Therein lies the rub, apparently.
Certainly valid takes - however,
knowing Mullen had this Pre - Madonna quality about him.
The administration needed to back his play and jump in there - prick or not. Part of his downfall was floating between qb's there - at a time he didn't need to float.
Never good when you substitute for the starting qb - after he has led you to big wins over Tennessee and almost beating Alabama. There was no need for a two qb plan at that time.
Then the team quit on him, then the admin quit on him - agreed, We all know that his quote about recruiting was tongue in cheek and taken out of context - shame on him for not clarifying - what he was actually
saying was that the time for questions about recruiting will be later in the season please, we have too many fires burning, to be discussing recruiting with you knuckleheads in the media right this minute.
The perception was that he was saying something all together different. He also was the guy who chose the perfectly wrong time to say he wanted the stadium full of covid spreaders last year. He is a prick, but so was Spurrier.
The whole thing was handled very poorly imho.
Florida went the Tennessee route = we will see how that works out but right this minute it isn't looking that great.
At lease you guys still have the majority of the market on Jorts and mobile homes - so there's that.