SI Article on Mullen's return to Starkvegas

[CochiseCowbell]

https://www.si.com/college-football/2018/09/27/dan-mullen-mississippi-state-florida-return

The collective we, get a mention.

DS you may have shut down the donation drive a tad too early.*

ETA: Good read.

 

[L4Dawg]

https://www.si.com/college-football/2018/09/27/dan-mullen-mississippi-state-florida-return

The collective we, get a mention.

DS you may have shut down the donation drive a tad too early.*

ETA: Good read.

I ain't got nothing against Mullen, he is a football coach with no real ties here. He did what football coaches do. I won't cheer him or boo him Saturday. I am very greatful for what he did here. On the other hand I can't believe the bastard traitor that Florida has for an AD has the nerve to show his face in Starkville. Go home and stay there Loafers. Your home isn't in Mississippi anymore. You aren't welcome here.

 

[MSUDC11]

I will boo Mullen and Florida as they run out of the tunnel, but I do the same to every other visiting team. Mullen did a really good job here for nine years, but he is the opponent on Saturday.

I understand those who don’t want to boo, but dear gosh don’t cheer for Florida as they run out of the tunnel. That’s a slap in the face to our team. There will be a time to cheer Mullen, but it’s years from now when he is retired and we honor him as part of the 20 year anniversary of the 2014 team or something like that. Saturday is not the time to cheer him. If you don’t want to boo, just sit there silently.

 

[8dog]

Scott stricklin is the worst. Just the worst

 

[StillTbonewannabe]

That article reaffirmed that Dan is a douche. Fitz had a possible career ending injury and he never talked to him after leaving.

 

[RPOdawg]

Stricklin doesn’t bleed maroon and white. He wouldn’t have left if he did. Bottom line. Also, mullen will be boo’d because the only time he will run onto the field is when the gators take the field and of course everyone will boo. This boo/Cheer debate is the dumbest thing ever.

 

[Bruce Dakinson]

That article reaffirmed that Dan is a douche. Fitz had a possible career ending injury and he never talked to him after leaving.

Yeah? You expected him to? You the type that gets upset when someone leaves your workplace for another job and doesn't call you to ask about how your wife and kids are doing?

He's a college football coach. This isn't some Friday Night Lights hug special.

 

[StillTbonewannabe]

Yeah? You expected him to? You the type that gets upset when someone leaves your workplace for another job and doesn't call you to ask about how your wife and kids are doing?

He's a college football coach. This isn't some Friday Night Lights hug special.

I have stayed in touch with my old boss who has been fighting cancer. I don't think it is a stretch to just check up on your former player who might have just had a career ending injury. It stated Megan had stayed in touch but he hadn't heard from Dan.

 

[o_dawgnabit]

I have a lot more animosity towards Stricklin than Mullen. Stricklin sucks.

 

[DocHolliday.sixpack]

I bet you’re a **** ton of fun at parties.

Yeah? You expected him to? You the type that gets upset when someone leaves your workplace for another job and doesn't call you to ask about how your wife and kids are doing?

He's a college football coach. This isn't some Friday Night Lights hug special.

Smh

 

[L4Dawg]

I will boo Mullen and Florida as they run out of the tunnel, but I do the same to every other visiting team. Mullen did a really good job here for nine years, but he is the opponent on Saturday.

I understand those who don’t want to boo, but dear gosh don’t cheer for Florida as they run out of the tunnel. That’s a slap in the face to our team. There will be a time to cheer Mullen, but it’s years from now when he is retired and we honor him as part of the 20 year anniversary of the 2014 team or something like that. Saturday is not the time to cheer him. If you don’t want to boo, just sit there silently.

Nobody is going to cheer Florida but the Florida fans. That's asinine.

 

[dickiedawg]

Screw em both, I say.

 

[TBone.sixpack]

FacePalm

 

[HumpDawgy]

She doesn’t understand the animosity that awaits her husband in Starkville. “It’s such a shame. Listen, I’d be lying if I didn’t tell you for nine years that [another school] called every year,” she says. “I 100% believe that that’s the only call that would have taken him away from there. I hate that anybody could feel upset or mad. I think that was a dream job since he was a kid.” It’s never been made clear how many coaching jobs Dan Mullen was officially offered during his time in Starkville, but most here believe that he got the closest with Miami twice, when the Hurricanes hired Al Golden in 2011 and then Mark Richt in ’17.

I have never met Megan and am sure she is a fine lady, but just like the grocery store comments, she tells people what they want to hear instead of what is the truth. If she believes Dan wouldn't have left Starkvegas unless Scott called and offered him his "dream job", then she is being either naive or dishonest. Per Cohen, Dan told him he had taken this team as far as he could and would not be back. This was before the Florida offer. I believe for him to tell Cohen this, he thru Sexton must have already had a verbal offer from Tennessee that Jones would be fired and the job was his for the taking. Was Tennessee his dream job?

