A veteran SEC coach has a good season in year one. Stop the presses.
That's at UF. Sorry, but they have a stronger history in their program.
Right now he has the #13 class. All 4*s. Last year he had a top 10 class with 17 4*s. Those 2 years combined, he had 27 4* players....... added to what he walked into:
2018- 13 4*s
2017- 11 4*s
2016- 9 4*s
2015- 2 5*s and 2 4*s
That's pretty much 2 times the amount we were getting with him here. And I'm a fan of Mullen and you know from my post thought it was crazy to be calling for him to be gone.
BTW, fans at UF are already complaining about his recruiting and MS ST would kill for those types of numbers.
I don't dispute Mullen's ceiling at Florida is higher than here. He said Mullen had reached his (Mullen) ceiling. I'm not sure if our ceiling in today's sec west environment is NY6 here or not; but when considering ceilings, I think you have to consider if all the west reaches their ceilings where ours is. If you say our ceiling is playoffs, I think you have to acknowledge that meant LSU, auburn, aTm, and Bama didn't reach their ceilings. So we need luck whereas others in the west don't
That's not what he was saying (I think). He's saying at Ms St, he had reached his ceiling. Mullen is a great coach. My opinion.
But he and some on his staff was not liked. I know a OL who went elsewhere because of Dan's man. Was a MSU fan and had been his whole life.
And UF had an average recruiting ranking class of 15 over the past 5 years. MSU was probably 25-35. He walked into as much or more talent at UF top to bottom. We had 2 guys who played their way into the first with Simmons the only sure fire first round guy at the beginning of the year. UF had 2 guys play their way out of the 1st round with the DE actually bombing the interview process at the combine so bad he was removed from draft boards.
People give Franks crap but he was more highly recruited than any QB on MSU's roster during Mullen's entire time.
Mullen went somewhere that helps cover his deficiency which is recruiting. You probably have to try to have a recruiting class outside the 25-30 at UF whereas at MSU that was around the best he did on average. UF has a higher average ceiling especially when you consider the East is easier on average.
I only read the first 1.5 pages of this mess of a thread, but what if all of the following is true:
1. Mullen was good at recruiting some
Positions, but bad at others
2. Our receivers were a weak point, but other teams receivers make mistakes too
3. The jury can still be out on Joe, and he's shown both good and bad aspects
4. His offense was bad at times last season, but we also know that his system needs a 60% passer and receivers who catch so we don't know if it's entirely the systems fault
5. Fitz was a good qb for Mullen's system, but not a good QB for Joes
Not everything has to be black and white and set in stone. Nuance exists.
One thing for sure: anyone seriously comparing Joe to Croom is pants on the head stupid, but Joevester is just a silly nickname that any reasonable fan isn't using seriously.
What the hell is the OP talking about? Jovester hasn't been said more than a couple of times ever. It ain't exactly catching on.