In football at least, we're still on the SEC schedule rotation that was set in 2014 and was intended to go through 2025 (but probably won't because of Texas and Oklahoma).Quote:
Originally Posted by dawgday166
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In football at least, we're still on the SEC schedule rotation that was set in 2014 and was intended to go through 2025 (but probably won't because of Texas and Oklahoma).Quote:
Originally Posted by dawgday166
He got mad that the Drag Show was cancelled for his ?Daughterson?Quote:
Originally Posted by CaptainObvious
It changes... would we have rather faced James Franklin when he was at vandy?Quote:
Originally Posted by Quaoarsking
Ole miss next year is at Ga, at Bama at MSU, has LSU, Arkansas and tamu at home. They have 4-5 losses there. If they were on the road UK and LSU instead of drawing Vanderbilt, they have our schedule this year.Quote:
Originally Posted by Quaoarsking
They gave us a nice soft slate next year though.
Wish not for what you want as you might have to live with it.
We are talking about Auburn. There hires rarely make sense.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hambone
It was an awful hire for the EXACT reason you said. We aren?t a blue blood. We aren?t sexy. We CANNOT hire a reitrement aged coach. It?s not about beating Bama and those guys. It?s about staying in the fight. And Leach isn?t that.Quote:
Originally Posted by WhiskeyPirate
Number one how is a 59 year old coach retirement age ?Quote:
Originally Posted by DudyDawg
Number two if it was viewed as an awful hire within the upper echelons of the sec, why was Cohen able to upgrade jobs based on that signature hire ?
The only thing you typed that has any truth in it is we are not a blue blood, far from it.
I won?t delegate good decisions to auburns athletic department- they?ve handled that perception themselves lately.Quote:
Originally Posted by WhiskeyPirate
As far as Leach- have you seen one single interview, conversation, pitch, ANYTHING, that screams ?this is going to appeal to 17 year olds from Alabama Mississippi and Louisiana?? I haven?t. That?s what matters now.
Hot takeQuote:
Originally Posted by DudyDawg
His interviews don’t appeal to 17 year olds
I'd say most 17-year-olds like candy, so that viral one probably did.Quote:
Originally Posted by DudyDawg
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Originally Posted by Quaoarsking
And again athletic directors don’t get promotions to bigger programs based on “disastrous terrible hires” for football in the sec. The Leach hire is Cohens signature hire and led to a better job. Football people think Leach was a good hire,
Morons on the internet don’t factor into reality.
Guess the candy corn is why we are so successful recruiting under leach.Quote:
Originally Posted by Quaoarsking
Same recruiting rankings as they’ve always been but keep reachingQuote:
Originally Posted by DudyDawg
My man- we are winning less, and as you say, recruiting the same. With a 60 year old who DOES NOT RELATE to kids. You just wanna keep rolling along? I think we can improve on the recruiting front, and I?d like to have an AD and coach with some energy and growth potential, but maybe my glasses are too maroon.Quote:
Originally Posted by WhiskeyPirate
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Originally Posted by DudyDawg
Color me crazy. I may be wrong. I?d rather have a coach who?s being courted by ?bigger? programs than one on his last couple holes who gets off a good interview or two a year.Quote:
Originally Posted by WhiskeyPirate
We are?Quote:
Originally Posted by DudyDawg
Okay about the same but that didn?t fit my point did it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Quaoarsking
No, I think it completely changes your point. We are matching our peak and rising anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by DudyDawg
Are we? I?m not sure I?d agree with that. Our peak was undefeated, number 1, and a coach being rumored to be paid a brinks truck to leave us tor a ?blue blood?. I don?t think we are there right now. Idk. I want the best for us, and I don?t think Leach is it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Quaoarsking
Yeah, I don't know if Leach is ever going to get us to #1 (I can dream though), but our peak was Dan Mullen averaging 7.1-4.9 over his 9 regular seasons. (It can be noted that over those 9 seasons he went 0-2 against P5 nonconfs and didn't play one in the other 7, while Leach has gone 2-0 against P5 nonconfs and will probably also have to start playing a 9th SEC game every year soon.)Quote:
Originally Posted by DudyDawg
I think Leach will beat that easily if he has 9 years as our head coach, especially if you "adjust" for the 2020 COVID year. I don't know that he is the "best" coach we could possibly have, but I do think it's a reasonable prediction that he will generally be considered the best coach in school history in 10 years. Maybe not on this board, maybe not in our fanbase as a whole, but by most of the country.
