The crowd in Biloxi was fully aware who each speaker was as they needlessly introduced each other.
Dan Mullen is the head coach of the football team – the football team that rose all the way to No. 1 last fall and will start its next campaign with a Heisman frontrunner. Vic Schaefer is the women’s basketball coach who was the surprise star of the SEC this year, getting his team into the Top 15 and to the second round of the NCAA Tournament in only his third year. Ben Howland, the new men’s basketball coach, may have the best resume of them all, plus he just signed one of the top five high school players in the country barely one month into the job.