Actually, there's nothing stopping you from doing just that. Think Premier League, not NFL. No salary cap. Biggest spenders get all the best players. Oh, and it's 90% players (recruiting) and 10% coaching now. UGA isn't innovating anything. They're just better than you and they line up and prove it.
4 years, barring any major "hiccups", i.e. losses to Ga. Southern, mention of death threats or talking about "recruiting season". If he ends up having a "similar" season to his first two, he'll definitely be on the hot seat at season's end. I don't think he would get canned though, unless we had a home-run hire of a coach in the ready. There are a lot of other variables that come into play though (recruiting, injuries, attrition, etc.).
Well he wasn't setting things on fire when he was playing in his position so not expecting things to change when he's out of position
There is actually an interesting thought experiment with Mullen. He won 10 games (ranked 7th eoy 1) and 11 games over 2 years. Year 3 was 8-4 and he crashed and burned in year 4. Is there a world where a functional boss (ie, our AD) both supports Mullen AND demands he fire Grantham and get a recruiting staff. Now, DM is notoriously arrogant and maybe rejects this, but DM can coach and win. With his ability to win 10+, if DM got a good DC and solid recruiters, might he have succeeded at UF? We cannot know. Right now it seems folks are looking for BN to draw to that inside straight with two differences. First, our team is now indisputably younger than DM’s teams. And DM had proven he could win 11 games and the orange bowl at UF. Will be interesting to watch. The commonality, I think, is both need(ed) changes on staff.
You can want that, but I don’t think it will play out that way. You’re predicting he won’t be on the hot seat until after another losing season. I respectfully disagree. Not that I think the Administration or boosters would say this out loud yet, but in my opinion he already is on the hot seat, and it’s a matter of him getting himself off of it with much improved performance. Another losing season with losses to teams like Arkansas, Kentucky, or Vanderbilt, and this is over.
I think Mullen checked out after UGA unleashed a level of fury against us in 2021 we had never seen before. I think prior to that he thought if he could luck into some decent players without trying to recruit too hard and could coach up a QB he could hang with anyone like in 2020. But then Nakobe Dean and co. did what they did and Smart pulled down his pants him in the press conference after and he was done.
It's easy to say UGA is out-talenting everyone, but they still play close games against teams that also have dominant talent yet they win almost all of them. Since the start on 2021 they are 6-1 against Clemson, Alabama, Michigan, Oregon, LSU, and Ohio State. I don't think there are enough people talking about their "development" program, if you know what I mean, where all their players go to the NFL Combine and miraculously shatter every previously known athletic measurement for their positions.
You are supposing that the admin. went to Mullen and said "We want to fund a recruiting machine like Georgia, Alabama, and Clemson."... I do not think that is how it went down...
"Oftentimes the routes (and even run plays) are congested due to putting too many guys into the same space.” This right here ^^^^
I was a huge Mullen fan. I love creative offenses and Mullen showed a lot of that. So it killed me to see Mullen crash and burn but even a fan like me can't deny that's what happened. And I wondered why and how... My theory is that after Mullen's "pack the swamp" comment after our TAMU loss he got blowback from the admin and AD. His notorious ego was bruised and he pushed back. Then he looked like he was going to fight Mizzou players the next game and got more pushback and decided this was his last stop. But when he tested the NFL waters at season end he got no bites- he was stuck here. And he sorta gave up. Then he REALLY gave up after the UGA loss. That's why he didn't change anything up... But yes, I agree Mullen had the potential...
Cast offs from top teams is their garbage. I think the players at lesser schools moving up because they outplayed their hs ranking is where to find the talent.
Napier gets 85% of remaining contract with 50% getting paid within a month, the rest is paid out in equal installments for another 4 years. Right now it would be around $15.5M. Still not a small number, but not quite the hit of $31M.
You're right, I believe the correct term would be "plane." In geometry, a plane is a flat surface that extends into infinity.
