Mullen $6Million Per Year at UF

[57stratdawg]

Guess it really wasn’t about $

 

[Tin Cup Cowboy]

I'm curious to know what the assistants will be paid.

 

[DerHntr]

Geez. Looks like what I heard was indeed silly. I almost would rather he did get in the $8M range but then he’d have $2M more that he doesn’t deserve.

 

[FlotownDawg]

He was ready for a change of scenery. I've heard coaches say that 10 years at one school is about the longest amount of time before it starts to get stale. I guess Dan felt he took MSU as far as he could and wanted a new challenge. Also, Matt Luke kicked his *** so he wanted to get away from that guy.

 

[was21]

First three sentences make sense

 

[AlCoDog]

Contract is for 6 years. We could only go 4. For us to guarantee that same amount of money would have cost us 9 million per year is my guess as to where that giant number came from.

 

[dawgdr]

Considering he could have coached at MSU for 20 more years he just cost himself about 102 million dollars when they fire him in 4 years for losing to Miami or FSU 3/4 years.

 

[11thEagleFan]

The 4 year max contract in Mississippi really needs to go away. Believe it or not, when Fedora left for UNC, USM was actually going to match the annual salary. We could not however, match the 7 year contract, all of which was guaranteed.

 

[dickiedawg]

Surely with an unlimited budget for assistants.
We certainly would have matched.

 

[Bucky Dog]

Not that it matters really but no state income tax in a Florida. And he wanted to try and wins NC

 

[patdog]

It also played a role in Tubberville to Auburn. UMiss tried to lock him up with a 10-year contract the year before, but the College Board or Attorney General overruled them. It hurts us from a competitive standpoint. Of course, it may also keep us from committing to too much guaranteed money for a coach who we may have to fire later.

 

[maroonmania]

Guess it really wasn’t about $

Indeed it wasn't which has me even more confused about his thinking process. Why leave the best team you would have ever had at a program you spent 9 years building up to go to a program that you are going to have to build on for at least a couple of years for the same money? Obviously Florida's long term ceiling is higher than ours so I guess he just jumped while the opening was there. Thought maybe after the 2015 season when he didn't get the Miami job he had really recommitted himself to being successful at MSU but I guess that wasn't really the case. He jumped again as soon as he had any decent option to do so (obviously the 2016 season gave him no option).

 

[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

This ain't going to change while UM is under whatever the NCAA is going to put them under

 

[TheStateUofMS]

I wouldn't call Tenn and Florida a "decent" option. He had a chance to go to a top 5-10 job and he took it. He was here 9 years. There's no bad blood in him leaving, but the way he left sucked and who took him (Stricklin) sucked.

 

[PineGroveBully]

He had to think this was the best job offer he was gonna get over the next 4-5 years

 

[dawgface]

He was ready for a change of scenery. I've heard coaches say that 10 years at one school is about the longest amount of time before it starts to get stale. I guess Dan felt he took MSU as far as he could and wanted a new challenge. Also, Matt Luke kicked his *** so he wanted to get away from that guy.

dan pretty well lied to fans, players and administration.....championships indeed!

i will say this, and it is just my opinion but it is one that i like: the only people that kicked dan's *** this year were georgia and auburn. with alabama and the landfish, DAN kicked dan's *** just as he always did at least one or two games a year. what he needed more than anything else was somebody to manage the game and the clock so he wouldn't make such tactically dumbass calls!!!

 

[CoastDawg18]

I wouldn't call Tenn and Florida a "decent" option. He had a chance to go to a top 5-10 job and he took it. He was here 9 years. There's no bad blood in him leaving, but the way he left sucked and who took him (Stricklin) sucked.

I'm hoping cooler heads prevail and our fan base realizes this. If you do not see the HC at UF as a promotion (status, money, opportunity, etc.) over MSU then you need help. We can be mad he left us but we shouldn't be mad at him personally for doing it.

 

[maroonmania]

I wouldn't call Tenn and Florida a "decent" option.

Neither did I, not sure where you read that in my post. But on the subject FL is a very good option, TN I'm not as sold on any more and I guess there are different takes on whether Mullen would have gone to TN if FL had not become realistic.

 

[Dawgzilla]

Yet again, some people's sources suck.

 

[TheStateUofMS]

There's a handful of offers who could have been bigger: Penn St, Ohio State, Michigan, USC, FSU, Texas A&M, LSU, Auburn, Alabama, UGA...probably a FEW more.

 

[maroonmania]

I'm hoping cooler heads prevail and our fan base realizes this. If you do not see the HC at UF as a promotion (status, money, opportunity, etc.) over MSU then you need help. We can be mad he left us but we shouldn't be mad at him personally for doing it.

I don't think anyone is denying that. I'm more pissed at Mullen for trying so hard to get out of Starkville for the past 3 years when the program really had a chance to go places over the next few years the way everything was lining up and I'm pissed at Florida for settling for a guy that hasn't won more than 8 games in a season but once in 9 years. But yes, once the formal offer was made there isn't much doubt he was taking it even though they supposedly hated living in Gainesville.

 

[PineGroveBully]

How many of those will realistically be open in the next 5-6? Not taking up for him in the slightest, just trying to get into his cockeyed head

 

[Cow College]

I'm hoping cooler heads prevail and our fan base realizes this. If you do not see the HC at UF as a promotion (status, money, opportunity, etc.) over MSU then you need help. We can be mad he left us but we shouldn't be mad at him personally for doing it.

Yes I can

 

[maroonmania]

How many of those will realistically be open in the next 5-6? Not taking up for him in the slightest, just trying to get into his cockeyed head

Big jobs come open every year with the world we currently live in. Average life cycle for any coach at any school is roughly 4 years. If we had pulled off a 10-2 type year next year Mullen may have had multiple options on where he could have gone. Obviously he took the bird in hand this year though to make sure he could leave our job.

 

[TheStateUofMS]

That's another point. There's about 10 or so jobs he would leave for and at most half of those will be open on any given year. He got an offer from one and didn't pass it up. Can't blame him. Blame Stricklin for being a sell out and Mullen lying. That's where fair criticism is warranted.

 

[grimedawg1]

Bird in the Hand

Elite jobs only come open so often. And, jobs in the power 5 only come open so often. There are only about 60 of them. I think that is why Dan pounced on the opportunity to coach at State. He took a Power 5 job when offered, and he is taking the first elite job that he has been offered.

 

[BulldogBlitz]

Tell us what happens to you when you walk in to work tomorrow and announce you are interviewing with all open positions elsewhere.

 

[BossDawg78]

He was ready for a change of scenery. I've heard coaches say that 10 years at one school is about the longest amount of time before it starts to get stale. I guess Dan felt he took MSU as far as he could and wanted a new challenge. Also, Matt Luke kicked his *** so he wanted to get away from that guy.

I think he was just scared of Ole Miss. That's the narrative we should start.

My buddy's buddy's uncle who worked with Dan said Dan was always bitching and crying about OM and how they nearly always kicked his ***.

 

[BulldogBlitz]

He saw the brutality they would sink to and decided to get it.