Mullen beat Vandy last year. So Mullen can do more with less? If your argument is we lost today due to having players Mullen recruited/developed, I would say this is Vanderbilt we played today, not Alabama. Roster talent alone (triple the talent) would warrant a separation. Maybe BN didn't put the players in the best position to succeed today (like having a running QB throw over 40 times with zero QB design runs). Just a thought.
Wonderful, Beating a piss-poor Vandy team that doesn’t have a single player that was offered a scholarship at UF is too much of an unrealistic expectation.
You ever happen to read the game prediction thread? Lots of delusion and high expectations in that thread. It’s not a very good football team.
Why would I tell it to the OP when you're the one who made the comparison to Mullen's results last year?
Except he didn't. He responded to you saying the result had NOTHING to do with Mullen by pointing out that this team is comprised mostly of Mullen players, meaning Mullen had at least some impact.
That he did. His first year as a head coach. This is BN 5th year as a head coach. One is not like the other.
Except he did. Give it a rest dude. Seriously. He blamed Mullen. Guess what? Mullen is not here. Coat it, frame it, however you want. We lost to Vandy.
No, he never had, controlled, called, or even experienced an in-game situation of being a head coach. For all those posters constantly bringing up the dreaded Kirby comparison, remember he went to the national championship in his second year. So next year, pls be prepared for the onslaught of comparison, too. Not just when it fits your narrative.
I'm not sure. Many of our fans remember Smart's 1st season. It's how you play the game that really matters and there's not much you can do to spin it in this loss. It was a loss in every phase of the game. I get the feeling Napier takes his playbook writes them down on a slip of paper, tosses them in a bowl, puts on a blindfold and pulls out the game plan one slip after another. It only makes sense if you think of it that way.
There's a difference between blaming Mullen and tempering expectations based on what Mullen left. This is a ground up rebuild from almost every aspect. Getting bent out of shape over this game and thinking it's an indictment of the future of this staff is silly.
This season had 7-5 written all over it and that was before FSU and Tennessee's improvement. I read a lot of 9, 10 win predictions in the preseason. I'm sure all of them have their hair on fire at the moment. Whether anyone likes it or not, Napier will be here for 3 seasons. And we really won't know for sure how any of this may turn out until halfway through next season at the earliest. This program has been an up and down mess for the better part of a decade and a half. Folks need to stop thinking that we're a few adjustments away from returning to glory.
Expectations met as far as rebuilding the program the right way with an emphasis on talent acquisition.
