What is the Athletic Department Going to Do To Get this Program Back on Track?

[ShotgunDawg]

It's easy to praise leadership when everything is going well. It's easy to ride the wave of prosperity & soak in the applause, but that's not leadership. Leadership is what you do to rally the troops when things aren't going well.

We went 4-5 years under Mullen by selling out every game. The fan base was hopeful that we were building something special & rising to a sustainable level of success & competing for championships in a way that the program had never seen.

Now what? What do you do now that everyone with a brain realizes that no matter what we do or how successful we are, there is a glass ceiling to our success? Due to state population, Mississippi kids desiring to go out of state, & in state recruits being bought by Auburn & other schools right out from under us with no consequences, that this program simply doesn't have the "juice" to become any better than what we saw under Mullen.

What do you do?

Two things sell tickets: winning & hope.....

You know what doesn't sell tickets? that the best you can hope for is a 100th straight trip to Gator Bowl. That doesn't galvanize a fan base or sell tickets.

So, that's why you see an empty stadium & that's why you see apathy.

What do you do? What will the leaders of Mississippi State University do to prevent the football program from falling into the pit that we saw in the Croom era?

What will they do to get butts in the seats next Saturday vs Kentucky when no one believes in the product or direction of the program?

Again, it's easy to lead from the front. But what about now?

My eyes are on this athletic department right now. This is where we find out what type of leadership we really have.

Does the MSU fan base have enough pride in this program & this state to stand the 17 up right & do everything we can or do we just accept our lot in life as a 2nd rate institution & program?