SwampMusic

Recent Comments
I think you might feel differently if it happened again and it was your team (Bama I assume) left to explain to its players, coaches, fans that their dream was taken away because they didn't understand the fine print. That to be a champion today you have to be invited. That there is no place for improbable wins much less miracles or "Cinderella" stories. Only favorites can be champions. Expanded playoff means nothing, if the rules don't change and we find ourselves here again with 4-5+ undefeated teams and multiple teams getting the bird by a committee, the credibility of college football goes to he11.
Nothing more unsurprising and useless/uninformative than a Finebaum dig at a SEC fan base or coach. Google "Paul Finebaum" and "fans" and take your pick. Every team's fans stink and every coach is on a short leash or tarnishing their legacy (Saban) apparently. Hey, how about an actual football insight?
Not by Finebaum's measure of success, it would seem.
Hogwash. There is nothing remarkable about UF "successful v fired" coaches and Mullen won more than twice as many games as Kelly and Frost: Since 1991 (30 years)... SEC Team: Successful (Coach) / Fired Florida: 2 (Spurrier, Meyer) / 4 Georgia: 1 (Smart) / 4 Alabama: 2 (Stallings, Saban) / 3 Auburn: 1 (Chizik) / 5 LSU: 3 (Saban, Miles, Orgeron) / 4* * Miles and Orgeron counted twice as they have the dubious honor of being both successful and fired Mullen at UF: 34/15 Kelly at UCLA: 17/25
Fair enough, Marsh. I don’t see that happening, but we’ll see. I find the whole “Fire ___” mentality so overly simplistic. No thought whatsoever to the other half of Fire/Hire equation. Folks dismissing M’s skillset are being foolish, should remember the desert that is a decade w/out top QB, O production
Such hogwash. Every Gator rival would like nothing more than to see Mullen go. Why? Because he’s a proven threat. He rights his ship, gets a killer DC and the recruiting resources to compete w/ AL, GA and the current order is disrupted. Weak-stomached Gator fans need to get a grip. Even teams coming off a championship w/ great successive “ranked” recruiting years have setback seasons. Why? QB drop-off primarily (LSU post Burrow, Clemson post Lawrence…). Who’s a proven developer of QBs, and hi scoring O? Maybe the best? Mullen that’s who. Find me one better. Solid recruiting classes w/ no QB, and low points? Been there done that. You can have it. QB dev, Offensive production and gameday play calling ARE NOT TRIVIAL. Those are Cornerstones!!! So here’s the deal: Disrupting the AL/GA recruiting machine is a multi-year, multi-$Mil deal and it’s not going to be a straight line. Quit the knee-jerking. Yes, it takes lots of pieces. So, show me the proven guy that has Mullen’s pieces and MORE, and let’s talk. In the meantime, put on your sea-sickness patch and relax. You either want the see the Gators stay weak, have no stomach or should apply for the job.
Scapegoats? Fire Mullen? So many rivals here licking their chops and knee-jerk fans who think "firing" is so easy/answers everything. How about they were not performing at their jobs? And, what about the "hire" part of the "fire/hire" equation - who you got in mind?
I get it. It's a bias. Nobody wants the Gators to be part of the conversation. They want to believe their favorites are unbeatable, on the rise, or the only legitimate contenders and the rest are pretenders. (Bama, Georgia, LSU and until last week - Auburn). The problem is, the author of this article made 2 VERY objective and compelling observations that I don't see being discussed much: 1) LSU has not faced a top 100 (ONE HUNDRED!?) power 5 defense and 2) LSU's weakest defensive link statistically (throws over the middle) is a bigtime UF strength. Those two factors alone suggest to me the very very real possibility of this being a close game. Overconfidence in college football outcomes is part of the reason why college football is so great. The other part? How often it's proven wrong. I'd temper my confidence on this one.