On a scale from 1-10 how excited for football are you

Depends on the old age question.

Offensive Line?

If we are solid to good, we are going to have a good team. If we are mediocre to average we will have an average team.

The rest of the roster looks good. Schedule is tough but that is a given.

I think it is important that we come out of the starting gate 3-0. After that there are probably half a dozen crapshoot games. Depending on how those fall will determine our fate.

I posted something to this affect somewhere:

People are really not excited about Mississippi State football this year but why?

State returns more than almost anyone, record setting stuff happening on offense, defense had issues last year and that seems to be better with Davis coming back from injury and the influx of talent in the secondary. This team should be better than last year and it beat 2 teams that finished ranked a feat that took Mullen 9 years to accomplish.

Then, it's year 3 for Leach. His teams have always taken lots of time to get better due to the execution level this offense requires. His offense does not out athlete you but out execute you.

Easily two more wins last year with better kickers and that Memphis botched play. If WR's could have caught passes, OM game would have been different too.

So why so down?

Lackluster finish with losses to Ar, OM and the Bowl game no show.

People just don't like to watch the air raid, it can be boring watching dump pass after dump pass.

Lack of superstars. You just don't see any 1st round talent on this team. NO Jeffery Simmons types.

Swapped easy win Vandy for GA

A&M had #1 recruiting class

But:

Better special teams play, Leach has typically had good special teams and he has addressed it.

Older wins and this team is getting more mature. Our 19 year olds are not going to beat Alabama's 19 year olds but our 23 year olds might.

We should be excited to see what can happen, but we aren't. Maybe this is what is best. We always seem to do better when we have lower expectations.

3 or 4. We return a lot and a good Qb so normally I’d be excited but I worry Leach may be a wash up and of course we draw the toughest schedule in the nation. 7-5 is probably the ceiling if Leach doesn’t drop a head scratcher

Cohen has destroyed our athletics completely. Even baseball is now dead a year after a Natty.