A Mike Farrell Sports Columnist Said Gators would be better off if Dan Mullen was still here

More like poor reading comprehension. I am a little too tired to be reading right now.

 

Gonna assume this was written before ETNA’s departure?

 

Oh man, my apologies as well as I completely understand. Sleep has been avoiding me for a few months.

 

I really feel for you!

 

Humans are….. wait for it, HUMAN. Kids want to play for winners that can put them on the big stage and get them to the NFL. You can blame fans of any team for wanting to win, but it is pretty hard to blame UF fans for being critical of consecutive losing seasons or recruits for wanting to go to a team with hope. Going back to Spurrier, there is plenty of blame on our fans for jumping on 9 or 10 win seasons. But this is not that.

BN is our coach in year 3. AND he needs to show vast improvement on multiple fronts: special teams, conditioning, playcalling, big plays on D, etc. Win Arky and mizzou and we are not in this situation, and both SHOULD have been wins. The negativity around our program is more about those losses than fans. Enough of the past. Stand behind BN to start year 3 and it is definitely a show me year.

 

I'm going on a limb and going to assume he means how the players quit on DM in season, meanwhile BN's fought every single game? Just listed to a Hightop video and ETN was the only guy the coaches, etc tried to keep. Nobody else was a surprise, ttfwiw.

 

Man.... if you only knew.... my life is absolutely ridiculous right now.

 

Huh? I love the guys we have at DB. Maybe they are credited to CR maybe someone else. Not sure why you think I’m upset with Harris. He is “PUTTING IN WORK”!

 

Mullen. The coach who has become an analyst on television? Why are schools not knocking down doors to get to him if he is such a hot commodity? We were happy to get 3 stars when he was coaching.

 

I believe only ONE of our DB's are actually credited to him. So if you're being facetious it's not necessary

 

How are you figuring out who is credited to him? A couple months ago we believed that most DBs wanted to come play for him. Who did we credit guys like jakeem, Dijon, and sharif? Either way I am excited for those guys and I truly believe they wanted to be coached by CR.

 

Do you not know just because a kid signs because of a position coach, doesn't mean that coach was their primary. Position coaches are assigned zones and offer kids within those zones. Typically the recruiting sites will give the primary and/or secondary recruiter for each signee. X stated CR getting fired changed his mind, but he's 6' and isn't particularly heavy. Harris nabbed Smith who's 4ins taller and much heavier. I'll try to find the list, I watched Hightop give that info btw that CR only has 1 DB to his name.

 

Dan Mullen was the biggest disappointment ever as far as Gator coaches ever hired, IMO. He was great as Urban Meyer's OC, did a really good job at Mississippi State and came to UF with a solid roster and a lot of credibility. But I think that huge contract with ridiculous buyout made him lazy. He's a quirky guy anyway and just seemed to never put in the effort it takes to build a high level, elite program. He had all the advantages available to him and just blew it and we're still paying the price in more ways than one.

 

https://247sports.com/Coach/corey-raymond-939/AllTimeRecruits/

Ok, CR has more than 1 DB accredited to him. So the information was wrong. But man the talent at DB between his stint at lsu vs UF is blinding..... so this definitely feeds the beast that somewhere in the administration is not bought into the FB program at all. This list is... I have no words....

 

I think getting top tier players is a nil problem. But I’m sure we have issues in admin as well.

 

We have runners who can replace ETN imho. We are not short in that area.

And we could be snarky and add that they probably would not run out of boards when they had an open field.

I have to feel that one reason that ETN left was the criticism that he took from fans about his running out of bounds with an open field in the Mizzou game.

It was a critical error. I wish that he had been willing to stay and show himself to be the better man but he did not.

But I could be wrong. Perhaps he just wanted the bigger money offer or felt that his star did not shine bright enough here.

We are still loaded at running back IMHO.

 

But but……the players don’t read these boards or care what the fans say

 

Did you read the OP?
Looks like you’re the one out of sync here pal.

 

Trust me, I'm not your pal.

 

Awww come on little buddy, try not to take this so personally. Just stop trashing our program while Coach is trying to fix things and we can still be pals