Quote Originally Posted by Really Clark? View Post
A dumpster fire program is a lot more than just the players. Changing the culture and mentality was more than what a lot of them ended up being talent wise. Whole lot more to it than that and Croom cleaned some things but the program as a whole was in bad shape. And we completely changed offensive philosophy 180 degrees from the previous staff. Even with that, a QB that fit better (or who pitches to Dixon) vs LSU and a horrendous bad call vs Houston away from 7-5 in his first year anyway
I agree but I don't think Mullen had to change that much with the culture and mentality. Other than the team giving up against UM, they played hard but it was hard to win as bad as the offensive system was.