Let's play "Happy/Content/Disappointed" for 2014.

[Lloyd Christmas]

Including the bowl game, what record would you be Happy, Content, and Disappointed with for the 2014 football season?

Mine are:

10-3 Happy
9-4 Content
8-5 Disappointed

[bulldogsmsu]

10-3 or 11-2 Happy
8-5 or 9-4 Content
7-6 Disappointed

Including the bowl game, what record would you be Happy, Content, and Disappointed with for the 2014 football season?

Mine are:

10-3 Happy
9-4 Content
8-5 Disappointed

[drunkernhelldawg]

Happy: Ending the season by playing at the elite level of which we have been capable since the start of the season.

Content: Our coaching is moving in the right direction and building a team that can compete at every position.

Disappointed: Obvious dropping several winable games, but there's also the continuing Special Teams Debacle.

[Political Hack]

7 or below will be a disappointing season given the schedule and what we have coming back.

I dont think any State fan should ever be disappointed with 8 or more wins in a season though. We should expect more but also remember where we've come from. Being discontent with a single season loses site of the programs direction.

[preachermatt83]

mine looks about like yours does.

Happy- Win 4 non-conf games, win UK, Vandy, aTm, and OM, one upset against LSU, Aub, or Bama , and bowl win.

content- win 4 non-conf, win uk, vandy, and OM, one win against LSU, aTm, Aub, or Bama, and bowl win.

anything less- Disappointed

[CadaverDawg]

I will be thrilled with 10 wins+
I will be happy with 9 wins
I will be content with 8 wins
I will be disappointed with 7 or less

If we can't win more games with next year's schedule and returning talent than we did this year, it is a disappointment. But at the same time, we still won't be as talented and deep across the board as LSU, Bama, Auburn, and maybe A&M...so we could lose 4-5 games and still have a great year.

And you never know if there will be an Auburn of 2013 that comes from nowhere, so it's hard to predict a win total. I plan on being in every single game home or away next season though. And I don't think that should be a stretch

[cubswillwinitonedaydawg]

I see 6 games we should be favored (some heavily) in (4 OOC, KY, AR), 3 games we'll be an underdog in (Bama, Auburn, LSU), 3 that we'll be a toss-up or slight favorite (A&M, Vandy, OM).
So:
10+ wins - ecstatic - happy doesn't describe how seeing us with double digit wins and a potential top 10 or 15 ranking would make me feel.
9 wins - happy - we would have at least 4 SEC wins and/or a bowl win. With the strong West opponents plus an improved Kentucky on the road and a good Vandy, I'd be pretty happy.
7-8 wins - content/slightly disappointed, if the 4-5 losses were respectable.
6 wins - disappointed, but glad to at least keep the bowl streak alive.
5 or less - fire back up the Hud threads.

[smootness]

I don't care a ton about bowl wins in terms of evaluating a season.

Anything less than 7 wins - unacceptable
7-5 w/ Egg Bowl loss - very disappointed, borderline unacceptable
7-5 w/ Egg Bowl win - disappointed, but acceptable
8-4 - I'll take it and be reasonably happy
9-3 - pumped
10-2 or better - Mullen is the freaking man

[theloungeinleft]

Anything below 8 regular season wins will be disappointing, IMO.

[sleepy dawg]

10-3 Happy
9-4 Content
8-5 Disappointed

7-6 disappointed
8-5 low content
9-4 high content
10-3 happy

Edited to add that I have never had this high of expectations. My expectations are usually much lower than the average. I expected 6 or 7 regular season wins this year. The schedule's right, and we've had plenty of time to get the right players in. It's now or never to take that next step. That being said, I expect us to do worse the following year.

[preachermatt83]

I don't care a ton about bowl wins in terms of evaluating a season.

7-5 w/ Egg Bowl win - disappointed, but acceptable

so basically about the same as this season with very little improvement is acceptable?

[smootness]

so basically about the same as this season with very little improvement is acceptable?

When I say 'acceptable', I don't mean, 'Everything is good, no issues'. When I say 'unacceptable,' I mean that the option would be there to part ways with the coach - so 'acceptable' in this sense basically means that I would say Mullen probably keeps his job.

I also said 'disappointed', so I'm not sure why you think that I'd have no issue if we had essentially the same year again.

[drunkernhelldawg]

I want to play for the SEC Championship. It is our Dak year. Gotta have at least 10 wins. This less talent than Bama et al line is beyond its usefulness. If this is not our time, then our time may never come.

[blacklistedbully]

10-2 regular season happy
9-3 with bowl win to get to 10-3 pretty happy
9-3 with bowl loss content
8 wins regular season disappointed
7 or fewer wins and I'm begging for Hud.

11 wins, SEC Championship and/or spot in playoffs and I'll be ready to erect a statue of Dan at the entrance to our stadium.

[Goat Holder]

9 wins or better - happy
7-8 wins - content
6 wins or fewer - disappointed

All those numbers are regular season only.

[smootness]

I want to play for the SEC Championship. It is our Dak year. Gotta have at least 10 wins. This less talent than Bama et al line is beyond its usefulness. If this is not our time, then our time may never come.

I think everyone agrees with you, but as a State fan, you can't say, we either play for the SEC title or it's a disappointment. If you begin looking at it that way, you're going to have a rough time as a fan.

The 'less talent than Bama' line may not be useful (I'm not sure what that means), but it's still true and probably always will be.

[drunkernhelldawg]

I think everyone agrees with you, but as a State fan, you can't say, we either play for the SEC title or it's a disappointment. If you begin looking at it that way, you're going to have a rough time as a fan.

The 'less talent than Bama' line may not be useful (I'm not sure what that means), but it's still true and probably always will be.

Football is a game in which the team with less talent can and should sometimes win. It's past time for us to get some of those. In addition, we are closer to those teams in talent than we have been. Mullen has done a good jobb of building position by position. Everybody knows that we had the team that is playing for the big prize beat this past season. We are hitting a higher level of focus. Next season is one of our better opportunities. That's why we need to seize the moment and not be content if if passes.

[sleepy dawg]

Football is a game in which the team with less talent can and should sometimes win. It's past time for us to get some of those. In addition, we are closer to those teams in talent than we have been. Mullen has done a good jobb of building position by position. Everybody knows that we had the team that is playing for the big prize beat this past season. We are hitting a higher level of focus. Next season is one of our better opportunities. That's why we need to seize the moment and not be content if if passes.

You can flip a coin 50 times, and it may land on tails 50 in a row. The odds of this are highly unlikely. However, on the 51st flip, there's still a 50% chance it lands on tails again.
The point being is we're not due to anything just because we haven't had a big upset in a long time. If we upset someone 2014, we'll be just as likely to upset someone (or not upset them) in 2015 as we are in any other year, assuming all other things constant.

[gravedigger]

Be in the hunt for the west on thanksgiving......ecstatic

8-9 wins....happy

Less than than 8 wins, meh.

Not counting a bowl.

[drunkernhelldawg]

You can flip a coin 50 times, and it may land on tails 50 in a row. The odds of this are highly unlikely. However, on the 51st flip, there's still a 50% chance it lands on tails again.
The point being is we're not due to anything just because we haven't had a big upset in a long time. If we upset someone 2014, we'll be just as likely to upset someone (or not upset them) in 2015 as we are in any other year, assuming all other things constant.

I'd rather compare it to a game of skill, like pitching pennies. We need to do a better job of pitching our penny.