People act like good teams/coaches don't screw up or run into down times. Look at Michigan State. They've been in the top 5-10 the last few years and they're right there with us. The great and powerful top 5 job that's FL has struggled for years now. College football isn't what it was in the 80's. There's going to be more ups and downs with he combining of conferences and more power teams playing each other each week. We've never been at the top of the heap (outside of a couple weeks). So it's much easier and more common to have down periods of a year or two.
We're in the middle of it now.
Now, if Mullen doesn't want to make some changes, then I'm all for giving him some grief down the road. But right now, I'm just letting everything play out and the dust settle before I get down on Mullen too much. And if you talk to the players, you know the man cares. That's not even in question. Just because some people got their vag hurt like a scorned teenage girl over him looking at bigger jobs, they want to say he doesn't care.