Quote Originally Posted by Cowbell View Post
There is a major difference in perfect and the most incompetent offense in all of P5 football.
There is also a major difference in perfect and impossible.

We have fans that just move the goal posts especially when they are proven wrong.

Jackie- "Well, we beat Alabama, Florida, etc. but I just can't look past that loss to ULM."
Croom- "Well we beat Florida and Auburn but I just can't look past that loss to Maine."
Dan- "Well, we beat LSU but I just can't look past that loss to South Alabama".
Joe- "Well, we beat Auburn but I just can't look past that loss to Kentucky".

Our fans are the WORST at forgiving the coach. Do you ever hear Alabama fans say crap like that about Saban losing to ULM? Even this past week we had fans on here chomping at the bit- "If Leach loses to Vanderbilt he could lose the fanbase!"

Our fans act like we are supposed to be immune to having bad losses and those aren't acceptable and then in the same breath will say "Well, we're Mississippi State and it's just impossible to recruit well here." So which is it? Are we infallible or are we a small market SEC team? Whatever your opinion is we can't be both at the time same time.

As far as our team this year- we're in year one and game six while starting a freshman QB and an o-line ravaged by COVID. We all know about the culture issues under Joe. We all know about Dan's poor recruiting. Basically that's caught up to us and then add all of the weirdness and an all-SEC schedule and this is what you get. We're a developmental program starting mostly freshmen and sophomores on both sides of the ball- that's a recipe for a bad season for us. But what's crazy is AGAIN our fans will in the offseason say "I know it's going to be rough..." and then when it gets rough they get pissed off. That's why Leach is right- if you KNOW that this is a rebuild and get pissed off about it just follow someone else. You can always come back later when it's better and you can handle it better. There is nothing wrong with that.