Sunday Morning Thoughts-Hello Darkness My Old Friend

[Jarius]

I included the COVID year in Leach's totals as well. If I didn't include it Leach's average win total would be one game better and closer to Kiffin's so by including it I voluntarily hurt my position in the name of fairness. Kiffin lost 5 SEC games his first year so his record that year would have likely been about 6-6 anyway so the numbers aren't far apart even if you play the hypothetical game.

I was unaware of Ole Miss winning the SEC West Championship the past five years? Their season last year was the equivalent of our 1999 season and that is the season their fans have called "the best ever!" Actually our 1999 season was probably better as we never really got blown out that year unlike Ole Miss. And their season this year is roughly the equivalent of our 2018 season which so many of our fans have run down and called disappointing. Including losses to Kentucky and Florida. Except their Kentucky and LSU losses are way worse. Not to mention Kiffin and Ole Miss have had extremely favorable schedules the past few years- which is part of the reason why he has one marquee win in five years. Which is something Leach accomplished in 1 game and Dan accomplished in year one himself by winning the Egg Bowl. Basically Lane Kiffin is Dan Mullen without having to play Alabama every year. Actually, I take that back- he's worse than Dan because he has even fewer marquee wins.

Which is why your whole point about baseball is stupid. This is what I am talking about when I say that you want to destroy baseball so we can essentially have Dan Mullen seasons. Which we have consistently done anyway with the RIGHT coach- Dan, Leach, and Jackie. Except when they go all in on football and ruin everything else they are actually going to end up worse off because now they're going to have a disappointing football season and are probably going to have donate who knows how much more to keep the team from opting out of whatever bowl they go to. AND they're going to suck in the other sports as well such as basketball. Meanwhile we're trying to rebuild football but at least we're strong in basketball, women's soccer, women's basketball and baseball. Only a matter of time before football finally catches up and hopefully smarter people than you and your friends take control.

And Cohen? LOL. Guess who lead a coup and put him in charge as AD in the first place? That's already been answered in this thread.

And by the way- blindly supporting unqualified people like Arnett is WHY we are where we are right now as much as anything and one of the most poor Mississippi State things ever.

You keep on quoting 1 off years and acting like that’s the norm and also acting like that is the standard we should be shooting for. We don’t want to go 8-4 and say “look we aren’t awful”. We want to go to the playoffs. We want the administration to put as much effort in having a really good football program as they do baseball. We are the only school in the conference with an open end zone. We are the only school in the conference with no IPF. We are the only school in the conference with no LED lights and a megaphone for a speaker system. We have the nicest baseball facilities in the entire country. That’s 17ing ridiculous. Also, We did not compete with Dan Mullen or Mike Leach. We simply were not awful. No one wants to kill baseball for Dan Mullen success. We want to slash funding to be in line with our budget (as every other school does) and have Kiffin success. Comparing what Kiffin has done at Ole Miss to Dan Mullen seriously makes you look unintelligent to put it nicely. We can’t have the success that they are having right now and go all in on your favorite sport. You quoting us competing 2 times for anything in the past 35 years is proof of that. Yes, hiring competent people is the key. It takes money to do that. We go cheap in football and don’t in baseball. That’s why our success rate on hiring competent people is much higher in baseball. Really simple basic sh*t that I should not be having to explain to you. There is a reason Ole Miss is now last in baseball and that’s because they figured out what butters their bread. You can spin (and boy are you 17ing spinning) however you want, but I’m correct. You and your little booster friends’ mentality that has been rampant in this university for 50 years is going to have us in the sunbelt