re: OK everyone who wants Mullen fired, what then? Who do we hire?

Mullen not going anywhere so not wasting time on wondering who the next Head coach will be. Now DC is another story.

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Look, if you guys are fine with 8-4 seasons, just say so.

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i think you got it backwards. i don't think anyone is happy with 8-4.

but you gotta be realistic. there's no coach out there that's going to be any better. in fact, if he leaves, his replacement may cause more concerns. he seems to have "woken up" based on his press conference yesterday. if he survives the virility of his recruiting comments, i'm willing to see what kind of changes he can accomplish.

if he re-signs all of the assistants we hate, he'll also be signing his own "death warrant" as the head coach of Florida Football.

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They beat our arse, but so fricking what, we beat their arse last year and we are going to beat their arse next year.

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Lol. What in the world possibly makes this a valid statement? UGA played an awful game on offense and beat us by 4 touchdowns. Their recruiting is far beyond ours and will continue to be. We apparently kicked their arse last year with half their D out and it was only a 2 possession game from the end of the 3rd quarter until we kicked a field goal with a minute left. Their QB’s went 9-29 for 112 yards and 3 pics and we were only up 13. Bro get your head out of your arse - Mullen will never beat Kirby again.

Just having a good recruiter would be better than what is going on now. Not sure what happens to Mullen but unless Richardson turns out to be a good one next season he is a dead man walking in 2022 I think.

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Jim McElwain spanked his arse when he had his best team. I’m just saying they all have flaws.

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Freeze's biggest problem is that he actually IS the person everyone accuses Lane Kiffin of being.

I don't have a problem with the hookers, honestly. I have a problem with thumping a Bible to recruit and selling all that B.S. while banging hookers on the side. Dude is a total charlatan. He was football Jimmy Swaggart.

But his biggest problem isn't all that or even that he paid players, which he never did. That's the really important thing about the whole Freeze debacle that everyone misses. If he'd been running the pay-for-play, that would have been one thing, but if you read the actual NCAA case, he basically got let off. And in case you think I'm full of it, a refresher -

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What he got nailed for was not knowing what the hell his coaches and boosters were doing, and it sure didn't help when it came out that one of the reasons may have been because he was getting his dick wet all over the U.S. while he was supposedly recruiting. Meanwhile, the good ole boy blowhards back in Oxford are playing bagman and bragging about it.

Ole Miss was too big a job for him at the end of the day. Does anyone think a rehab stint at Liberty means he's ready to step up to UF. Yeah, he may win some games, but at what cost? A post-season ban for a few years? No thanks.

I've zero reason to trust that guy won't leave UF in worse shape than he left Ole Miss when he "resigned" back in 2017.

The "what then? Who do we hire?" question is not the way I'd look at this whole situation. That's basically saying you're afraid of change itself. I'm not an AD so I haven't vetted any potential candidates nor do I watch/analyze enough game film from other teams to really answer that without just going with the usual, often brought up names for a new HC opening. I agree that the 5-10 names brought up as the next potential great hire aren't real exciting to me. But instead of asking "what then?" I prefer to ask "am I extremely confident that Mullen can get it done?". If the answer is no, then it's time to move on, end of story.
I'm willing to give Mullen another year if he revamps his staff, but as of now I'm not confident that he'll ever be able to put all the pieces together to build a championship team and have a championship season.

i saw that yesterday. gotta like kirby's statements. it's almost as if he he was specifically talking TOWARDS Dan.

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“I don’t care who you are. The best coach to ever play the game better be a good recruiter because no coaching is going to out-coach players. Anyone will tell you our defense is good because we’ve got good players. Spending time on the phone, spending time with people at your house, spending time with people on your campus, I’m not with my family when I’m doing that. My family sacrifices so that I can go and spend time with other people’s families so that we can have good players. That’s 25% evaluation, 50% recruiting, and the other 25% is coaching. If you don’t recruit, guys, you’ve got no chance.”

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i remember urbs saying something to the opposite effect.

ESPN (2012)

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"Talent will get you about seven or eight wins," said the former Florida, Utah and Bowling Green coach. "Discipline will start pushing that to nine. Then when you get leadership that's when magic starts happening. It's when you start getting rings and some really cool things are happening to your team."

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How about this guy?

Is Dabo an option?

Hes a good motivational speaker