Dan = Stans

[fishwater99]

I hate to say it, but after watching today's game Stans might be a better coach than Dan.....Only Time will tell...

How do you not give the ball to Dixon and why is Relf not in the game on the goal-line?

The good thing is that we had a chance to in the game.... Special teams did hurt us pretty bad...

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

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[Afro Dawg]

That'd be awesome.

 

[GimpyDawg]

I'd certainly take the Stans version of a football coach. I guess that means Mans is about to be a lights-out recruiter.

 

[GhostOfJackie]

I hate to say it, but after watching today's game Stans might be a better coach than Dan.....Only Time will tell...

This might be the dumbest **** I have ever heard.

Edit to say: I went back 10 pages to find this and bump it up. That's how dumb this was.

 

[Requiem For A Dawg]

I hate to say it, but after watching today's game Stans might be a better coach than Dan.....Only Time will tell...

How do you not give the ball to Dixon and why is Relf not in the game on the goal-line?

The good thing is that we had a chance to in the game.... Special teams did hurt us pretty bad...

Hell yeah a few SEC championships coming our way.

 

[Stormrider81]

Newsflash, the playcall was designed to give the ball to Dixon, Tyson is the one that messed up. Tyson was supposed to pitch to Dixon, who would have walked in. I've seen the replay and I also saw Mullen's reaction and subsequent interaction with Tyson on the sidelines. He did not intend for Tyson to keep it, that much is apparent to anyone with any sense. Mullen, however, has enough sense to not throw his QB under the bus.

How many more of you idiots are going to say, "we should have gotten the ball to Dixon, Mullen was stupid, yadda yadda yadda"? I really want to know. Anyone with any football knowledge who watches the replay should see that we were trying to get the ball to Dixon and it would have been an easy TD, but our QB messed up. It's that simple.</p>

 

[FlabLoser]

Just sayin.

I say DAN is a keeper. As is Stans.

 

[AtlantaBulldog]

were the most innovative calls that I have seen at MSU.

The pass was WIDE OPEN and an easy touchdown, if Tyson lobs the ball.

The pitch was WIDE OPEN and a walk-in touchdown, if Tyson pitches the ball. When Tyson came to the sidelines, I saw Mellen ask Tyson, "Why didn't you pitch the ball?". He wasn't yelling, he wasn't screaming - because he realizes that he has a non-division I QB (his best option) running an offense that ALMOST beat the #7 team in the country, despite 4 turnovers.

He also has enough sense to redshirt his freshman quarterback because he is not ready yet. Dan is trying to build a damn program at MSU and catches crap from our fan-base.

People who bitched endlessly that Jackie and Croom had no imagination and 'only ran the ball up the middle', are criticizing two outstanding & innovating calls because they wanted to run the ball up the middle.

ELEVEN FRICKEN LSU PLAYERS WERE JAMMING THE MIDDLE AND STICKING IT TO OUR OFFENSIVE LINE. Mullen realized that after two plays within the 2 yard-line. How many times have you seen stupid coaches run the ball up the middle four times and not get a TD?

 

[bulliegolfer]

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[HD6]

I hope Mullen sticks around for 10 years, puts us in 6 bowls, with 5 West Championships and 1 overall SEC title, winning 64 percent of his games as he does it. It would be the greatest stretch in our history.

 

[Todd4State]

Tyson should have never had the option to do anything other than to hand/pitch the ball to Dixon. You keep saying that Lee was supposed to pitch the ball back to Dixon, but yet, at the same time the way the play was designed Lee had the option to run it if he saw a crease- Mullen has even said as much about the play. Yes, Lee screwed up, but we should never, ever have called a play where there was any way that there was even a chance that the ball could have been in someone's hands other than Dixon. That's my biggest problem with the call.

 

[Todd4State]

How
many times have you seen stupid coaches run the ball up the middle four times and not get a TD?

how many times have you seen that play work? I'd say it works more times than not. There's a pretty good reason why people run that play and have run it for years no matter how the game has changed.

 

[DudyDog]

to remember Stans first couple of years....there were plenty of people wanting to get rid of him due to some coaching decisions he made as a young coach.

I remember watching Mark Richt in his first year as a head coach get his team to the goal line for the win and botch the clock and not even get a play off to lose the game.

Young coaches are going to make mistakes just like young managers, or a young married couple or anything else in life.

I don't think Dan has made a critical mistake to cost us a ballgame yet. The last two plays were there. We just didn't make them.

 

[Todd4State]

that I want Mullen fired. Quite the opposite.

Heck, even Knute Rockne made a few bad calls from time to time.

 

[patdog]

Heck, even Knute Rockne made a few bad calls from time to time.

Yeah, but he could give one hell of a pre-game speech.

 

[TR.sixpack]

Where do I sign up?

 

[maroonmania]

at the goal line certainly could have and you probably can say SHOULD have worked if executed properly. However, the only drawback on those plays is that it took the QB making the right read or right throw on either to execute a TD. In fact, the pass could have been a TD but it was also almost intercepted as well. At this stage we don't have Tim Tebow, and I prefer not to put any burden on our QBs in that situation that we don't have to given its not our strongest position. To me the only call to make and absolutely the highest percentage call is to put Relf behind center and try to sneak it into the end zone for two straight plays. About the only way you don't make 3 inches on a right behind the center QB sneak 2 plays in a row is if you fumble the snap. But, of course, you could fumble the snap on any call. Using a 235 pound fullback playing QB seemed to me to be a no brainer when we are that close and I just didn't understand why we didn't do it. I would have preferred to keep handing to Dixon only if we were over a half yard out but when you are inside 6 inches I would prefer not to handoff and risk penetration tackling him for a loss. The sneak is the better call.

 

[AROB44]

A lot of other people, they get to second guess, and that's why they're in a position they're in and i'm in the position I'm in."

Dan Mullen