I got to here Coach Mullen speak. Chris just handed me my box lunch. I was at Insurance day today at the Union. Damn that place has changed since I graduated. Here is what Mullen said. (paraphrase)
"17 TSUN!" I was socked but I thought it was funny. Just joking!
He did say some good things. (Paraphrase)
1. His attitude changed about the cow bell after Bell's mother ranged it right before the closed the coffin. Before he thought it was neat traditionand brought attention to the school. He did not know really what the bell meant to peopleuntil that moment and he is going to fight tokeep it. He also said that when the bell is not rung and everyone screams the stadium is louder then when it is ranged.
2. The move of the Memphis game is really going to help them. The reason why is that is three more days they can practice before school starts. He said a lot of schools have played two games before school even starts. Miss State start way sooner then everyone else and with school starting it interrupts practice those 30 days before the first game. Those three extra days of practice with out school will be great. It might have been thespin but that's what he said.
3. Reading into what he said about Bell, he and his wife paid for the funeral. Some of you might know that but it was new to me.
4. He thinks that players should not receive salaries. If you pay football players, you will have to pay every athlete. Most sports lose money and paying every athlete would kill the budget and many schools in smaller conferences will have to no longer have certain sports.
5. The transfer from Clemson will help give maturity at the linebacker position but he told him he as to be on campus June 1st and he is going to have to bust his *** to gain the respect of the other players and if he can't do that it is going to be tough on him.
6. He thinks we will be 2 and 0 going into the LSU game and we should be top 20 and LSU could be as high as number 1. Great attention to the University. If this occurs it will be good it is a Thursday night game. Again this could be spin.
7. His only concern about the offense is the O line. We all knew that. Not only did we lose two starters we lost three back ups. Two to graduation and one to injury. That is going to be hard to replace.
8. He said that there is 1000 people on the waiting list for season tickets. He then went on to say once there is 10,000 the stadium gets expanded. I hope he was generalizing making a point that season tickets builds stadiums.
He took several other questions but they really were not that important. I wanted to ask about the Tweet, message boards and face-book on how it affected recruiting but it might have been a stupid question so I did not ask. He is very approachable and seems like a common guys. I bumped into him on the stairs in the Union and talked for a few minutes but not about football. I should have asked him does he read the pack but did not. Sorry DS!
"17 TSUN!" I was socked but I thought it was funny. Just joking!
He did say some good things. (Paraphrase)
1. His attitude changed about the cow bell after Bell's mother ranged it right before the closed the coffin. Before he thought it was neat traditionand brought attention to the school. He did not know really what the bell meant to peopleuntil that moment and he is going to fight tokeep it. He also said that when the bell is not rung and everyone screams the stadium is louder then when it is ranged.
2. The move of the Memphis game is really going to help them. The reason why is that is three more days they can practice before school starts. He said a lot of schools have played two games before school even starts. Miss State start way sooner then everyone else and with school starting it interrupts practice those 30 days before the first game. Those three extra days of practice with out school will be great. It might have been thespin but that's what he said.
3. Reading into what he said about Bell, he and his wife paid for the funeral. Some of you might know that but it was new to me.
4. He thinks that players should not receive salaries. If you pay football players, you will have to pay every athlete. Most sports lose money and paying every athlete would kill the budget and many schools in smaller conferences will have to no longer have certain sports.
5. The transfer from Clemson will help give maturity at the linebacker position but he told him he as to be on campus June 1st and he is going to have to bust his *** to gain the respect of the other players and if he can't do that it is going to be tough on him.
6. He thinks we will be 2 and 0 going into the LSU game and we should be top 20 and LSU could be as high as number 1. Great attention to the University. If this occurs it will be good it is a Thursday night game. Again this could be spin.
7. His only concern about the offense is the O line. We all knew that. Not only did we lose two starters we lost three back ups. Two to graduation and one to injury. That is going to be hard to replace.
8. He said that there is 1000 people on the waiting list for season tickets. He then went on to say once there is 10,000 the stadium gets expanded. I hope he was generalizing making a point that season tickets builds stadiums.
He took several other questions but they really were not that important. I wanted to ask about the Tweet, message boards and face-book on how it affected recruiting but it might have been a stupid question so I did not ask. He is very approachable and seems like a common guys. I bumped into him on the stairs in the Union and talked for a few minutes but not about football. I should have asked him does he read the pack but did not. Sorry DS!
