re: With all this talk about Dan Mullen being a candidate for new job

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If he has a few 7 win seasons in a row with losses to Ole Miss, things will get shaky

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You're probably right in regards to the MSU gen-pop.

Smallfanbases like State and Ole Miss are very heavily influenced by a handful of powerful boosters. The fact that Mullen's name gets tossed around for almost every opening, every year was starting to grate on the wrong MSU people. But a strange thing has happened in the last couple of years. The fact that Mullen is still around has grown a root system of loyalty toward Dan. It's a weird phenomena, with traces of Stockholm Syndrome and regular old normalcy bias mixed in.

tl;dr

cliffs: Dan has support from the right folks at MSU