re: Is UT really a better job than MS State?

Miss St fan: You guys are not getting our coach. You guys stink. Miss St is a better program than Tennessee.
Tenn fan: We dont want your coach.
Miss St fan: Yeah you do. Our coach is awesome and your program hasnt done crap in decades.
Tenn fan: We dont want your coach.
Miss St fan. Why not? He is awesome. Anyway, you guys are crap. You are not getting our coach.
Tenn fan: We dont want your coach.
Miss St fan: Yes you do!!!!!!!!!!

MSU and Tennessee are both developmental programs. UT just hasn't accepted it yet. They are never going to be a program that reloads and competes every year. They are now a program that will compete when they have veteran team and Jr or Sr QB.

2016 was their year to really compete, but the injuries and Botch's incompetence were too much to overcome.

MSU is the same level of program. They develop players and when Dak was a JR and Senior they competed.

Tennessee has a bigger budget and brand, but they are the same caliber of job.

Not right now Tenner is a dumpster fire

It's not really a tough call if you want to win championships. No disrespect intended to State, but the ceiling at UT is much higher than it is at State.

There are three programs in the East with a championship level ceiling: UF, UT, and UGA. In the West you have definitely three in UA, AU, and LSU, and likely a fourth in A&M. However. All 6 and likely 7 of these schools and fanbases have extremely high expectations, and the pressure to win championships is huge.

If Mullen wants to win championships, UT is a better gig. If he doesn't want the pressure that comes with being at that type of program, State is the better job. And who knows, it seems like Mullen is happy at State and loves Starkville. That's an intangible that's important to him that no other school may be able to overcome.

Yes Tenn is a much better job.


Miss st sucks. Never will and never have won shite in any sport. It's a shite hole town in a shite hole state. Ugliest uniforms and ugliest stadium in the SEC. It really is that bad from the outside looking in

UT has the breadth of history on its side.

Miss State has current history on its side.

Mullens is responsible for that history, so I would say UT would have a much higher ceiling for him.

I think some posters from Miss State brought up valid points about why Mullen would stay, but in essence, it boiled down to Mullen meaning more to Miss State than he would to TN. I am not so sure, I think TN is desperate to turn the situation around at this point.