Keenum has already reached out to Mullen. Mullen's recent trips to Old Waverly weren't just a coincidence. The new AD may have to just go along for the ride on this hire.
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FWIW ... my perception is any coach 2.0 never works out good.
So, essentially what he's saying is that Cohen and Leach will be here next year. Whatever Bert predicts is the exact opposite. Bizzarro Bert.
There's only been a couple I know of in the past and I remember thinking they would be good but then they fizzled. I can't even remember who they were it was so long ago.
Having said that ... Mullen has been a fan of Leach's in the past or I saw some positive quote he made about Leach way before Leach came to Starkville. Since he was playing golf with Leach (if my memory of what was posted is correct), if they combined the best of both offenses somehow, that might be worth it. Both have developed good players from much lower ranked players coming out of HS .. so both are good development coaches IMO.
ETA: I'm not talking about a coach going to another school like UNC. I'm talking about going back to the same school.
Firing Leach to hire Dan Mullen would be one of the dumbest things I've ever seen MSU football do.
Let's fire a guy who almost has as many top 25 wins and replace him with a guy who barely had more in twice as much time.
Dan should really help with recruiting too.**
Not to mention another complete 180 in philosophy.
If someone made me say right now who I think we could actually get and who I would be ok with as new AD and even a new football coach, I'd probably go....
Currie or Benko as AD
And a sneaky pick in Blake Anderson as HC
Is this IT?