re: Mullen Burns Bridges with Texas High School Coaches

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This is all hilarious to me. Every one of the SEC schools offers some recruits gray shirts when the numbers get tight and kids and coaches get pissed about it. College football is a business plain and simple. It sucks for Virgil but he is a very good qb and had several offers from power 5 schools and he will be fine in the end. How many times do kids decommit at the last minute and have coaches scrambling? We didn't pull his scholarship. We asked him to gray shirt and go on scholly next January. It sucks for the kid but Mullen isn't the only one that does this. Get off your high horses Lawdy

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It might be business as usual in the rest of the SEC, but here in Texas high school coaches see themselves as important gatekeepers to the state's most precious resource. Much like a group of women if you frick over one they will all hear what a jerk you are and your program will be shut out whenever they can.

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This shite is a business...coach needs to get over it. No room for feelings.

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Maybe that is the way it "should" be, but to these high school coaches it is personal. They WILL make sure EVERYONE knows what you did, as they are all a tight knit group.

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Why did he put "coach" in quotation marks?

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Because he obviously thinks that Mullen doesn't deserve to be called a coach. I don't think you southern boys know how much this hurt him. Think about if someone came along and said the Confederacy was a dumb idea, the Bible is made up and Ronald Reagan was an idiot. The level of anger you would get to wouldn't get close to this coach or any of his coaching buddies.