Joe Moorhead article in The Athletic

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Originally Posted by Tbonewannabe

I would agree that Croom might have won 6 games but it is just as likely that Mullen didn't win more than 8. There are plenty of examples of Mullen's offense shitting the bed against top 25 defenses on the road. This whole exercise of shitting on the current coaching staff is doing nothing but bring negativity into the program. There is plenty of time to show you are pissed off if Moorhead loses any OOC games or UM, Ark, or UK this year.

Not really. Our offense this year was going to be limited no matter who the coach was. Just like 2017, we had enough raw talent in the running game that we could beat mediocre defenses solidly, grind out points against good defenses, and be completely shut down by elite defenses where you have to have a little bit of a passing threat. With Mullen, we had six locked up, and we might have ended up dropping Auburn or A&M, but we would have been able to move the ball some against all four "toss-ups" and also LSU, so it seems likely we would have had a net gain, especially considering how minimal production we needed for UK and Florida. Certainly no guarantee, but if he didn't win 9 regular season games, it would have been because Grantham was a bid downgrade from Shoop.

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Originally Posted by Tbonewannabe

I think UT is a push, I think we will have the better team but it is on the road so that has a way of leveling things. Looking back, Moorhead won the toss up games or the games that were slight upsets in AU and aTm but lost the toss up games in UK and UF.

Oddly enough, if our defense was just top 25 (better than almost every single Mullen defense) and the offense just lost those 4 games 23-20 then most people are 17ing happy. Not many people expected our secondary to go from giving up big plays to being shut down (which was the difference in the improvement).

I don't know if they'd have been happy, but they'd be less concerned. Struggling with a new offense is fine. Looking completely incompetent is worrying. Also, it's a lot easier to recover from making a bad DC hire than it is to recover from making a bad HC hire. If shoop hadn't turned out well, we could have gotten rid of him after 2019 (or even this year; Mullen basically encouraged Torbush to look after year 1). If Moorhead turns out badly, it's much more painful to get to and through a transition.