In Reply to: Before you give too much credit to Mullen at UNLV.... posted by hotspot on September 07, 2025 at 20:42:47
While you can give Odom credit for rebuilding the brand, Mullen lost over 70% of that team from last year, and pretty much had to start from scratch.
Mullen did start strong after leaving Miss St tho, before collapsing.
I think this game was more about us, and our flaws and what appear to be very slow starts under Foster, in terms of learning which players can do things, and the entirely revamped Defense (especially the LB play, which UNLV and Utah have absolutely shredded - Vaughns in particular has looked like a freshman - great athleticism, but slow to react and out of position). Yoon also has looked overmatched at Center, he was regularly pushed back into the backfield, unless a part of a doubleteam. Sunseri did make that some good adjustments in the 2nd half, and maybe Malloe did as well