Dan Mullen Coach of the Year? The reaction to that news was as negative as you'd expect
Florida coach Dan Mullen has had a tumultuous last several weeks in the public eye. From the loss to LSU, through the SEC Championship loss to Alabama and the Cotton Bowl loss to Oklahoma, there have been several negative issues around the program, not the least of which the three-game losing streak to end the season.
But on the other hand, Mullen beat Georgia and won the SEC East, and the Gators have a Heisman Trophy finalist in QB Kyle Trask, who led a high-powered offense with a host of playmakers who torched defenses.
So when Pro Football Focus College announced Mullen was its Coach of the Year, it brought plenty of emojis and laughing GIFs in response. Still other fans mentioned the likes of other coaches who had great seasons, from Coastal’s Jamey Chadwell, to Cincinnati’s Luke Fickell, Liberty’s Hugh Freeze, Iowa State’s Matt Campbell, Ohio State’s Ryan Day and Oklahoma’s Lincoln Riley.
One fan even asked if the PFF Twitter account was a parody.
Here’s a sampling of the reaction:
Dan Mullen, PFF’s Coach of the Year pic.twitter.com/Fpc7UO9A6H
— PFF College (@PFF_College) January 5, 2021
Complete whiff here
— Tucker Italiano (@TuckerItaliano) January 5, 2021
The guy who basically admitted to not coaching for the Bowl game? The graphic of the team wandering aimlessly before the 4th Q while OU-Riley is rallying his team even up by a bundle?
The guy who started a fight?
The guy who showed up to a presser as Darth Vader?
wut? really?
— bdavidsonlamb (@bdavidsonlamb) January 5, 2021
Great scout team coach, sure. But who’s the first-string coach of the year?
— ⭐🏆⭐ Pat ☝🏻🏈🌰 (@Puffadda) January 5, 2021
— Joseph Goodman (@JoeGoodmanJr) January 5, 2021
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
— Austin Silvey (@SilveyESP) January 5, 2021
did not know this was a parody account
— Jessica O’Donnell (@heckyessica) January 5, 2021
This should be posted on April fools
— (11-5) baker mayfield simp account (@bakersimpszn) January 5, 2021
Almost as laughable as the fishwrapper new york times’ national champion
Atlanta isn’t on fire yet?
So losing 4 games as opposed to 2 games makes you coach of the year? Getting beaten by a team your on another level from by 35 points, makes you coach of the year???? Well strange qualifications this season. Must be covid again.
So how about a guy who’s starting QB opts out days before the opener and is forced to go with a 5th string QB, simply because he is the only one with experience. And with that 5TH STRING QB he wins 4 big-time opening SEC games. And wins them convincingly!!!!
That coach is forced to play a 70% backup defense and about 45% of the offense missing in the cocktail party. Allowing coach of the year to win the first time in over 3 years!!!
Yet with nothing left to play for. Kirby kept his team together and UNBEATEN!!!! While the coach of the year lost at home to 3 win LSU who barely had enough players to make the trip. Then got beat in the SEC CHAMPIONSHIP like everyone knew they would with zero defense.
Then the coach of the year loses by 35 points after his team talked a bunch of trash!!!!!
IF THAT MAKES YOU COACH OF THE YEAR. THEN HITLER SHOULD GET MAN OF THE MILLENNIUM!!!!
PS. It’s not even funny. It’s ridiculous!!!! Want a coach of the year. HOW ABOUT THAT COACH AT CINCINNATI????? Kirby is 1000 times better than Mullen. But forget him. I’ll vote for the Cincinnati coach!!!!
King Negan
Just vote in the Georgia election. Maybe it will count and you can be relevant.
Very questionable. I agree with Farner’s list of other deserving coaches.
While Mullen did an excellent job. The coastal guy deserves it or Saban.
I agree
I like Dan Mullen, the pants-down spanking we gave Georgia this year was great, and we’re doing especially well in comparison with FSU and UM.
However, every hour goes by that he doesn’t issue some statement reaffirming his commitment to coaching for Florida is an hour that has undermined our program.
I can’t figure out what the mindset is here.
No mindset. He’s waiting for offers.
We’re looking at Bob Stoops. Mullen is the key factor in all of this. He needs to make a move.
Marsh, where are you hearing this stuff about Stoops? I’ve been hearing Stoops rumors for years, and for every job except Postmaster General.
Wfan out of Jax announced this morning. Also, Mullen is all but gone.
There’s a lot of people been in Hogtown lately including Meyer.
AU fans have been talking about hiring Stoops for years. I doubt Big Game Bob comes out of retirement to coach again, not even the Gators. But I guess you never know.
Pants down spanking. Nice! I guess I can’t say anything in defense. It was a beating. But we’ll be back. Comparing yourself to FSU on the other hand is silly. Like UGA comparing itself to GT and using as a measuring stick of success. Lol.
As much as I’d love to relegate FSU to GT status, they did win a title in 2013 and they make me nervous generally. I hope your analogy pans out!
