Quote Originally Posted by Dawgcap View Post
Mullen did his job so he could move on. I don’t think he recruited to the future because his future was somewhere else. Will Moorhead be that way? I don’t think so but I hope and pray that if this is a stepping stone for him he still respects us enough to leave us better than when he got here. Now I understand that Mullen did but he also left a recruiting gap that may cost us. I respected him but I also saw a staff that quit on a school that believed in him more than he did us. For that I say screw him. Will Moorhead do the same? I hope not because if he moves on to better things I hope he has enough class to respect what we did for him.
Dan was never a strong recruiter- the Army AA debacle occurred during his second year here when he was probably the happiest he had ever been here in his career- and still isn't at Florida where he is happy right now. I think we suffered from the recruiting gap this year more than any- the 2016 class had a lot of misses outside of Jeffrey Simmons. Including players that would have made a huge difference for us this year at WR and OL. That class was probably compounded by Dan not really wanting to be here, Ole Miss winning the Sugar Bowl, and Dan not getting an extension after 2015.


Most coaches don't operate that way based on what I have observed at a distance though. I think part of it was Scott Stricklin's fault for not calling Dan out on it- and that's something that didn't really happen until Cohen became the AD and forced Dan to show his cards early by offering him an extension earlier in the season followed up by Dan refusing it.