GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Any time a new coach takes over, there are things that he finds lacking at a program and wants to immediately bolster.

When Jim McElwain took over, it was support staff size. The Gators didn't have enough hands for his liking. He also made some real improvements to the nutrition system and added some bells and whistles in that regard.

So did new coach Dan Mullen find some areas that were sorely lacking?

"Not really. I think he probably, maybe what we were paying some positions, I think he might have thought we were overpaying in some areas," athletics director Scott Stricklin said. "And he might have tweaked some of the job descriptions for some of the positions that we had."

Stricklin certainly made it seem like there can be such a thing as too many cooks in the kitchen.

Mullen will hold everyone on his staff responsible and probably won't delegate quite as much as McElwain did. And that might be just what the doctor ordered for the Gators.

One area things really came up short in McElwain's tenure was in the weight room. As GatorBait.net and others have reported on extensively, things didn't go well in the strength and conditioning program. The weight room was frequently left a mess, supervision was poor and form was sloppy and the players simply didn't get as much out of the program as they should have. To the point that several players sought outside professional training in town.

Mullen won't necessarily fix that by having more people in the room.

"I don't know that our people count has gone down, but I don't know that it's gone up since he's been here," Stricklin said. "Dan is really resourceful. That's one of the things that, he doesn't do anything just because somebody else does it. He's always been a guy that says 'this is what we need to get this accomplished.' You like working with people like that that treat their budget like it's their own money and they want to spend it when they think it helps and they don't want to spend it just to spend it."

That doesn't mean that Mullen won't have access to whatever he needs to be successful. Florida has one of the biggest operating budgets in college athletics.

Stricklin's well aware that football feeds the beast, and he's ready to give Mullen and company whatever they need to win big.

"I want to give our coaches what they need to be successful," Stricklin said. "I will tell you that we had some budget limitations that Dan did a really good job of working with at Mississippi State and being highly efficient. One of the things I admire most about Dan is just because he's at Florida he's not suddenly tapping into the budget like it's an ATM. I think he's being very efficient, but at the same time he's going to use the resources we have to put us in the best position to be successful."

Like any of his programs, as long as the money is being used appropriately, Stricklin is willing to provide it for the football team.

"Any coach that, and it's' not just football, in any program, if they have a need and they can justify it, we're going to do everything we can to provide it," Stricklin said. "Whether that's staff, how we travel, a piece of equipment that can help in some way, if they can justify why and illustrate why it's going to make us better and make our student-athletes more successful, we're going to find a way to within our reason to figure out a way to help them.

"I just think Dan's a guy that probably more is not necessarily better. Or he's, if you talk to him about his philosophy, he's going to have more staff here than he did at Mississippi State, but he's going to be really smart about where the resources go."

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