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Meanwhile, Georgia wrapped up yet another top-5 recruiting class as news arrived the Gators had violated recruiting contact rules. Florida was placed on probation for a year while Mullen serves a one-year, show-cause order. Florida's recruiting class finished 13th nationally, but in the SEC the difference between a top-5 class and a top-15 class is wide.

Florida's 2021 signing class ranks seventh in the SEC, right in the middle of the deepest and most competitive conference in college football — and that's the problem for Mullen. He prides himself on developing players into superstars, but in the SEC rarely does an average recruiting class result in a robust depth chart capable of winning championships.

Scheme all you want, but most of the time, talent wins. Coaches lose games, players win them.

On the trail, Mullen ranks as the third-best recruiter among coaches at FBS programs in the state of Florida, according to a poll of 247Sports experts. Georgia coach Kirby Smart has won most head-to-head recruiting battles against Mullen, too.

“I mean, to me, the (gap between Florida and Georgia) is determined on the field and that's what it is and you can look, 'Oh, we have some pretty talented players, they have some pretty talented players’,” Mullen said in 2019. “There's positions they have more talent than we do and there's positions we have more talent than they do. It's just our job to highlight our strengths and try to defend against our weaknesses as best as possible. That's always kind of the matchup.”
 
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Sources: Florida fires defensive coordinator Todd Grantham, offensive line coach John Hevesy

Florida coach Dan Mullen, on the heels of three consecutive losses and amid mounting pressure, fired defensive coordinator Todd Grantham and offensive line coach John Hevesy on Sunday, sources confirmed to ESPN.

The moves come one day after Florida (4-5) continued its downward spiral, losing 40-17 to South Carolina -- the Gators' most lopsided loss to the Gamecocks in school history. The Athletic first reported the firings.

According to sources, Mullen told the coaches -- both of whom had been with him going back to his tenure at Mississippi State -- that he needed to "create a spark" for the rest of the season. Hevesy, also the Gators' running game coordinator, had been with Mullen since 2001 at Bowling Green, when Mullen was the quarterbacks coach there under Urban Meyer.

Mullen said after the South Carolina loss that he "didn't see it coming." The defeat dropped the Gators below .500 for the first time in Mullen's tenure at Florida.

Entire article: https://www.espn.com/college-footba...ve-line-coach-john-hevesy-florida-sources-say
 
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Nutriaitch said:
i would have fired Grantham in 3rd quarter of the LSU game.

we can’t run against ANYBODY this year.
but used the exact same play against them a dozen or so times and got TDP the single game LSU rushing record.
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I remember you guys saying that and laughing about Grantham on your podcast after that game.
 
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Jon Gruden - hire of the century! :lol:

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