BB30
10-16-2019, 01:48 PM
Guys, give me some reasons to be positive about MSU athletics. Ill start it off...
We have a baseball program that is on solid footing and will have a chance to be competing for championships over the next few years. We look to have a solid coaching staff in place that recruits/wins and represents our university well.
We have a men's basketball program that has made it out of really a decade long drought, made the tourney last year and should have another respectable year this year. Things look to be slowly but surely headed in the right direction if we can just get some fan support. We also have a solid, proven head coach that while some have griped and complained about has turned around a program that wasn't even on life support, we were dead in the water. I'm about ready for some basketball after the way the football season has gone. Hopefully they don't lay an egg as well. Guys, give Howland a break this year, we could be doing a whole hell of a lot worse than we are right now. At the very least the next coach that comes along once Howland retires should be set up fairly well and won't have to rebuild the program from the ground up except for maybe the one thing us fans actually control and that's attendance. If you can get there for the girls games you can at least make it for Saturday mens games. GTR area, looking at you.
Women's basketball is arguably in the most dominant stretch that any MSU team in any sport has ever seen. The girls just flat out ball and play their butts off every single game. Enough said there.
Football, well it's Mississippi State football. What more can be said. It may be another 6-10 years before we see another run like we've had over the last decade but at some point we will have another season where we are competitive with the big dogs(you older dogs may not live to see it but us younger fans will). We have some talent on the roster in the event that we do have a new coach next year or the following so it shouldn't be a croomesque rebuild. There are only two other positives I can find with our football program right now. One being that I have more free time on saturdays than I have had in a long time to get some bow hunting in and knock out some of the honey do list. Two, we have a nice new shiny baseball facility thanks to the money rolling in from football tv conracts. Yes, it may have not directly gone to the baseball stadium but it certainly helped move the new DUDE project up the list since the football money is paying for other stuff that normally booster/donation money would be being asked to pay for first.
Now, notice, I said positive. This is more of a social experiment to see if you all can follow directions and keep it positive. My guess is this gets about 3 posts deep before turning into a Negative Nancy thread like every other post. For that first negative a** that has to ruin a good thing, well, I will have a beer in your honor and be thankful that you aren't my neighbor. Unless of course you're my neighbor in which case I guess I'm just SOL and will have that beer anyway or three and come mow your yard for you since you apparently can't keep up with it.
Lets see what you can add guys. Bonus points if you add something of substance that involves our more obscure sports like Women's soccer/track and field/Softball etc.
We have a baseball program that is on solid footing and will have a chance to be competing for championships over the next few years. We look to have a solid coaching staff in place that recruits/wins and represents our university well.
We have a men's basketball program that has made it out of really a decade long drought, made the tourney last year and should have another respectable year this year. Things look to be slowly but surely headed in the right direction if we can just get some fan support. We also have a solid, proven head coach that while some have griped and complained about has turned around a program that wasn't even on life support, we were dead in the water. I'm about ready for some basketball after the way the football season has gone. Hopefully they don't lay an egg as well. Guys, give Howland a break this year, we could be doing a whole hell of a lot worse than we are right now. At the very least the next coach that comes along once Howland retires should be set up fairly well and won't have to rebuild the program from the ground up except for maybe the one thing us fans actually control and that's attendance. If you can get there for the girls games you can at least make it for Saturday mens games. GTR area, looking at you.
Women's basketball is arguably in the most dominant stretch that any MSU team in any sport has ever seen. The girls just flat out ball and play their butts off every single game. Enough said there.
Football, well it's Mississippi State football. What more can be said. It may be another 6-10 years before we see another run like we've had over the last decade but at some point we will have another season where we are competitive with the big dogs(you older dogs may not live to see it but us younger fans will). We have some talent on the roster in the event that we do have a new coach next year or the following so it shouldn't be a croomesque rebuild. There are only two other positives I can find with our football program right now. One being that I have more free time on saturdays than I have had in a long time to get some bow hunting in and knock out some of the honey do list. Two, we have a nice new shiny baseball facility thanks to the money rolling in from football tv conracts. Yes, it may have not directly gone to the baseball stadium but it certainly helped move the new DUDE project up the list since the football money is paying for other stuff that normally booster/donation money would be being asked to pay for first.
Now, notice, I said positive. This is more of a social experiment to see if you all can follow directions and keep it positive. My guess is this gets about 3 posts deep before turning into a Negative Nancy thread like every other post. For that first negative a** that has to ruin a good thing, well, I will have a beer in your honor and be thankful that you aren't my neighbor. Unless of course you're my neighbor in which case I guess I'm just SOL and will have that beer anyway or three and come mow your yard for you since you apparently can't keep up with it.
Lets see what you can add guys. Bonus points if you add something of substance that involves our more obscure sports like Women's soccer/track and field/Softball etc.