Quote Originally Posted by PikeDawg15 View Post
Mississippi State played 7 Power 5 teams that made a bowl game

Here were the points they scored

@LSU 16
Vs Arkansas 40
@ Kentucky 17 , with a pick6 so 10 offensive points

@alabama 6

Vs Georgia 19 with a punt return touchdown

@ Ole miss 24

Vs Illinois 19 with a kickoff touchdown with 0 time left
With a veteran team that was not good. We stat padded again very bad football teams this year. The offense was not good this year.

We played 7 power 5 bowl eligible teams and scored over 25 points only once against 7-6 Arkansas who had the worst defense in the SEC.

If you think the offense was the reason we won 9 games I do not know what to tell you.
Georgia, LSU, and Alabama had some of the best defenses in the country this year. Two of those three were on the road. The other we had at home beat everyone on their schedule.

Simply put AGAIN- we are not going to consistently score a ton of points on bluebloods and elite defenses. I don't care what scheme we run or who our coach is. And that's not going to change with Barbay either. Our fans think that some coaching genius can make some fancy play calls and all of a sudden our three star guys are going to be 4-5 star guys because they're coached up- and it doesn't work that way.

All of this "well we stat padded against bad teams" stuff is bullshit. Most years our fans aren't even able to come up with that accusation so that says something in and of itself right there.

The best thing we can hope for is that we are competitive enough to have a chance to pull off an upset over a blueblood that isn't down. And that will be the case until we get four stars on our team.

In the meantime no one talks about Arnett's defense giving up 30+ PPG to those bluebloods or the 99 yard drive they allowed to set up Ole Miss's failed 2 point conversion or the fact that his defense allowed like four TD's in a row to Kentucky after our offense took the lead. But yeah- all defense this year!