That tells me Lebby is not on the hotseat for 2026 unless its a complete failure. A 2 year deal would have sufficed
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That tells me Lebby is not on the hotseat for 2026 unless its a complete failure. A 2 year deal would have sufficed
My sources say arnett is the heir apparent for Lebby.
Haha, I really hope Todd and kb21 believed this for a second
The real Bert Stare is unmasked!!Quote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
My sources say we’re bringing back the air raid to better utilize KT’s short passing skills.
That may be true, but the rest of the college football world thinks Lebby is a dead man walking. There's no other reason every DC candidate on our short list would turn us down, resulting in us crawling back to Arnett. And frankly, he should be on the hot seat. One SEC win in 2 years isn't good enough...and he has an extra SEC game on the schedule starting next season. I understand the reasons we are waiting, but bringing back Arnett does nothing to convince me that we won't be doing a head coaching search this time next year.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
This hire will most likely save Libby?s job as our D will be vastly improved.
Our fans are wrong?.,
Again
But those who say differently may not be wrong. No one knows for sure. One thing is for sure. We hired him and what comes will be. I hope you're right because we've tolerated suck enough. I will say the path that got us Arnett does not inspire confidence in the decision.Quote:
Originally Posted by cheewgumm
If there are Lebby decisions that make me question his sanity....choosing to stick with #2 while the clear future sat on the bench...while watching the other guy take sack after sack, throw picks, and just look horrid and pathetic in general....
Yeah...that'd be the one. I actually think changing DC to Arnett is a good decision, and one that could pay off greatly. Certainly can't be any worse on that side of the ball....
That being said, unless we SPEND THE MONEY on talent in the portal, we could've hired Saban to be our DC and wouldn't have mattered.
Bring in some dudes!
7.... that was a loooooow blow. LolQuote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
Anyone know what the money is for 3 years?... If I was a betting man I bet its on the lower end with whatever is leftover going toward the portal.
Totally disagree. Everywhere you look there is optimism and positive vibes about our program. We werent going to hire a name because we dont have the NIL other programs do. That is now the #1 thing coaches look at when viewing jobs. Why would a DC put his name on the line for a weak NIL budget?Quote:
Originally Posted by War Machine Dawg
You guys have to understand- NIL has changed EVERYTHING. Old coaching norms and conference prestige are gone.
Texas Tech is a Top 4 seed- why? They spent 35MM in NIL.
Indiana back to back playoffs, SMU playoffs last year, Vandy this year, Virginia is on the cusp of a playoff because of NIL, Ole Miss. The name of the game is players and to get them is to pay them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
Hahaha!!! That's an outstanding troll job!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
Its amazing so many of our fans dont understand this. They just want to blame Lebby and Hutz instead of realizing a roster that competes starts at $25MM. Our 2025 roster was $15MMQuote:
Originally Posted by Rawdawg
And what Lebby did with a team bought off Temu is pretty good. We were literally two plays from being 7-5 this season. I wonder what he and Arnett could do with a $25mil team?Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
Sooo many hardheaded, unable to accept the change of NIL era football.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
Agree with you but it doesn't matter what the fans think. It's up to our boosters and administration to come up with the money. If we keep spending 15 mil then it's a huge failure on their part and that's what worries me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
What a delusional thing to say. Nobody I talk to in real life is remotely "optimistic." Social media replies and comments are almost entirely negative. Every MSU board except this one is 80% or more "Fire Lebby."Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
Outside our program, nobody thinks he's doing a good job either. Try asking about him on CFB reddit - no one is impressed.
Everyone understands this. Everyone is extremely aware that we have less money than the rest of the SEC and probably will. That's why it's so important to have a coach whose strong suit is in-game coaching. Unfortunately, we have the opposite of that. A good gameday coach would have won 7 or 8 games this year even with our $15M roster.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
If Lebby had done that, there really would be optimism and positive vibes all around the program.
Spot on. Unless something drastically changes.. we will never be able to consistently spend 30 mill a year. Coaching still matters for programs like ours.Quote:
Originally Posted by Quaoarsking
At Ohio St, Texas, A&M, TT, etc.... maybe coaching doesn't matter as much. Those schools can spend 30-40 mill every year and not think twice. We unfortunately can't.
