Volfan76
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If I didn't know better, I'd think you were Dan Mullen's agent. Let's start with this big 70% SEC East winning percentage. Out of 19 SEC East games, 8 of them have been against KenSucky. 8 out of 19. Throw in two wins vs. Vandy and a Dooley led Tennessee team and there is no wonder he is at 70%.
I also love the fact that you want to cherrypick 2013 as to when we look at a winning record in the SEC. Let's cherry pick his 10 win season where he finished second in the SEC West (which, by the way, is the ONLY time that he hasn't been fourth or fifth in 8 years)
Dan's 10 win season included wins against a 3-9 powerhouse Southern Miss, a 6-6 UAB team, 6-7 South Alabama, 5-7 KenSucky, 6-6 UT Martin, and a 3-9 Vandy team. 6 out of 10 wins were .500 or below. Then add on a 7-6 Arkansas team, and three 8-5 teams (LSU, A&M, and Auburn). The losses were to a 12-2 Bama team, 9-4 Ole Miss, and to Georgia Tech in a bowl game.
And since we like to cherry pick around here, let's cherry pick some of his big wins in Starkville. Out of his career 64 wins, 39 have come at the expense of : Jackson State, MTSU, UK, Vandy, Memphis, Alcorn St., Houston, UAB, La. Tech, Tn Martin, Wake Forest, Southern Miss., Northwestern State, Troy, UMass, Samford, Miami of Ohio, Bowling Green, Rice, and Charleston Southern. 39 of his 64 wins. Right there.
Is he a decent coach? I'll give him that. But if Currie hired Mullen to replace Jones, he should be run out of town with Butch. 5 5th place finishes. 2 4th place finishes. 7 out of 8 seasons he has been 4th or worse. Those are the facts and they are undisputed.
This....The cupcakes that MS St schedules every year MORE than make up the discrepancies between the east and west in the SEC...not to mention that he lost to South Alabama last year. I don't think Butch is the answer here, but I sure don't think Dan Mullen is.