Dan Mullen is transferring out of the published sales space and again onto the sidelines.
In response to a number of experiences, the previous Florida and Mississippi State coach is about to be the following coach at UNLV. Mullen has been working as an analyst for ESPN’s school soccer protection for the previous three seasons.
The Rebels went 10-3 in 2024 and want to interchange Barry Odom as he left for Purdue. Like Mullen, Odom was additionally beforehand a head coach within the SEC.
Mullen was fired with a recreation remaining within the 2021 season as Florida was 5-6. The Gators gained 21 video games in his first two seasons with the group earlier than the college went 8-4 and went to the SEC title recreation in 2020. However Florida misplaced three straight video games to finish that season and that development continued in 2021.
Florida misplaced 5 of its final seven video games underneath Mullen, together with as a three-score favourite to South Carolina.
Earlier than teaching at Florida, Mullen was the top coach at Mississippi State for 9 seasons. The Bulldogs put collectively their longest bowl streak in class historical past underneath Mullen as they went to postseason video games in every of his final eight seasons after going 5-7 in 2009. Earlier than Mullen arrived in Starkville, Mississippi State had by no means gone to greater than three bowl video games in a row.
The Bulldogs famously have been No. 1 within the first-ever set of School Soccer Playoff rankings in 2014 on the way in which to a 10-3 season. MSU completed the season at No. 7 within the remaining rankings earlier than shedding the Orange Bowl to Georgia Tech.
Earlier than taking the MSU job, Mullen was a longtime assistant underneath City Meyer. He coached with Meyer at Bowling Inexperienced, Utah and Florida, serving because the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for the Gators.
At UNLV, Mullen takes over a program that’s posted consecutive profitable seasons for the primary time since 1983 and 1984. A win within the LA Bowl later this month will give the Rebels their first 11-win season in 40 years. UNLV has gained 19 video games in Odom’s two seasons after profitable simply 20 video games complete from 2017 by means of 2022.
