re: State is in as bad of position as any SEC team, ever

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Anybody that unnecessarily runs up the score on them us a jerk.

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To avoid that y'all will have to take knees the entire second half.

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A State fan, folks.

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You're the one who brought up OM in a thread about State, dick.

Ole Miss gets good once in a millennium and acts like a dynasty. Cocky even when they are average or bad. Worst fans in the SEC.

Here’s my fear of Lebby if I was a Bulldog fan.

Starkville is his sixth stop in the last decade. He’s bounced around a lot recently, and CFB has changed a lot in that time. He hasn’t been anywhere long enough to witness program building, much less help build or maintain a program. He’s worked with a lot of different coaches in that time, but has he been anywhere long enough to form deep bonds or learn how to identify talented assistants, support staff, and analysts?

On the flip side, he was at Baylor for years as Art Briles built that program. He was also recently the OC on new staffs at UCF, Ole Miss, and OU. He does have recent experience walking into a new situation.

38.5 spread in a conference game is WILD.

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Not sure of that. South Carolina once lost 22 in a row

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The offense is improving. The OL looked way better vs FL.

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I don't think the OL looked better, Lebby just finally started running Shapen. Having watched Lebby call offenses with a partially broken Matt Corral in 2021, his running game absolutely relies on the threat of the QB to carry it. If the QB couldn't run it, the run game always struggled here at Ole Miss. Dude loves to run an undersized RB right up the middle.

Unfortunately Shapen didn't survive.

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You're the one who brought up OM in a thread about State, dick.

Ole Miss gets good once in a millennium and acts like a dynasty. Cocky even when they are average or bad. Worst fans in the SEC.

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I only brought it up in the context of why I don’t feel any sympathy toward State by and large, not just to bring it up. I’m sure that distinction is lost on you.

But you and your posts make my point absolutely, inarguably, crystal clear.

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MedDawg

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Ladies and gentleman, again, a State fan.

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I don't think the OL looked better, Lebby just finally started running Shapen. Having watched Lebby call offenses with a partially broken Matt Corral in 2021, his running game absolutely relies on the threat of the QB to carry it. If the QB couldn't run it, the run game always struggled here at Ole Miss. Dude loves to run an undersized RB right up the middle.

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Corral was a f'in warrior in 2021. He deserved that 2021 September Heisman trophy.

I may be wrong, but I feel like if the pirate were still leading the Cowbells he'd have them in position to take advantage of the 12 team playoffs every 2-3 seasons. Now it's kinda hard to imagine them even getting bowl eligible most years.

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Could you or someone else fill me in about what happened after Coach Leach tragically passed away? Why was there such a collapse?

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Leach took a spread offense and took three years to covert it to primarily air raid. QB that does nothing but sling, RB that is merely a check down Reciever, OL that only had to be good at pass blocking while playing spaced farther apart, and a roster loaded with receivers.

He essentially built a team that only he could run. And as soon as he did, snap. Gone. If the offense was another style, someone else could have stepped in and used the pieces, this offense is the only one that you couldn’t. First hurdle.

He died after the coaching carousel silly season and when everyone was in bowl prep. He dies at the absolutely worst time to suddenly need to find a coach. Second hurdle.

There was no AD in place when he dies to immediately try to make any moves. Third hurdle.

The staff in the AD and university president picks the DC.. a defensive coach… to run a completely pass based offense. Just like putting a tank commander in a jet fighter. Fourth hurdle.

That head coach alienated several players by informing them they would stick with the same scheme, even though he knew that was impossible, to get them to stay. First day of spring arose the truth and a new offense. Square peg.. round hole. Fifth hurdle.

That coach is dismissed, as expected, and transfers galore. Since it was expected he would be fired, he didn’t bother to recruit after Leach’s passing nor during his time there. State’s class was ranked in the mid to high 50’s when he was fired. Sixth hurdle.

Now we have a mish mash of players that have been thrown together in a patchwork to just field a team. With a schedule that almost looks like the SEC wanted to play a sadistic joke.

Annnd oh yea.. our starting QB.. best player on the team.. was just declared out for the season.

A cumulative number of “this is the worst time for this” has happened over and over throughout these past two years. It is a progression of sorrow, then frustration, to right out apathy that has made the buy in to NIL throughout the fanbase slow and arduous as well.