A view from the Mississippi State Bulldogs' sideline with Logan Lowery of Rivals.com:
1. Dan Mullen was not going to coach Mississippi State forever. Yet his departure seems to have caused a good bit of backlash. A narrative even exists coach Joe Moorhead is an upgrade. Why such hostile feelings for a man who turned the Bulldogs from an SEC doormat into a competitive program? How will Mullen be received Saturday in Starkville?
I'm expecting Mullen to receive a resounding round of boos when he returns to Starkville on Saturday. Some of the hostility stems from him taking most of his staff with him and leaving the Bulldogs with a bare-boned coaching staff going into the bowl game and also trying to convince several recruits to jump ship with him to Florida, which worked with Evan McPherson and Griffin McDowell.