CC: Dan Mullen for Michigan Head Coach

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Bet he'd love a substantial pay raise and the chance to play his mentor in a rivalry game every year.

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Danwillhor

October 4th, 2014 at 4:22 PM ^

but you're the only other person I've heard mention Austin in a top 5 list (reasonable or pipedream). I was waiting for it. Could also be that I've been avoiding everything for a while.

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Frito Bandito

October 4th, 2014 at 4:38 PM ^

IMO he's going to get his shot soon. He'll be a hot name after this season. I'm amazed at what he's doing with scrubs in the secondary in Detroit, not to mention one decent linebacker.  With all the injuries he can obviously scheme and gameplan around his strengths and weaknesses. That's the man I want to talk to.

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Danwillhor

October 4th, 2014 at 5:39 PM ^

in the NFL or CFB. I completely agree and I'm just a bit surprised that a fanbase so well educated on "The lineage HC" thing isn't saying more about him. I think a guy like that is so much more likely than a Harbaugh or Miles as he's also been here but isn't a huge splash hire that I'm concerned we can't really pull right now. I mean, he coached Woodson....ha.

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Frito Bandito

October 4th, 2014 at 6:00 PM ^

People will take notice after this season.

The Lions are allowing 180.7 yards passing per game, which is third in the league, and 63.7 yards rushing, which is second. Add it all up, and they're allowing just 244.3 yards overall per game. That's 24 yards clear of anyone else. All with serious injuries in the linebacking core and secondary.

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GoBlueUSMC

October 4th, 2014 at 2:51 PM ^

Someone called the Miss State win over A&M on a different CC thread.  Props to whoever that was.  I'd love to see Dan Mullen in Ann Arbor next year.

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mackbru

October 4th, 2014 at 2:54 PM ^

Please. Michigan is a far better job than Miss State in terms of status, pay, resources, location, and competitive odds. MSU will never win the SEC, which is too stocked. And MSU will always have a ceiling in terms of talent and money. M has far greater potential, less competition, and a higher ceiling -- assuming DB is out.


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CoachBP6

October 4th, 2014 at 4:17 PM ^

Miss St is winning and doing it the right way in the toughest division in the country.  Miss St has a real home field advantage, unlike the Big House which don's the phrase "The most quiet 110,000 in the country".  Miss St has real recruiting advantages, and does not have the ridiculous expectations placed on them each year.  Michigan is a mess, why do you think more people turned away from the job than actually wanted it?  It's time to realize that the Michigan job is not what it used to be.  

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gwkrlghl

October 4th, 2014 at 4:29 PM ^

The Big House has shed the quiet stadium meme - I believe with the installation of the boxes. MSU only has a home atmosphere because they break the rules and use noisemakers

Mississippi State's recruting advantage is only that they are near good players. Those good players still choose to go to Alabama, LSU, Florida, Georgia, etc. anyway. Even in Michigan's greatest era of crap in 50 years, in a relatively less fertile recruiting territory, we still out-recruit them

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mackbru

October 4th, 2014 at 3:00 PM ^

Have you ever been to Starkville? It's a giant asphalt parking lot surrounded by a boiling swamp. It's nowhere you'd want to live if given half an alternative. Makes Ole Miss seem downright sophisticated.


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mackbru

October 4th, 2014 at 3:05 PM ^

Part of the problem w out highly ranked recruiting classes seems to be that the recruiting services tend to overestimate the quality of high school talent in Michigan. Our pipeline to Cass Tech has given us countless blue-chips who turn up to be less than. And absent Ohio, where Urban gets dibs, the Midwest in general has overrated talent. It's a big problem that's no going away.


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mackbru

October 4th, 2014 at 3:12 PM ^

Re Mullen and Shaw, it seems to me that coaches tend to choose jobs based on 1) money and (2 odds of immediate success. Loyalty has less to do with it, except in cases when a coach is offered by his alma mater. Stanford is Shaw's alma mater. He's staying. But if Michigan offers Mullen more money that florida does, I could see him coming here. Right now M has a better shot at success than does Florida, which has too much competition, and whose best players will soon graduate.


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1931

October 4th, 2014 at 3:39 PM ^

Maybe Charlie Weis was a bad example, but there a ton of people surrounding the football program that want absolutely nothing to do with Les Miles. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Hence the Charlie Weis reference. I can't imagine that Miles doesn't know that, so why on earth would he come here when he know's that so many people despise him and want him to fail from the onset. He would be RR 2.0

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1931

October 4th, 2014 at 3:45 PM ^

How else do you describe Carr's action's at his end? Or the lack of support RR received throughout his whole tenure? Or the blame we have placed on Hoke for the Shane Morris incident. Every since Carr has retired, we have a history of sabotaging our coaches whether they receive it (in Hoke's case) or not i.e. RR. This is not a pro-RR anti-Hoke post, I'm just taking a step back and from afar, we do not treat coaches very well. It's much harder for a coach to win when he has as little support as the Michigan football program seems to give them. 

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Danwillhor

October 4th, 2014 at 4:50 PM ^

I won't bag on anyone's opinion here (I agree with some of yours) but I think most now understand that the AD needs a full cleaning right now. Few will say it but Carr needs to really retire, too. REALLY retire. Few realize what position he still has within the AD and how much pull he still has. When it comes to UM Football, Carr is seen as the closest person in "the lineage" so he has the loyalties of many. IMO, getting rid of DB alone doesn't change the AD mentality overall. This personality cult needs to go. It's officially killing the very thing it claims to love.

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steve sharik

October 4th, 2014 at 3:27 PM ^

All of the SEC coaches would love to see Mullen in Ann Arbor, too.

As for him going to Florida, I don't think it's as much a no-brainer slam dunk as people think.  Remember, he had a ringside seat for all the crab the fanbase put Urbz through, and Spurrier was getting flak, which is why he took the Redskins job.

The worst thing that can happen to a HC at Florida is to win big, because once that happens, anything less is grounds for vitriol.

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