Historically Leach's "peak" is 11-2 at both Washington State and Texas Tech which he has accomplished twice. He did that in year 9 at Tech and year 7 at Wazzu. Mostly 8-9 win seasons otherwise and his low seasons were typically in the first three seasons. He did have one 6-7 season in 2019 his last season at Wazzu but otherwise he has pretty much had consistent 8-9 win seasons.Quote:
Originally Posted by Quaoarsking
No one wants to hear this now but if we give him time I think he will get that 11 win season here too.
We'll never get to our true "peak" no matter the coach until we start investing more in football recruiting. Something I hope the new AD does. Because that's something no MSU AD has ever truly embraced.Quote:
Originally Posted by DudyDawg
Who will be his QBs over that time period? I just don?t see anyway the Texas Guys are here next year. Maybe Locke, but I don?t see how the other two wait behind Rogers another year. They may never figure out Leach?s offense but they were too highly rated to not find a team they can play for.Quote:
Originally Posted by Quaoarsking
Pike dog is right in the money. I have been telling y?all since after the egg bowl last year that if leech losses again this year?.. he is done at State. Keenum hates Ole Miss as much as anyone?. And it?s a done deal if they beat us again this year.
But Pike has already backed off that guarantee in this very thread...Quote:
Originally Posted by Reunion Dog
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Originally Posted by Reunion Dog
He’s on something alright but it’s not money
I think he would have but the world has changed now. Leach wants to do things traditionally by developing players like before NIL and the transfer portal. Not going after transfers and our limitations in the NIL are going to make things difficult on Leach.Quote:
Originally Posted by Todd4State
Leach has gotten several players out of the transfer portal each year here. Not sure where this "not going after transfers" talking point comes from.Quote:
Originally Posted by maroonmania
It’s a false narrative. Leach will use the portal and nil as much as anybody. He correctly made statements that nil was not good for the game of college football , some of his enemies ran with that to say he won’t use the portal or nil. Nil is just about money. That’s boosters not the coach.Quote:
Originally Posted by Quaoarsking
We are getting a few players but Polk has probably been the only difference maker. Overall, I dont think Leach really wants to go the transfer route in any significant way though. We desperately needed a proven OT this year but couldn't get one.Quote:
Originally Posted by WhiskeyPirate
Perusing these posts from the beginning to end....some folk are living in some kind of alternate reality.
I've said this numerous times. Leach is Mullen from a results standpoint.Quote:
Originally Posted by Quaoarsking
And keeping us 7-5 or above is a tremendous job. We should be Mizzou, Vandy, usce and instead the last 14 season we are Arkansas, Aggie, auburn.
Has OT been an issue this year? Jackie Matthews and Jalen Green have both been very good pick ups.Quote:
Originally Posted by maroonmania
Any player who single-handedly flips a loss to a win is a "difference maker," even if it's just 1, so add KJ Costello to your list.Quote:
Originally Posted by maroonmania
Actually we tried like hell to get a portal OL but that is very hard to do. Of all the positions that seems to be the most competitive, everybody wants one. Hopefully we spot a few this year, Lasoya was a good get
Every year we need to split OM/Ark/UK and the barn/LSU/T7&5 (which ever is down that year). This will put us at 6 wins. If our other east opponent is anyone other than UGA (and UT this year), we can easily get 7 wins. Throw in an upset or two and that's 8 or 9 wins, very respectable. We should never schedule an out of conference opponent that has a realistic chance of beating us. Our schedule is hard enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by confucius say
Our safeties have been very bad in pass coverage for two years.Quote:
Originally Posted by Todd4State
OM got 20 players out of the portal for this year. Lane and staff have molded them into a team and it doesn't seem to have taken them long to learn the offence on that side of the ball.Quote:
Originally Posted by maroonmania