Quote Originally Posted by Barking 13 View Post
WORD... Imagine a 1983 Monte Carlo with pretty mags, chrome headers, etc. with Dale Earnhardt driving it... it's still a 1983 Monte Carlo... I think Dan knew what he had this year and just said **** it, if we win we win, if not, WTH... 8-4 and a decent bowl game is still better than the past. Now how do you fix it with what we have to choose from, without buying players like UNM does.. That is the crux of the biscuit...(zappa)

What you guys seem to forget, is that even though we aren't "poorol'missippistate", we are still Mississippi State. And that's still a big ass hole to climb out of, given our circumstances...
Listened to Rosebowl's BSR show yesterday and he did a pretty good job of recapping the total failure of our OL recruiting over the past 5 years. THAT is what made us a 1983 Monte Carlo this year. Should have never happened that way but it did, so in that respect, yea, we were pretty lucky we won 8 games. It was pretty difficult to do as bad as we've done in OL recruiting recently even with lily white recruiting practices.