Dan Mullen walked off of Florida’s practice field and directly into a press conference to discuss his signing class — 22 strong — on Wednesday night.
Mullen was tired. He looked it and sounded like a coach that has been burning a candle at both ends but he signed a good recruiting class, one that is better in reality than in perception.
The Gators are the only school in the country ranked top-10 in the football polls, in recruiting and as a public university — a fact Mullen pointed out.
“You’re looking at a school that obviously not just a premier athletic school in the state but the premier academic school in the state, and a school that is not just one of the top 10 football programs in the country, but the only one of those schools that’s also a top 10 academic school,” Mullen said.