I believe Mullen would have left us for many job openings. Even in our conference he would have taken offers from all schools except probably Ole Miss, Vandy, and maybe Kentucky and Mizzou. If any other SEC school had offered, he would have jumped on it. So Dan has many "Dream Jobs".

 

[Center Z]

Holy **** Stricklin is a *****.

Quote from the article:

“Everywhere I look on campus, there’s a memory,” Stricklin says in an interview Monday. “I’m looking forward to saying hi to the people who want to say hi. It’s not a lot of fun going in there as an opponent. That place means a lot to me.”

Dude, F you. Never has a bigger amount of ******** been spoken by any human. If I was going to the game and I saw you, I would say hi, followed by a lot of cursing and screaming about how big of a failure you are.

 

[biguglyjoe]

She doesn’t understand the animosity that awaits her husband in Starkville. “It’s such a shame. Listen, I’d be lying if I didn’t tell you for nine years that [another school] called every year,” she says. “I 100% believe that that’s the only call that would have taken him away from there. I hate that anybody could feel upset or mad. I think that was a dream job since he was a kid.” It’s never been made clear how many coaching jobs Dan Mullen was officially offered during his time in Starkville, but most here believe that he got the closest with Miami twice, when the Hurricanes hired Al Golden in 2011 and then Mark Richt in ’17.

I have never met Megan and am sure she is a fine lady, but just like the grocery store comments, she tells people what they want to hear instead of what is the truth. If she believes Dan wouldn't have left Starkvegas unless Scott called and offered him his "dream job", then she is being either naive or dishonest. Per Cohen, Dan told him he had taken this team as far as he could and would not be back. This was before the Florida offer. I believe for him to tell Cohen this, he thru Sexton must have already had a verbal offer from Tennessee that Jones would be fired and the job was his for the taking. Was Tennessee his dream job?

I believe Mullen would have left us for many job openings. Even in our conference he would have taken offers from all schools except probably Ole Miss, Vandy, and maybe Kentucky and Mizzou. If any other SEC school had offered, he would have jumped on it. So Dan has many "Dream Jobs".

I agree with Mullen HE had taken this team as far as HE could, because it was apparent that asking him to focus on coaching the last few weeks of the season was too much to ask of him. I appreciate most of what he did, but he couldn’t have done it without the support of the people filling up the stadium each Saturday and making donations to help build facilities. He didn’t do it all by himself. He was paid handsomely to job shop during weeks that could have lifted our program to new heights, and I choose not to excuse that.

 

[StillTbonewannabe]

She doesn’t understand the animosity that awaits her husband in Starkville. “It’s such a shame. Listen, I’d be lying if I didn’t tell you for nine years that [another school] called every year,” she says. “I 100% believe that that’s the only call that would have taken him away from there. I hate that anybody could feel upset or mad. I think that was a dream job since he was a kid.” It’s never been made clear how many coaching jobs Dan Mullen was officially offered during his time in Starkville, but most here believe that he got the closest with Miami twice, when the Hurricanes hired Al Golden in 2011 and then Mark Richt in ’17.

I have never met Megan and am sure she is a fine lady, but just like the grocery store comments, she tells people what they want to hear instead of what is the truth. If she believes Dan wouldn't have left Starkvegas unless Scott called and offered him his "dream job", then she is being either naive or dishonest. Per Cohen, Dan told him he had taken this team as far as he could and would not be back. This was before the Florida offer. I believe for him to tell Cohen this, he thru Sexton must have already had a verbal offer from Tennessee that Jones would be fired and the job was his for the taking. Was Tennessee his dream job?

I believe Mullen would have left us for many job openings. Even in our conference he would have taken offers from all schools except probably Ole Miss, Vandy, and maybe Kentucky and Mizzou. If any other SEC school had offered, he would have jumped on it. So Dan has many "Dream Jobs".

It certainly seems like UT expected to hire him which led to UT scrambling after he took the UF offer. He did Maryland the same way except they got tired of waiting.

 

[$altyDawg]

It had become apparent after the 2014 season that he was going to use that season as his ticket out. I knew, and many others knew, that we had hit Mullen's ceiling. Florida will soon find out about Mullen's ceiling as well, and they're not going to put up with it nearly as long as we did. If Striklin gives him too long of a leash, they'll cut his punk loser *** too.

 

[HumpDawgy]

Quote from the article:

“Everywhere I look on campus, there’s a memory,” Stricklin says in an interview Monday. “I’m looking forward to saying hi to the people who want to say hi. It’s not a lot of fun going in there as an opponent. That place means a lot to me.”

