re: Buy/Sell: Mullen will be fired in 3 years

Keep it man. A name means nothing and ppl know you around here.

The east got exponentially tougher with the hires of Mullen and Pruitt.

You guys were lucky to have Mullen as long as you did and your still butt hurt that he left for a better job .

Sell he will last more then 3 years unless the pressure at UF is to much for him .

Sell. New state coach being fired? Buy

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Sell. He will succeed just like he succeeded at MSU. The guy can coach

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But can't recruit. Sell. He's done in 4 due to buyout being guaranteed 12M regardless of length of contract left

Another day, another butt hurt MSU fan starting a Mullen post. Sad that you can't get over losing your GOAT coach but you have to move on.

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Mullen was great for our program. I'm grateful we had him for 9 years. However, 9 years is a long time for any coach. It gives you enough data to nitpick their flaws (Bama fans do so with Saban). And Mullen has flaws. But overall, he is a good coach and should always be fairly successful.

While I'm glad he was here, I'm not terribly sad he left. He's an a-hole. We always knew this, but we knew he was "our" a-hole, so we didn't care too much. Now that he's gone, he is just an a-hole. And he has proven this by the way he left, and the things he's said since he left. 99.9% of humans don't act that way. He's too sure of himself. If he doesn't overcome that, it could eventually be his downfall.

But, again, he's a good coach and should excel at Florida. I am grateful we had him. No one is perfect, and he was/is good enough in my book.

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Being an a-hole should be part of the UF job description:

Sell.

The guy won 69 games in 9 years at MSU. That's 7-8 games every year. AT frickING MSU in the SEC West, which from about 2009 until now has been the toughest goddamn division in CFB during one of the greatest dynasties in the modern era (Alabama). The SEC West (mostly Alabama, but Auburn too) won 6 national titles and lost 4 other title/play off games in that span. In other words, Dan Mullen was coaching at the historically worst school in the SEC west during a time in which the division had 9 straight years of legit national title contenders and 6 winners.

Now he gets to move to Florida, which has more talent and more fertile recruiting. He gets to coach in an easy division. His record against the SEC East at MSU was 15-6. He doesn't have to play Alabama and Auburn every year, who have been the only real national title contenders in the whole conference outside of LSU once and Georgia twice in the last 10 years.

So in other words, he has more talent, and an easier schedule.

I would bet he makes it more than 3 years.

This is the bottom line on Mullen:

He did a good job at State. He stabilized the program. He raised the floor. He didn't recruit well, but he developed the players he got and rallied the fan base early.

The problem is that he didn't really raise the ceiling. He got bowl eligible by playing 4 cupcakes and Kentucky every year. Outside Auburn 2014, he never really won any big games. He make questionable gameday decisions and tightened up in big games.

The reality, with benefit of hindsight, is that any coach with some competency can do what Mullen did at State. While pretty much everyone appreciates what he did, they don't appreciate how he left - lying to the team a week before begging for the UT and Florida jobs. They don't appreciate the lost focus while he searched for other jobs. They don't appreciate the way he stirred the pot and got out of town instead of seeing it through.

Pretty much everyone loves Moorhead because he has been better than Mullen in every way possible thus far. We will see if that translates to the field, but it is refreshing. State fans have earned the right to feel that way.