Fans, media react to SEC's punishment for Dan Mullen following Florida-Missouri brawl
The SEC announced punishment for those involved in the Florida-Missouri Brawl on Saturday, including a $25,000 fine for coach Dan Mullen.
Florida defensive lineman Zach Carter and linebacker Antwuan Powell will be suspended for the first half of next week’s game vs. Georgia.
The SEC also suspended Missouri linebacker Chad Bailey, offensive lineman Dylan Spencer and defensive lineman Markell Utsey for the first half of the Tigers’ next game vs. Georgia. The Tigers are idle this upcoming week.
SEC fans were quick to point out the $25,000 fine for Mullen is the same amount the conference fined Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin last week for some ill-advised tweeting.
Here’s some of the reaction to this news from the SEC:
Dan Mullen ran on the field in a rage which caused a brawl between his team and Missouri and he gets fined 25K. @Lane_Kiffin barely complains about a critical officiating mistake which cost his team a win over AU and he gets fined 25K.
How are those infractions the same fine? https://t.co/a4LgZbvw4P
— Austin Barbour (@Austin_Barbour) November 2, 2020
Lane Kiffin (officiating complaints last week) and Dan Mullen (his role in the Mizzou-Florida fight Saturday) were both fined $25,000.
Awaiting word on if Mullen will also want to pay his fine in pennies.
— Peter Baugh (@Peter_Baugh) November 2, 2020
If Mullen’s stunt shook his team from a funk last weekend, and got them ready for the Cocktail Party, that’s $25K well spent. https://t.co/taj7yZNXsD
— Matt Hayes (@MattHayesCFB) November 2, 2020
Dan Mullen has been fined $25,000 and Zachary Carter and Antwaun Powell have been suspended for the first half of the Georgia game. It definitely could've been worse for the Gators. https://t.co/0jtNFLc9Da
— Ethan Hughes (@ehughes97) November 2, 2020
Dan Mullen should be out the first half too… He is a CLOWN
— Zach Chastain (@zchastain) November 2, 2020
So @LaneKiffin retweets a tweet about the referees being wrong (after they admit being wrong) and gets the same fine as a Dan Mullen inciting a riot then doing the postgame presser dressed as Darth Vader. Sounds about right. https://t.co/vCrv5z94Hv
— #LiveLikeLucas (@VegasRebs) November 2, 2020
So Dan Mullen is fined $25,000 for his role in the Missouri-Florida brawl. Same fine Lane Kiffin got for retweeting about a blown referee's call last week – a tweet the league agreed with.
So, tweeting about (correct) refereeing is worse than helping instigate an all out brawl?
— Aaron Torres (@Aaron_Torres) November 2, 2020
I can’t see how a 25K fine actually hurts Dan Mullen or Florida therefore I think that’s a pretty weak decision by the SEC.
— Jeremy Birmingham (@Birm) November 2, 2020
https://twitter.com/HardCoreMoe/status/1323322035255283712
https://twitter.com/big__bam/status/1323321889738137601
Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin (after hitting retweet last week on Twitter) and Florida head coach Dan Mullen (who was involved and one could argue enflamed a bench-clearing brawl at halftime this week) were fined the same amount of money by the Southeastern Conference.
— Matthew Stevens (@matthewcstevens) November 2, 2020
League should have fined the clown Dan Mullen $250k so maybe he would get it through his (apparently) thick skull that he is the adult in the room and and should be setting an example for his players. https://t.co/r7P7MbxN99
— Rob Clark (@flubug) November 2, 2020
But yet, Dan Mullen who instigated the entire thing, gets away with just a $25,000 fine…and more Missouri players suspended than Florida players…Florida players were the ones throwing punches and connecting. You had video review to get this right…and did NOT https://t.co/r5IM8Bp9Pj
— Amish With An iPad (@mhmiller) November 2, 2020
Duly noted Sankey.
Love this Ethan Hughes quote “Dan Mullen has been fined $25,000 and Zachary Carter and Antwaun Powell have been suspended for the first half of the Georgia game. It definitely could’ve been worse for the Gators…”
Uhh, no it couldn’t, Stankey and Stickland are fraternally intertwined…this was as little as Greg could do and not be accused of favoritism by an Ole Miss coach not in the frat…pennies from heaven Dan…pay the man and move on
Sorry you think the fix was in Hump. Based on the replay, perhaps you could list one other Gator player who was throwing punches and should be suspended.
