GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida coach Dan Mullen was relaxing at his Lake Oconee vacation home when the bombshell broke that Texas and Oklahoma planned to leave the Big 12 for the SEC.
Mullen was both blindsided and incredulous.
“I was surfing or doing something, hanging out there, and I saw some report,” he recalled. “I mean I’ve heard that report before. It happened a couple of years ago that there was a report that all this different stuff happened.