What about Mullen calling out his coaches during interviews post game?

[Big Sheep81]

I like having a coach man up when he should. But I am hearing from a couple of HS coaches that the staff is getting reamed out in front of players during practice along with the public statements. I hear there will be several defections at the end of the year. Anybody else hearing anything?

No problem with what I am seeing on the field but those things are best kept to staff meetings or personal one on ones if true.

 

[Big Sheep81]

I like having a coach man up when he should. But I am hearing from a couple of HS coaches that the staff is getting reamed out in front of players during practice along with the public statements. I hear there will be several defections at the end of the year. Anybody else hearing anything?

No problem with what I am seeing on the field but those things are best kept to staff meetings or personal one on ones if true.

 

[Big Sheep81]

I like having a coach man up when he should. But I am hearing from a couple of HS coaches that the staff is getting reamed out in front of players during practice along with the public statements. I hear there will be several defections at the end of the year. Anybody else hearing anything?

No problem with what I am seeing on the field but those things are best kept to staff meetings or personal one on ones if true.

 

[ckDOG]

But I am hearing from a couple of HS coaches that the staff is getting reamed out in front of players during practice along with the public statements.

When did HS coaches start attending practices?

 

[Rabid]

from being on this message board: Never believe stuff people "hear".

 

[jcdawgman18]

But I am hearing from a couple of HS coaches that the staff is getting reamed out in front of players during practice along with the public statements.

When did HS coaches start attending practices?

But HS coaches attending practices is not at all uncommon.

 

[was21]

gets results, it's fine with me...and it seems to me that he's getting results...with what he has to work with. These coaches don't need to be pampered. I don't imagine Coach Mullen was pampered by Urban Meyer.

 

[gtowndawg]

and probably 50% of the coaches that have worked for him hate his guts. But you can't argue with the results. Not sayin' it's right or wrong, I'm just sayin.

 

[ckDOG]

Maybe you are right. But, I'd find it surprising if Mullen would invite people outside of the program to watch a private practice, then ridicule the coaches in front of everyone present. It doesn't sound very plausible.

 

[maroonmania]

we have adequate players to get the job done and we aren't getting it done. However, right now, I don't believe we have adequate personnel in the secondary to get the job done and that needs to be fixed through recruiting. Even if he's justified I don't believe that he should do a lot of reprimanding the staff in front of the players. Seems that would only serve to undermine the confidence the players have in the staff which is NOT what you want.

 

[Big Sheep81]

They don't always get this from attending practice although sometimes they are invited. This comes from a recruiting visit to a high school. Lots of stuff gets talked about especially x & o stuff. When they develop good relationships with HS coaches sometimes they will talk about how things are going, just not around kids they are recruiting.

 

[The Cotton District Yeti]

"9Dog" is going to read this thread, then go tell "Catstudent" (not knowing that "Catstudent" posts here) that he "heard" Mullen was losing some staff b/c he was mean. Now "Catstudent" is going to come here and post that he's heard it too. Now we've heard it twice, and now it must be true.

We will recycle this this so many times that eventually "******** Backer" and the like are emailing Byrne about Cohen cussing, I mean Mullen being mean.

**9Dog, Catstudent, and ******** Backer are entirely fictional and are not meant to represent actual posters.

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[8dog]

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[The Cotton District Yeti]

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[basedog]

It happens more often than not. I played and coached on the college level and believe me you see it. Don't believe everything you hear but if you do don't hit the panic button cause coaches are paid to produce and players are paid......as student athletes a free education. I don't know many "soft coaches" who are successful.
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[Porkchop.sixpack]

were telling Mullen that they would appreciate being reprimanded in private and praised in public. But, my guess is that conversation would not go so well for them.

Ultimately, the guy is paid to win ball games and I ain't his damn management teacher. So, I guess he gets to do it his way, and it doesn't matter what I think.

 

[imissplatinumplus]

Book it.

 

[was21]

Monday...the doomsday prophets always rear their heads on Mondays...somebody's always some ****, and on a message board, it's easy to do so, if everybody else pays attention to it...like I'm doing now..only I ain't trying to start it..

 

[patdog]

Just like I'm sure Dan Mullen has had his *** chewed out by Urban Meyer a time or two over the years. Coaching isn't exactly a good career choice for someone who is thin skinned.

