re: I knew Mullen was overrated when he force fed Holloway

Troll on, brotha

I always get amused at some of the posters on here. BJ likes to give us State folks h*ll and of course the last couple of years , Auburn has drilled us.

But on to Mullen being overrated. He was not overrated in anyway. He gets dinged for his recruiting but the strategy he used starting in 2008-09 was sound. He recognized that for State to be successful, we had to recruit MS hard. We were not in a position to recruit highly touted OOS HS players at that time.

As time evolved we did start recruiting OOS successfully, I might add, witness players like Dak, JRob, Day, F Ross, KThompson etc.
Did he miss on some players? Absolutely, especially AJ Brown, Raekwon Davis, C Akers and others in state who got away.
So I don’t pretend that he was a great coach and/or great recruiter.

However, he did have a sound plan that he implemented at State and it generally worked well. We were competitive and had success against 11 of the other 13 teams. Bama being the obvious exception and LSU the other team, though we had closed the gap with them the last 4 years. We were competitive w/Auburn over 6 years but then got drilled the last two years.

Bottom line is, he did a very good job at State, not perfect by any means, but his system provided for development of players and generally your starters were RS Jr and Sr’s w/a few exceptions along the way. Some of your fans complained that more talented under class players were sitting on the bench or not playing as starters in lieu of more veteran players. To his credit he stuck to his guns with that system and it worked. I for one appreciated the way he coached. He rewarded players who developed and waited their turn. That is actually a diminishing quality in the present day and it was refreshing to see him stick to his system.
Today we are all about microwave results when a crock pot strategy is more sound but requires some patience.

Finally, I credit Mullen with Moorhead ‘s ability to recruit to a higher level now and in the future. Without the success that Mullen has had we would not be in a position today to recruit even better.

The timing of this change was perfect in my opinion. Mullen had gotten about as far as he could at State and it was time to move on. For Moorhead, he seems to have the right qualities to step in and maintain what State has accomplished over the recent years with a decent chance to have us even better over the next few years.

Will that happen? I don’t know but I think we will in fact continue to be solid and very good in the future with a possible drop off here and there (in the SEC , it is inevitable for every team not named Bama).