hey my correlation made about as much sense as the correlation between the last time we played a decent OOC opponent being the last time we missed a bowl.
...i'm not saying we need to play the elites of the CFB world. We DO play the elites of the CFB world. This is as easy a schedule as we're likely to see for a while and we still played three top 15 teams. Other conferences call that a brutal schedule.
...it lets the players and coaches see more critically the flaws in the team instead of sleepwalking through 7 weeks and getting flattened by a mack truck. Starting with 7 easy games is not good, but we usually won't have 7 easy games on our schedule, and if we do it's unlikely they'll be the first 7 games, so this isn't really a problem.,
what's the worst case scenario? we go 5-7 instead of 6-6 and a bbva bowl bid? Bowl practices matter, so there is a big difference between 6-6 and 5-7.
boohoo, we shouldn't be needing 4 gimme Ws out of conference just to hope that we get a bid to one fo the worst bowl games, not in year 5 of mullen. Just because you can count to five does not mean it's time to 17 ourselves in recruiting. We know Mullen screwed up recruiting for two years. Judging from last year and this year, it seems he has figured out the problem, but it still seems likely it's going to limit our progress for one more year. If we schedule easy OOC games and it turns out we were better than we thought, we will still play somewhere between two and five top 15 teams.
i don't wanna artifically prop up mullen's record so that we keep him around for year and year while he manages to schedule his way to 6 Ws and we can't really fire him because he's taking us to bowl games. We don't have to be dubmasses. If in 3 years, we're not to the point where we consistently have 3 to 4 wins on our SEC schedule, even in the years we have a tough draw, we'll be able to make a decision on Mullen, and if we feel like we have to have some losing years to fire him, we can schedule for them at that time. No need to start now when it seems like he has addressed or is working to address all the problems he has (with the possible exception of offensive play calling).
i wanna know whether he's gonna get to the point of beating good teams, Guess what, probably not next year. It sucks but you can't have mediocre recruiting and win big in the SEC. We don't need to schedule ourselves out of a bowl game to prove that teams with more talent are generally going to beat us, whether mullen is our coach or not.
