only had 9 wins in 5 years against teams with winning records coming into 2014.

Again - he's solid - but he has to win more than 1 game against a who knows how good they are LSU team before I anoint him "elite" or "very good".