I hope he stays at Vandy just to keep them ahead of the Viles when it comes to football & right now his football program at Vandy is in better shape than the Viles & I find that fact hilarious..
I love CJF and what he has done at Vandy has been great. However, do you risk hanging around and go 4-8, 3-9, 4-8 in the next 3 yrs which is possilble and really understandable. Your value decreases considerably if this possible scenario presents itself.
Agreed. He screwed up in the interview with Florida. He could have had the job had he not been such an arrogant butt about it. That cost him.
He never had that option, namely because he never won enough to escape Starkville.
I thought after he blew out Michigan in the bowl after his second season, he was thought a pretty hot up and coming coach and had some opportunities. Was that just media speculation and he didn't get any "real" offers?
Actually, his mistake was taking the MS job in the first place. It will always be in the shadows of Tide, some of that because they are what, only 60 or so miles from Tuscaloosa. Sure, they may threaten to win the West every 15 year or so, but that is about it.
Ehh, it is all a matter of perspectives and personal preferences as well. Dan Mullen is an MSU alum; He works in the top conference and in a region ripe with talent. He has taken Mississippi State to 4 straight bowl games. He could quite easily go down as MSU's best coach ever if he keeps that up; might get the stadium named after him.
Mullen went to Ursinus College in Pennsylvania and later Wagner College in Staten Island. He was a northeast lifer prior to latching onto Urban Meyer at Bowling Green, and aside from a game in Oxford against Ole Miss while he was at Florida, I'm not sure he ever set foot in the state of Mississippi prior to taking the MSU job.
Up here on the Eastern Seaboard, a number of my PSU chums seemed to think Mullen might at least catch sniff of an offer from the Nittany Valley as a suitably solid "lower-profile" candidate. Guessing Urby Boy may have vetoed it.
Dang, I whiffed on that one, completely thought he was an alum... ALthough I will still say, that below are all of MSU's bowl games in their history, so he doesn't have to build much to get up there
. 18 bowls in over 100 years of football and he has 4 in a row .| W | 01-01-1912 | 12 | Havana Athletic Club | 0 | Bacardi Bowl |
| L | 01-01-1937 | 12 | Duquesne | 13 | Orange Bowl |
| W | 01-01-1941 | 14 | Georgetown | 7 | Orange Bowl |
| W | 12-21-1963 | 16 | N.C. State | 12 | Liberty Bowl |
| W | 12-28-1974 | 26 | North Carolina | 24 | Sun Bowl |
| L | 12-27-1980 | 17 | Nebraska | 31 | Sun Bowl |
| W | 12-31-1981 | 10 | Kansas | 0 | Hall of Fame Bowl |
| L | 12-29-1991 | 15 | Air Force | 38 | Liberty Bowl |
| L | 01-02-1993 | 17 | North Carolina | 21 | Peach Bowl |
| L | 01-01-1995 | 24 | N.C. State | 28 | Peach Bowl |
| L | 01-01-1999 | 11 | Texas | 38 | Cotton Bowl |
| W | 12-30-1999 | 17 | Clemson | 7 | Peach Bowl |
| W | 12-31-2000 | 43 | Texas A&M | 41 | Independence Bowl |
| W | 12-29-2007 | 10 | UCF | 3 | Liberty Bowl |
| W | 01-01-2011 | 52 | Michigan | 14 | Gator Bowl |
| W | 12-30-2011 | 23 | Wake Forest | 17 | Music City Bowl |
| L | 01-01-2013 | 20 | Northwestern | 34 | Gator Bowl |
| W | 12-31-2013 | 44 | Rice | 7 | Liberty Bowl |
Former. Mullen had his name placed out there for a few jobs, but he never generated any real interest. People who do the hiring and firing at better programs were smart enough to figure out that a single 9-4 season, with a blowout win over a bad Michigan team (whose own coach was about to be fired) in a meaningless bowl doesn't account for anything of note, despite what some of the MSU homers wanted to believe. Had a "real" offer ever came along, Starkvegas would be long in his rearview mirror by now...
