There are a few different ways to tell how full of a cupboard a coach left for his successor. Thanks to the 2006 season, at Florida the default way is to count starters.
Famously, 21 of 22 starters on Urban Meyer’s national championship-winning second team were Ron Zook recruits. Cornerback Ryan Smith, the graduate transfer who played for Meyer at Utah, was the one exception.
Dan Mullen didn’t inherit as great a bounty in his second stint in Gainesville.
He began with only 21 of 22 starters being Jim McElwain recruits from Game 1 thanks to Ole Miss transfer Van Jefferson taking a starting spot.