Willie Taggart to Oregon

[BB30]

What is funny is many of you that are pissed at him "looking around" wanted him gone half way through the season and most of yall said it would be best if he took another job instead of us firing him. Now yall are bitching about him supposedly looking at other jobs when that is what you wanted him to do in the first place...

The agenda is strong in this thread. It is a mute point now. Dan Mullen will be here next year and my guess would be he will be here for the foreseeable future. Will we have to endure the Mullen "rumors" every year until he leaves?

[Coldsleeve Jr.]

What is funny is many of you that are pissed at him "looking around" wanted him gone half way through the season and most of yall said it would be best if he took another job instead of us firing him. Now yall are bitching about him supposedly looking at other jobs when that is what you wanted him to do in the first place...

LOL so true.

[preachermatt83]

I'll remind everyone since you guys seem to forget so quick:

Mullen went 9-4 last season and for the 1st time in his tenure- DID NOT get the automatic extension back to 4 years. There's a reason for that. It was his job shopping. Now you guys can try and act like ESPN is full of shit and there is some big bear conspiracy- but his name keeps ending up there because his agent is working to get him some of these jobs

Losing to OM two years in a row had a lot to do with that too. The job shopping didn't help but it was both.

[BB30]

Losing to OM two years in a row had a lot to do with that too. The job shopping didn't help but it was both.

Agree completely, Sad thing is Ole Miss also beat Bama the same two years... Blatant cheating had a lot to do with the success they have had the previous two years.

[lamont]

Lol@agenda.

ESPN confirms what I've said and it's an agenda. ESPN just doesn't want Mullen to stay at State do they?

[Dawg61]

Yeah me too. I didn't say I could do it but to be great in this league certain things have to be done.

What's more likely to be true, Mullen works less than every other SEC West coach or Mullen has less "help" i.e. office workers, tools, money for recruiting needs, elite assistant coaches etc.. than every other SEC West coach? If we really want to improve Mullen's recruiting we have to make sure every detail involved is equal or better than our competition. The problem with Mullen's recruiting isn't Mullen it is Mississippi State University always being molasses to change with the times. We see this in every aspect of our University. We aren't trendsetters we are bitching followers that never want to spend money for anything. Here's a weird random example I just saw this last week. I went into the store Lids to buy a Dallas Cowboys hat and I see the college section of the store has all the big name SEC schools of course and it also had an entire rack for USM and another one for Old Misses. They didn't have one single MSU hat in the store yet they had an entire rack for Southern Mississippi. This applies to every ****ing thing that has to do with MSU. We have ****ing dinosaurs running our University.

[I seen it dawg]

But we've been told he didn't get an extension last year bc of his job shopping after 9 wins. Why get one this year after 5 wins if job shopping?

We have a new AD...

[I seen it dawg]

What's more likely to be true, Mullen works less than every other SEC West coach or Mullen has less "help" i.e. office workers, tools, money for recruiting needs, elite assistant coaches etc.. than every other SEC West coach? If we really want to improve Mullen's recruiting we have to make sure every detail involved is equal or better than our competition. The problem with Mullen's recruiting isn't Mullen it is Mississippi State University always being molasses to change with the times. We see this in every aspect of our University. We aren't trendsetters we are bitching followers that never want to spend money for anything. Here's a weird random example I just saw this last week. I went into the store Lids to buy a Dallas Cowboys hat and I see the college section of the store has all the big name SEC schools of course and it also had an entire rack for USM and another one for Old Misses. They didn't have one single MSU hat in the store yet they had an entire rack for Southern Mississippi. This applies to every ****ing thing that has to do with MSU. We have ****ing dinosaurs running our University.

Falls in ******* lap to change it

[HSVDawg]

You would leave if it's better than what you have. Means you are selective but you believe in listening to everything. Which our ****ing coach does every off season. Okay.

On paper, Oregon is better than what he has. A lot better, actually. And Mullen is 10x the candidate than the guy they ended up with and everybody knows it. That is the whole point. If he wanted to be the coach at Oregon, he would be the coach at Oregon. He wasn't "listening" (or whatever you want to call it) that hard to them if he isn't in Eugene right now standing on a podium. Just because somebody on the search committee talked to his agent on the phone doesn't make him a finalist, but thats all it really takes for him to be quoted as such in the article by a confidential source. You posted the article with follow up comments to try to prove that Mullen is doing what "he does every offseason", whether that is listening to pitches or wanting out or job searching or whatever your definition is. The reality is that the article actually proves the opposite to be true.

[bulldawg28]

Lol@agenda.

ESPN confirms what I've said and it's an agenda. ESPN just doesn't want Mullen to stay at State do they?

