Lotta "Dan Mullen to Oregon" talk right now...

[Really Clark?]

Since this is about Oregon, P J Fleck will not get a formal interview with Oregon. They spoke but Oregon closed the door with him as a candidate.

[sandwolf]

It's not for our fans. It's for the potential recruits.

I feel like Mullen could manage the rumors a whole lot easier if our fans didn't freak out and add so much fuel to the fire. If it is just OM fans saying Mullen to Oregon, it is pretty easy to manage.......but you combine that with our own fans (including board moderators/owners) shouting from the roof tops that Mullen wants out - whether it's true or not - it becomes a lot harder to squash.

Just watch....in a week or so Oregon will have hired someone else and we will have multiple people with sources claiming that Mullen did everything he could to get the job but they didn't want him, turning the focus back towards the idea that Dan is disloyal and he is doing everything he can do to get out of Starkville. If OM fans were put in that situation, they would immediately fill their boards and their recruits' twitter feeds with bullshit claiming that Freeze turned down multiple offers from Oregon because he couldn't bear the thought of leaving their storied football program and the mecca that is Oxford.

There is no doubt that Mullen needs to do a better job of endearing himself to his fan base, but we need to improve too. I am in no way suggesting that we take the same delusional approach that the OM fans take, but it would help our cause if we didn't make "recruiting sensitive" topics like this a focal point of the board right before we are supposed to seal the deal with a bunch of JUCO's and HS EE's (including our highly touted QB commit that LSU has been rumored to be making a play for).

[msstate7]

Since this is about Oregon, P J Fleck will not get a formal interview with Oregon. They spoke but Oregon closed the door with him as a candidate.

Wonder why. Now that rhule is off the table, if Mullen does happen to leave, I'd like fleck

[Really Clark?]

Wonder why. Now that rhule is off the table, if Mullen does happen to leave, I'd like fleck

Concerns over actually handling a large school program is the rumor. Wolken tweeted that Oregon made a play for Rhule last night but he turned them down for Baylor. He states Taggert may be next in line. They also interviewed Schanio and no, Dan still hasn't been mentioned as a candidate or that he has made any type of contact.

[smootness]

I want Mullen to stay for sure. If he were to leave, Fleck would be an absolute grand slam.

[HSVDawg]

Concerns over actually handling a large school program is the rumor. Wolken tweeted that Oregon made a play for Rhule last night but he turned them down for Baylor. He states Taggert may be next in line. They also interviewed Schanio and no, Dan still hasn't been mentioned as a candidate or that he has made any type of contact.

If Oregon is now below Baylor in the pecking order, that would be really strange. Wonder if there are mumblings in coaching circles about the AD or school admimistration at Oregon being difficult to deal with. Oregon should be a Top 10 job and Baylor may not even be a Top 30 or 40 job.

[Really Clark?]

If Oregon is now below Baylor in the pecking order, that would be really strange. Wonder if there are mumblings in coaching circles about the AD or school admimistration at Oregon being difficult to deal with. Oregon should be a Top 10 job and Baylor may not even be a Top 30 or 40 job.

You know I would say the fit was wrong for Oregon and Rhule anyway and he was eyeing Penn St but Franklin secured his job in a big way. But Baylor and Rhule is not really a natural fit either. He brings a lot of what Baylor needs and wants right now as far as integrity, discipline in the program, etc. but curious that he just didn't go to Cincinnati or wait another year. He may do great and has a good plan but odd paring looking at it from the outside. Recruiting base is a lot better at Baylor and that may be something that really tipped the scale for him. But Oregon would have been also. And both would be shifting philosophy from what they have done recently.

[Liverpooldawg]

I feel like Mullen could manage the rumors a whole lot easier if our fans didn't freak out and add so much fuel to the fire. If it is just OM fans saying Mullen to Oregon, it is pretty easy to manage.......but you combine that with our own fans (including board moderators/owners) shouting from the roof tops that Mullen wants out - whether it's true or not - it becomes a lot harder to squash.

Just watch....in a week or so Oregon will have hired someone else and we will have multiple people with sources claiming that Mullen did everything he could to get the job but they didn't want him, turning the focus back towards the idea that Dan is disloyal and he is doing everything he can do to get out of Starkville. If OM fans were put in that situation, they would immediately fill their boards and their recruits' twitter feeds with bullshit claiming that Freeze turned down multiple offers from Oregon because he couldn't bear the thought of leaving their storied football program and the mecca that is Oxford.

There is no doubt that Mullen needs to do a better job of endearing himself to his fan base, but we need to improve too. I am in no way suggesting that we take the same delusional approach that the OM fans take, but it would help our cause if we didn't make "recruiting sensitive" topics like this a focal point of the board right before we are supposed to seal the deal with a bunch of JUCO's and HS EE's (including our highly touted QB commit that LSU has been rumored to be making a play for).

YES

[preachermatt83]

I want Mullen to stay for sure. If he were to leave, Fleck would be an absolute grand slam.

Yup.

[Todd4State]

I feel like Mullen could manage the rumors a whole lot easier if our fans didn't freak out and add so much fuel to the fire. If it is just OM fans saying Mullen to Oregon, it is pretty easy to manage.......but you combine that with our own fans (including board moderators/owners) shouting from the roof tops that Mullen wants out - whether it's true or not - it becomes a lot harder to squash.

Just watch....in a week or so Oregon will have hired someone else and we will have multiple people with sources claiming that Mullen did everything he could to get the job but they didn't want him, turning the focus back towards the idea that Dan is disloyal and he is doing everything he can do to get out of Starkville. If OM fans were put in that situation, they would immediately fill their boards and their recruits' twitter feeds with bullshit claiming that Freeze turned down multiple offers from Oregon because he couldn't bear the thought of leaving their storied football program and the mecca that is Oxford.

There is no doubt that Mullen needs to do a better job of endearing himself to his fan base, but we need to improve too. I am in no way suggesting that we take the same delusional approach that the OM fans take, but it would help our cause if we didn't make "recruiting sensitive" topics like this a focal point of the board right before we are supposed to seal the deal with a bunch of JUCO's and HS EE's (including our highly touted QB commit that LSU has been rumored to be making a play for).

No one is dreaming out in this thread because we think he's leaving. We're freaking out because it's not being managed.