A lot of this sounds just like Tennessee (FYI, you could take their TOS board and change team names and the comments would fit in on the GQ pretty easily - bad recruiting from the last staff, no S&C program, 10 years of underperformance, etc.).
There is a MAJOR difference in the two programs as it pertains to the OL. Tennessee has a good shot of getting the Top 2 OTs in the country in this class, quality OL recruits at ever position and will get everyone back on the OL next year. IF Tennessee beats UF in two weeks, I’m not sure where their program is headed, because they aren’t recruiting as well as Pruitt.
Here is the article:
Different year, same story.
Just 371 days after Florida got its brains bashed in by Michigan in Jim McElwain's season opener and the former coach lambasted his team for being soft, new coach Dan Mullen watched exactly the same thing happen.
This time it wasn't against the preseason No. 11 ranked team. It was against Kentucky, a team Florida had beaten 31 straight times heading into Saturday's meeting.
Ready for a little blast from the past?
"Plain and simple, take your whooping," McElwain said back in Arlington after the beating the Wolverines dished out. "I'm taking it. ... We've got to make sure we're doing what we're doing in the weight room (right)."
Spoiler: Florida wasn't. Among many reasons McElwain was ultimately canned, the lack of a well-run strength and conditioning program was arguably chief among them.
So things were supposed to be different under Mullen, with new director of strength and conditioning Nick Savage taking over.
But maybe we're the idiots for thinking this would be a quick turnaround. After all, it's not like all the other programs across the country suddenly forgot how to run their strength and conditioning programs. Florida was still bound to be well behind programs that have run efficiently for multiple years, not just eight months.
And what's that they say about returning a bunch of starters not necessarily being a good thing if they stunk a year ago? Yeah, shame on us for ignoring that little piece of wisdom, too.
Sure, Florida flew past Charleston Southern in the season opener to the tune of a 53-6 rout. But the run-blocking wasn't good then. We all saw it. Somehow we deluded ourselves into thinking it'd get better now that the players and coaches could see it on film and work the corrections off that.
Whoops.
"We have to be more physical up front on the offensive line," Mullen said after watching the Wildcats whip his guys throughout the night. "I think our physicality is going to be something this team -- and we’ve talked about it constantly -- they have to continue to work on."
As the last staff found out, kind of hard to fix that in the middle of the season.
"No, you can't," Mullen conceded, asked if you can suddenly just show up and be physical.
So where does Florida turn from here? The starting lineup on the offensive line has been a constant throughout fall camp. Meaning that the coaching staff hasn't felt much better about the guys behind the starters.
Granted, the offensive line is a developmental position. It takes time for players to grow into quality contributors at the SEC level. As poorly as Florida is playing up front, though, that's a terrifying thought for the future.
"That's a mindset that takes some time for us. I'm not a very patient person," Mullen said. "So I want to see, I want to really watch the film and see every exact part of the toughness aspect of where we need to be improved on and get us right and get ourselves moving in the right direction."
Players believe it's just individual breakdowns causing the bulk of the issues. One guy misses his block and a back isn't able to get to the second level cleanly. All of the timing is thrown off.
"Just executing, doing what we're taught and every play all 11 guys have got to do the right thing for it to work out," left tackle Martez Ivey said. "It's like a watch, if one piece ain't working, the watch don't work at all. We've got to execute like as a unit, to be more sound and execute more plays instead of having like one person mess up, then the next person mess up there."
When it's one guy after another, maybe it's just that your line isn't very good overall. It's time to face some stark realities.
The faces are the same. So are the results. Maybe that's just who they are at this point.
Mullen says he's not a patient guy. You know what? He probably needs to use that sense of urgency to go out and recruit some stud offensive linemen.
The ones he's got have had plenty of time to prove they can step up to the plate. Time and time again they've disappointed.
There is a MAJOR difference in the two programs as it pertains to the OL. Tennessee has a good shot of getting the Top 2 OTs in the country in this class, quality OL recruits at ever position and will get everyone back on the OL next year. IF Tennessee beats UF in two weeks, I’m not sure where their program is headed, because they aren’t recruiting as well as Pruitt.
Here is the article:
Different year, same story.
Just 371 days after Florida got its brains bashed in by Michigan in Jim McElwain's season opener and the former coach lambasted his team for being soft, new coach Dan Mullen watched exactly the same thing happen.
This time it wasn't against the preseason No. 11 ranked team. It was against Kentucky, a team Florida had beaten 31 straight times heading into Saturday's meeting.
Ready for a little blast from the past?
"Plain and simple, take your whooping," McElwain said back in Arlington after the beating the Wolverines dished out. "I'm taking it. ... We've got to make sure we're doing what we're doing in the weight room (right)."
Spoiler: Florida wasn't. Among many reasons McElwain was ultimately canned, the lack of a well-run strength and conditioning program was arguably chief among them.
So things were supposed to be different under Mullen, with new director of strength and conditioning Nick Savage taking over.
But maybe we're the idiots for thinking this would be a quick turnaround. After all, it's not like all the other programs across the country suddenly forgot how to run their strength and conditioning programs. Florida was still bound to be well behind programs that have run efficiently for multiple years, not just eight months.
And what's that they say about returning a bunch of starters not necessarily being a good thing if they stunk a year ago? Yeah, shame on us for ignoring that little piece of wisdom, too.
Sure, Florida flew past Charleston Southern in the season opener to the tune of a 53-6 rout. But the run-blocking wasn't good then. We all saw it. Somehow we deluded ourselves into thinking it'd get better now that the players and coaches could see it on film and work the corrections off that.
Whoops.
"We have to be more physical up front on the offensive line," Mullen said after watching the Wildcats whip his guys throughout the night. "I think our physicality is going to be something this team -- and we’ve talked about it constantly -- they have to continue to work on."
As the last staff found out, kind of hard to fix that in the middle of the season.
"No, you can't," Mullen conceded, asked if you can suddenly just show up and be physical.
So where does Florida turn from here? The starting lineup on the offensive line has been a constant throughout fall camp. Meaning that the coaching staff hasn't felt much better about the guys behind the starters.
Granted, the offensive line is a developmental position. It takes time for players to grow into quality contributors at the SEC level. As poorly as Florida is playing up front, though, that's a terrifying thought for the future.
"That's a mindset that takes some time for us. I'm not a very patient person," Mullen said. "So I want to see, I want to really watch the film and see every exact part of the toughness aspect of where we need to be improved on and get us right and get ourselves moving in the right direction."
Players believe it's just individual breakdowns causing the bulk of the issues. One guy misses his block and a back isn't able to get to the second level cleanly. All of the timing is thrown off.
"Just executing, doing what we're taught and every play all 11 guys have got to do the right thing for it to work out," left tackle Martez Ivey said. "It's like a watch, if one piece ain't working, the watch don't work at all. We've got to execute like as a unit, to be more sound and execute more plays instead of having like one person mess up, then the next person mess up there."
When it's one guy after another, maybe it's just that your line isn't very good overall. It's time to face some stark realities.
The faces are the same. So are the results. Maybe that's just who they are at this point.
Mullen says he's not a patient guy. You know what? He probably needs to use that sense of urgency to go out and recruit some stud offensive linemen.
The ones he's got have had plenty of time to prove they can step up to the plate. Time and time again they've disappointed.
