WOW, no ego involved

[Jarius]

The money wouldn't matter to me. If someone called me in and said I hadn't performed up to expectation, and they had no confidence that I could perform up to expectation in the future, and was therefore fired, it would bother me a lot. Because I've always prided myself on getting it done. I've never worked a day, or an hour, or a minute, in my life with the IDGAF attitude. It's not other people's opinions that matter to me. Rather it is my work ethic and ability that I take pride in. I work every day to make the bosses say "that's the most valuable person we have and I wish everyone else was like him." That's the only way I know how to do it.

So are you at the very top of your field like Mullen was his? Mullen could have played it safe and stayed at a job at a local high school for his entire career and went 40 years coaching high schoolers without getting fired. He didn’t though. He made it to one of the top ten programs in the country which is a bigger accomplishment than 99.99999 % of the people on this board. “Getting the job done” in the SEC where it is an absolute shark tank and you get fired for winning less than 10 games at certain programs isn’t embarrassing. There are a whole bunch of excellent coaches that have gotten fired for unreasonable expectations at certain schools. People having ridiculous expectations is what got a lot of them fired, not their actual job performance. You didn’t say this specifically but if you are implying that Dan Mullen had a work ethic issue, you are wrong.