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Ohio State will introduce Urban Meyer
as their new head football coach Monday afternoon, becoming the first
Big Ten program to name a new football coach in this year's edition of
the coaching carousel. Meyer was a name many Penn State fans had hoped
would be on the short list in State College, so the question now becomes
where exactly will the program turn as they look to fill their own head
coaching vacancy?</p>
The name that has been mentioned the most
recently is Mississippi State head coach Dan Mullen, a former assistant
of Meyer's. It makes sense too.</p>
Mullen, a Pennsylvania native,
played his college football in Pennsylvania, at Ursinus, and he has been
working his way up the coaching ranks over the years. Mullen was an
assistant for Meyer back at Bowling Green and Utah, where he helped
develop Alex Smith and recruited Brian Johnson at quarterback, who led
the Utes to an undefeated record in 2009. He has also worked with
quarterbacks like Chris Leak and Tim Tebow.</p>
There is no question
that his college pedigree is well-established and for a program that has
struggled to develop quarterbacks like Penn State, perhaps Mullen would
be just the spark needed to get players like Rob Bolden, Matt McGloin
and Paul Jones to take the next step in their development, assuming they
stick around instead of transferring to another program.</p>
Mullen
is a solid recruiter, and Penn State will certainly need one with Meyer
taking over at Ohio State. All Meyer may have to do in recruiting
battles with Penn State andMichiganis show kids his two national
championship rings. Of course, Mullen has those two rings too, and
Mullen can also say that when he left Florida to take over Mississippi
State that Meyer's offense dropped off immediately (43.5 points per game
in Mullen's final season at Florida down to 35.9 in 2009 and 29.8 in
Meyer's final season at Florida).</p><div class="article-podcast podbean full-width">
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Mullen would seem to be a sensible hire if he is indeed interested in the job, although there may be better options out there.</p>
If
Georgia's Mark Richt ends up being released by Georgia he may be the
best available candidate for the job. This particular writer has been
high on Richt for a while as a potential Paterno replacement, but his
hot seat in Athens has cooled over the last few weeks with the Bulldogs
finishing strong and playing into the SEC Championship game this coming
weekend. While Richt now appears to be going nowhere, and it remains
highly unlikely he would leave Georgia for Penn State, the usual list of
candidates looks to be shortening.</p>
Al Golden agreed to an
extension at Miami.James Franklin has an extension at Vanderbilt. Chris
Petersen does not appear to be leaving Boise State anytime soon. Gary
Patterson is about to lead TCU into the Big 12.</p>
What about Greg
Schiano? While Schiano has previously rejected an opportunity to leave
for Miami, thespeculationthat he may be a candidate for Penn State was
silenced a bit when he said he had no intentions of leaving Rutgers.</p>
Maybe Mullen is the top candidate for the job after all.</p>
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Ohio State will introduce Urban Meyer
as their new head football coach Monday afternoon, becoming the first
Big Ten program to name a new football coach in this year's edition of
the coaching carousel. Meyer was a name many Penn State fans had hoped
would be on the short list in State College, so the question now becomes
where exactly will the program turn as they look to fill their own head
coaching vacancy?</p>
The name that has been mentioned the most
recently is Mississippi State head coach Dan Mullen, a former assistant
of Meyer's. It makes sense too.</p>
Mullen, a Pennsylvania native,
played his college football in Pennsylvania, at Ursinus, and he has been
working his way up the coaching ranks over the years. Mullen was an
assistant for Meyer back at Bowling Green and Utah, where he helped
develop Alex Smith and recruited Brian Johnson at quarterback, who led
the Utes to an undefeated record in 2009. He has also worked with
quarterbacks like Chris Leak and Tim Tebow.</p>
There is no question
that his college pedigree is well-established and for a program that has
struggled to develop quarterbacks like Penn State, perhaps Mullen would
be just the spark needed to get players like Rob Bolden, Matt McGloin
and Paul Jones to take the next step in their development, assuming they
stick around instead of transferring to another program.</p>
Mullen
is a solid recruiter, and Penn State will certainly need one with Meyer
taking over at Ohio State. All Meyer may have to do in recruiting
battles with Penn State andMichiganis show kids his two national
championship rings. Of course, Mullen has those two rings too, and
Mullen can also say that when he left Florida to take over Mississippi
State that Meyer's offense dropped off immediately (43.5 points per game
in Mullen's final season at Florida down to 35.9 in 2009 and 29.8 in
Meyer's final season at Florida).</p><div class="article-podcast podbean full-width">
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<span>Discussing the Penn State head coaching job search with Stephen
Prather of CoachesByTheNumbers.com on the No2MinuteWarning.com podcast.
[Recorded November 17, 2011]</span>
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Mullen would seem to be a sensible hire if he is indeed interested in the job, although there may be better options out there.</p>
If
Georgia's Mark Richt ends up being released by Georgia he may be the
best available candidate for the job. This particular writer has been
high on Richt for a while as a potential Paterno replacement, but his
hot seat in Athens has cooled over the last few weeks with the Bulldogs
finishing strong and playing into the SEC Championship game this coming
weekend. While Richt now appears to be going nowhere, and it remains
highly unlikely he would leave Georgia for Penn State, the usual list of
candidates looks to be shortening.</p>
Al Golden agreed to an
extension at Miami.James Franklin has an extension at Vanderbilt. Chris
Petersen does not appear to be leaving Boise State anytime soon. Gary
Patterson is about to lead TCU into the Big 12.</p>
What about Greg
Schiano? While Schiano has previously rejected an opportunity to leave
for Miami, thespeculationthat he may be a candidate for Penn State was
silenced a bit when he said he had no intentions of leaving Rutgers.</p>
Maybe Mullen is the top candidate for the job after all.</p>
