Florida seems to have come out of the 2018 coaching carousel ahead.
The Florida Gators being 6-1 under Dan Mullen in 2018 — and while erstwhile Florida targets Scott Frost and Chip Kelly struggle at Nebraska and UCLA, respectively — is a fun thing that Florida fans like to brag about, I have noticed. But I was curious about how Mullen’s 2018 stacked up against not just those reported Florida whiffs, but the whole of the Power Five — so I looked up the records of first-year Power Five head coaches, and tweeted this on Sunday:
First-year Power Five head coaches:
Dan Mullen: 6-1
Mario Cristobal: 5-1
Jimbo Fisher: 5-2
Joe Moorhead: 4-2
Herm Edwards: 3-3
Jeremy Pruitt: 3-3
Willie Taggart: 3-3
Kevin Sumlin: 3-4
Chip Kelly: 1-5
Jonathan Smith: 1-5
Chad Morris: 1-6
Scott Frost: 0-6— Alligator Army (@AlligatorArmy) October 14, 2018A fairly popular tweet, that one — and one that puts into sharp relief not just how well things have seemingly worked out for Florida and Mullen almost a year removed from the Gators beginning a search that ultimately led to his hiring, but how well the other hirings of the 2017 offseason have worked out for the Gators.