Sunday Morning QB- We Are Bad Edition

[StarkVegasSteve]

The amount of anger and seemingly truthful facts in this thread is making me happy. I really hope selmon is telling them to kick rocks while they pony up.

That's what it took last time. Byrne and Mullen came in after years of LT playing buddy buddy with a handful of them and them perpetuating this lie that we were broke, when we had not been for close to a decade, and told them shut up and donate. Mullen went a step further and called them a bunch of losers. He said real boosters and real athletic depts don't act like this and if you want to act like this go support pee wee daddy ball. And that's not rumor that's a story coming from Dan Mullen himself. He would straight up tell you how bad it was when he got here and still will to this day. Hell he told every athletic dept/bulldog club employee in the first meeting he had with them that if they weren't serious about winning then they need to leave because he hates being around losers and that's what they all were.

[Santiago]

It was a group of boosters that had gotten power back under Cohen that they did not have under Byrne or Stricklin. Then Leach came in and he told them all to F off and he didn't like them, which he didn't. They were the ones wanting to replace him. And it wasn't because we were doing bad, it was because they were basically cut off from info and so they couldn't look cool at the bar of whatever Madison Co country club they belonged to. Well Leach dies and we hastily promote Arnett and I believe, do not know this for fact, but believe they were the ones who pushed for him to have the permanent job and not just have it on an interim basis. They pitched it that they could put all these people around him that would help him. AKA: People who would feed them info and go drink with them at Two Bros and tell them how cool they were.

Appreciate you for contributing here. This is how many perceived it, but then we had media also all in with these alumni. I remember Faulk making smart comments about fans of Leach, etc.
We were winning....and yet we had alumni, some media, and leadership not really pulling in the same direction.

Some of the most backward BS I have seen in a while.... well until Auburn every November when upset with their coach.

[StarkVegasSteve]

Appreciate you for contributing here. This is how many perceived it, but then we had media also all in with these alumni. I remember Faulk making smart comments about fans of Leach, etc.
We were winning....and yet we had alumni, some media, and leadership not really pulling in the same direction.

Some of the most backward BS I have seen in a while.... well until Auburn every November when upset with their coach.

The internet fanboys(Hadad and Faulk) had an axe to grind with Leach because he didn't hire their boy Bumphis as a coach in the 21 offseason. Even though WE OFFERED HIM THE JOB OF RB COACH. They wanted him on staff so he'd feed them info. I mean you saw how adamant they were about keeping him on staff this past offseason. And I will say in their defense, Chad has more than proven his worth just by the recruiting trail alone. And look, it wasn't all sunshine and rainbows with Leach. He is one of the reasons that we're in the situation we find ourselves in. His disdain for recruiting 21 of the 22 positions on the field caused him to let Dave Emerick, and later Matt Dudek, run recruiting for us. This was a MASSIVE mistake. Emerick had never run recruiting and all of a sudden he was running it for an SEC program. Dudek at least had a tad of recruiting experience but was nowhere near ready to run that dept.

[Todd4State]

The internet fanboys(Hadad and Faulk) had an axe to grind with Leach because he didn't hire their boy Bumphis as a coach in the 21 offseason. Even though WE OFFERED HIM THE JOB OF RB COACH. They wanted him on staff so he'd feed them info. I mean you saw how adamant they were about keeping him on staff this past offseason. And I will say in their defense, Chad has more than proven his worth just by the recruiting trail alone. And look, it wasn't all sunshine and rainbows with Leach. He is one of the reasons that we're in the situation we find ourselves in. His disdain for recruiting 21 of the 22 positions on the field caused him to let Dave Emerick, and later Matt Dudek, run recruiting for us. This was a MASSIVE mistake. Emerick had never run recruiting and all of a sudden he was running it for an SEC program. Dudek at least had a tad of recruiting experience but was nowhere near ready to run that dept.

I figured the fan boys didn't like Leach being late for press conferences either which made them late to Two Brothers some too.

I remember they wanted Leach to fire Spurrier so that we could get Bumphis on as a coach as well.

[StarkVegasSteve]

I figured the fan boys didn't like Leach being late for press conferences either which made them late to Two Brothers some too.

I remember they wanted Leach to fire Spurrier so that we could get Bumphis on as a coach as well.

Leach never being on time for things did bother them, and bothered all the media, and that I get. I mean first off, he moved press conferences back to, I believe, 2 PM because he wasn't getting to the office til noon. Now the other side of that coin is that he was there til 3-4 AM most nights. But I think him moving them back, and then would sometimes be an hour late bothered the media. Saying all that, Leach gave the media more access than any coach had before.

However, there's a whole other issue with our media. Look at who covers these other teams. Whether it be Ole Miss, Auburn, South Carolina, Florida, LSU, etc. They have actual journalists covering their teams in most cases. We have Steve, who can be decent, a pizza boy, and a guy who has never made it past the HS beat in the local paper. Our media is nerds. It's just the truth. They can't really interact in social situations outside of their little group of friends. They hated Mackenzie Salmon because she got a lot of attention, for obvious reasons, and she had aspirations outside of Mississippi. They hated Tyler Horka because he didn't bleed maroon. They hated Frommer for the same reason. There's a reason the only people ever worth a crap that get handed the Mississippi State beat are here for 18-24 months. Veazey, Marcello, Rappoport, Sammon, etc.

[BigDawg81]

We've never been committed. Ever.
We let boosters can our best coach in history in the 1940s for going .500. Once. We ran off 2 future HOF coaches because we refused to invest in football. We allowed ourselves to be an SEC punching bag from the mid 50s until the mid 70s by tolerating things like having to play Bama somewhere in Alabama 20 times in a row while Ole Miss got to count Memphis as a league game. We laid down when the NCAA came after Tyler and Jackie. We sold home games and rarely played on campus so Starkville never grew nor did our facilities. And our Cigar Boys throughout that have always been about themselves and access and made Horrid decisions with their influence.

This is the realist shit that I have ever heard.

[Pancho]

that sums it up

[confucius say]

Poor Leach looked sick af to me during his last season. Almost septic like in interviews. I had an eerie feeling he had terminal disease, but heart wouldn't have been my first guess.
I started to wonder if he was seeing doctors.

My wife is medically smart and told me the same thing during the 2022 season. The skinny arms and fluid and stomach and constant cough. She knew it was congestive heart failure.

[Pancho]

Lee is injured and will be our for awhile

[Coach34]

My wife is medically smart and told me the same thing during the 2022 season. The skinny arms and fluid and stomach and constant cough. She knew it was congestive heart failure.

yeah- there were rumors and people got mad when I posted about it before he died. I didnt want the guy to die but dont shoot the messenger.