Dude, F you. Never has a bigger amount of ******** been spoken by any human. If I was going to the game and I saw you, I would say hi, followed by a lot of cursing and screaming about how big of a failure you are.

This place meant so much to Stricklin that he had to leave it. 17 u!

 

[patdog]

Yeah. Among all the other ********, I'm especially calling ******** on this part.

I think that was a dream job since he was a kid.​

Because that's what every kid growing up in New Hampshire in the 1980s dream job was. Head coach at the University of Florida.

 

[HumpDawgy]

Looking back at the timeline, It appears Sep. 30th, 2017 might have been the pinpoint day where everything comes together. Tennessee loses to Georgia 41-0. We lose to Auburn 49-10. This was the downfall date of Butch Jones who got fired on November 11th. He lost all but 1 of his remaining games. As for Mullen, the gut shot, kick in the teeth loss to Auburn probably caused him to think he had done all he could do here, which is BS for any coach to think. Do you think Frank Beamer thought that during the lean years at Va. Tech? How bout Bill Snyder? Gary Patterson? You had your best team possibly ever coming back this year and you felt you couldn't take them any farther? What a sorry *** coach Mullen is if that was his thought process.

I believe Tennessee started contacting Sexton after the Sep 30th loss and let him know Mullen was the guy they wanted and Jones was a dead man walking. Mullen having this "bird in the hand" probably (per Rosie's comment) approached Cohen and let him know this would be his last year at State. Giving him the "I've taken them as far as I can" comment was a cop-out.

Of course I don't have inside info or knowledge, this is just my speculation.

 

[GloryDawg]

She doesn’t understand the animosity that awaits her husband in Starkville. “It’s such a shame. Listen, I’d be lying if I didn’t tell you for nine years that [another school] called every year,” she says. “I 100% believe that that’s the only call that would have taken him away from there. I hate that anybody could feel upset or mad. I think that was a dream job since he was a kid.” It’s never been made clear how many coaching jobs Dan Mullen was officially offered during his time in Starkville, but most here believe that he got the closest with Miami twice, when the Hurricanes hired Al Golden in 2011 and then Mark Richt in ’17.

I have never met Megan and am sure she is a fine lady, but just like the grocery store comments, she tells people what they want to hear instead of what is the truth. If she believes Dan wouldn't have left Starkvegas unless Scott called and offered him his "dream job", then she is being either naive or dishonest. Per Cohen, Dan told him he had taken this team as far as he could and would not be back. This was before the Florida offer. I believe for him to tell Cohen this, he thru Sexton must have already had a verbal offer from Tennessee that Jones would be fired and the job was his for the taking. Was Tennessee his dream job?

I believe Mullen would have left us for many job openings. Even in our conference he would have taken offers from all schools except probably Ole Miss, Vandy, and maybe Kentucky and Mizzou. If any other SEC school had offered, he would have jumped on it. So Dan has many "Dream Jobs".

Dan probably not a good interviewer. If there was anyone other then Stricklin at Florida he would be somewhere else and his wife would be saying that it was his dream job.

 

[HuskyBDawg]

Yeah. Among all the other ********, I'm especially calling ******** on this part.

Because that's what every kid growing up in New Hampshire in the 1980s dream job was. Head coach at the University of Florida.

Florida didn't win an SEC title until 1991.

 

[patdog]

Florida didn't win an SEC title until 1991.

Exactly. Florida back in the 80s was about what Mississippi State is in the 2010s. A pretty good program, but nothing special (except obviously to us).

 

[bully12]

https://www.si.com/college-football/2018/09/27/dan-mullen-mississippi-state-florida-return

[FONT=&quot]“Scott bleeds Maroon and White.”

[/FONT]I call total BS on this statement.

 

[HumpDawgy]

https://www.si.com/college-football/2018/09/27/dan-mullen-mississippi-state-florida-return

[FONT="]“Scott bleeds Maroon and White.”

[/FONT]I call total BS on this statement.

He bleeds maroon because we all 17n bleed maroon.....even rebBearSharkTards.

 

[Junction John]

Excuse me, SI, but "Hail State" has been around a lot longer than either of

those two shitheads. They didn't create Hail State, they didn't invent the cowbell, they didn't suddenly make us a great fanbase, and they damn sure weren't the first ones to have football success at poor ol' State - we had periods of winning before, you may remember as recently as 2000, when we skulldragged Spurrier and Rex Grossman up and down the field.

Get F'ing Bent.

 

[StillTbonewannabe]

Stricklin and Mullen didn't invent our fight song? UF did us a favor taking those douchebags.