Dan Mullen addresses Todd Grantham's status, potential staff changes

Florida head coach Dan Mullen addressed defensive coordinator Todd Grantham’s status after Florida lost to a hapless LSU team in stunning fashion on Saturday.

“Right now we’re getting ready to play Georgia, to be honest with you,” Mullen said on the SEC coaches media teleconference. “I haven’t looked at all of our coaches’ contracts. I’m sure we have a bunch of contracts up at some point and that’s something that we look at after the season when it’s more appropriate to do those things.”

Grantham’s contract at Florida is up in January, and given the Gators defensive performance, much has been made about the defensive coordinator’s future in Gainesville.

Dan Mullen later went in-depth on the lack of consistency shown from his Gator team, and the need to fix the “little things.”

“It is some things, little things, appears to be different things,” Mullen said. “As we fix one things, we had an issue somewhere else. So for us, you’re just trying to get the consistency out of everybody within the program. You look at, we go and play run defense for a bunch of games, then we play poorly. We go we don’t turn the ball over, then turn it over a bunch. We have a lot of penalties then we have no penalties.

It’s that consistency, and that’s on me. I have got to make sure that we’re doing what we need to do to play at a high level and perform at a high level. Because when we do play, when we’re not making mistakes we’ve been a pretty good football team this year and played well. Part of it, we’ve got to fins a way to win these close games. We have a couple losses in one-score games that we have to find a way to come out on the other end of that.”

After starting the season 2-0, Florida suffered a close loss against Alabama after they failed to convert a late two-point conversion, falling 31-29 at the end. After an encouraging win over Tennessee, the Gators were upset by Kentucky in Lexington for the first time since 1986. A bounce-back win over Vanderbilt appeared to put Florida in position to roll over the injury-depleted LSU Tigers. Instead, LSU, which struggled to run the ball all season, defeated the Gators in Death Valley 49-42, behind Tyrion Davis-Price’s 287 rushing yards and three touchdowns.

Now sitting at 4-3 on the season, Dan Mullen and the Gators look towards a rivalry matchup with the top-ranked Georgia Bulldogs following their bye week this weekend. Afterwards the Gators’ schedule lightens up, but having three losses at this point in the season is not where Florida wanted to be.