Buy/Sell McGarity asks Stricklin for

[lazlow]

Permission to talk to Mullen before the end of the year...

 

[karlchilders.sixpack]

Sell, not as long as they still have a coach

I doubt they will dump him, before the end of the season.(If they do at all)

This ain't Auburn.

 

[patdog]

No idea and not going to worry about it anyway. Richt has a good chance to finish the season 9-3 or 8-4 and keep his job with a wholesale change of assistants. If we do wind up losing Mullen to them, I'll thank him for being the best coach we've had in my lifetime and we'll be a very attractive job for a lot of good coaches out there.

 

[missouridawg]

No idea and not going to worry about it anyway. Richt has a good chance to finish the season 9-3 or 8-4 and keep his job with a wholesale change of assistants. If we do wind up losing Mullen to them, I'll thank him for being the best coach we've had in my lifetime and we'll be a very attractive job for a lot of good coaches out there.

I think the decision to move on Richt has been made. Just gotta wait till Thanksgiving weekend to act to try and salvage a decent bowl game. I fully believe that he will win out and that he will still get fired.

And thoroughly terrified that Mullen is going to be their top choice.

 

[RingN2012]

Mullen is not going to be their top choice. If Mullen ends up there, he will be one of their desperate choices. Mullen is good for our program but is not necessarily good for theirs. I think Freeze would actually be a better fit with his holier than thou act.
Georgia will go for a big name. Bob Stoops, Art Briles, Mark Dantonio, Chip Kelly... Somebody like that will get the first phone calls

 

[patdog]

You could be right. Interesting that Richt still hasn't signed his contract extension from this spring, but the AD is saying they'll honor all the terms of the contract (buyout) anyway. I'm a huge Mullen fan, but there will be other very good candidates for that job. He may or may not be their first choice. Even if he is, he may not be as interested in their job as people are assuming he'll be. But if he does leave us for UGA, it won't be the end of MSU football. We'll still have a very good group of players coming back and will be able to easily pay a new coach $3-$4M. There will be a lot of good coaches interested in our job.

 

[patdog]

Georgia will go for a big name. Bob Stoops, Art Briles, Mark Dantonio, Chip Kelly... Somebody like that will get the first phone calls

Told a friend yesterday that it actually might be good for both schools and both coaches if Stoops and Richt swapped jobs. Both have been at their school a long time and have passed the point of diminishing returns. A new challenge could be what both coaches need, and some fresh blood may be what both schools need.

 

[thatsbaseball]

These next three games will affect Mullen`s marketability in a big way. There`s no doubt he`s established himself already but if he can run the table in these next three he goes into more of an elite status IMO. If he lays a big ole turd he`ll remain kind of a second/third choice type candidate to the "major" programs who probably won`t want to pay what it will take to get someone who wasn`t at the top of their list to start with.

 

[dickiedawg]

Stoops to UGA would be fascinating. Weeks after they delivered a statue of him to OU's campus...

 

[Dirk Digler.sixpack]

He's not going to experience the same kind of pressure here as he is at Georgia. He's changing the culture here but a couple seven win seasons here gets you a griping fan base here. It gets ur *** fired at Georgia. He's making good money here as well. I don't see Georgia luring him away with a lot more money than we're currently paying him. Also, and I'd like to hear a few other opinions on this but Mullen has created something at MSU out of basically nothing. If he sticks around and continues to build off that, doesn't that put him with the likes of Bobby Bowden and others that spend a career at one stop. Those guys are always remembered better than the Tubervilles that will leave you for 25 more cents an hour..

 

[TBone.sixpack]

Following a coach averaging 9 wins. Hopefully Mullen is wiser than that.

These coaches have massive egos though so you never know......