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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2009
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tim Tebow, Florida quarterback, hugs then-offensive coordinator Dan Mullen after the BCS Championship game in January 2009. Mullen, now head coach at Mississippi State, and Tebow must sheltel their friendship this weekend as they compete against each other in Starkville, Miss.
Good friends, opposite sidelines
NCAA FOOTBALL
BY CHRISTALBOTT
Associated Press
JACKSON, Miss. — It used to be Dan Mullen's job to build Tim Tebow up. Now, the Mississippi State coach's task is to tear down the Florida quarterback.
Such is life in major college football when good friends don different team colors.
"We were close," Tebow said. "I don't think it was necessarily that
tough (losing him). It was because we missed him, we wanted him here. But at the same time, I knew that he wanted a head coaching job. He wanted that next goal, that next task, that next thing that he could go out there and accomplish, and that was being a head coach."
With Mullen as his offensive coordinator, Tebow led the Gators to two national titles and won the Heisman Trophy.
While coaches and players spend a lot of time in each other's company, they're rarely friends. Players come and go it's a coach's job to get the most out of them while they're on campus.
Mullen and Tebow, though, are buds through and through. Their families are close. During the off-season, they picked up the phone to catch up. And though both are consumed with the trials of football season right now, they do find
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"I've always kind of had those kind of guys that really want to spend extra time in the office trying to become better players. That kind of where it went," Mullen said. "For Tim and I, Tim is one of those players who wants to be the best he can be, so he would spend as much time around as he could, trying to learn. And when you spend that much time together, obviously you get a great relationship."
The odds of Mississippi State knocking off the No. 2 Gators (6-0, 4-0 Southeastern Conference) are long. But the Bulldogs (3-4, 1-2) think that close relationship may help them.
Mullen didn't really get to know Tebow until the top prospect finally committed to the Gators. Another coach was assigned to recruit him and Mullen entered the process late.
"No one knows Tebow's weaknesses better than coach Mullen does," defensive back Maurice Langston said. "If anyone is going to be able to break him apart it's going to be coach Mullen."
"We were there Sunday morning," Mullen said. "LSU was pulling in the driveway as we were leaving and then Alabama was going to be there all day on Monday. He was making his decision on Tuesday. I know it was pretty tense because he was the quarterback of the future and as you look right now he was a guy that had to come in and be the guy right away."
Mullen only had two scholarship quarterbacks on the roster at the time and the stakes were so high, he went to his office, locked the door and watched Tebow make the call on television.
It was one of the last times Mullen's office would be locked. The 6-foot-3, 245-pound quarterback practically lived in there the next three years.
"I think a lot of Tim has rubbed off on me and I'm sure some of me has rubbed off on Tim," Mullen said. "I don't know if Day 1 we were completely similar. I think our competitiveness is very similar. Tim had the opportunity to be a great quarterback and he probably felt I would do a great job developing him, so we had that great working relationship."
That relationship has been so symbiotic it pushed the friends to new heights in their careers.
Some consider Tebow the best college football player ever and it's hard to argue with the All-American's success. First sophomore to win the Heisman and a two-time finalist. Only player to pass for and rush for 20 touchdowns in a season. In his three seasons with Mullen, he threw for 6,390 yards and 67 touchdowns and rushed for 2,037 yards with 43 scores.
"It's going to be great to see Tim because I love Tim and I'll hopefully get a chance to say hello to him briefly before or after the game, he and his family," Mullen said. "I think that would be fantastic. But as far as on the field I don't know that anybody really jumps up and down and jumps, I can't wait to see Tim Tebow on the other sideline."
Now Mullen is going to try to beat the stuffing out of his friend.
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Kenney, hired Thursday, spent the past five seasons as assistant trainer for the Cleveland Indians and was part of a staff that was voted in 2007 as the best in baseball by the Professional Baseball Athletic Trainers Society and Baseball Prospectus.
Kenney also worked for seven seasons as the head trainer for the Cincinnati Cyclones minor league hockey team and two years as program manager of sports medicine for TriHealth, the official medical provider for the Reds.
He replaces Nick Swartz, who retired after 33 years with the club.
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