Tech has never been and will never be half the team FSU is, even in these lame days for FSU
If FSU is relevant within 2 years it’d be remarkable. I personally hope they get better just not too much better. I dislike them more than jawja.
@therealcojones: Correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t the needs beat FSU this year? How does that happen with less than half the team?
Hasn’t FSU won 3 NC since Georgia lasts one. Comparing ourselves to FSU is more appropriate than comparing us to UGA.
FSU won the ACC 14 years in a row when they first joined. What a joke. Now Clemson has a free pass to the CFP every year. It’s a pathetic football conference.
It’s definitely odd. A bit like a few weeks ago with the rumors about Tom Herman making a call to South Carolina looking for work. He needs to clear that up.
Why? He got fired after killing a team in a bowl. He now owes no one an explanation.
BullGator……..First you didn’t give UGA a pants down spanking!!! How can you do that when you didn’t even play them??? 70% of UGAs starting defense didn’t play. Then 40% of the starting offense didn’t play. Actually closer to 50%!!!! 2 or more starting linemen, Top WR George Pickens didn’t play. 2 running backs out!!! TE OUT!!!!!! And you played our 5th string QB Stetson Bennett!!!!
So it’s laughable for you to claim you spanked UGA!!!! Y’all say the real Florida team didn’t play against OU??? REALLY? You had TWICE THE STARTERS PLAYING THAT UGA HAD AGAINST FLORIDA!!!!
Want to talk about a spanking. 35 points is a spanking.
The reason Mullen is trying to go pro, is to avoid playing UGA next season!!!! He knows UGA is coming with a thundering rage!!! JT Daniels is coming back. And I’m betting that he won’t be the only one that will want a piece of Gator a$$!!!! We are coming for you!!!! I am betting that Florida will have another down year like 2017!!!! And UGA will have another season like they had as well, only better!!!!! We won’t be robbed this time!!! THE DYNASTY BEGINS!!!!!
Like it or not. Your gator team has become the joke of the century!!!!
MASS EXODUS COMING…..
How did you like seeing your future??? Mullen the clown’s recruits!!!! Boy they went in soooooooooooooooooooo cocky. They left looking around, like what happened??? LOOK FOR MASS EXODUS FROM MULLEN CLOWN SCHOOL!!!!!!!!
All decent recruits who signed up for SEC FOOTBALL and got CLOWN PRACTICE instead. Feel free to leave CLOWN SCHOOL. Nobody will judge you unless they are a clown!!!! CLOWN SCHOOL EXODUS BEGINS TODAY!!!!!
Mullen coach of the year with 4 losses. With one at home to a 3 win team. Then finishing it off with a 35 point RAPE. At the hands of a 2 loss big 12 school. And let’s not forget the TWO BIG BRAWLS THAT COACH OF THE YEAR INSTIGATED. WITH VANDERBILT AND MISSOURI AND HE ALMOST GOT ONE STARTED VS LSU!!!!
CLOWN MULLEN calls throwing shoes and starting fights Gator swagger!!!!
Once again. If your ashamed to have played for this clown. The day you leave is TODAY!!! Leave this joke of a program today. No need to have people laughing at you just because the clown fooled you!!!! Leave Mullen to his clown show. He will be lucky to beat Vandy next season. Everyone else is up in the air at this point?????
King Negan
Hey King Bullgump, you love trolling on Gator stories but you were no where to be found last weekend on the boards when UGA was struggling with a group of 5 time and won a last second field goal. If anyone wants to see a picture of you they can find it next to the definition of penis envy in the dictionary. You know the saying, if your not a Gator your……
Negan, I get it. UF is Clown School.
But imagine getting BLOWN OUT by Clown School.
That’s got to hurt a little bit. I feel for you, man.
Since Grantham has been retained he needs to get to work now. IMHO, it’s a mistake that could create issues or be one of the best turnarounds we’ve seen.
If Mullen wants to go to the NFL then go. Strickland should already be speaking to Bob Stoops at this point. Meyer is going to Jax. Let Johnson test Boise he deserves the shot.
Yall can give up 30 points/game and 450 yards and that would be a tremendous turnaround. Still won’t make you a competitive team but vastly improved on d for sure
This is hilarious. All this fake “controversy” about Mullen’s press conferences and so called “trouble” reminds me of another made up controversy when Steele transferred out. Just like today, back then the media and our rivals constructed this chicken little scenario about doom and gloom for UF. Time proved them wrong and same will happen this time around. Wonder why Kirby wasn’t on Keith’s list of coaches?
Dan Mullen is coach of the year, Georgia Morons are in a tizzy
Dawg fans are not in a “tizzy” about Dan Mullen. We are in awe. We just didn’t see how an idiot savant would ever win coach of the year. Mullen is a pretty good coach………………..with a pretty severe personality disorder. The good news is there are quite a few UF fans, like yourself, who clearly identify with that sort of thing.
