My thing is I'm not 100% sure that he was kept solely because of the Egg Bowl. If that was the case we would have immediately extended him instead of telling him that the Music City Bowl was a business trip. We have him an opportunity to show us that he could turn it around and he epically failed. I think a lot of people just assumed we were going to lose the Egg Bowl and didn't realize that Ole Miss was slightly more trashy than we were this year. Too many people bought into Ole Miss scoring in garbage time while at the same time putting ourselves down for scoring in garbage time.

I'll be honest- had Joe put together a decent showing and a win in the Music City Bowl like Dan did in 2013 and 2016 I would be a lot more open to keeping Joe with staff changes especially after the recruiting class he put together. Joe did quite the opposite and embarrassed MSU in the process. Of course his team discipline was my biggest reason for doubting him and here we are. That appears to be what ultimately did him in when you analyze the root of our problems.