GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Florida coach Dan Mullen likes to be hands-on with his offense. As he explains it, if he's not, it can create a stressful work environment.

Mullen laughed as he joked about what things might look like if he didn't call plays, explaining things to a crowd of a few hundred gathered inside Florida's indoor practice facility on Wednesday evening.

"The assistant coaches like it," he said. "Because if I don’t call the plays and we go three-and-out I can then say, 'Is that the best we can call? That’s awful. Is that really the best we could come up with with those plays?'"

Mullen's system has been well-crafted over the last nine years. He's had the same staff around him for quite some time.

He seeks input from co-coordinators John Hevesy and Billy Gonzales between each series, getting a feel for what the defense is doing.

"I call plays, but it is very unique in how we do it because we’ve been together so long," Mullen said. "Believe it or not, a lot of times, even though John and Billy are kind of the co-offensive coordinators, a lot of times when I’m with the defense Brian (Johnson) might even be the one who calls the plays when I’m on defense because he’s upstairs, getting all that stuff to the quarterbacks.

The trio seem to have a great working connection, and the Bulldogs were very good on offense over the last few years. Mullen seems to know right when to call things.

And when things don't work out, his guys rag him a little bit with his own words ... 'is that really the best you can call?'

"Now they laugh because I still stay that, but they’re like, 'Well, you’re the one who called them,'" Mullen said. "But I love calling plays. I called plays for four years when I was here before. I love to call plays so I’ll keep calling plays."

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