I've talked to enough people with a semblance of "inside knowledge" that I'm pretty certain Lebby gets a Year 3 no matter what. There just isn't anywhere close to a critical mass of boosters and administrators coming together to talk about making a change.

But if Lebby loses tomorrow, he's basically a lame duck. We would probably finish 0-8 on the season, almost certainly not make a bowl even if we do pull an upset in the last 3 games, and he'll lose critical fan support. Are the people who funded this year's team going to think it was a good investment? No, NIL funding will probably go down, attendance will go down, recruiting will go down, and the schedule is only a little bit easier next year. It ends with Lebby getting fired next November without having ever making a bowl game, and possibly without having ever won an SEC game.

On the other hand, if we win tomorrow, especially if Lebby doesn't have any brain farts and (for example) ices the game in the 4th quarter with good clock management and smart playcalling, you could see the opposite effect. After "getting close" 2 weeks in a row, he gets the job done, people start to #believe he's turned the corner, there's optimism in the fanbase that we're headed back to a bowl game, NIL funding increases, etc.

Our fanbase desperately wants to have a winner, and we deserve to have one too. I hope Lebby can show us that he is that winner tomorrow. A lot of our fans were OK with just keeping in close with Florida and Texas, but tomorrow he's got to get the W.