Stricklin from MSU is UFs new AD.

Mullen to UF if Mac screws the pooch??

Took them to their highest ranking ever
Coached
Tebow
Dak

Called the plays when we were kicking arse. He left and the wheels fell off

Dan Mullen is not an upgrade.

Stricklin is from my hometown apparently. We know some of the same folks, and he is, from what I hear, a great guy. He's also done a helluvalot more on a consistent basis for Moo U than Dan Mullen.

Is it that homecoming loss in 2010 or Tebow that still has some people interested in Mullen? He's had one 10-win and two 9-win seasons, the second of which came the year after that one 10-win season. He also had Dak Prescott for those two years. He's only had the team finish a season ranked twice. Hell, even Jackie Sherrill had three top 25 finishes in a seven year stretch, so it's not like he was doing the impossible. Plus, Jackie somehow backed them into an SECCG, which Mullen has yet to do. Mullen had one magical season, which included getting his #4 face kicked in by a #18 Ole Miss and then subsequently losing to Georgia Tech in the Orange Bowl. And that was his banner year. His clock management skills are only slightly better than Les Miles'.

I'll never understand the infatuation with that guy. He's a marginally better than average HC who can't recruit worth a damn and is pretty much universally acknowledged to be a complete a-hole.

I'm from Mississippi. I've watched the ups and downs of Ole Miss and MSU for 37 years now. Ole Miss was a complete shite show during Mullen's first two years here, and Freeze was still righting the ship when he got that third win in a row. So about half the time he's been here (7 seasons before this year's game), Ole Miss was crap. Auburn's been streaky as hell, going from NCs to 3 win seasons in the same time frame. Even A&M (who they've only had three conference games with) and Arky have been all over the place. LSU up until 2012 or so and Alabama have been the only world beaters he's had to worry about. The stars aligned in 2014, but if memory serves, they only beat one team that finished the season ranked (#18 Auburn) that year. Even as crappy as the East has been, it would be pretty rare to for Florida to have a 10 win season and have only beaten one ranked team at the end of it. We somehow beat two (Tenn and Ole Miss) last year ourselves.

Nothing Mullen has done in Starkville makes me think his ceiling is any better than Richt at UGA, and I'm not sure he's even that good. And if you consistently watch MSU, his clock management at the end of games is horrifying. His best case scenario is maybe winning a NC if everything fell his way and he just didn't frick it up too much, a lot like Les Miles in 2007, and I wouldn't hold my breath to see that.