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At the time, two years wasn't enough. To be fair, he was hired very late in the recruiting cycle his first season and basically grabbed whatever he could to fill up the roster. Next season COVID happened where several games, they almost didn't have enough to field a full team and the this season was full of freak injuries, broken hands, ankles, fingers. This, combined with on the job training was not a recipe for success. Not sticking up for the guy, but those are facts. In the end, the results of the Temple game showed the team was not getting better and he needed to go. The donor buzz in Kelly's ear to fire him was too loud to ignore. I think if we'd beaten Temple and been semi-competitive the rest of the season, it would have been a different coaching outcome.

This team won't win another game this season so I guess it's a look ahead to what we'll look like next season. Even if we get a homerun hire and have a great recruiting class, we'll still maybe win 3 games next year.

From someone who doesn't follow UF, Mullen's record doesn't look that bad. Even his last season that he went 5-6, they lost 4 games by a touchdown or less. One game was 1 point and the other was by 2. I'm sure people more close to the program would know better than I. Probably isn't the worst option. Not sure if it's even realistic.

I'm surprised we have 2 boosters with that much clout. You'd think they would have been sinking that money into the NIL to buy some premium players. But who knows, maybe if they get their coaching hire, they'll add money for players too.

Even with Marsh, we were scoring multiple touchdowns in the last few games. It would be nice to keep him for at least another season. If he is let go, I'm sure he won't be out of work for long.

Yeah, he's been officially cancelled. He's not coming back from that. In order to even think about coaching again, he would have had to start laying the ground work years ago by a public apology, volunteer work, monetary donations, etc to change the public opinion.

It's not really a diss when you're 4-8 and got the previous coach fired because you couldn't stop anyone on defense. I hope the current players aren't going to be offended when the new coach comes in and says it's going to be a process to re-build this program again?

My guess, lack of talent, abnormal amount of injuries, no previous head coaching experience. I doubt anything juicy comes out. At the time Scott was hired, the program was in the toilet, so not sure why being positive and trying to get USF back to it's winning ways was frowned upon. From that quote, it sounds like Scott's ra-ra attitude probably rubbed him the wrong way. The defense was never good, even through the Flowers era so I can see why Kegler might have been in Scott's doghouse at some point.

I really think the title should be "Realistic Replacements for Jeff Scott". We're not getting a successful coach. Think more along the lines of Charlie Strong and Jeff Scott. We'll end up with another position coach who has no head coaching experience or a retread h/c. This isn't the great opportunity some seem to think it is..... Yeah basically what Strong came in with. He rode Flowers success until he was gone and then it was over.....

Look at this guy over here thinking we have boosters willing to pay $300,000 for one player. You're kidding, right?

When it comes to sponsorship level, I'm sure we're a tier or 2 below the Big 4......We get free BOGO sandwich coupons, the other schools get money to pad their NIL coffers.....

No matter the outcome, I'm sure it won't be as bad as Louisville's loss to Lenoir-Rhyne...

I'm feeling physical pain watching this defense play.... Offense looked competitive until OC threw in the towel with that 3rd and 7 run up the middle play call.

I try to block that one out of my memory. For me, the last bowl appearance was the Birmingham Bowl beating South Carolina in OT. We traveled to that game and I remember savoring the whole experience because I knew it was Flowers last year and things were about to go down hill.

Honestly, it might be more enjoyable if we tailgated. It's just me and my son, so I'm watching these games straight sober.

I opted out. Not out of anger, I just don't see the entertainment value for another season of this. I haven't given up on the program completely. I've been going to games since the 1st one in the Old Sombrero. When they start to be competitive again, I'll be back.

That was during the first week when we got a bunch of transfers at once. All the bigger schools caught up and surpassed us a week later....

The fact that most are starting shows how little we had to start with. If I remember correctly, most have several years of eligibility so there is some hope that they will improve.

I think it was posted somewhere here that there was no "raise", just basically extending another year for current rate of pay. Some still like to dangle the extension argument like Kelly gave him a raise for a losing record.

The ones who want to be miserable will be miserable. It was an entertaining game and it was close. I've all ready moved on. We were supposed to lose by 3 touchdowns.

This was a close, back and forth game that went down to the last few minutes, despite the injuries on defense. I'm tired of the blowouts, at least we had a chance in this one. 4th down play sucked, but if we ran it up the middle and got stopped, someone would be complaining that we should had done something different.

I couldn't help myself and in the the 4th quarter I found a feed on youtube. I guess you all can blame me for the loss.

I feel bad for the players, another one we can't finish out....good effort, though.

I figured it out. I'm not watching the game so they are winning. I will do my part and continue not to watch, but listen to the radio feed.