Excitement Level for Football on a 1-10?

[Goldendawg]

621 posts to date regarding the Baseball portal for 2025 & I am post #61 on excitement level thread for FB which kicks off end of next month. Losing Leach (loved the man, hated his boring short passing game, JMO), followed by the Arnett disaster, NIL and worse the portal has put a downer feel to many fans. Heck, ticket sales are so low for the E KY game you can get 4 tickets & a parking pass for $49 (got the email yesterday). Hardcore friend who has season tickets in FB, baseball, & MBB changed his seats in Section D from row 20 to get a little higher view of the field. He said it was unreal how many seats in section D were available at that time. We need to look exciting and score on O, be surprising on D & start off 4-0 to get people excited about Lebby and Co. asap! Hail State!

[Cooterpoot]

So many misconceptions in this thread. It's ok to admit some of you never really gave a shit.

[Negative Waves]

I'm at a 5. Our schedule is absolutely brutal this year with Mizzou, TN, UGA, TX, and OM (I hate to add them). A 6-6 record with some competitive games against the five listed would be a great 1st season for Lebby in my eyes. Win one of the five above and that would cause me to grow some major wool for next year.

[Pancho]

simply gotta hope for 6 wins minimum. anything over that is gravy

[mudbugs]

Ever the eternal gradual optimist, I'll bravely say 6 now, and be at 9 by first kick.

[Political Hack]

3

And it?s that high because I?m excited to see Lebby?s O plans and playcalling

This.

[mckeen]

I?m pretty much through. NIL/transfer rules

[PGHBulldogBG]

This year reminds me so much of 2009. Ole Miss picked top 10 and State picked at the bottom of the conference. If we can mirror what happened that year it will get me really excited for the future. I think it’s just really hard for me to be sold on Lebby because he does not have any head coaching experience. It was different with Mullen because he was helping win national titles. Of course I think he will do much better than Croom and Moorhead but there is just so much unknown right now

[MadDawg]

There is no more us vs them. It's just who we have rented for this season vs who they have rented for this season.

Bingo. Couldn't have said it better. I'll give my excitement level about a 3. Doubt I could name 3 people on the football team. College sports are dead.

[the_real_MSU_is_us]

So many misconceptions in this thread. It's ok to admit some of you never really gave a shit.

1) it would be helpful if you would state what these "misconceptions" are so we can learn something vs just stating a vague post that adds no value to the discussion

2) of course we care. Do you really think we have people who don't give a crap about State on a State message board? We are probably all in the top 10% of fans as far as our level of passion, and you want to call us posters? Why would someone who doesn't care be here?

[Brobi-wan]

We just have some losing fatigue, I think. Couple of wins will turn that right around.

[Wink&aPrayer]

5

[Cooterpoot]

1) it would be helpful if you would state what these "misconceptions" are so we can learn something vs just stating a vague post that adds no value to the discussion

2) of course we care. Do you really think we have people who don't give a crap about State on a State message board? We are probably all in the top 10% of fans as far as our level of passion, and you want to call us posters? Why would someone who doesn't care be here?

Just read the GD thread. The whole "woe is me" "NIL kills everything" "portal kills everything". Blah blah blah. It's 100% BS!

[Cooterpoot]

We just have some losing fatigue, I think. Couple of wins will turn that right around.

We won year before last. One year of losing kills us? Bunch of Poosie ass fans we got!

[BrunswickDawg]

We won year before last. One year of losing kills us? Bunch of Poosie ass fans we got!

People were to busy bitching about Rogers, and Leach, and the OL, and the defense, and Cohen to notice we won 9 games and finished ranked

[Brobi-wan]

We won year before last. One year of losing kills us? Bunch of Poosie ass fans we got!

Can’t tell if you’re a troll or not. When people are paying money to go see an event they expect it to be good. I went to every game despite us not having a good team. I don’t expect everyone else to do that and I don’t blame them for not. I have season tickets so I pay before I go. If you’re not a season ticket holder it doesn’t make sense to pay to see a bad team play. We won 9 games two years ago. That was a good year. We won only 5 games last, have been terrible at baseball for 2 years before this one ,and have had very little to cheer for except basketball. That’s reasonable to have losing fatigue.

[bulldawg28]

621 posts to date regarding the Baseball portal for 2025 & I am post #61 on excitement level thread for FB which kicks off end of next month. Losing Leach (loved the man, hated his boring short passing game, JMO), followed by the Arnett disaster, NIL and worse the portal has put a downer feel to many fans. Heck, ticket sales are so low for the E KY game you can get 4 tickets & a parking pass for $49 (got the email yesterday). Hardcore friend who has season tickets in FB, baseball, & MBB changed his seats in Section D from row 20 to get a little higher view of the field. He said it was unreal how many seats in section D were available at that time. We need to look exciting and score on O, be surprising on D & start off 4-0 to get people excited about Lebby and Co. asap! Hail State!

Lol, Eastern Kentucky? So many holes in this analogy. Regardless if you're 10-0, who wants to see Eastern Kentucky?

[Offshore Dawg]

Some of y'all just need to forget the Arnett era or error. Libby could be the real deal for MSU. You can do a lot worse than the Oklahoma coaching tree.

[Goldendawg]

Lol, Eastern Kentucky? So many holes in this analogy. Regardless if you're 10-0, who wants to see Eastern Kentucky?

A poorly attended game doesn't look good on TV, to recruits or bring needed ticket/gameday revenue to us. I wish we didn't schedule teams like this (JMO), but as per the last 55 consecutive season ticket years my family and I will be there. At least it's not a 11:00 am kickoff.

[confucius say]

621 posts to date regarding the Baseball portal for 2025 & I am post #61 on excitement level thread for FB which kicks off end of next month. Losing Leach (loved the man, hated his boring short passing game, JMO), followed by the Arnett disaster, NIL and worse the portal has put a downer feel to many fans. Heck, ticket sales are so low for the E KY game you can get 4 tickets & a parking pass for $49 (got the email yesterday). Hardcore friend who has season tickets in FB, baseball, & MBB changed his seats in Section D from row 20 to get a little higher view of the field. He said it was unreal how many seats in section D were available at that time. We need to look exciting and score on O, be surprising on D & start off 4-0 to get people excited about Lebby and Co. asap! Hail State!

That's an ongoing thread. Every time there is a new portal addition, there are new posts. Not the same thing.

But thank you for fandom over so many years. Good stuff!