Mullen Out

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volinbham said:
Seems I recall some posters wanting him as our HC.
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The man would’ve won 10+ for 3 consecutive years had last year been a full schedule. So UF firing him over one bad year and discounting 3 years of success, doesn’t change my opinion on his ability to coach football. He’s far from being your typical fired HC and I’ll contend this one isn’t warranted.
 
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While I am not unhappy with Heupel, I do find it amusing that Freeze and Kiffin, both of whom would likely have taken the Tennessee job, who were so toxic and repugnant to the pearl clutchers among the big $$ Tennessee boosters, are in line to continue the long streak of beating Tennessee as the HC of the Gators. Apparently the Gators have fewer pearl clutchers among their $$ boosters.
 
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thunder5 said:
I am truly baffled at how quickly this one turned…dude was what I would have considered extremely successful at UF until about 1/3 if the way through this season…now he’s fired…it’s just crazy how quickly that escalated
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I think if he was more well-liked by people there and/or he was recruiting well, he would have survived this one bad year.

I think Mullen behaved behind the scenes and recruited in a way that didn't lead to the UF powers that be giving him much leash.
 
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thunder5 said:
I am truly baffled at how quickly this one turned…dude was what I would have considered extremely successful at UF until about 1/3 if the way through this season…now he’s fired…it’s just crazy how quickly that escalated
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Which is why HCs bargain for, and get, huge buyouts. The volatility of the coaches scene is almost unfathomable as is the money. Like it grows on trees. My trees too often.
 
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AthensVol2007 said:
The man would’ve won 10+ for 3 consecutive years had last year been a full schedule. So UF firing him over one bad year and discounting 3 years of success, doesn’t change my opinion on his ability to coach football. He’s far from being your typical fired HC and I’ll contend this one isn’t warranted.
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Him and his boss (even back to MSU days) have never been real friendly. You combine that with public salary negotiations, desperately flirting WITH NFL jobs, NCAA issues, awkward media moments,, and having opinions that differed from extremely liberal school leadership left a bad taste in people's mouth down there.

He was fine until the team quit on him after the UK game. They needed a reason to fire him and that was it. It wasn't the lack of recruiting.
 
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BigOrangeMojo said:
Him and his boss (even back to MSU days) have never been real friendly. You combine that with public salary negotiations, desperately flirting WITH NFL jobs, NCAA issues, awkward media moments,, and having opinions that differed from extremely liberal school leadership left a bad taste in people's mouth down there.

He was fine until the team quit on him after the UK game. They needed a reason to fire him and that was it. It wasn't the lack of recruiting.
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And he lost to Kentucky twice...Which try as I might to rationalize it in my mind, is simply an unforgivable sin.
 
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BigOrangeMojo said:
Roster can see he didnt want to be there and school's leadership really didn't want him there. Things were fine until they hit adversity. They then understandably quit.
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I prefer players who don’t quit when faced w adversity
 
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05_never_again said:
I think if he was more well-liked by people there and/or he was recruiting well, he would have survived this one bad year.

I think Mullen behaved behind the scenes and recruited in a way that didn't lead to the UF powers that be giving him much leash.
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That makes sense…there’s almost always something behind the scenes when it happens like this
 
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thunder5 said:
That makes sense…there’s almost always something behind the scenes when it happens like this
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Dont forget actively seeking NFL jobs, publicly disagreeing with the administration over COVID, NCAA issues, never really seeing eye to eye with his boss, and publicly leaking issues with the slow pace of contract extension talks....
 
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VolFreakJosh said:
He’s a loser.

Why we had fans that wanted him, I’ll never know.
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He was the dog whisperer of quarterbacks.

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BigOrangeMojo said:
True but we got players on this year's team that tuned out/quit on Pruitt last year....

Sometimes the culture is so toxic where you don't work as hard for certain coaches, (or bosses in real world applications)
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Old saying," You don't quit your job, you quit your boss"
 
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VolInNW said:
While I am not unhappy with Heupel, I do find it amusing that Freeze and Kiffin, both of whom would likely have taken the Tennessee job, who were so toxic and repugnant to the pearl clutchers among the big $$ Tennessee boosters, are in line to continue the long streak of beating Tennessee as the HC of the Gators. Apparently the Gators have fewer pearl clutchers among their $$ boosters.
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The wish list (not getting into what’s realistic) is Napier, Kiffin, bob stoops, cristobal, Franklin
 
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