re: Starting to adjust my thinking on Mullen ...

How is he at his ceiling? Last year he had a passing QB and made the best of it by creating one of the best passing offense in the country. Year later? Now just ran down Bama’s throat with a QB who struggles to pass vs their “best defense in a long time.” He got as close as Smart to beating Saban two years now, and just whipped Smart last year. Mullen is very close, and possibly Richardson is the guy who gets him over the hurdle. He hasn’t had a QB with that kind of raw skill set since we was coaching at Florida last and that guy left after some incidence and went on to do pretty well.

Mullen is a weird guy with certain faults but Florida has gotten better every year under him. How this is his peak is just a narrow sighted want more than holding any truth. Using his record at Miss State and acting as though that means he cant’ win at a substantially better school is laughably stupid. Since he has been here, UF has shown improvement each year. He walked into UF with UGA at top form, LSU having their best team ever in year two, Covid year, and Bama still in Saban’s dynasty. That’s a lot to build up to because UF was not in a good place when he got here. He has since gone to three straight BCS bowls. Now he is right there to being able to beat the best in the game. Now just wait till he has a QB perfectly built for his system in Richardson. It will be damn scary.