Quote Originally Posted by Cooterpoot View Post
Nobody is saying he isn't responsible for the talent level. But he recruited kids that aren't here anymore and like I said, he was never known as a good recruiter. It's fine to be upset that our talent level is down. But people act like coaches don't look for better jobs. Especially when they know lean times are coming. It's common in coaching. He just screwed the pooch with how he handled it and the bad luck of Richt getting fired. Had he gotten out, we'd be on our Rick Ray coach right now and we'd be looking to upgrade in all likelihood. Who knows, maybe we have someone that gets us to 6 wins. But everyone is still going to be pissed when UM skull drags us, and they would regardless of the coach this year. This thing is going to play out this year and we'll end up with some mediocre coach from a small school who we fire in 3 years is my guess. Same cycle as usual.
So if we're going to lose, I'd just assume Mullen go down with ship.
Two things, recruiting will always be the Achilles heel for Dan Mullen unless he gets to a school that recruits itself. You keep rolling the dice on 2 and 3 star players in the SEC when the competition is mostly getting 4 and 5 stars and it will eventually bite you. Secondly, we would have done a heck of a lot better than Rick Ray had Mullen left after last season given the 4+ million dollar salary we pay and being in the SEC. SEC football HC jobs are a LOT more prestigious than SEC basketball jobs. Plus, if Mullen had left last year it would have been better in that he left for another position of his own accord which is always a better situation than like we had in basketball where we fired a guy that had been successful overall and on the job for 14 years.