When did Joe lose you?

[Hypnodawg]

He lost me after the Kentucky game last year. A highschool coach could have come up with a better game plan.

[quickstrike2]

It was after 21-0 versus Auburn. I knew deep down there was some major warning signs, but I did try. Last year versus Kentucky, after all of the penalties and just lack of any offense, I was worried. We all know how the season progressed after that.

I was nervous heading into this year, but I did my best to buy into the "his quarterback theory." I keep coming back in my mind to, with one of the best talent lead teams in MSU history, we only won 8 games. What would he do without that talent, and unfortunately we are finding out.

[ShotgunDawg]

He officially lost in the bowl game and losing out on the 3 recruits on signing day.

That's when I realized he wasn't really good at anything

[TrapGame]

Auburn.

I knew we were going to lose that game but not be completely and utterly humiliated in the first 6 minutes of the game.

Tennessee just solidified it for me.

[Commercecomet24]

For me it's been a process. There's no point in listing all the things that got us to this point because we all know them. But this UT game was what pushed me over the edge. Two weeks to prepare against a bad team and we looked as bad as we've ever looked. Former players tweeting about the culture change. The whole thing has culminated to this point of realizing it's off the rails and spiraling downward.

Kinda where I'm at as well.

[HancockCountyDog]

The Florida game was a red flag.

The Kentucky game was a red flag.

The Iowa game was a red flag.

The KSU game was a red flag.

The Tennessee game was a red flag up my ass.

[shoeless joe]

I’ll catch flack for this but to be 100% honest it was game 1 last year. And the people that know me heard about it. It was fairly apparent that the program he ran didn’t translate on the field to a championship standard, as he calls it. I knew then he didn’t run a tight ship and was a wanna be players coach...that just doesn’t fly for us.

And to take it 1 step further, and this is why I am so perplexed by the hire in general by Cohen, I didn’t think the guy was a leader the first time I heard him speak. I could go into great minute detail about his traits that call his ability to lead into question but I had my concerns from the day of the press conference and then seeing him do an interview, finebaum I think, just reiterated what I’d thought before. And once I saw the product on the field I knew...I hated it and I wanted to be wrong...but I knew

[Maridian Dawg]

Florida game was Strike 1.
Iowa was Strike 2.
K-State was strike 3.
Auburn and TN games were the icing on the cake.

[MStateDawg]

I lost hope for this year after the Auburn debacle.
I lost hope for him having a successful tenure at Mississippi State during the 3rd quarter of the Tennessee games.

I'm 100% confident he's not going to get it done at State. We should move on asap.

[HereComesTheSpiral]

LSU 2018, Fitz just ripped off a long run inside their 5, and fatass just cant call a simple play to punch it in. Auburn this year at the 3 inch line just confirmed he is clueless.

[MidTNDawg]

UT game was the clincher

[Tbonewannabe]

Saturday. It?d been building. But I finally had a 100% inexcusable loss. Tenn is awful, and we had two weeks to prep.

This is it for me. I am one of the people that has defended him time and again but I am done. I said last week that if we lost UT that it would take a win against LSU and/or Bama, that pretty much sums it up. Even with a fluke win over LSU or Bama, I would still look at how we were playing for the rest of the games. We just look lost and have very little give a shit as a team. You have some players giving what they got but not enough. Most look like they could just stay in the locker room and be ok with it.

[RougeDawg]

When he abandoned the Auburn 2018 game plan last year I was done. It was clear that he did not possess the capability to see what worked and what did not, and stick to what worked. There was some of it against A&M but we went right back to the pass happy offense with a running team and receivers with hands like a snake. A blind man in the upper deck could see it, but SloMo could not. It was clear then that he is who he always will be.

[Coursesuper]

He never really had me but I was hopeful he would do well.

[Randolph Dupree]

Auburn this year. He got a pass for everything last year because it was his first but no excuse for the lack of preparedness and effort vs AU. UT merely reaffirmed my position.

[Dawgology]

Kentucky last year. I could tell that night that he was in over his head.

Same. When his team matched in to Kentucky totally unprepared and undisciplined with an inability to move the ball against Kentucky I knew it wouldn?t work. And I?ve said it often since that game.

[DownwardDawg]

The Auburn game.

Me too. That was the moment I knew it was over. That?s also why I said in a previous thread that we weren?t beating Tennessee. I started having suspicion at the beginning of ULL game. We looked fat, slow, and out of shape. But I?m loyal to a fault. I hoped he?d get it together. Auburn game proved to me that he?s in way over his head.

[cheewgumm]

It is a little shocking that people went through all of last year with the talent on our team and we lose five and people still believed

[CadaverDawg]

Lol, I'd say I was off the train about this time 1 year ago. As were some of you....

https://www.elitedawgs.com/showthrea...light=Moorhead

But look at all the defenders throwing Fitz under the bus in that thread. Ha, it was Joe then and it's Joe now. Get him the hell out

[Tbonewannabe]

It is a little shocking that people went through all of last year with the talent on our team and we lose five and people still believed

I will admit that the fools gold of A&M game combined with blowing the doors off Ark and UM had me still hanging onto hope. I was disappointed with how many carries Aeris got. It seemed like Joe just had it out for some players for some reason.