I would add LSU to your list.
Obviously, I blew that one. But those 3 wins are really the only GOOD wins over the past 4 years. I don't think I'm exaggerating, especially if you take a fluke Egg Bowl win at home in 2013 out of the equation. 2012 was awful, 2013 was lucky, last year we had 3 good wins. Maybe you throw Arky on the list from this year, but that's 4 GOOD wins in 4 years. Not enough, especially with recruiting on the decline.
No matter what fans bitch about on a message board Dan isn't even remotely close to losing his job at MSU. Not after an 8-4 season. This is ALL about whether Dan is trying to leave. I doubted that at first, but after seeing the on field performance and the press conference performance he certainly may have one foot out the door. Perhaps Mullen has decided he has done as much at MSU as he can and can't face up to the challenge of the SEC West anymore. I mean if he wants to try and build a Maryland program (who is an afterthought in the Big 10) then good riddance as most of their fans care more about basketball than football. Remembering back to 2013 Dan was not in good graces with a lot of MSU fans then when we were at 4-6 but the season was salvaged with 2 OT wins and we moved on. I'm convinced now, after the pathetic press conference Mullen gave after that disgraceful performance in the Egg Bowl that the MSU teams over these past 2 seasons have flourished much more due to Dak's leadership than Dan's. I hope Mullen stays and does the things to correct the deficiencies in the program but if he doesn't then so be it. Two things haunted this team all year and were magnified yesterday, one being a crappy OL and the other being a defense that is consistently clueless on how to stop ANY opponent's offense in the first quarter.
That's just the nature of rivalries. Deal with it or become a LSU fan. Rivalry games are different animals. It's what makes college football unique- and treating them like it's another game usually results in a loss. It is what it is. Look at yesterday- South Carolina had no business on paper being that close to beating Clemson.
This is all fine...but we can't ever again claim that it might be the biggest single game but doesn't make or break a season. My point is that when Ole Miss is bad, we care a lot less about being good, which is dumb. But once they get good, then suddenly we can't stand not being better.
We should want to be good regardless of what Ole Miss is doing. But we're always looking back over our shoulder.
**** it....it's basketball season!!
And....Alabama is same way towards Auburn. Auburn is the same way towards Alabama. Florida is the same way towards Florida State....do I need to go on?
We can win championships AND focus on beating Ole Miss. It's not mutually exclusive. At the end of the day whether people admit it or not- beating your rival IS important. Damn important. If you don't focus on your rival to a large degree odds are you will lose to them.
And I don't know why you feel the need to police that anyway.
We ALL want to beat Ole Miss, and we ALL want to win championships.