Florida fires Dan Mullen + rivalry week

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🗓️ 22 November 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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It's official, Dan Mullen is out at Florida. Andy Staples and David Ubben react to the news on Football & Grits. Andy asked Florida AD Scott Stricklin about realistic expectations a Florida. Who is on the shortlist to replace Mullen? Ole Miss HC Lane Kiffin could be on the short list. Plus, it's rivalry week! The Egg Bowl will take center stage on Thanksgiving and the Iron Bowl could get weird at Jordan-Hare.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to football and grids.
0:20.4	The season is winding down, but Andy, we are only winding. Hello and welcome to football and grids.
0:25.3	The season is winding down, but Andy, we are only winding up.
0:28.8	I'm your host, David Ubin, here with my co-host, as always, Andy Staples.
0:33.8	Already an eventful weekend after the game, Stan Mullen is out as quarter coach.
0:38.1	David, you mean the season is winding down, but the carousel's heating up?
0:41.1	I think that's probably about right.
0:45.5	We could be headed for a very epic carousel season.
0:53.5	USC, LSU, Florida, already on the board to say nothing of TCU and Virginia Tech, which are both good jobs as well.
0:56.5	Texas Tech already filled, of course, Joey McGuire.
1:04.2	But a very, very interesting entrance into this, not really unpredictable.
1:05.9	It's been trending this way for a while.
1:13.2	Andy, I'm torn with this one with, with Dan Mullen, okay?
1:14.4	And here's why.
1:16.3	I get it.
1:17.2	I really do.
1:18.3	I get it.
1:22.4	I get that this makes sense in a lot of ways, the consternation.
1:25.3	This season was also unacceptable.
1:32.1	But here's where I'm kind of, is, okay, you have Dan Mullen,
1:38.8	21 games in his first two years, top 10 finishes both years. He beats Georgia, wins the East in year three. Year four, obviously disastrous, you know, situation all around and you're out.
1:44.9	I did not get to ask Scott Strickland a question during the press conference.
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