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re: Where does firing Dan Mullen rank in massive frickups?
Posted on 9/10/25 at 1:06 pm to GrizzlyWintergreen
Posted on 9/10/25 at 1:06 pm to GrizzlyWintergreen
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Was in the SEC championship a year prior to his firing. And it was competitive.
It was back door competitive as Bama had the game under control and had taken their foot off the gas. It was all Trask, you know the guy Mullen had sitting on the bench for 4 years, wasting away behind the Alpaca.
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Posted on 9/10/25 at 1:08 pm to Partha
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Hiring Billy Napier is the epic frick up.
This is a little revisionist history. A lot of schools wanted Napier. SC was clowned by the media and SEC rant people for our failure to get him, and UF's success is getting him.
Posted on 9/10/25 at 1:10 pm to GamecockUltimate
quote:In hindsight it's obvious it was a bad decision.
This is a little revisionist history. A lot of schools wanted Napier. SC was clowned by the media and SEC rant people for our failure to get him, and UF's success is getting him.
But you are correct to say that at the time it wasn't poorly received as a hire. There were some red flags off the bat like Napier insisting on being play caller, but overall people viewed it as a good hire.
Personally, I wasn't crazy about it. UF was a mess because Mullen just mailed it in and I thought someone who had more of a proven track record int he SEC/P4 would have been a better hire.
Posted on 9/10/25 at 1:13 pm to GrizzlyWintergreen
I wish we could get Muschamp back...but with Mullen as OC. Mullen was terrible at end of his tenure, not Billy terrible..but few head coaches in college are as bas as Napier to be fair .
Posted on 9/10/25 at 1:14 pm to Henry Jones Jr
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Anyone that says Ole Miss firing Cutcliffe was a mistake doesn’t understand how much hiring Orgeron helped us in recruiting and modernizing our recruiting strategy. Cutcliffe HATED recruiting and it became a huge issue even when we had Eli. We sucked cock on the field when O was our coach but without those 3 years of him building our recruiting strategy we are likely Vandy level bad at recruiting
I think dedicating the Walk of Chumpions put Ole Miss over the top.
Posted on 9/10/25 at 1:15 pm to RoyalAir
quote:I’ll push back on this a little because didn’t y’all win the east a few times and had 3 straight 11 win seasons under Spurrier?
He's been more successful on the field at this point than both of them.
This post was edited on 9/10/25 at 1:16 pm
Posted on 9/10/25 at 1:20 pm to Aguga
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The players miss his wife for sure.
Those cookies are all dry and crumbly now though.
Posted on 9/10/25 at 1:23 pm to Gatorbait2008
quote:Wouldn't it be better to not bring back coaches who were total failures?
I wish we could get Muschamp back...but with Mullen as OC
Posted on 9/10/25 at 1:24 pm to Gatorbait2008
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I wish we could get Muschamp back...but with Mullen as OC. Mullen was terrible at end of his tenure, not Billy terrible..but few head coaches in college are as bas as Napier to be fair .
If Billy can recruit with the new transfer rule change and the NIL, Mullen would have done much better. Look at Drinkwitz before the new transfer rule change and NIL he was 500 HC after that over 500.
Posted on 9/10/25 at 1:41 pm to GrizzlyWintergreen
He didn't want to be at Florida any longer. It was showing in recruiting. He realized how good he had it at State.
Posted on 9/10/25 at 1:57 pm to Partha
Muschamp needed a good offensive cord. He was a good motivator, great recruiter, great defensive mind. He needs a very good OC.
This post was edited on 9/10/25 at 1:58 pm
Posted on 9/10/25 at 1:59 pm to Gatorbait2008
quote:I do wonder how he would have done if he got to coach Will Grier and had a halfway decent OC, or even a good one.
Muschamp needed a good offensive cord. He was a good motivator, great recruiter, great defensive mind. He needs a very good OC.
Posted on 9/10/25 at 2:00 pm to GrizzlyWintergreen
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Where does firing Dan Mullen rank in massive frickups?
Not as high as Mullen deciding to leave MSU. He's still be there unless he chose to leave, and they would have probably stuck his name on something by now. Got too big for his britches.
Posted on 9/10/25 at 2:03 pm to GrizzlyWintergreen
Firing Mullen wasn't the bad move. Hiring Napier was.
Posted on 9/10/25 at 2:05 pm to DawginSC
Yep
Posted on 9/10/25 at 2:09 pm to IvIerlot
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IvIerlot
Good to see you back here, sport. At least you shouldn’t have to make any more trips to Neyland North in the coming months
Posted on 9/10/25 at 2:11 pm to Gatorbait2008
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Muschamp needed a good offensive cord. He was a good motivator, great recruiter, great defensive mind. He needs a very good OC.
He didn't get one because he is a true UGA fan. He was milking out money from all those schools as a HC. Just like Jimbo Fisher did at Texas A&M.
Posted on 9/10/25 at 2:22 pm to Gideon Swashbuckler
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We need Darth Mullen in this conference.
Posted on 9/10/25 at 2:23 pm to GrizzlyWintergreen
Mullen was better than Napier (not a high bar) but that doesn't mean Mullen didnt deserve to be fired. He never cared about defense and wouldn't fire his buddy despite how bad it was in his tenure. He gave up on recruiting which was the last straw.
If he gave a shite about anything but scheming up offensive game plans he would still be here.
We just shite the bed with his replacement.
If he gave a shite about anything but scheming up offensive game plans he would still be here.
We just shite the bed with his replacement.
Posted on 9/10/25 at 2:38 pm to DawginSC
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Firing Mullen wasn't the bad move. Hiring Napier was.
If you said Drinkwitz was looking good then hiring Napier would be too. Then Auburn decided to hire Harsin because Drinkwitz was hired under Harsin. Seems like those two HCs were hired based on Drinkwitz connection. Napier came from the Sunbelt so did Drinkwitz. I think that is what I saw when those two got hired, one to Florida and the other to Auburn.
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