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Originally Posted by Leeshouldveflanked

UNLV won 11 games the season before Mullen was coach

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Regular season?

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Originally Posted by Todd4State

Boise State is ahead of them in the 247 rankings. And he finished 10-4.

New Mexico's coach is better than him and Hawaii will catch up to him very quickly.

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Boise is not in his conference anymore. PAC 12 now.

https://247sports.com/season/2026-football/compositeteamrankings/?Conference=MWC

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Originally Posted by confucius say

Regular season?

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When he was here, they wouldn't give him credit for bowl wins, and now they hold bowl losses against him

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Originally Posted by confucius say

Need to let the roster sort out, but 9-3 is likely their ceiling.
And their front office is at lsu now along with one of the best offensive minds in CFB.

They will still be relevant, but not the consistent 9-3/10-2/11-1 that Lane did.

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They went 9-3 in 2024. Let's not act like 11-1 was the norm for Lame

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Originally Posted by msstate7

When he was here, they wouldn't give him credit for bowl wins, and now they hold bowl losses against him

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Whatever aids the argument haha

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Originally Posted by Coach34

They went 9-3 in 2024. Let's not act like 11-1 was the norm for Lame

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I literally said "consistent 9-3/10-2/11-1 that Lane did." I never said 11-1 was the norm.
The last three seasons he went 9-3/10-2/11-1.

He had three 10-win or better REGULAR SEASONS the last five years.
He's a top 10 coach in America. Prob top 5.
Golding won't sniff that.

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Originally Posted by confucius say

Boise is not in his conference anymore. PAC 12 now.

https://247sports.com/season/2026-fo...Conference=MWC

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Oh yeah. Forgot that conference was still a thing.

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Originally Posted by confucius say

Regular season?

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Barry Odom went 10-3 during the regular season at UNLV and won his last game which was a bowl game over Cal.

Dan went 10-2 during the regular season and then lost the championship game to Boise and then lost to an Ohio team that didn't have a head coach this year.

Any way you slice it Dan's season this year was less impressive than Odom's last year.

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Originally Posted by Todd4State

Barry Odom went 10-3 during the regular season at UNLV and won his last game which was a bowl game over Cal.

Dan went 10-2 during the regular season and then lost the championship game to Boise and then lost to an Ohio team that didn't have a head coach this year.

Any way you slice it Dan's season this year was less impressive than Odom's last year.

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Well to be fair that was Odom's second year. He went 9-5 his first. Fwiw I think Dan wins more than two games at Purdue this year.

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Originally Posted by Matt3467

Well to be fair that was Odom's second year. He went 9-5 his first. Fwiw I think Dan wins more than two games at Purdue this year.

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Since we're being fair here Odom took over a 5-7 UNLV team. Dan took over an 11-3 UNLV team.

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Originally Posted by Todd4State

Barry Odom went 10-3 during the regular season at UNLV and won his last game which was a bowl game over Cal.

Dan went 10-2 during the regular season and then lost the championship game to Boise and then lost to an Ohio team that didn't have a head coach this year.

Any way you slice it Dan's season this year was less impressive than Odom's last year.

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They both went 10-2 during the regular season, right?

But I never said dans year 1 was better than Barry's year 2. I wasn't even comparing the two.
My only point was that the only evidence we have so far suggests dan will be fine in this era.

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Originally Posted by confucius say

They both went 10-2 during the regular season, right?

But I never said dans year 1 was better than Barry's year 2. I wasn't even comparing the two.
My only point was that the only evidence we have so far suggests dan will be fine in this era.

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If you look at Dan Mullen historically- MSU and Florida- his first two seasons are good and then he starts to become....Dan Mullen.

Typically, what he does is take over programs that are on the cusp- MSU and Florida and lives off of the previous coach's players and then he tends to lose focus.

To me, having watched him at UNLV this year he seems to following some similar patterns. Losing his QB to the portal today isn't a good sign. Imagine if that was Kamario.

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Originally Posted by Todd4State

If you look at Dan Mullen historically- MSU and Florida- his first two seasons are good and then he starts to become....Dan Mullen.

