MULLEN WANTS HULK NOT BANNER

The coach was looking for metaphors they might understand after seeing his team play a bit too soft in the first couple weeks of the season. Of course, when you're 46, sometimes you have to try a couple times to find something that resonates with 18- to 22-year-olds.

"We’ve got to be tougher as a team. We’ve got to get a little, I was (thinking) like a Jekyll and Hyde mentality," Mullen said Monday. "They understood the Incredible Hulk a little bit more. Around campus, we should be like Dr. Banner, you know what I mean? I mean, come to see you guys, ‘Hi. Great, professor. Hey doctor, good to see you. Yes ma’am, no sir, thank you, yes please, no thank you.’" Read more here: 247Sports.com