StarkVegasSteve
09-23-2018, 11:51 AM
After taking 2.5-3 hours last night to be pissed off and think we may not win another game I still feel like we can save this season. It's not going to be easy, but we still have all the talent in the world. And after reading some other stuff from here and just around college football I've came to a few conclusions:
- Kentucky is probably a lot better than we gave them credit for. I still feel like we're probably the better team. But we were shown last night that we can't just roll into anywhere and outtalent teams. We gotta be willing to work. We're still Mississippi State. We still have to win by being tougher.
- We can still save the season. Heck our '98 team that won the West went to Stillwater and got beat down by an Ok State team who went on to win 5 games.Now I'm not under some grand fascination that we are still in the CFP race, but if we can shake it off and win our next two home games we're still 5-1 which is about where I thought we would be after 6 games. This is still a team that can make noise and win 8-9 games. However, if we lose Saturday this things can get sideways really fast.
- Moorhead has to show more emotion. He doesn't have to be Coach Boom or Buddy Stephens, but you have to fight for your players and I didn't see any of that last night when the refs were hosing us. And you have to corral your players when they're out of control and I didn't see him get in anyone's face after any of our 4 unsportsmanlike penalties. The team is gonna take the identity of their coach and no amount of 360 sideline dunks is gonna give this team more fight.
- KT probably needs to be the starter. Nick has given us some great moments, but at the end of the day to be successful running this offense the D has to think there's a chance you will pass on every play and with Nick starting teams are just gonna stack 7-8 in the box and take the chance that he won't be consistently accurate enough to beat them. Now saying that, I don't believe we'll make the change unless this season gets to going sideways and if that happens then I believe it'd be better for our future to play KT and live through the developmental curve.
- We're gonna know the direction of our program on the morning of Oct 7th.
- Kentucky is probably a lot better than we gave them credit for. I still feel like we're probably the better team. But we were shown last night that we can't just roll into anywhere and outtalent teams. We gotta be willing to work. We're still Mississippi State. We still have to win by being tougher.
- We can still save the season. Heck our '98 team that won the West went to Stillwater and got beat down by an Ok State team who went on to win 5 games.Now I'm not under some grand fascination that we are still in the CFP race, but if we can shake it off and win our next two home games we're still 5-1 which is about where I thought we would be after 6 games. This is still a team that can make noise and win 8-9 games. However, if we lose Saturday this things can get sideways really fast.
- Moorhead has to show more emotion. He doesn't have to be Coach Boom or Buddy Stephens, but you have to fight for your players and I didn't see any of that last night when the refs were hosing us. And you have to corral your players when they're out of control and I didn't see him get in anyone's face after any of our 4 unsportsmanlike penalties. The team is gonna take the identity of their coach and no amount of 360 sideline dunks is gonna give this team more fight.
- KT probably needs to be the starter. Nick has given us some great moments, but at the end of the day to be successful running this offense the D has to think there's a chance you will pass on every play and with Nick starting teams are just gonna stack 7-8 in the box and take the chance that he won't be consistently accurate enough to beat them. Now saying that, I don't believe we'll make the change unless this season gets to going sideways and if that happens then I believe it'd be better for our future to play KT and live through the developmental curve.
- We're gonna know the direction of our program on the morning of Oct 7th.