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If he leaves State for Tennessee then this board will be fun for a few weeks . These State fans don’t seem to indef stand that they are a shitty football program and that coaches will leave for better jobs like Collins and their former AD Stricklin did . So far they have been lucky that nobody has wanted Mullen.

First I'll address the nonsense, then I'll try to explain to a moron why we aren't concerned about him leaving.

- Collins hasn't been anywhere for more than 3 years in like 2 decades. You gave him a raise, of course he bolted.

- Stricklin left because he has aspirations to be more than an AD one day. He knew moving on was necessary to further his career path.

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As to the Mullen rumors, most of us just have enough sense to understand that coaches getting paid top 15 salaries have priced themselves out of other jobs. When is the last time a top 15 salaried coach was poached by another program? It didn't even happen with Urban, he literally had to quit coaching for a year to move on to another school. And, to my knowledge, an SEC coach hasn't been poached by another league team since Tubberville left OM in that pine box.

So, like I said on page 1, fish elsewhere. Mullen is great and he is worth 5 mil/year to us, and I wouldn't be surprised to see us go to 6. But the fact remains that he isn't worth 6 mil/year, plus the 15 mil left on his contract, plus whatever any other school is paying for their last coach.

TL/DR: The Price for Mullen is about 10 mil/year without considering what a school has to pay their previous coach. For that type of money I suggest they go put a check for 10-15 mil on Saban's desk.