Venables press conference

[Soonerborn59]

In his lates press conference he was asked about the OC search and specifically Dan Mullens. This is what he said below.

Later, Venables was asked directly about former Florida and Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen and if the job was Mullen's if he wanted it.

"I'm not going to comment about the details of the search," Venables said. "I reached out to him a year ago."

OU football coach Brent Venables says he reached out to Dan Mullen about past OC opening

OU coach Brent Venables declined to say whether or not Dan Mullen was a candidate for the Sooners' current open offensive coordinator job.

sports.yahoo.com

Makes me wonder now if SL was his only option at that point.

 

[Soonerborn59]

This below was also reported by someone over at DB. However Teddy Lehman seems to think Mullens is still going to be the new OC.

On KREF yesterday, they interviewed some blogger (forget which one) who was in Tulsa to cover their game. He managed to get a little convo with Mullen. He asked him about the OU OC position, and Mullen reacted strongly, saying something along the lines of "I'm not an OC, I'm a Head Coach. Ask me about HC positions, not OC ones".

 

[Soonerborn59]

Here is one last article on Mullens and BV. I tend to agree with this person that I highly doubt Mullens would be interested after turning it down last season. As the article says, he has his eyes on being a HC again.

MSN