"Hey coach, Welcome back to Florida. Quick questions for you. First one is 'do you have a dog named Claire-a-bell?'" the fan asked.

As fans began to laugh, Mullen responded somewhat incredulously.

"A dog? I have a dog named Heisman." (o snap!)

The room exploded with laughter, having a good time at former coach Jim McElwain's expense. McElwain, of course, won fans over with his confidence early on in his tenure when he said at his opening press conference that he believed he could win with his dog playing quarterback.

Of course, after three years of poor quarterback play, that turned into a running jibe at McElwain.

So naturally the ensuing question from the fan was even more pointed.

"All right. The next question is you can get into your playbook and this and that, just promise me on 2nd and 9 it won't be a running play."

As fans laughed again, Mullen smiled and answered.

"We'll have some fun in what we do," Mullen said. "Like you've seen me call plays. I Jedi mind-trick people. Right? Like I used to back in the day I'd have like, Tebow would run out and we'd run a quarterback play, then I'd run a quarterback run without him.

"I did have a great call in the 2006 SEC Championship Game. You probably don't remember. We're driving against Arkansas later in the game. (Tim) Tebow goes out and runs a play. I pull him out and it's 3rd down and 8. I run Chris Leak out there and call a quarterback draw and he just walks into the end zone. Because they're like 'this guy's not dumb enough to take Tebow out and put Chris in for a running play.'"