Typically, what he does is take over programs that are on the cusp- MSU and Florida and lives off of the previous coach's players and then he tends to lose focus.

To me, having watched him at UNLV this year he seems to following some similar patterns. Losing his QB to the portal today isn't a good sign. Imagine if that was Kamario.

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It's fair that what Barry did at UNLV is more impressive considering their record before he got there but I don't believe Barry is the better HC. Also saying that State was on the cusp before he got here is really stretching. Florida also had their worst year in nearly 40 years before Mullen turned it around. I bet they wish they didn't fire him now.

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Originally Posted by Todd4State

If you look at Dan Mullen historically- MSU and Florida- his first two seasons are good and then he starts to become....Dan Mullen.

Typically, what he does is take over programs that are on the cusp- MSU and Florida and lives off of the previous coach's players and then he tends to lose focus.

To me, having watched him at UNLV this year he seems to following some similar patterns. Losing his QB to the portal today isn't a good sign. Imagine if that was Kamario.

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On the cusp of what? He took over a State program that was coming off 7 losing seasons in 8 years, 6 of which were 2 or 3 win seasons. We were horrible when he took over.

And after his first two years, we went
6-6
8-4
6-6
10-2
8-4
5-7
8-4
That's very good for us historically.

Anybody that thinks Lane wasn't the reason they were so good don't know ball. OM fans are all in this world right now. They are going to lose their minds the first time they lose a game next season that they don't see themselves losing. Yall better have some popcorn ready because they are gonna melt like butter on a red hot skillet.

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Originally Posted by confucius say

On the cusp of what? He took over a State program that was coming off 7 losing seasons in 8 years, 6 of which were 2 or 3 win seasons. We were horrible when he took over.

And after his first two years, we went
6-6
8-4
6-6
10-2
8-4
5-7
8-4
That's very good for us historically.

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Originally Posted by Matt3467

It's fair that what Barry did at UNLV is more impressive considering their record before he got there but I don't believe Barry is the better HC. Also saying that State was on the cusp before he got here is really stretching. Florida also had their worst year in nearly 40 years before Mullen turned it around. I bet they wish they didn't fire him now.

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We absolutely were on the cusp of being very good. Dan inherited a team with a future NFL running back, a future first round pick offensive tackle, and defense with some guys like KJ Wright and Jonathan Banks who played in the NFL. On top of that we had just been to the Liberty Bowl just two years before he took over and won 8 games.

And Florida fans hates Dan Mullen. So no- they don't want him back.

I don't or didn't hate DM. I don't blame him for taling the florida job. No i wasnt happy reading all the times he was trying to get another job while in StarkVegas.
I think with all thr openings this past season and him not getting much to little attention may have hurt his ego, or maybe not. I would bet if out job was open and he was offered he would take it. But i do think he will do ok at the real Vegas.

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Originally Posted by Todd4State

We absolutely were on the cusp of being very good. Dan inherited a team with a future NFL running back, a future first round pick offensive tackle, and defense with some guys like KJ Wright and Jonathan Banks who played in the NFL. On top of that we had just been to the Liberty Bowl just two years before he took over and won 8 games.

And Florida fans hates Dan Mullen. So no- they don't want him back.

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Very good? So you're saying if we gave Croom another year we'd have been very good in 2009?
We had, at best, average sec talent. That's being generous. And a lot of that was true freshman.
And our QB room, the most important position in football, was a FCS room. Maybe D2.

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Originally Posted by confucius say

Very good? So you're saying if we gave Croom another year we'd have been very good in 2009?
We had, at best, average sec talent. That's being generous. And a lot of that was true freshman.
And our QB room, the most important position in football, was a FCS room. Maybe D2.

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Nope. Dan is better than Croom. I think Croom wins maybe 6 in 2010. An average coach gets us what Dan got us in 2010. But most of those players were brought in by Croom.

Same thing with Florida. Prior to McElwain's last season they won the East. Then Scott Stricklin decided they needed Chip Kelly and things went sideways very quickly.