Stricklin to Florida?

[Interpolation_Dawg_EX]

Great...another opportunity to hire/promote from within.****

[Pipedream]

If you think this is a good thing you're an effing moron and should go root for another team.

[HSVDawg]

The only big 3 hire he made was Rick Ray. Let that sink in.

He gets credit for the Howland hire on paper whether people want to admit it or not. He had to swallow his pride and shitcan Ray when he could have just as easily told the boosters to go F themselves. And if one bad hire makes a bad AD then guess what, there are no good AD's out there.

[HSVDawg]

Literally no chance of this happening.

[RougeDawg]

Strick knows he's going to be closely tied to Mullen, because he refused to be Dan's boss. He's allowed Dan to do the things he's done in the offseason, his coaches, and his refusal to adjust his style. Keenum finally stepped in this offseason and stopped the shenanigans. If Strick wants any positive outcome from his tenure at State he better get out before he and Dan are on the same train leaving Starkville.

[TrapGame]

So, Dan could be head coach and athletic director!***

[WinningIsRelentless]

He gets credit for the Howland hire on paper whether people want to admit it or not. He had to swallow his pride and shitcan Ray when he could have just as easily told the boosters to go F themselves. And if one bad hire makes a bad AD then guess what, there are no good AD's out there.

Bs he said no at first and Mark told him it was either him or ray.

[msstate7]

So, Dan could be head coach and athletic director!***

This would create the greatest entertainment this board has ever seen. This place would M-E-L-T!!!!

[TheRef]

Bs he said no at first and Mark told him it was either him or ray.

Do you have some magical source that you're getting all of this from, or are you just refusing to admit that you were wrong in this instance. Howland was hired under Stricklin's watch. So were a couple of others that y'all are leaving out, but I guess that's because you believe the process began before Stricklin got there. FFS, people.

[War Machine Dawg]

17ing crazy.

Of course if we had your way, Cohen would have been fired the year before winning the SEC and Mullen would have been fired the year before he took us to #1 for five weeks.

Uhhhhh, NO. I was a VERY vocal supporter of Mullen during that lunacy. I dare you to go back through the old threads and try to prove otherwise. I've only been critical of his overall performance since last year. And I still believe we'd be suicidal to fire him this season barring some sort of 2-10, 3-9 disaster. If we win 4 or more, he absolutely has to be given another year. He's earned that much job security.

[WinningIsRelentless]

Do you have some magical source that you're getting all of this from, or are you just refusing to admit that you were wrong in this instance. Howland was hired under Stricklin's watch. So were a couple of others that y'all are leaving out, but I guess that's because you believe the process began before Stricklin got there. FFS, people.

I do have sources very close sources. And yes he made a good hire with women's basketball but that is it.

[HSVDawg]

Bs he said no at first and Mark told him it was either him or ray.

I call BS on that entire statement. If Keenum fired Strick at that time in early 2015 (no matter the reason) our replacement hire would have been embarrassing. We were coming off a stretch of unheard of prosperity in the athletic department in football and baseball, and any potential replacement hire would tell Keenum to F himself immediately upon picking up the phone. If that did play out that way and Strick said alright fire me, there is no way Keenum would have gone through with it.

Either way, only 2 people would know the truth in that scenario and neither Keenum nor Strick would disclose that type of info publicly anyways. The bottom line is that the AD is pretty much just a fundraising figurehead position now at pretty much every school. The Ray hire was made by Stricklin, but that was going to be a bad hire no matter who he picked. Nobody wanted the job. And the boosters were not all behind any one candidate so Stricklin made the call in the end.

[mic]

Maybe UF is trying to kick start or upgrade its women's athletic programs...

[Really Clark?]

Bs he said no at first and Mark told him it was either him or ray.

He did say no at first but Mark absolutely did NOT threaten his job with either fire him or you are fired. There was intense discussions and he eventually came around. Especially once it was evident that Howland was more than just interested. Strick also didn't want to make the move until it was finalized with Howland. Boosters got involved as well. But Keenum did not make that ultimatum. He did insinuate that if he out right rejected the idea of firing Ray and kept him, then Strick was very possibly tying Ray's tenure to his own.

[msstate7]

DS on SPS saying Dan wolken has heard same rumor, so there may be something to this

[Liverpooldawg]

Hope this isn't true


FootballScoop Staff
‏@FootballScoop
Sources in the profession tell FootballScoop that Mississippi State AD Scott Stricklin is lead candidate at Florida http://FootballScoop.com/the-scoop

Look what the Confederates dragged in. They have to stir the pot somehow on us. They have YET to be right about anything on us.

[Really Clark?]

I do have sources very close sources. And yes he made a good hire with women's basketball but that is it.

I think volleyball is going to be a good hire. But it's still all minor sports that he has had greatest hiring impacts. But the fact is he has also overseen incredible growth in fundraising, facilities all around and the overall program is stronger now than it's ever been under his watch and one of the few schools who actually operate in the black. Many larger schools are losing a lot of money with triple or more budgets. That weighs a lot more than many give credit for.

[Liverpooldawg]

+1 My thoughts exactly!

That's just plain insane. Good lord our athletic department is in the best shape it has ever been in and it ain't even CLOSE.

[HSVDawg]

He did say no at first but Mark absolutely did NOT threaten his job with either fire him or you are fired. There was intense discussions and he eventually came around. Especially once it was evident that Howland was more than just interested. Strick also didn't want to make the move until it was finalized with Howland. Boosters got involved as well. But Keenum did not make that ultimatum. He did insinuate that if he out right rejected the idea of firing Ray and kept him, then Strick was very possibly tying Ray's tenure to his own.

Thanks for that insight. That makes way more sense and at least shows some open mindedness from Stricklin. Also a good move on his part to finalize things with Howland before making the move.

[Political Hack]

Lol. Trolling Mullen has gotten old so now they're trolling Strick?

If somehow possibly true, Go Gatas!!!