His players haven’t started fall camp quite yet, but Dan Mullen bore a mark of the hard life of a football coach on Thursday as he addressed assembled Florida Gators media members prior to the beginning of Florida’s fall practice slate on Thursday evening with a bandage across his nose and between his eyes.
“I bumped my head on something” is about as specific as Mullen would get about the cause of the wound, though he did specify that it wasn’t a golf course-related injury — good, considering that he spent time this summer both caddying for son Canon and recording his first hole-in-one, which elicited a fantastic bit of shade from Steve Spurrier — and that he “passed concussion protocol.