How long will Mullen be here?

[boatsnhoes]

Quay Evans, Channing Ward, to start with justa shot at Kwon Alexander. Is that asking for too much? I would take the 60% mark today that you suggestthough. BOO will buy them before we get too far ahead.

 

[RebelBruiser]

It's a sheepish post I know. If he were able to get nearly all the 4 or 5 star talent in state (assuming Lemmings, superprep, rivals ability to apply star value is correct) for a few straight years...he would whip any SEC teams a** with it. If you can do that then you can beat any team in the nation....best teams come for the SEC....see last 5 National champs. With that talent level pushed up I would gladly put him upagainst anything LSU, Florida, Georgia, Bama has.He wouldskull17 everyone with equal talent....right now he is outcoaching/outpreparing most folks with what he has.

I can remember as a small tyke being an MSU fan hoping Georgia, Florida, Tenn, Bama didn't blow us off the field or make the school look stupid. Nowadays I feel a little different.

This, to me, is the most sheepish part of your post.

Mullen, while a good coach, is still coaching in a division with Petrino, Saban, and a guy that I don't think is a very good coach but somehow wins 10 games per year (Miles). Plus, that Malzahn character at Auburn isn't too bad at what he does, at least until he gets hired away and Chizik has to go it alone.

The SEC will always have some down hires at head coaching positions, but it's always going to have 3 or 4 of the most elite coaches in the country. We'll see on guys like Muschamp and Dooley, but at least with Florida they will always be able to correct bad hires much quicker and easier than most programs.

That's not even really getting into the staffs on most teams, where a lot of these programs have the resources to get the best available DCs and OCs in the business. See the Chizik example above.

Point being, even with close to equal talent, it's going to always be a challenge to be able to out-coach a lot of coaching staffs in the SEC. Some of them, sure, but you're doing good just to give yourself close to a level playing field.

 

[gravedigger]

that it will be to a school that he doesnt have to talk into building the nicest facilites, NOR to a school that doesnt treat football first.

It will be an Oklahoma, Penn State, Texas, Ohio State, Nebraska. These schools have nearly cornered the market in their areas for facilites and they get to keep the pick of the litter for nearly all athletes.

UCLA will always be a basketball school as USC will always be football.

I think he's proving with us that he can out coach many who have bigger pocketbooks and he can rally a fanbase and combine the two and be nationally recognized. For a fanbase like NEbraska, Oklahoma, Penn State who long for the good ole days, he'd be the shot in the arm and he'd have ZERO work to do to convince kids that those schools have the very best in facilities.

NOW, if he wins the big one here, or even competes for it one year, he may just prefer to live in the house he built since he'll get 100 percent credit for it's success whereas the predecessors would get the credit at the other places.

 

[fishwater99]

I think he is here for 4-5 more years. I really thinks he wants to see what kind of program he can build in S-Vegas. If we can't get to an SEC Championship game at STATE then he might look to go elsewhere. Money is not going to be an issue thanks to Mr. Seal.......