I agree it could have been worse for us only because the league office has been known to make bad decisions just like it’s refs do all the time. But this time they got it right
Good deal. Lesson learned and let’s move on.
Nope LSUMC not good enough. 25,000 isnt enough for the pain and suffering the Mizzou fans went through in that game.
Wow you just blew your cover with the Gator icon pal.
Has nothing to do with pain or suffering. Has to do with the fact that 25k is walk-around money for a guy like Mullen.
lol.
You think Missouri fans will move on? You’re kidding yourself
Mullen gets a “reprimand” which = You would be suspended if you weren’t playing GA next. Like the rest of this conference, Sankey talks a tough game but when the rubber meets the road he shrivels up and has no balls.
Do not feed this troll.
I’m sorry my comments frighten you.
Frighteningly stupid you mean.
Yep Booches.
When was the last time a coach was suspended in the SEC? That’s silly talk.
People are using the word riot pretty loosely nowadays.
Inciting a riot, that in itself is a riot
Got a laugh out of this. Getting dressed down implying Mullen had lost control. This from Greg Spankey who refuses to admit he has a mess with the officiating. Get better crews including obviously the review guys upstairs and it will go a long way to avoiding this junk. Bad officiating leads to tempers. Will Spankey fine himself for being inept?
Not gonna lie, I was really worried that a lot more would come out of this. It sure seemed like more players had thrown punches on both sides, and an assistant coach for Missouri if I’m not mistaken. I thought more Missouri players would have been suspended and more Florida players and that Mullen would get a bigger fine for the way he acted. I also thought they would be full game suspensions. Honestly, I would be pissed if I was Lane Kiffin.
In the end it, I’ve never seen a brawl I was more ticked about. Because frankly, I don’t care about Missouri, Florida doesn’t really care about Missouri, the first thought I had when this thing started to go down was how it would affect the game against Georgia. Also how this was one more mark against Mullen for a lot of fans who don’t appreciate the way he has acted lately, especially if he can’t back it up with a championship. The first step towards a title being to beat Georgia.
Part of me believes him when he says he was just pissed when he heard his QB was hit late, he said his eyes were downfield because that’s where the play was (it makes sense). But to follow that up the way he did with what little info he had according to his presser post game, doesnt make sense to me.
It was an obvious missed call, anyone watching knows that’s a late, unnecessary hit on Trask, especially to his upper body. But if you didnt see it, how are you freaking out on the refs?
It was the right response with the wrong reasoning to back it up in my eyes. Hopefully this just fires up the team and the defense keeps Uga in check the way it did Mizzou. Bc if that’s the case, this weekend will be a W no doubt.
Nothing Mullen said made any sense, other than just pulling whatever he could out of his ass to try and justify is own psycho behavior. He put himself between a rock and a hard place and was desperate to just say something and like you said, it didn’t add up. All he did was solidify he’s not only is he a lunatic but a liar. Decent coach but man, not much else.
It all started with the infamous I wasn’t part of the decision but I’m just thrilled to have 5* Jeffrey “the woman basher” Simmons as part of our family Starkville lie and he’s been doubling down ever since…a walking talking car salesman of a pos and he’ll never change, but hey, as long as he wins
Mullen and MSU were correct on Simmons. He was nothing but a model citizen at MSU, and since.
Perhaps, may want to ask a certain offensive lineman about the man’s character one short year into his professional life, but that really has nothing to do regarding the point that Mullet continues to double down on stupid unnecessary lies…
Asked why Simmons received only a one-game suspension and wasn’t forced to sit out a year and prove himself, Mullen said, “That was all an administration decision.”
Sure it was Dan, not involved at all in the decisions…let’s go with that…just lije he was on the field last Saturday to calm the situation…
You don’t like Mullen. We get it.
Thanks for confirming, I’d shudder to think if someone thought otherwise
Yo humper don’t let your hate for Mullen make you take sides with the Morons on this site (Corch, TDOW, Booches, et al) lest you be mistaken for a Moron yourself
I appreciate your concern mee palley, I really do! …but I must admit, as long as my bride continues to think I’m the greatest man in the world I can deal with what people who don’t really know me care to think. That being said, you n me will always be palleys no matter how moronic you or I may sound on occasion. Stay safe out there mi compadre…Mullet is a lying pos
You’re mistaken. The Mizzou coach was getting punched by gators.