So ESPN is your Mullen source? It all makes sense now.

[Dawg61]

Falls in ******* lap to change it

He's supposed to develop a functioning Marketing program for the University and create media and law majors too? These are the three areas that we get slaughtered in every year. Marketing, media and law. We are SWAC level at best in these three areas. You can go to any Lids store in America and find an Auburn or Old Misses hat. You can't go to any single Lids store outside of 4 hours from Starkville and find one single MSU hat. That is a ****ing problem and it isn't Mullen's job to fix it. He needs help. Our University must help him yet we don't. Why?

[I seen it dawg]

On paper, Oregon is better than what he has. A lot better, actually. And Mullen is 10x the candidate than the guy they ended up with and everybody knows it. That is the whole point. If he wanted to be the coach at Oregon, he would be the coach at Oregon. He wasn't "listening" (or whatever you want to call it) that hard to them if he isn't in Eugene right now standing on a podium. Just because somebody on the search committee talked to his agent on the phone doesn't make him a finalist, but thats all it really takes for him to be quoted as such in the article by a confidential source. You posted the article with follow up comments to try to prove that Mullen is doing what "he does every offseason", whether that is listening to pitches or wanting out or job searching or whatever your definition is. The reality is that the article actually proves the opposite to be true.

The article doesn't prove shit either way. I posted what the article stated that was it. A bunch of people ran with it and discussion/argument ensued. I've clearly stated what my "agenda" is and made no secret about it.

On paper doesn't mean shit to a person actually having to decide on a job. All of what you typed is exactly what everyone else is doing. You're nothing special and your post is old.

[I seen it dawg]

He's supposed to develop a functioning Marketing program for the University and create media and law majors too? These are the three areas that we get slaughtered in every year. Marketing, media and law. We are SWAC level at best in these three areas. You can go to any Lids store in America and find an Auburn or Old Misses hat. You can't go to any single Lids store outside of 4 hours from Starkville and find one single MSU hat. That is a ****ing problem and it isn't Mullen's job to fix it. He needs help. Our University must help him yet we don't. Why?

Part of why he makes so much money is to demand change to make his job more successful. If he was making 3.4 then maybe that's a little different. Marketing and media could be a little stretch of that but the recruiting and everything about it is 100% in his control. And if it's not he's not doing enough to make it that way.

[Coldsleeve Jr.]

We have a new AD...

Lol. So strick wouldn't have extended him. You're just making shit up now that can't be merited.

[shrimp]

Mr. Taggart.
https://youtu.be/R6dm9rN6oTs

[BB30]

Lol@agenda.

ESPN confirms what I've said and it's an agenda. ESPN just doesn't want Mullen to stay at State do they?

If I remember correctly, you were one of the guys wanting him to have an opportunity to take another job at the end of the season?(in your opinion it was what was best for the program) So technically shouldn't you be glad he is/was "looking around". Again, your narcissism and arrogance is very similar to everything ole miss. I am hoping it is just to drive views and clicks and if that is the case then congrats and sorry for misinterpreting your personality/intentions. If not, then it is sad that you need to be the end all be all of sports message boards on the internet and feel the need to be justified on every prediction you make. And man, am I glad AJ brown didn't end up at Ole Miss. and That Danny Etling is going to be the first QB taken in the draft he had an unbelievable season and got better every game.***

[HSVDawg]

The article doesn't prove shit either way. I posted what the article stated that was it. A bunch of people ran with it and discussion/argument ensued. I've clearly stated what my "agenda" is and made no secret about it.

On paper doesn't mean shit to a person actually having to decide on a job. All of what you typed is exactly what everyone else is doing. You're nothing special and your post is old.

Dude, I have already proven the article wasn't all that you posted. Keep sticking by that though. You also say that you've made your agenda no secret that you want Mullen gone, yet you start another thread thanking Mullen for talking publicly about his extension. You really are all over the place. Congrats on drumming up board hits I suppose.

[parabrave]

For a second, I thought they had hired the head of MDOT but then I realized it was this guy.

Anybody got a dime!?

You want some Beans Mr Taggart.

[the59dawg]

Taggart at wku = 16-20 (1 bowl)
Taggart at USF = 24-25 (2 bowls)
Taggart overall (7 seasons) = 40-45 (3 bowls)

Mullen overall (8 seasons) = 60-42 (7 bowls)

Taggart did win 10 this year, but Mullen won 10 in the sec. Taggart has won 8 or more twice; Mullen has won 8 or more 4 times... in the sec west

Why this comparison? Fanning a fire that doesn't exist?

[Bothrops]

**** Espn.