Thank you Urban Meyer!!

Wow! For all Florida fans and fans of any schools with former Florida assistants, that was a wild ride Saturday night and Sunday. I'm sure Louisville, Utah, and Oklahoma fans were having similar chest pains (pun intended) that I was having over this unusual situation. All of Bulldog Nation didn't know whether to cry or throw up. I watched ESPNEWS and followed Twitter and related blogs (thank you Kyle Veazey!) like my job depended on it for any bits of info leaking out from the Florida camp and possibly from the Dan Mullen camp. Dan seemed like a sure fit. He recruited most of their current players, knew all their offensive schemes and would easily slide right back into the Florida system. He obviously is turning his current team in a new direction and total attitude of leadership. His leadership is bleeding out of Starkville. Just go to a football game now in Starkvegas and you'll leave covered in maroon blood. It made perfect sense in my mind. But my heart screamed NOOOOO!!!!!!! And as the story progressed from resigning, to the scheduled press conference, to still never getting a straight answer on Coach Meyer's medical condition, and finally getting the leak that he's just taking a leave of absence, you could hear the collective bulldog nation suddenly start breathing again. As a physician, I and all my athletic prone doc friends are still totally bummfuzzled by what possible condition he may have, based on the limited symptoms he has stated and refuses to answer (that's another blog). And who knows if we may go through this again later this year. So many unknowns are still in this situation.

But...assuming this story stays as it is right now, the MSU Bulldogs came out riding so high. One word...recruiting. Who could ever have imagined this weird, theoretical, almost reality situation that literally almost put our coach as the head coach of Florida, one of the top football teams in the country! Imagine the potential 4-5 star recruits sitting in Jackson, Moss Point, Batesville (South Panola), and Hattiesburg looking on at this situation (least not forget the elephant in the room, Cameron Newton). So many little details tilt recruits one direction or another. Dan Mullen's profile and that of his current team has just been raised, again. This is only helpful for MSU. We should be hearing in the next few days from Cameron. Are you ready for 2010 MSU football? I am.


P.S. From Dixon, with love...