Jims dog Claribelle

You could be right but there are plenty of examples of coaches that were praised for doing more with less and went to a higher level program and flamed out all the same, even with the additional resources and advantages. I just don't see him as the level of coach to take us to the NC game. I think he would significantly raise the floor of the program which is desperately needed but a high floor still gets you fired in 4 years at UF without serious playoff results.

To over simplify it, it was a combination of:

1.) Mullen not putting effort into recruiting
2.) Not caring about defense at all
3.) Keeping his buddies on staff despite their units performing terribly
4.) Everyone knew he was looking to jump to the NFL because he hated recruiting

The funny thing now is that recruiting doesn't even matter with NIL so that works in his favor in this new era. Still think he's never gonna give a rats arse about defense though.

How'd that work out for you

Vitello leaving you sad baws in the dust so you return to the SEC basement in baseball. It's over.

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.

Cool, we upset LSU and lose to Miss St or Kentucky. Yippee..?

I think we should toss a shoe for old time's sake.

Most fans nowadays have no memory of Auburn being a rivalry for UF. It would be cool to get back to it but I think it's highly unlikely. Tennessee replaced them. Even LSU jumped ahead. So in a "perfect" world it would be UGA, UT and LSU.

However, I don't think everyone is going to get their "perfect world" matchups. Some teams would end up with 3 strong schools and others would end up with 2 or 3 of the lower half of the SEC. They're going to try and mitigate that some. How they decide to do it, I have no idea but I imagine one of our permanent games will either be Kentucky or South Carolina.

Which means we'd get UGA, UT or LSU, and UK or SCar. Anything else wouldn't really make sense.

Which means we'll somehow end up with A&M.

84 was always horse shite. We got hosed for doing the same thing as everyone else.

1.) Are you not following along here? I'm actually defending Tenner, as much as it pains me.

2.) If you're saying Heupel is currently the best recruiter and developer of talent in the SEC, well.. I think that's obviously wrong based on recruiting rankings and drafted players.

I'm pretty sure there is a misunderstanding here.