 

[dpaul798]

i dont care if he is pulling their little panties down and spanking their fannies if they arent doing their damn job. if they make mistakes and are worried about getting reamed out then maybe they should stop making mistakes. they are grown *** men. if they are worried about reprimands then piss on em, they can go.

I like having a coach man up when he should. But I am hearing from a couple of HS coaches that the staff is getting reamed out in front of players during practice along with the public statements. I hear there will be several defections at the end of the year. Anybody else hearing anything?

No problem with what I am seeing on the field but those things are best kept to staff meetings or personal one on ones if true.

 

[therightway]

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[was21]

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[was21]

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[KurtRambis4]

If a coach is worried about getting called out, I'm not so sure I want them on our staff

 

[Porkchop.sixpack]

I don't care how good they are or how tough the are. No matter how important they think their performance as a coach is, they don't like that. Now, maybe they have to deal with it. But, if you don't want anybody that worries about that, you probably would be left with nobody coaching. </p>

 

[Dawg725]

do you not want a HC who holds his staff accountable? I do. How much do you donate to the AD? I send a check every month, and by damn...I want to know these things. Find something else to ***** about...

 

[Todd4State]

I'm tired of being the "good ol' boy" come here and have a good time, don't worry about winning, we're "classy" school. I want to win some games. If the coaches (Cough, Carl Torbush, cough) are too ***** to want to do a good job, then good riddance. Bring in people like Dan Mullen that want to win and that don't make excuses for playing like crap.

I'm actually glad to hear this. If Melvin can't teach the DB's how to play in this scheme, maybe we just need to make him the recruiting coordinator and can Rockey if he's that good.

 

[Coach34]

if they dont like it, they can go and we can hire new coaches. Saban is the world's worst at this kind of stuff, yet he gets assistants that want to coach for him.

Here's the problem- we aren't used to this kind of quality coaching at State and some are not sure how to handle it. Maybe some of you missed the 1990's when Jackie was yelling at his coaches on the sideline. It happens.</p>

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[KurtRambis4]

a coach is more worried about his feelings than completing his tasks and objectives, then he's not going to be that successful

 

[therightway]

We all knew that our secondary was going to be weak. Melvin cannot turn these kids into athletes or teach Zach Smith when to jump. Although as a head coach Mullen could pull the trigger and make some changes in the secondary. Mitchell is the only gifted player in the secondary. Washington is OK at best. We have got to get some juco corners for next year. I think that corner is one of the easiest spots to play as far as a learning curve on learning a system. If you have it you can play early. Look at the Reid kid at FSU.

 

[Big Sheep81]

Got no problem with accountability nor with getting on staff. My only objection is that it should not be public.

 

[futaba.79]

to ream your subordinates in public. I'm sure Meyer, Saban and all the other big winners rip into their assistants all the time, but I can't think of a time I've heard them do it in a press conference.

Mullen's new to this and sometimes it shows.

 

[Original48]

And the clincher is he ran off the ONLY coach on our staff who was worth a **** in Ellis Johnson because of his loyalty to incompetence. You want to go back to that? I don't. I love the accountability..and if you listened to his post game press conference Mullen put the blame squarely on his own shoulders for the turnovers and players being out of position. Any high school coach making comments like that probably won't be progressing past where they are or may be using it as a smoke screen to continue to direct his players out of state for reasons only he knows.

 

[Big Sheep81]

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[Rabid]

All he said is that he was "disappointed" with them.

I mean ... if they can't take that ... then they don't need to be coaching. Anywhere.

 

[was21]

at what they saw in his coaching ability at that game....they were not happy with their coach after that game. It has to do with coaching, not political correctness. It's a tough profession. If a guy gets his feelings hurt or his ego damaged, he ain't tough enough. If a fan doesn't like it, he aint' tough enough either. Mississippi State needs a tough coaching staff, the odds are and have always been against them...need to get tough or get gone.

 

[Berserker.sixpack]

Was this sarcasm? </p>

 

[KurtRambis4]

why this is getting so ridiculous. he didn't "ream" into anyone in specifice, besides himself. he said that he was disappointed in the defensive coaching staff, once, and that was it. how some people can take this and classify it as a "reaming" or anything along those lines is ridiculous. i'm gonna go out on a limb and say that 90% of the posts that pertain to something similar to mullen "calling out his coaches" were started by people that didn't even listen to the entire press conference.

 

[Thick]

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[Uncle Leo]

If we put being nice and classy over winning, Croom's our guy.

If we want to win, we might just have to put up with a coach being not nice. I'm ok with that.