Sunday Morning Thoughts-Hello Darkness My Old Friend

[Goldendawg]

As I posted Saturday, the fat lady has sung. It's over for the foreseeable future. We will be out of the big leagues after realignment. Once we are relegated, we will probably have a decent G5 (or whatever its replacement is) football program. I KNOW that no one wants to hear it and I hate typing it. Even with firing Lebby once he goes winless in the SEC in year two, the SAME people that hired Arnett and Lebby will be making the next hire (surprise, it's not our AD), so it will be more of the same lack of long-term strategy type of hire. I mean, think about this, without Charlie MSU would still be trying to figure out NIL... contemplate that for a bit. That's the people (administration and boosters) that are "leading" this program right now.

This is now two years in a row our "leaders" have signed off on HC who had never held the position who hired a DC who had also never held the position. Also in year two of an "On the Job Training" AD. This is however not new for us for decades. How many times have we hired a successful AD, HC, or coordinators from some level to fill our positions? It's usually Asst AD's, in house promotions, (Templeton, Cohen,etc) Coordinators for HC etc. Then we expect different successful results. I have been going in person as an eight year old in 1963. I am not pulling every BIO since then, but the only successful Asst AD success that comes to mind as AD for us is Byrne, (Stricklin in some ways) and former OC to successful HC are Tyler and Mullen. I think the jury will be in on Libby at the end of year two. BTW, we have now not won a home SEC game in two years. Lots of not so cheap empty seats around me in Section 4 this year and people don't look forward to spending big $ to go to Starkville to see the new lighting system or iisten to the new sound system. They want to see an entertaining product on the field that competes and wins more than it loses. I have seen little to no improvement on the field except WR this year. How do you build a foundation after 2-10 and except anyone to buy season tickets expect hardcore fans? This is the Shira years 2.0 and I never thought I would experience this level of failure and incompetence from the top ton in my lifetime again.