Quote Originally Posted by ShotgunDawg View Post
Isn’t it the same talent we had under Mullen?
If Moorhead finishes with Top 25 classes every year then no it's not the same as Mullen. Obviously there is a lot of talent that was here under Mullen, but Moorhead is about to work his guys in more this year.

Class ranks by Mullen according to 24/7

2009: 18
2010: 30
2011: 41
2012: 22
2013: 24
2014: 36
2015: 18
2016: 28
2017: 24

Mullen never strung together more than 2 consecutive years of classes inside the Top 25. Now he did have those 2 classes of 18. Those were solid classes. But 4 classes outside the Top 25 over 9 years is going to keep us from being consistently competitive and in the upper echelon.

Moorhead in his 1st two years has gone 27 and 24. If he gets in the Top 25 again, that would put us at 3 out of the last 4 classes inside the Top 25. Last time that happened was 2012-2015 and two years after (2014-2017) is one of the better stretches in program history. So if Moorhead can continue to stay in the Top 25 and push into the Top 20 a few times like Mullen did, he will end up with far more talent and could get us to the 8-10 win mark consistently with no drop off years.

To me that's how we build. Mullen was great. But we had 4 of his 9 seasons where we finished with 6 or fewer regular season wins. Moorhead is here to reverse that and consistency in recruiting will be what pushes us there. Moorhead has a much better chance to do that because him and his staff grind in recruiting daily.