The way the game is played now is agents negotiate a number before you interview. The only job he has interviewed for is Miami and then Richt became available and they went with him.
The way the game is played now is agents negotiate a number before you interview. The only job he has interviewed for is Miami and then Richt became available and they went with him.
I think I posted this yesterday but the extent of the Maryland deal, as told to me, was a number thrown at the agent when THEY approached the agent about interest. No interview, no search on Mullen's part, just Maryland making contact to guage interest and the agent doing his job. Miami was a legit interview and all indications I got were he would have left if offered.
It's not what. It's how.
You don't think other coaches look to move on? How come we have to deal with this every offseason and there is never any statement issued about his commitment to the university? It's horse shit.
its real simple our ad does it to us. You come out and give a extension if that is what you are going to do in November or first of December. Don't do it in March.
I agree with some of this. But BEFORE any of this and during the run the last two years he has also had road blocks and misinformation to negatively impact some of this and how he did his job. A good part of the reason why is because he didn't bow to some boosters feet and to be honest some of the ones playing around in the background, I wouldn't have either. They have no business negatively impacting our program and what he was building. And to be honest for no good reason. Some of this started prior to the 2013 season. Why? Because we were finally going in a sustained positive direction but they were not pulling the strings? Or was it because some lost their collective minds with the UNM 2013 recruiting class and believed we needed our own Freeze to play dirty with them. Lot of questions and make no mistake Mullen didn't react well and it has hurt the program. But if anybody thinks all of this is just him and all these talking points that keep being pounded on over and over is not rooted in a misinformation campaign as well, then you are wrong. Like I said there is blame to go around and with Mullen as well, he could have handled things differently outside the playing field and a some of this wouldn't be brought up today. But some of the power players carry as much of the blame because of their actions. They need to step up and make things right as well.
That date is wrong inter but I'm not going to post the real date. That's the big wtf and screw up Mullen made.
Agree with this post
What is the "Mullen Camp" and who are "others"?
A lot of them probably wouldn't give the same if we had beaten SoAl last week
It's not a big deal. I believe it is part of having success and that our rival and those that don't like him have made it out to be a bigger deal than it is. Also, there are many fans that love our program so much that they lose objectivity and cannot fathom that someone else, especially a 4 million $$ head coach, doesn't see this university as the pinnacle of the sports world. It's just a job to be a coach. We all want to move up in our jobs. I think Dan is actually the rare coach that sees it as more than a job and actually understands that he is coaching in the premier conference and division in his chosen profession, and that if he can make it here he has reached the highest peak that can be reached (win the west = win the sec = competing for NC).
In today's coaching world you are 90% of the way into the process of taking a new job by the time you "officially" interview. Most everything is done through agents to lay all of the groundwork specifically so it does NOT become public and become an issue at your current job.
The main thing that tells me Mullen was actively looking last year, besides the rumor mill, is the fact that we had such huge staff turnover. When the head guy is looking the assistants are looking. Heck, we don't have one defensive coach left from last year's staff.
Because it was rumored that he wore shorts to the interviews.......