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 like the balcony idea given the recent attendance issues. I’m excited we’ve got a 6:30 opener instead of 11:00. Don’t like the fact we play Arizona at 10:30 PM week 2 then go to LSU and don’t have another home game until 9/24. But I do like having UGA at home in November for the Veterans Day recognition game.

The NIL and other crap is sucking the life out of college football for me more and more each year. I like tailgating and taking the kids. All that to say I’m about a 6/10.

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.

In addition to the balconies I’d like to see them go ahead and close the south end zone with the hotel concept. Not really add seating but a rooftop bar with field view would be nice. Of course there would be some issues with the bar and rooms overlooking the field during closed practices.

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.

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Will I watch? Most likely but being enthusiastic about it, not so much especially if State ends up being in the West playing Texas, OU, A&M, Mizzou, even arkansas to an extent more regularly than traditional SEC teams like Auburn, Bama, etc. that would just totally suck.

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Yea they need to keep traditional division rivalries. I want to play Auburn LSU Ole Miss every year. Indifferent on Bama though

I see MSU's ceiling at 9-3. Don't get why people are writing them off. I'm not the biggest Will Rogers fan but if he can keep improving and Cross' replacement is just decent then I could easily see the offense being at least as good as last year.

Not writing them off at all. We are winning the west.

As you know, One of my best friends is a MSU guy, and he will be my guest at the Bama game. So I keep up decently.

I think you have every right to be excited about this season. I can see you being 7-0 coming into T-Town.

- I believe you will have a top 10 defense. Remember, Leach has never had a defense because he was in leagues that didn't have the recruiting for it. The whole "Leach doesn't play good defense" is flawed. Ms St is not going to have a horrible defense.

- The offense was close to breaking out. The consistency of the run game is the main issue. When rushing 3, the OL and the RBs have to make them pay. Solve that, and the bigs will have a hard time and you will have a chance to win.


Who is the major concern?

Bama? Yeah, we will be nasty this year.

UGA? Yes, they recruit well, but look at the major losses on that defense. There's opportunity there.

LSU... You lost by 2... your return 18 starters and they return what ...5?


TAMU, you beat... And you have them at home.

Ark.... You beat them all over the field. You missed what, 4 FGs? Lost by 3? On the Road? They have lost Burks and more.

I just don't see how, with a much improved defense (I expect top 10) how you don't win 9.



BTW... thanks for allowing me to post on this board from time to time.

Cohen ruined womens bball

He knows baseball so credit to him there. Everything else he has been meh. Leach is decent, we will see if he still has enough fire in him next 2 seasons to win 9+ games like he is known to do

This should be his breakout year. Georgia, OM should take a step back this year. Auburn sucks. LSU is rebuilding. Arky and UK will be tough. Aggie too. Bama is Bama

If we can get the leach upsets this year minus the head scratching losses we can win 9-10 games