Rece Davis Tweet

[MetEdDawg]

The thought is weird because in a way Mullen is a bit responsible for us being successful with less. His ability (or rather inability) to recruit consistently in the Top 25 has gotten us to the point we are at now, which is wondering whether or not we can get to 8 wins this year. And until the recruiting changes, we will consistently be asking ourselves that question. We can recruit all the QB talent in the world (which we have done a good job of), but if we don't surround that QB with the talent necessary to be successful, we are stuck in the 7-8 win mark.

There isn't a good team out there that has a bad OL. You can have a serviceable OL and be successful, which is something we've done, but you can't be below average, and right now that's where we are with that unit. Same thing for WR's. We are way below average in that area and we all know that position, along with OL, is probably the difference between this team talking about 7-8 wins and talking about 9-10 wins. Give us the WR core from 2 years ago and this team wins 8 games easily.

So while I agree Mullen is a solid coach and does more with less, that's his own fault that we are portrayed that way because in year 9 we are still only bringing in one high school OL in a recruiting class and the two weakest positions on the team are on the offensive side of the ball, which he controls. So until that changes, he will continue to be the "done more with less coach", even though our program and job is significantly better than it was when he got here.

We still aren't a Top 20 job and that will continue until we recruit more consistently across the board. We can't have a great stable of running backs and a phenomenal QB and not have a good OL or decent WRs. Teams that have to pray everything lines up with recruiting, depth, experience, and schedule to get to 8 or 9 wins don't have a Top 20 program. So we will continue to be more with less until that changes.