Mullen timeline and reasons for our rapid decline

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Originally Posted by Cooterpoot

Nobody is saying he isn't responsible for the talent level. But he recruited kids that aren't here anymore and like I said, he was never known as a good recruiter. It's fine to be upset that our talent level is down. But people act like coaches don't look for better jobs. Especially when they know lean times are coming. It's common in coaching. He just screwed the pooch with how he handled it and the bad luck of Richt getting fired. Had he gotten out, we'd be on our Rick Ray coach right now and we'd be looking to upgrade in all likelihood. Who knows, maybe we have someone that gets us to 6 wins. But everyone is still going to be pissed when UM skull drags us, and they would regardless of the coach this year. This thing is going to play out this year and we'll end up with some mediocre coach from a small school who we fire in 3 years is my guess. Same cycle as usual.
So if we're going to lose, I'd just assume Mullen go down with ship.

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Two things, recruiting will always be the Achilles heel for Dan Mullen unless he gets to a school that recruits itself. You keep rolling the dice on 2 and 3 star players in the SEC when the competition is mostly getting 4 and 5 stars and it will eventually bite you. Secondly, we would have done a heck of a lot better than Rick Ray had Mullen left after last season given the 4+ million dollar salary we pay and being in the SEC. SEC football HC jobs are a LOT more prestigious than SEC basketball jobs. Plus, if Mullen had left last year it would have been better in that he left for another position of his own accord which is always a better situation than like we had in basketball where we fired a guy that had been successful overall and on the job for 14 years.

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Originally Posted by Eric Nies Grind Time

He doesn't have a monumental task ahead of him. Beat BYU, Samford, Kentucky and Arkansas and you go bowling. I don't think he will do it, but it's not like it's crazy.

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I'll be impressed if we win 2 more games. The Bears will hang 50+ on us in the Egg..

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Originally Posted by MadDawg

So you are saying we have a bunch of emotional girls as fans?

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Spot on. At least the loud and repetitively verbose internet fans.

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Originally Posted by blacklistedbully

I would agree with you were it not for aforementioned observations and signs..not the least of which include Dan's obvious over-the-top stubborn streak (How many times are we gonna run our scatbacks up the gut? How many times are we gonna run Prescott up the middle on a Bama D front 7 that stuffs it every time? How many times are we gonna run a headcase kicker out there for game-deciding kicks when he makes less than 50% of his kicks? How many times are we gonna put a young playmaker in for a play...watch him make a big play...then ride the bench the rest of the game while our little guy gets blown on and falls down? How many times are we gonna run off a DC before we figure out the common denominator? How many times are we gonna have to hear Dan's name brought up for other coaching jobs without him making strong statements he's staying (yes, he did that once, but not nearly enough)? How many years are we gonna watch Hevesy's lines look like shit, yet know he's not going anywhere as long as Mullen is in charge?).

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And my point is that it's easy to see 'signs' that you want to see and read too much into everything, both good and bad. I mean, we have a bunch of people on this board who honestly believe Mullen doesn't care about Mississippi State or the football program. Think about how insane that is.

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Originally Posted by smootness

And my point is that it's easy to see 'signs' that you want to see and read too much into everything, both good and bad. I mean, we have a bunch of people on this board who honestly believe Mullen doesn't care about Mississippi State or the football program. Think about how insane that is.

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Exactly. Also, We are to believe Keenum and whomever else is feed up with Dan because of all the things listed(on the field HC decisions) that resulted in us winning 20 games in 2 years.

Dan and company didn't recruit very well for a few years. That was obvious Saturday. But all this he doesn't care..is crazy.

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Originally Posted by Political Hack

If he turned it around and showed some fire, emotion, and give a damn he'd win back 99% of the fan base.

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This and if he would get rid of the 3 deadweights on the offensive coaching staff, which would show the fans that he is making at least an effort to right the ship.