I’m “fine” with Mullen’s fine, but the comparisons to Kiffin’s fine are ridiculuous – Kiffin should never have been fined in the first place!
Maybe people are failing to understand how they came up with the fine amount. The schools have already decided that the first offense is going to be a $25k fine. Its not like the SEC office is pulling numbers out of thin air. Just like rushing the field, publicly commenting on refs, etc., the school Presidents already agreed what the penalty will be beforehand. And don’t forget, at the end of the day, Stankey works for the schools.
Are you saying that the conf has a pre-determined arbitrary fine amount of $25K directed at coaches no matter the offense? Are you sure? If that’s true, that’s really dumb.
I’m stating that first offenses are normally going to get a $25k fine. We can argue all day whether fines should always be equal
Okay, you appear to be waffling on your initial statement. I just did a quick search and couldn’t find anything about pre-determined fines directed at coaches for various offenses as you were alluding to. all I could find were pre-set fines to enforce upon schools breaking covid requirements. Nothing about $25K either.
regarding the fines issued to kiffin and mullen…they were not pre-determined and were essentially pulled out of thin air.
Agreed.
LOVE ALL THIS SMOKE!!! AND DEFINETLY ENJOY THE SALTY MISSOURI FANS!!! ESPECIALLY THIS CRYBABY BOOCHES!!! DUDE HASNT SLEPT A WINK SINCE THE DRUMMING!!! HES ON EVERY GATOR ARTICLE SINCE SATURDAY NIGHT PLEADING HIS IRRELEVANT CASE!!! ALL THE CRYING IN THE WORLD WONT ERASE THAT BEAT DOWN!!! 41-17
lil po is a lil slow.
@booches Take a nap man!!! Your a lil cranky and delusional!!! Saturday night was a long day time ago!!!
Boo he complain about all thing SEC. He is still pining for the old SWC conference. You know they won that conference in 1969. Last time they have won a CC.
Mark Stoops ran up to refs after the Ole Miss game earlier this year in a rage and grabbed a ref by the arm and turned him around, yelling at him. No fine whatsoever.
I dont recall a brawl where punches were thrown in that game. Difference is the head coach should be motioning his players off the field and not leading them onto it. Thats why Mullen got fined. Not for yelling at the refs.
Exactly he seemed to escalate that whole deal cant wait until he comes to Auburn. He acted like a cry baby saying Derrick Brown was dirty because he hit Trask.. I guess anytime Trask gets hit Mullen is going into Crazy Cry Baby Mode.
Carter fighting during the Missouri game and now missing the first half might cost UF the UGA game. He is badly needed to help stop the UGA run game. And Powell will miss the first half…and the second half…because he never plays as a freshman and because UF is so deep at his position this year.
We can get by without Carter for the first half now that Kyrie Campbell is back in the middle.
I’m just really glad Stewart Reese didn’t get suspended. He was right at the center of it. It looks like they only suspended players clearly throwing punches, which probably hurt Missouri more because of the broadcast camera angle.
Come on man, Carter missing one half or even the whole game won’t make much of a difference. We are deep at his position and like Nash said Campbell in the middle is more important
I thought the same thing about the 2 fines. Funny how this brawl helps Georgia. All the players suspended will be against Georgia.
In two earlier UF games, former Alabama quarterback and certified Florida-hater Greg McElroy said during the broadcast that two penalties called on late hits on Trask should not have been called because Trask is so big and strong. What an ass. So Trask can be hit late until he sustains a season-ending injury? Does that rule apply to Alabama quarterbacks too or only Florida quarterbacks? The refs in the Mizzou game clearly think it applies only to Florida.
These fights used to happen either before, during, or after almost every rivalry game. Never heard them refered to as a “riot”. Lol. I guess thats the snowflake world we live in now.
Don’t think this one actually qualified as a riot imho, there were no blm Antifa signs or pharmacies, liquor and electronic stores involved
More like a peaceful protest then
Not enjoying enjoying your comment cojones, but that was funny.
The Twitter mob is comprised largely of sissies and snowflakes