Mullen to NFL?

[Swamp Donkey]

No NFL team will ever hire an option coach.

 

[FireFoley]

I don;t see it. I read the other day an article discussing the top 25 names as potential NFL head coaches who are currently not head coaches in the NFL. The list consisted of asst. coaches in the NFL and head coaches in college. His name was not on the list.

 

[TheDouglas78]

It’s almost treated like hitting the opposite gender.

NFL only worries about that if there is a video or police report.

 

[olegator]

Two things: He is having way too much fun to consider the NFL and his wife gets a vote......they love G'ville.

 

[GR8 2B]

. . . rules against hitting the quarterback [are] at an all-time high.

Might that not encourage the use of running qbs?

 

[Renard904]

No NFL team will ever hire an option coach.

I don't recall many option plays. In fact, most games the fans were saying that he should run more. And that was in stark contrast of what was said of him at the time of his hiring. I think he truly does adapt to his personnel. Every coach has a preferred style. Good coaches adapt to what hand their dealt. Only in a perfect storm of events(think Tebow years), does a coach get every "toy on their wishlist." You're usually operating in sub-optimal conditions. It's why sorry coaches say it'll be different when they get their type of players. Their hoping for the perfect storm.

 

[AuggieDosta]

Two things: He is having way too much fun to consider the NFL and his wife gets a vote......they love G'ville.

Meh, about that...
[Saturdaydownsouth article about two years ago]
As the Gators look for a new head coach, Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen, who served on Urban Meyer’s staff at Florida last decade, has been generating a lot of buzz.

However, according to his wife, Megan Mullen, the family isn’t too eager to leave Starkville, especially to return to Gainesville.

At about the 9:30 mark of the below audio, shared by @SixPackSpeak on Twitter, Mullen explains just how unrealistic she felt Florida fans’ expectations were during her family’s time there:

“There is nothing like being a Mississippi State Bulldog,” she said. “The support of fans here is so unlike anything anywhere else. It’s unbelievable. I’ve never experienced a really bad situation. The former school we were at, won two national championships there, won practically every game we played for four years there.

“It wasn’t if you won or lost. If we didn’t score 43 points or more, I was going to the grocery store in Orlando where I worked with the Golf Channel and I was driving the groceries back to Gainesville because it was that bad.”

 

[RiverRat]

Mullen just looks like he's having too much fun at Fl to leave now. And of course the 6 mill doesn't hurt.

 

[oxrageous]

Two things: He is having way too much fun to consider the NFL and his wife gets a vote......they love G'ville.

I guess you never heard his wife's video about how much she hated Gainesville.

 

[Buckman2000]

Maybe his agent is throwing that out there to try and get Coach a raise. We’ve given coaches extensions for far far less..so......

 

[Swamp Donkey]

Might that not encourage the use of running qbs?

No, because they all go away if the QB scrambles (and doesn't slide).

 

[Swamp Donkey]

I don't recall many option plays.

I'm astonished at the azzhattery around here sometimes.

 

[Tay Bang]

Meh, about that...
[Saturdaydownsouth article about two years ago]
As the Gators look for a new head coach, Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen, who served on Urban Meyer’s staff at Florida last decade, has been generating a lot of buzz.

However, according to his wife, Megan Mullen, the family isn’t too eager to leave Starkville, especially to return to Gainesville.

At about the 9:30 mark of the below audio, shared by @SixPackSpeak on Twitter, Mullen explains just how unrealistic she felt Florida fans’ expectations were during her family’s time there:

“There is nothing like being a Mississippi State Bulldog,” she said. “The support of fans here is so unlike anything anywhere else. It’s unbelievable. I’ve never experienced a really bad situation. The former school we were at, won two national championships there, won practically every game we played for four years there.

“It wasn’t if you won or lost. If we didn’t score 43 points or more, I was going to the grocery store in Orlando where I worked with the Golf Channel and I was driving the groceries back to Gainesville because it was that bad.”

I agree with every word she said.

 

[AuggieDosta]

I guess you never heard his wife's video about how much she hated Gainesville.

Nice 49th post. Did you read #47?

 

[AuggieDosta]

I agree with every word she said.

Me too.

 

[Tay Bang]

Nice 49th post. Did you read #47?

 

[GatorStud]

 

[GatorShea]

I have to believe that those floating Mullen to the NFL have their hopes up to see the Gators return to mediocrity. I think it is more that than Mullen actually pondering the idea. I bet Danny Kanell is the one that stirred this pot.