Quote Originally Posted by Pollodawg View Post
Pump your breaks there, partner. We should have beaten an OM team, that beat a top ten LSU team no less, with a true freshman QB making his first start in the freaking EB? Dan did a helluva job in that game, and no one can take that away from him. Dan did a great job not letting the team lose focus when we were down 10-zip to a bad Arkansas team too. The boys could have packed it in and said "screw it. We'll do better next year." But they didn't, and neither did he. He deserves some flak, but he needs some kudos too every now an then.
Yes, we should have beaten an unranked, overrated Ole Miss team that really should have lost to Vandy, caught Texas when they were a hot mess, and won a rivalry game versus a brain-fart prone Les Miles in a game where LSU played like shit beyond what Ole Miss was doing to effect that. Yes, we should have beaten an Ole miss team that hasn't beaten us in Starkville since 2003, and has only done it 3 times in 12 tries, even with us on probation.

You want to credit Dan for "not letting his team lose focus when we were down 10-zip to a bad Arky. But you fail to blame Dan for the team being down 10-zip to a bad Arky team to begin with.

Finally, I did give him some props, so please don't accuse me of something I didn't do. It weakens your argument.

The reality is, we believe some of the same things, but appear to differ on just how much praise Dan should get for beating Ole Miss at home and a really bad Arky, both in OT. You are of the camp that thinks it showed us all how great he did. I am of the camp that thinks y'all have blown those wins way outta proportion.

Yes, we played a freshman QB, and he did a good job. Yes, I credit Dan for coaching this young man up. One of the things I really like aout Dan is his ability to work with dual-purpose QB's. But you're kidding yourself if you don't believe that win was mainly due to our defense, and the job Geoff Collins did, combined witht he gutty performance put on by Dak.