Way back when the coaching search started these 3 were must have on any list. UF fans went crazy for Kelly. 2 of them made it four years Kelly gone after 5 seasons Is there a common denominator? 2 of those are not coaching at all. 3 big misses. Frost was the worst of the bunch
Because we ended up with him, I'd say Mullen was hands down the worst. I don't care that the other two failed.
At the time it was not acknowledged enough that Frost and Kelly were coming from schools where almost every coach with a pulse wins. Their institutions were propping them up and they didn't have what it took to stand on their own. Mullen was a big fish in a small pond and could not handle swimming in the big pond.
I don't see one. Kelly always seemed aloof (won't want to recruit) so maybe he and Mullen have that (and good OC) in common. Frost is a bit of an unknown because that was never going to work.
I guess we will never know for sure, but it seemed these 3 were who Strickland targeted, Mullen being the 3rd choice.
As the old saying goes, "you never know until you know." That's okay, we still have The Epic Thread of ALL Threads.
I don’t know why that keeps being pushed because it’s just not true. Frost was never a serious candidate.
I agree. I'm not sure how much of what happened to him was a Nebraska issue or a Frost issue. Nobody wants to play at that dinosaur of a program anymore. They haven't gotten much better if any.
Mullen was 'bad' because he didn't want to coach anymore, he didn't want to recruit, and he didn't want to get rid of the dead wood on his staff. Other than above, he could have been very successful here if he was driven like some of the other top SEC coaches. I could see Mullen being near the top of Stricklin's interview list, however Stricklin should have done a much more thorough job throughout the interview process, and just maybe we wouldn't have gone through the brief Mullen tenure.
I'm not sure what a more "thorough' interview would have accomplished. Stricklin worked with Mullen at Miss. State. He knew him. I rather suspect, however, that Stricklin didn't anticipate that once Mullen got the big pay day, he would go wake boarding.
