re: Coaching Search Thread

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Also Nutt never lost 8 games in a season.

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Or won fewer than 2 conference games. Sam’s best year had us at .500 in conference.

I was an original “Dark Sider” but can objectively say Nutt was considerable better than Pittman.

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Not to derail the productive conversation but, assuming it's not Gruden, he's definitely playing to the Grumors.

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I will say I’d love to see his Hog Call in the presser. Probably more so than anyone else on the list

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Nutt missed bowl games 2 times in his 10 years here. If you’re content with 6-6 and bowl games why are we having this discussion lol

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Mullen missed a bowl twice as a head coach, his first year at Miss State and last year at Florida after he said frick it.

Only had 2 sub 50% season in 13 years and 1 season at 6 wins… the rest were 7 or better.

You are the one arguing for a guy who lives at 6-7 wins.

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Mullen missed a bowl twice as a head coach, his first year at Miss State and last year at Florida after he said frick it.

Only had 2 sub 50% season in 13 years and 1 season at 6 wins… the rest were 7 or better.

You are the one arguing for a guy who lives at 6-7 wins.

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Well, well, well looks like someone else only has 2 sub .500 season in 15 years and the rest were 7+ or better.


2011 Toledo 1–0 0–0 W Military
2012 Toledo 9–4 6–2 T–2nd (West) L Famous Idaho Potato
2013 Toledo 7–5 5–3 T–3rd (West)
2014 Toledo 9–4 7–1 T–1st (West) W GoDaddy
2015 Toledo 9–2 6–2 T–1st (West) Boca Raton*

Toledo: 35–15 24–8 * Departed Toledo for Iowa State before bowl game

Iowa State Cyclones (Big 12 Conference) (2016–present)
2016 Iowa State 3–9 2–7 9th
2017 Iowa State 8–5 5–4 T–4th W Liberty
2018 Iowa State 8–5 6–3 T–3rd L Alamo
2019 Iowa State 7–6 5–4 T–3rd L Camping World
2020 Iowa State 9–3 8–1 1st W Fiesta
2021 Iowa State 7–6 5–4 4th L Cheez-It
2022 Iowa State 4–8 1–8 10th
2023 Iowa State 7–6 6–3 T–4th L Liberty
2024 Iowa State 11–3 7–2 T–1st W Pop-Tarts 15 15
2025 Iowa State 6–4 3–4
Iowa State: 70–55 48–40
Total: 105–70

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Well, well, well looks like someone else only has 2 sub .500 season in 15 years and the rest were 7+ or better.

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Well well well, playing in a shittier conference. My whole point is he plays in a worse conference and can’t win it, you keep saying the funding the blah blah blah.. we are in a tougher conference and our funding AD, will all be around the same level as he has there.

He wouldn’t win here either. It would be years of us begging for him to be fired and him having another break out season, then more trash seasons. Another Bert or Pittman.

But his team has always been a doormat even in that conference Baylor, tcu, Houston, byu, Utah, Texas tech, colorado, hell even ucf and Cincinnati are better places to coach than Iowa state. Kansas and Kansas state as well. There is not a harder job in the big 12 than Iowa state. It is one of the hardest in all of college football, right up there with Washington state, Oregon state, Vandy and northwestern.

I retract what I said about Kansas, it’s also super hard to win there. But I’d say those two are the same level in terms of difficulty to win at.

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Well well well, playing in a shittier conference. My whole point is he plays in a worse conference and can’t win it, you keep saying the funding the blah blah blah.. we are in a tougher conference and our funding AD, will all be around the same level as he has there.

He wouldn’t win here either. It would be years of us begging for him to be fired and him having another break out season, then more trash seasons. Another Bert or Pittman.

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Mullens is an underwhelming retread that has shown his inability to sustain a high level at one of the premier teams in the SEC at the time. Up and down record at MSU then a high point at Florida only to trend downward.

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He wouldn’t win here either. It would be years of us begging for him to be fired and him having another break out season, then more trash seasons. Another Bert or Pittman.

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The same could and would be said about Mullens if he got the job at Arkansas.

2009 Mississippi State 5–7 3–5 T–4th (Western)
2010 Mississippi State 9–4 4–4 5th (Western) W Gator 17 15
2011 Mississippi State 7–6 2–6 5th (Western) W Music City
2012 Mississippi State 8–5 4–4 4th (Western) L Gator
2013 Mississippi State 7–6 3–5 T–5th (Western) W Liberty
2014 Mississippi State 10–3 6–2 2nd (Western) L Orange† 12 11
2015 Mississippi State 9–4 4–4 T–5th (Western) W Belk
2016 Mississippi State 6–7 3–5 T–5th (Western) W St. Petersburg
2017 Mississippi State 8–4 4–4 T–4th (Western) TaxSlayer[a] 23 24
Mississippi State: 69–46 33–39
Florida Gators (Southeastern Conference) (2018–2021)
2018 Florida 10–3 5–3 T–2nd (Eastern) W Peach† 6 7
2019 Florida 11–2 6–2 2nd (Eastern) W Orange† 7 6
2020 Florida 8–4 8–3 1st (Eastern) L Cotton† 12 13
2021 Florida 5–6[b] 2–6 6th (Eastern) [b]
Florida: 34–15 21–14
UNLV Rebels (Mountain West Conference) (2025–present)
2025 UNLV 8–2 4–2
UNLV: 8–2 4–2
Total: 111–63

So after all this Bobby Bones is THE guy that has the inside scoop and it's someone that hasn't been mentioned on any of the boards...







How Arkansas is that?!?!?!?!

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HY has fumbled a lot but the coaching search stuff he has down as far as letting things out. Hell people still believe that we were about to hire Jans or Walker when he already had Cal agreed in principle.

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I dislike Hunter in every form, but I have to admit, he keeps a tight circle.

I hate how he has put us 4 years behind in the NIL. I hate how he has put us 4 years behind in the GM. I dislike how he extended Pittman, after Pittman said I’m never gonna leave. Then he didn’t fire him last year when he should, putting us behind the 8 ball in a coaching search that could determine our relegation from a super league in 2030.