Quote Originally Posted by ShotgunDawg View Post
That Croom hire is a real pimple on us that ruined what should be close to 30 years of sustained winning by now.

While the Sherrill era proved we could win, the Croom era wiped away any national remembrance of what Sherrill did.

While your right, I think it's pretty easy to reason your way to MSU not being the hardest place to win the SEC West, with the MS JUCO being the #1 reason.
While you can reason your way there, we are still, from the outside hampered by sharing a state with a known cheater, our close location to Alabama, and our history. That Ole Miss consistently has shown to flagrantly break the rules to win, makes MSU a harder place to win.

Arkansas has the entire state and a history of being able to recruit Texas.

The entry of Mizzou and A&M is what is relegated ARK to the lower tier in the SEC. It killed thier out of state recruiting base into Texas, Missouri, and Oklahoma.

But like Ifyouonlyknew said, that's recent history...