Per history, Mullen is exactly what MSU needs......

[Goat Holder]

Take a look at our most successful teams (regular season) in our modern history:

1974: 8-3
1976: 9-2
1980: 8-3
1994: 8-3
1998: 8-3
1999: 9-2
2010: 8-4

What did all those have in common?

- Unique offensive philosophy
- Dominating defenses
- Talent

IN GENERAL, you have to think that this is what we have to shoot for. Those teams all had an offensive coach in charge (Jackie is debatable, but he definitely had a strategy) and a good defensive coordinator. Look further, and when those coaches had losing records, it was either a bad defensive hire or some recruiting ****-ups. Recruiting is effort, always will be, so have to consider that a constant.

So we know what we have to do to maximize what MSU does on the football field. Now, how do we sustain it? Well, seems to me that we obviously have to just not ****-up on the recruiting trail, and the coach has to be a good manager. Tyler and Sherrill were definitely that. I don't know that Bellard was, and the jury is still out on Mullen.

Given that, how do we take the next step? To me, you look at our years when we were the best (1999 and 2010) and ask, "What was missing?". I think that answer is fairly obvious. A stud superstar somewhere. The Heisman type. Think Cam Newton.

That's a lot of things that have to line up. But at least we have the offensive coach and the solid recruiting right now. Seem to have a good DC. Maybe next year is the next 8 to 9 win season. Will Prescott be the stud QB we've always needed?