I feel like Dan underachieved a lot because he was looking around. I feel like a coach that is more focused will indeed take us to the next level. If he has any kind of focus we beat Ole Miss twice at least at home.
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Do you understand hyperbole?
We are supporting the new coach and not worrying about the ex coach. My only two comments about those days (and days to come most likely):1) If we have a successful coach there will always be rumors (some factual and some not) about him leaving until the program reaches elite status. There probabaly will be then too. If we want to be successful we better get used to it. 2) Why start and spread those rumors ourselves?
I think you're right. My memory is fuzzy. Was just trying to remember several different articles from that time. I thought i remembered reading somewhere that Dan gave him a heads up that he felt he had done all he could do here, and that he'd be looking around, so that Cohen could begin with his feelers. Maybe that was a quote from Cohen to sugar coat it, and not make it look as bad on Mullen as it was. i don't know
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I'm not going to hit the link because it'll just piss me off more than I am right now. and I, like everybody else by now , knows it was going on. 34 schooled the hell out of many of us on this shit way back when including my self.
my football memories go back to '69 when I was 6 yrs old sitting in my small chair and desk listening to us beat tsun while Archie was on the sideline with a cast. For the 1st time in my life, we actually had a HC leave for another job instead of being fired. being ranked # 1 for 5 weeks, blowing out MI in the gator bowl, the most lobsided egg bowl win in our history. I think these things are more significant than the # of .500 SEC seasons we've had in the last 20 years.
In my opinion, a new day has arrived for MSU football. we now have a proven HC who seems to have way more character and integrity than Mullen. I'm excited to see what happens now that we have replaced the country club with a HC and staff that's got some work ethic and sincerity about their jobs. JO MO had a sweet gig he left to come down here. I'd be willing to bet he analyzed the hell out of the move prior to saying "I do" to Cohen. I think JO MO knows he's got a gig that he can succeed at . no way he leaves Penn State to come down here if he didn't have a good idea about what he could accomplish in StarkVegas.
A history of Dan Mullen:
2009 - 100% Dan - we are respectable, hard nosed, 5-7, 1 play away from an LSU upset and a bowl and a BS holding call against Houston that negated a touchdown from possibly even better.
2010 - 100% Dan - 9-4 - and a BS 1st spot by AU and a BS illegal forward pass call vs. Arky away from 10-2 regular season.
Late 2010 - Dan blows Miami interview because "he thinks he invented football"
2011 - Sulky Dan 50% - 7-6 - Stuck where he doesn't want to be, gets hosed again by Auburn, gives up season until realizing he has to beat OM to make a bowl. Kicks OM ass to make bowl.
2012 -Pissy Dan 85% - 8-5 - Dan realizes to get interviews this year, he needs to win. 7-0 "We believe". Starts looking, shits bed against Bama, LSU, A&M, OM. Losses job offers. Really gives no shits in Gator as Russell throws 2,000 INTS in a winnable game with Dak on the bench.
2013 - Sulky Dan 50% - 7-6 -Stuck again, Dan looks clueless in OSU opener trying get Russell killed running read option. Hosed again by BS against Auburn, Dan gives up but Dak wills us to enough wins to make a Bowl and 7-6.
2014 - Rockstar Dan 90% - 10-3 - Dan realizes he has all the tools he needs to make a run at a new job and "nobody knows what is about to take this field" - Team whips holy ass and becomes #1. Dan puckers up at Bama and becomes Sulky Dan for rest of season. Shits bed against Ole Miss and GT. Dan gets no job.
2015 - Check Down Dan 75% - 9-4 - Dan figures he can turn Dak into an NFL star. Does so, but cares about only that and getting a new job. A kick against LSU away from another 10 win season. Dan starts looking late, and a Bama loss, a lucky win vs Arky, and an OM shit show ensue.
Dan gets stuck in Stark again after Richt snakes Miami from him.
2016 - Bitch Dan 25% - 6-7 - Dan gives so few shits hires Sirmon and he can't decide on a QB. Locker room splits. Some fans think Fitz is prettyboy/gay/party boy with no heart and leadership, Staley is a clown, and Dam Williams is the future. Fitz shows everyone who's boss, wills us to 5 wins, and our GPA saves us for a bowl and win 6.
2017 - Judas Dan 85% - 9-4 - Dan realizes he has a power running game and another future NFL QB but actually needs a defense. Gives everyone wood by hiring Grantham and adding JUCO talent. Dan puckers up against UGA and AU, but they are damn good. Coaches best game against Bama and almost wins. Is determined to get out and almost loses to a terrible Arky team, then is dreaming of orange creamsicle and blue tick hounds while OM plays one of the dirtiest games in history. Dan wakes up sometime in the 4th quarter and starts calling plays again but by then it's too late. Scott Stricklin phones a friend after being laughed at by everyone else, and Dan ****s him for way too much money.
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good stuff Brunswick.
I noticed Dan's work ethic and his inability to care about the job he had in Starkville when we played Russel almost all season with the future face of the program sitting on the bench. It really came to a head for me when we were down 3-0 at halftime to UAB in 2011.
Just think, one day there will be a thread just like this one about Joe Moorhead.
Fair point, but really it has to be done within the first two years. Mullen was laser focused up through the 2010 season. Had he landed Cam Newton he probably would have won himself a new job at that point, most likely Florida.
Moorhead now has that opportunity again. He will be super focused at least in 2018 and 2019.