Dan Mullen’s Monday press conference after his Florida Gators fought Alabama to the end in a 31-29 loss over the weekend was about as happy as any one he’s had after a defeat.
No, he wasn’t chomping a cigar and telling assembled media members about how he had to fend off mighty Tennessee-Chattanooga to secure the labor of Nick Fitzgerald, but Mullen came to the podium in a decent mood — “I’m muted? Good, I can say anything I want,” he quips at the top of the video — and spent his 40 minutes in a Zoom call with Florida’s beat reporters in relatively good spirits.