Right. We lost on DC applicants because of our NIL- literally nothing to do with Lebby or where he stands at State. DC's want dudes and in this era you need money to buy dudes.Quote:
Originally Posted by STATEBALLIN
Everything you keep saying makes Lebby an even worse fit for us. If our NIL situation is as permanently hopeless as you always say, then gameday coaching is the only thing that will let us steal a few extra wins over the years.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
I'm in Louisiana and literally everyone I come on contact with talks about how they see us on the rise. Liked our offense.Quote:
Originally Posted by Quaoarsking
Our AD doesnt look down on our coach when he is coaching a bottom tier budget team. Neither does other people. That 3 yr contract Arnett got tells me Lebby will be our coach in 2027
LSU fans loved when we had Croom too. Always praised him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
Let?s revisit this when we win 3-4 games next yearQuote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
Our NIL situation isn?t permanently hopeless but it is the number 1 investment we need to make on campus. I?m talking academics too. Keenum needs to encourage as much money to be donated to NIL as we absolutely can. Everything will benefit from it. Selmon understands this he?s just been playing catch up since he took the job.Quote:
Originally Posted by Quaoarsking
NIL + Donor Contributions had us ranked 34th in the country at $23M. We are not poor so stop with the bullshit narrative.
That is in no way factualQuote:
Originally Posted by EdwardDrayton
The portal will decide all of this. Dolla bills ya'llQuote:
Originally Posted by sandjunky
Total Contributions Rank in SEC -- National ranking in (parenthesis)Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
1. Texas - $77,974,073 (#1)
2. LSU - $75,929,827 (#2)
3. Georgia - $74,315,945 (#3)
4. Florida - $61,364,272 ((#7)
5. Texas A&M - $54,204,110 ((#9)
6. Alabama - $53,113,300 (#11)
7. Oklahoma - $43,180,134 (#13)
8. Auburn - $36,372,783 (#18)
9. Tennessee - $35,483,274 (#19)
10. Ole Miss - $34,409,478 (#20)
11. South Carolina - $33,833,869 (#21)
12. Missouri - $29,555,704 (#24)
13. Kentucky - $27,938,279 (#29)
14. Mississippi State - $22,612,228 (#34)
15. Arkansas - $22,165,941 (#35)
16. Vanderbilt - N/A (Private School)
It also can come down to in-game decision making. We were good enough at every position except HC to be 7-5 this year.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
It's completely plausible that it happens again next year and we Lebby ourselves into 1 or 2 or 3 fewer wins than we're capable of.
What i said....Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
Two things can be true at the same time. Our NIL is not bad in the scope of college football but it is compared to other SEC team. At the same time, Lebby made some bad coaching decisions against UF and Texas. Our NIL is more on the lines of an above average ACC and big 12 team. If we want to compete in this league we need our boosters to open up the pocket book
Link? And the fact that you cant even include Vandy makes it ridiculousQuote:
Originally Posted by EdwardDrayton
You can blame Lebby for Texas 100%Quote:
Originally Posted by PGHBulldogBG
The Tenn/Fla blame is based on maybe's. He could have bled the clock and won the Texas game maybe in spite of our stupidity hitting the QB late. Lebby didnt hit the QB I'll remind you.
But the Tenn and Fla games were tooth and nail. We didnt make the plays when needed. It happens
Hurts to get called out, huh.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
No we weren't. We were in a position to win 7 games because of the head coach.Quote:
Originally Posted by Quaoarsking
No- it makes you look dumb when you cant provide a link or even understand that Candy pays their QB 2MM while our QB entire room makes less than thatQuote:
Originally Posted by EdwardDrayton
Now do B1G and Indiana specifically!
I don?t really blame Lebby for the Tenn game. They clearly had a talent advantage and just had a better team. I actually thought he did the best he could there. His decision to not kick the field goal against UF though was clearly on him and his decision in the 2nd quarter to run the same QB run over and over was poor coaching.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach34