Well, it is offi­cial now. Mis­sis­sippi State Uni­ver­sity has a new foot­ball coach — Dan Mullen. Mr. Mullen was most recently the offen­sive coör­di­na­tor at the Uni­ver­sity of Florida. That’s right, MSU fans! The guy who led the Florida offense to one of their most suc­cess­ful records has been tapped as the new head coach for the Bull­dogs! I don’t know about you, but I’m very excited about next year’s prospects.

Mullen, 36, comes to Mis­sis­sippi State from the Uni­ver­sity of Florida, where he has spent the past four years as offen­sive coör­di­na­tor and quar­ter­backs coach. Dur­ing his time in Gainesville, Mullen has directed the Gator offense to con­sec­u­tive top fin­ishes among South­east­ern Con­fer­ence offenses.  Florida ranked first in the SEC in scor­ing offense and total offense in 2008, aver­ag­ing 45.2 points and 442.4 yards per game. And under Mullen’s tute­lage in 2007, UF led the league with an aver­age of 42.5 points and 457.2 yards per con­test.  (MstateAth­let­ics)

If Mr. Mullen can turn State’s pro­gram around, we could poten­tially go on to be a major con­tender in the SEC next year. Just look at what Hous­ton Nutt did with Olé Miss. I believe Dan Mullen can do that with MSU. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.