? I'm not sure Stricklin will want to face the crap coming in fb.
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? I'm not sure Stricklin will want to face the crap coming in fb.
Strick took one for the team enduring the rapid fire lambasting from the mad reporter in Sandestin.
He may haul ass on that point alone.
Here's how it is going to work.
Scott or whomever is going to support Dan publicly- as he should. Until the season is over- and then we will evaluate things at that point.
At the end of the day Scott will do whatever he needs to do, but we're going to have to suffer the rest of the year more than likely in the meantime.
Exactly. The problem isn't that we fire coaches too soon. It's that we usually that we keep them too long. A failing coach staying too long usually leads to 2-3 years of poor recruiting, which leads to a huge hole for the next coach. THAT is the old MSU.
Every single coach we have had going back to the 50's has been at MSU for at least five years. We didn't even fire Charley Shira.
Croom is really the only coach we fired appropriately and I would say that turned out pretty well for a few years at least.
I ain't talking about that. I'm talking about our response to what we saw today. THAT has been the same for 60-70 years. Just once I would like us to try something different. I have full confidence we won't. We will can it all and start over again. It ain't never worked. Why would we expect it to THIS time?
Thanks for confirming my opinion Jr. Your age is exactly what I would have expected. I'm 52 by the way. You guys that cut your teeth during Jackie's good years and haven't studied MSU history have no clue how abnormal what Jackie did here during the good years was. You also equate what happened with Jackie under the relentless blitz by the UM controlled media at the end as the normal end for a coach, it ain't. We have a coach that has proven he can win here. He has NO real NCAA baggage. The damn confederates are about to get theirs. Let's stay the course for ONCE in our history. The same old crap has never worked, and I can't think of a better time to try something different.
That's just it, we ain't any other SEC west team. I'm a realist, a very rare thing among our internet fan base. We don't have their history, like it or not. Damn the Japs and the Nazis for that. Unless we cheat like Ole Miss, and let's face it we absolutely SUCK at that, stability and patience are the only way for us. If you want to bitch, bitch at what we pay our assistant coaches. To me THAT is our biggest stumbling block right now. I will give you that ONE particular offensive assistant needs to change or go. If he doesn't I ain't willing to throw out the baby with the bath water just yet.
Are you kidding me? Yeah you've got a good 12 years on me, congrats. Both my parents went to state, ive been going and watching since birth, literally. I remember before Jackie. MY POINT, which flew over your head like that bi plane thing during the foglesong years, is that we do not fire coaches prematurely. We never have. You are making that up to try to defend your defenseless position.
That response is ignorant as hell. You think you know better because you are older and wallowed through more shitty years then us younger fans. We have a proven head coach who has set a new standard. He is now not living up to it and appears to be on the down slope (I'm not in favor of any changes until the end of the year )
Tell me this.. what would the results of the year take for you to want a change. If we only win 5 this year and don't win the last game of the year. We need to make a move.
And yet we have never had a coach that we let go that has had any success anywhere else- including McKeen. There is ZERO indication that we would have become a national type program had it not been for World War II. Everyone else had to deal with World War II at the time and most had to shut down their program for a year or two.
Again, we have been too patient for too little success. You went to the Liberty Bowl and beat Ole Miss in the same season? LIFETIME CONTRACT! Again, you can't name a coach in your lifetime that has been at MSU for less that five years. Croom and Felker were both terrible- we have Felker FOUR seasons to have a winning season before letting him go. We didn't let Croom go after losing to Maine, UAB, Vanderbilt, and Kentucky in the same season- or after 2006 where we went three games before scoring a touchdown and lost to Tulane.
We're the most patient fans in the SEC BY FAR. Most schools lose to South Alabama and want to run off the coach. We lose to South Alabama and half of our fans bring up Frank ****ing Beamer.
The way for us to be successful and AVOID this is to see the warning signs and make a change- like trying to leave every year, not giving 100% effort, lack of interest from the fanbase, and other warning signs. They are ALL there. Being patient is the WORST thing we can do because odds are those things are not going to change and the recruiting won't get any better creating a bigger hole for whomever takes over- and it also makes us less attractive to the next group of coaching candidates because they will see the garbage recruiting and not want to take over a major rebuild.
