I want to understand.

[BB30]

Guys it is simple. Starkville isn't the problem. The problem is we have the smallest recruiting budget in the SEC and we have one of the smallest football budgets in the SEC. Yall keep expecting champagne results on a light beer budget.

Just like everything else in life you get what you pay for. College football is no different and unless we find some more big money boosters or our fanbase as a whole starts to give a little bit more money you can consistently expect us to finish in the middle to bottom tier with outlier years here and there.

It is a much easier argument to make that we have actually overachieved over the last 10-12 years compared to what we spend on football.

So I'm an up and coming coach that decides I want to make my career at State where I have to play Bama, Texas, LSU, Oklahoma, Florida, Georgia etc. and compete with them while only having about half the budget they have and about half the fanbase.

I don't think any of yall would intentionally take a knife to a gunfight everyday for the rest of your lives when you could go next door and just get a bigger gun.