Well, you’ve certainly got that delusional problem down to a science. You just lost you’re center and wow just wow you’ve got a better one beneath him. If that’s possible then you’re coach doesn’t know what he’s doing or the fan base is delusional. You can’t deny both.
Perfect point about the back ups. To be fair though I have heard this common refrain from every fan base.
Its called player development. By your logic, the players from the 70s are better than the players of today. Also, our center had some troubles with a shotgun snap, which is kinda crucial at the position.
In awe yes but in truth totally obsessed. Mullen is much more than pretty good, he is one of the best but UGA fan will deny this and call him all kinds of names to try and feel better. In the mean time Kirby keeps recruiting all the best players in the planet and keeps falling short of that mythical NC (mythical for UGA). Best players but each year further away from an NC. Less with more personified
I’ll ask again, if Kirby went 10-3, 11-2 and then followed those up with an 8-4 record that including a 3 consecutive game losing streak, the 5th by that university in the last decade btw…would you say that Kirby is improving or regressing as a coach?
Mullen is good, not great. He’s nothing special (from a coaching standpoint). There’s dozens of good coaches and a handful of great ones. And no, I’m not implying Kirby is great.
Mullen did a good job this year. He’s not coach of the year material, compared to some others out there. I’d even pick Saban over Mullen for that award. Him being named coach of the year, by any medium is a joke. But unless it’s an AP award, who really cares?
Jellyfish have lived millions of years without a brain, and Dan Mullen can too!
Dan Mullen has a brilliant mind. He just has little control of his tongue.
Okay I’ll admit, I know he has a brain. But is it not the brain that controls the tongue? I think brilliant is waaaay too generous.
Nature Gator, your comments about Mullen apply to yourself…w/ exception to brilliant mind.
Booches, maybe you are a jellyfish. That explains a lot.
On second thought, well see now I’m two ahead of you.
Yeah, that makes all the sense in the world.
Classic!
Do the SDS writers for the pages of the other SEC teams spend 99 percent of their time writing negative articles about the programs they cover? Mullen was in the running for the COY until the LSU debacle…made worse by the Oklahoma “scout team” performance. Mullen has a great football mind, but his tongue is high school like. Scott Stricklin needs a bunch of sit downs with him and Mullen needs to take some professional speaking courses if he stays the HC at UF. I hope he does both and hires multiple dynamic coaches who can recruit and enjoy doing it. Start with hiring Tavaris Robinson.
This article just kind of fell into their lap. Tough to name someone coach of the year when they were in the running for the CFPs then lose 3 in a row and one to a team with a losing record. That made them finish 4th best in the conference.
I assume the votes were due before the LSU game?
Thank you
Where’s the gator fan on here that is always telling us that PFF sux.
Good one but even a sucky squirrel gets it right once in a while
JTF, I’ve stated before that they are a bunch of geeks that simply look at numbers. Now I’m not sure how they get their info. Maybe a dart board?
I wonder if Mullen’s agent had any influence on this award. It sets up nicely for his desire to go to the NFL. Mullen is an excellent offensive schemer, top 3-4 for sure. But, being a HC involves so much more than that. He’s above average at most of it. Well below average at some. He’s a very good HC, but there’s many other HC’s that are more deserving of this accolade this year.
Most NFL exec’s are pretty smart, they’re not going to give 2 squirts about this award. In fact it wouldn’t surprise me (IFF) Mullen ever gets an NFL interview if the first or second question is “Tell me how as the HC of the Jets you wont lose to a 3-win team at home with a Playoff birth on the line?” He’ll probably say “Because there wont be a playoff birth on the line. I smell sloppy joe’s are we having sloppy joe’s after this!”
You can see the people who actually understand football see how awesome Mullen is, as this much deserved reward shows. Congrats Coach Mullen!
Those last 3 games was true coaching genius. Amazing. Fla should extend him immediately. Please.
*were. This site needs an edit function
8-4, while losing 3 straight to finish, and Cousin Eddie is COY?
Some in the Media have finally started backing off from their love of all things Dan Mullen. Some obviously have not. Unreal!
I saw this and thought I was reading The Onion. IMO he has been an embarrassment since the LSU game. He took no accountability or even acknowledged the shoe toss, whined about 20k fans in Texas,threw Trask under the bus in words and actions, made excuses about getting his a$$ whipped by Okla. His true co.ors are showing. Who would want to play for a guy like that?
He was an embarrassment well before the LSU game.
I’ve reached the same place with Mullen that I had reached with Malzahn…Dont understand why he is so overrated but hoping he stays put. Fla may beat Ga or Ala every now and then but they won’t ever be great with Mullen. Hes too worried about himself.
Sad. I won’t be taking them seriously again.
I’d say Chadwell from Coastal, or Freeze. Both had crazy good seasons and played a hell of a bowl game as well.
Let me get this straight….Lost to a mediocre Tx a&m team, lost the sec championship game, got blown out in the bowl game and incited a riot in a regular season game…and you win coach of the year?!?!?!?? OOOOOK… I guess it goes hand in hand with 2020. LOL!!!
Roll Tide!