I did not watch the first half, and according to the board it was craptastic. I watched the second half, and I thought we looked like shit, and that was the better half. The defense is really not good....terrible pass defense and no one, I mean NO ONE, can tackle. There's no way this team can win 6 games, and might not win 5.
This will sound terrible, but I ALMOST would like to see us go 4-8, and get skull drug just so the freaking heat will be put on Dan's ass. Dan really needs to be HUMBLED until it hurts!! At this point, I really think that he believes that he's untouchable at MSU.
I didn't play, took my daughter to play. Yes I know we won, barely. Thank goodness we didn't pull fitz like you wanted in the first quarter. Even heard that Aries got a TD. Too bad they both didn't see any time against USA or we might have done something crazy and won that one.
Actually Todd, McKeen never coached again. He quit because of what we did to him. Have you ever wondered why we never honor him that much? He is the only coach we have in the college football hall of fame because of what he did HERE. Yet he doesn't feature that much in anything we do. Interesting don't you think? All, we have ever done since him is hire and fire. Except for two guys. BOTH of them are in the college football hall of fame. They got the hell out of here because they saw what we did to McKeen, and they saw first hand that nothing had changed. It still hasn't and you epitomize that. Let's do something different for ONCE. What you are advocating is what we have always done in my lifetime. I want to get away from that poor old MSU crap. Y'all want to perpetuate it.
Yet our "we can't do any better" crowd wants to give coaches the Frank Beamer lifetime job because they are scared of change.
Sometimes coaches wear out their welcome and it's time to move on. It happens. But we always have fans that think there will always be some big media backlash if we get rid of a coach.
What is wrong about it, seriously? The only time in my lifetime we have ever sort of stuck by a coach during a downturn was with Jackie the first time. We dang near fired him before his best years including the lone west title. All we have ever done is hire, and as soon as things looked bad, fire, except for the above mentioned time with Jackie. Y'all bitch about the turnover with the defensive coaches, legitimately if you ask me, yet advocate essentially the same thing overall. Unless you cheat stability with unflinching support is the only way you will ever build anything that will last. We have never had unflinching support. The better we get the worse that gets. Same old State.
Yes- never coaching again = never having success again. If he was that good, why did nobody pick him up? Duke picked up Cutcliffe. We don't honor very many players or coaches at MSU for whatever reason which is something we literally just started a few years ago with our ring of honor which hasn't even been around for ten years. THAT'S why we haven't honored him yet. His time will probably come.
Royal and Warmath both left for better jobs. If they thought our job was that bad they wouldn't have taken it in the first place.
What you are advocating is what we have always done with the same result. And if you have your way it will be the same result again except worse because Ole Miss will be on probation and we won't be able to take advantage of it.
Name ONE coach that we fired too soon since 1955? You can't do it.
Exactly. Coaches the past 50 years:
Shira- resigned on his own to be the AD at MSU full time which he held until 1976 I believe.
Tyler- fired due to NCAA sanctions
Bellard- fired after FOUR straight losing seasons and losing three Egg Bowls in a row.
Felker- fired after FOUR straight losing seasons and losing three Egg Bowls in a row and no bowl appearances in five years.
Jackie- fired after THREE losing seasons and also while a NCAA investigation was going on.
Croom- fired after one losing season and having four losing seasons in five years.
Dan- ?????
Exactly. And I thought we were going to get some after firing Croom, but even then it didn't happen. Most coaches aren't concerned with how the previous coach left because they are too focused on winning and they think that they are awesome coaches so the last guy doesn't really matter.
Why don't we honor our only Hall of fame coach Todd? Why is that? Why did he quit? You either can't answer that or won't. My Dad did, that's why despite his devout love for MSU he never allowed himself to get too wrapped up in it again. God rest his soul. You do know what Royal said when he left don't you? Obviously you don't. Yep the best way to take advantage of the Rebs troubles is to start over again at the same damn time. Y'all are doing their bidding, AGAIN. They own us, and always have.