A New Leader, a New Hunger

Many of you have begged and pleaded that I return to my blog spot and start back writing again. In secret, I was just testing each and every one of you to see how committed you really were. Once again I would like to say thanks for all the support and concerns about my lack of blogging here of late. Truth be told, I have been so bogged down with school work that I have barely had time to write anything that wasn’t for class. With that being said, I have no excuse and will continue to inform you about my opinions on sports today.

In the beginning of August I made some pretty darn bold World Series predictions. I predicted the Yankees and the Dodgers in the World Series. Not knowing that the Cards and Dodgers would have to play each other in the first round disabled me from knowing that the Phillies would sneak back into the World Series (See post below). In reality I did chose the Yankees to win the World Series and will now wait for you all to applaud my expert prediction… Thank you, I do work hard at this.

On another older post I gave you my predictions/ evaluations of the Ole Miss offense. In my sloppy state of being a so called blogger I didn’t even close the deal of at least doing an Ole Miss Defense preview. For that I give my sincere apologies. And on another note, is it to late for me to go back on some of my evaluations of the Ole Miss offense and critique it a bit? It sure does need it.

But what’s the main topic of this blog, especially with the title? It deals with a man that many called a “savior” and many called a “goof” at the beginning of the season. Dan Mullen is the person I speak of. A native of Manchester, New Hampshire, Mullen was not raised a southern gentleman. Though Mullen didn’t grow up in the south his character of being a hard working, intelligent, sincere individual has already started paying dividends at Mississippi State University.

Dan the Man went to the Ursinus College where he lettered twice as a tight end. After graduation, Mullen took his first head coaching job at Wagner College where he coached Wide Receivers. Coach Mullen’s coaching career consist of then going to Colombia(WR), Syracuse(GA), Notre Dame(GA), Bowling Green(QB), Utah(QB)(coached under Urban Meyer and took Utah to a BCS bowl), Florida(OC/QB)(helped the Gators win multiply national titles).

Coach Mullen has taken a program that was on the brink of destruction and slowly started moving it in the right direction. Any reasonable person would say “Rome wasn’t built in a day” and so goes the Bulldogs football team. It is yet to be seen if Mullen will make the Mississippi State Bulldogs a national powerhouse, but coach Mullen has shown to be wise amongst his years.

In Mullen’s first season as the Bulldogs head coach, State has had one of the hardest schedules in recent history. The home front has been nice for the fans to go and enjoy big named schools, but Mullen’s crop of players have not yet been able to be picked. Dan has lead the Bulldogs to two SEC wins this year, that ties the totally amount won in the whole Bulldog’s season last year. Through consistent leadership, passion, hunger, and will to win, Coach Mullen and the Bulldog team feel the future is more than bright in Starkville, Mississippi.