Mentoring Ryan Silverfield Triggered Dan Mullen Flashbacks for Coach in Florida

photo credit: UNLV Athletics / Craven WhitlowThey may not even realize it, but Dan Mullen and Ryan Silverfield shared a connection long before their names were linked to the Arkansas football job this year – and we’re not talking about using the same agency for representation.

At no point have the two coaches even worked in the same conference, much less on the same staff. Perhaps the closest they ever were to overlapping came in 2005.

That’s when Mullen followed Urban Meyer to Gainesville and started laying the groundwork for the Gators to eventually win a pair of national titles. Just an hour and a half northeast from there, Silverfield landed his first Division I coaching gig that year.

The…