Clear your schedule for November 2nd cause things are getting fuckin chippy in the Southeast. Dan Mullen is talking hella shit for a team who lost 36-17 to Georgia last year. He's become addicted to taking shots at Kirby Smart's program. I'm not sure he could stop even if he wanted to at this point.
Is Dan Mullen justified in talkin that shit? Maybe. He turned a 4-7 team into a 10-3 team in one year. Plus the Gators beat the breaks off Michigan in the Peach Bowl 41-15. Yeah they lost to Georgia last year but most of that team weren't players he recruited. This year Mullen brought Georgia back into the top 10 recruiting classes for the first time since 2014 (per 247 rankings).
Here's a timeline of Dan clowning the Dawgs:
- "Listen, winning one SEC Championship doesn't make you a dominant program, you know what I'm saying? In two of the last three years, we've been to the SEC Championship Game. So even a blind squirrel finds a nut every one in a while." Calling Kirby a blind squirrel for taking a two year team to an SEC Championship and then the Natty (runner up) is just too funny to not tip your cap.
- "I'd think we did a poor job recruiting if guys were coming in and then immediately walking out the door because it was something different than what they thought it would be and we lied to them during recruiting, or we sold them on a dream that wasn't true." Ricochet shot on Justin Fields transferring from Georgia after only one season. ESPN had Fields rated as the number one overall recruit.
- Dan Mullen said that there was 39,476 people in attendance for their spring game and that the number was significant to a rival. It's been 39 years and 476 games since Georgia last won the National Championship as per the FloridaGators Reddit page. Good for whoever figured that one out cause I mean, come on. I didn't know there was gunna be math?
- Georgia scheduled a home-and-home with FSU in 2027 & 2028 which is absurd in its own right but heres Mullens take on it, "We play Florida State every year, right? Georgia is playing them. They're trying to catch up to us, I guess. Toughen their schedule."
Ok so it isn't exactly a great timeline cause I don't have the dates but whatever he still said that shit. Take a breath Dan. He can't see a microphone without thinking of Georgia and the CFB community is starting to come down on him for it. This is what Paul Finegod had to say about it on Birmingham radio show, The Roundtable, "It's devastating, primarily because of Dan Mullen's mouth. He's been running it for months, frankly, he's been running it since he was born. I was in his office three and a half weeks ago, I heard him running his mouth about Georgia and it caught up to him and now all those people who have been sitting around going 'I wonder why he's doing that?' are turning on him." Kind of a snake move out of the Finebaum camp if you ask me. Being on the show is one thing but him making comments in the trust tree of his office shouldn't be made public knowledge.
Kirby has had plenty of opportunities to retaliate with all the chaos currently happening in Gainesville, for instance:
- As Jack Mac pointed out two weeks ago, Florida lost QB Jalon Jones to the transfer portal after he was accused of two sexual assaults that occurred within thirty minutes of each other.
- CB Chris Steele who 247 Sports had ranked as Florida's number one recruit and forty-second overall prospect of the 2019 class also entered the transfer portal after being named in the Jones police report as a witness.
-After the Steele debacle, Gator players tweeted and deleted posts like "If You're not a Gator...You're Gator Bait shhhhh!" That was tweeted out by Trevon Grimes accompanied by a picture of Grimes standing next to Steele on the ground with the football in his hands.
-Not to mention Kirby has beaten Mullen in back to back seasons. He kicked the shit out of him with Miss St 31-3 in 2017, and then beat him again last year as a Gator.
Did Smart get slick? Nope. He could've trashed the program and trashed Mullen but he really only had one thing to say on the subject, "We like to talk with our helmets." Fuck, man. 171 more days.
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