Quote Originally Posted by War Machine Dawg View Post
It was virtually impossible to lose more than 5 games with the 18 team. If Mullen stayed one more year, there's no question we would've won 10 or 11 before the bowl game. Might've squeaked into the playoffs. That team had one of the two or three best defenses in school history, up there with 99 and 14. Returned an elite college QB on offense. Loaded on the OL, solid WRs and a highly talented (but egomaniacal) RB. Only winning 8 with that team is one of the worst coaching jobs I've seen. He never would've gotten Year 2 for that alone. Throw in the off the field stuff, and I'm convinced Moorhead might be a worse coach than Croom.
The only thing I'd say that would have held back the 2018 team were the WR. You can't call them solid with the number of drops they had and lack of stats. However, that was also based on them performing in the SloMo offense. They may have been better in the Mullen offense. Malik Dear and Keith Mixon just disappeared under SloMo - and they had been productive under Mullen