If we get hosed on the bowl bid - does it affect Mullen thinking?
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He will see first hand that this job is a constant up hill battle. That is my biggest fear in all of this
mullen needs to get the hell out of dodge while the getting is good and no one can blame him
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but then again it may just motivate him more to stay here and really put us on the map. The solution for us to getting selected by higher quality bowls, in the future,is to keep winning, season after season, and establish ourselves on the national stage of college football. What we're going through can be labeled as a growing pain of our program. Just because we won 8 regular seasons games does not a Gator, Outback, or Peach Bowl make, unfortunatley. The bowls are a business therefore they'll select the teams that they KNOW will purchase the most tickets, reserve the most hotels rooms, purchase the most merchandise, and most importantly,drive the tv ratings, which is coorelated to advertising revenues.
But it all just depends on how much Mullen really does "love" MSU, which is what none of us really know, and is making us somewhat nervous. It disturbs me, to a certain degree, that we really haven't heard anything from Mullen or Stricklin(sp) this week ..maybe it's a good thing, though, but a simple statement to settle the fanbase and curb any negative recruiting effects certainly wouldn't be too much to ask for.
But it all just depends on how much Mullen really does "love" MSU, which is what none of us really know, and is making us somewhat nervous. It disturbs me, to a certain degree, that we really haven't heard anything from Mullen or Stricklin(sp) this week ..maybe it's a good thing, though, but a simple statement to settle the fanbase and curb any negative recruiting effects certainly wouldn't be too much to ask for.
BUT, it goes both ways. If he has a long-term mentality re: state, this just fuels that 'us vs them' thought process and makes him want to stay and succeed even more. If he has a stepping stone mentality, then this just confirms that he should get stepping.
I don't know the man. But there are a few folks out there who are just cut from a different cloth. Hopefully he's one of them.
I don't know the man. But there are a few folks out there who are just cut from a different cloth. Hopefully he's one of them.
In my eyes, it would make Mullen want to win that much more. He is a winner, it's in his blood, and I think he has proven that since he's been here. Now, he could have turned MSU down when the job was offered and waited for a better job to come along, but we are in the SEC and he believes that he can win here, he has so far (granted, it's only year two but he's done a hell of a job).
I honestly think the guy likes the uphill "you're not supposed to be here" battle that he faces at Miss. State. He wants to at least prove that a coach can win here. He likes adversity. He likes big games. And he likes when people tell him "No you cannot." It fuels him, it makes him that much more determined, and if we get snubbed on the bowl game he is not going anywhere. He will work harder to prove that we belong in a better bowl than the Liberty, or Music City.
But let's be honest guys, the Gator Bowl isn't a bad thing, it sucks because we're all expecting to be in the Peach (I refuse to call it the corporate sponsorship BS bowl) but we haven't been to a bowl in a few years, and we haven't been to a decent bowl in a long damn time, I'm not complaining too much about it because I know that our fan base will travel well no matter where the bowl is.
And the Gator is a new year's bowl, I know that the date no longer matters about the bowl, but think about telling a recruit, "I took the team to a New Year's Bowl game in my second year here, I've got what it takes." I highly doubt recruits are thinking that the peach is where we want to go. I wouldn't think that they know that a Dec. 31 bowl is better than a Jan. 1 bowl.
I honestly think the guy likes the uphill "you're not supposed to be here" battle that he faces at Miss. State. He wants to at least prove that a coach can win here. He likes adversity. He likes big games. And he likes when people tell him "No you cannot." It fuels him, it makes him that much more determined, and if we get snubbed on the bowl game he is not going anywhere. He will work harder to prove that we belong in a better bowl than the Liberty, or Music City.
But let's be honest guys, the Gator Bowl isn't a bad thing, it sucks because we're all expecting to be in the Peach (I refuse to call it the corporate sponsorship BS bowl) but we haven't been to a bowl in a few years, and we haven't been to a decent bowl in a long damn time, I'm not complaining too much about it because I know that our fan base will travel well no matter where the bowl is.
And the Gator is a new year's bowl, I know that the date no longer matters about the bowl, but think about telling a recruit, "I took the team to a New Year's Bowl game in my second year here, I've got what it takes." I highly doubt recruits are thinking that the peach is where we want to go. I wouldn't think that they know that a Dec. 31 bowl is better than a Jan. 1 bowl.
He's up for that. But when your own conference has shown it will defecate on you, and shown it in multiple ways (Florida bball to NCAA...hung out to dry turning in Cam...these new bowl scenarios), it would be hard to blame him for just washing his hands of it.
It's got to make him see how tough of an up hill fight he has. But if we slip in the Peach, perhaps we get another year and then we can go from there. Along with giving him a damn good raise.