Grade the job Lebby did as head coach in 2024.

[Quaoarsking]

Ridiculous to give him any higher than an F. 2-10 (worse than any year Croom ever had), 0-8 in the SEC (never even had a single-digit loss), got completely dominated and humiliated by a 7-5 MAC team, full of moments of incredible stupidity, low football IQ, and boneheadedness. There's just not a single positive to take away from this season, not a single glimmer of hope or optimism looking at the future.

I get that Arnett left him in a bind with the talent, but there's no excuse to be this disgraceful. NIL and the Portal are leading to non-prestigious programs all over the country being much more competitive with the Elites and reinventing themselves over one offseason. It could have been us too, but instead we are the worst Power Conference team by a significant margin (other than maybe Purdue?).

And why are we in this situation? Because our lazy Athletic Director promised us a national search and then just hired his buddy who no head coaching experience, a guy that our fans already disliked from his years at Ole Miss, and who had some ... baggage ... that prevented any other school from ever hiring him as a head coach.

We're stuck with him for one more year, but without some kind of shocking turnaround, we'll be looking for a new head coach a year from now.

[Quaoarsking]

Reminder that preseason polls showed that most posters here expected us to win 7 or 8 games this year. So while maybe we should have seen this coming, most of us didn't.

[Dawgface]

F-

[State82]

Really cannot give it anything but an F. Maybe a D- at best. Awful and unacceptable. Not worthy of six figures much less several million.

[Quaoarsking]

Extra question: If you disagree with me and don't give him an F, what would it have taken for him to get an F? Lose to UMass too? Why are your standards so low?

[parabrave]

F with an */ Now go out and recruit some talent and position coaches.

[sandjunky]

F

[CarolinaDawgs]

Not to defend Lebby but we looked 200% more competitive with -200% talent than we did last year.

[DEDawg]

C

Just keeping the team from quitting this season with the amount of talent on this roster was impressive. Everyone giving him an F, I just don?t get it. What do you expect when you have this defensive roster and you lose your starting QB and have to throw a true freshmen in there for 75% of the year

[CarolinaDawgs]

WE EXPECT TO BE 6-6 is the most loser BS of all time

[Quaoarsking]

Not to defend Lebby but we looked 200% more competitive with -200% talent than we did last year.

We went 5-7 last year with wins over Arizona and Arkansas. And we beat our MAC opponent (Western Michigan). So no, we were definitely less competitive this year.

[DawgFromOxford]

You could talk me into a D- at best only because there's glimpses of what the offense can be and the roster is devoid of talent

But yeah overall an absolute failure of season.

[Quaoarsking]

C

Just keeping the team from quitting this season with the amount of talent on this roster was impressive. Everyone giving him an F, I just don?t get it. What do you expect when you have this defensive roster and you lose your starting QB and have to throw a true freshmen in there for 75% of the year

I expect to not be in this situation in the first place.

I'll concede that losing Shapen was unlucky, but it's not like Shapen hasn't had injury problems his whole career, and I also doubt we would have finished better than 2-10 if he hadn't gotten hurt anyway.

[HoopsDawg]

Definitely an F. That was Tech and 10, we just had the benefit of playing an FCS team.

Oddly enough, I'm still behind Lebby. I think he can turn it around but it starts now.

[tcdog70]

The fact he didn’t put Booth in the wildcat on the 1 yard and push him in. Makes me go F

[Brobi-wan]

D, but I?m letting him use his academic forgiveness since it?s his first year and has very few of his own recruits. We will really see where we are next year.

But if he brings Hutz back as DC and goes winless in conference again, I think the admin will have to fire him or call all of the shots for him going forward.

[DEDawg]

I expect to not be in this situation in the first place.

I'll concede that losing Shapen was unlucky, but it's not like Shapen hasn't had injury problems his whole career, and I also doubt we would have finished better than 2-10 if he hadn't gotten hurt anyway.

Dude thats fine, but direct your anger where it?s due. Lebby was hired late Nov 2023, not much you can do to build a roster then. I would agree with you if its year 2, but you have to give him a chance to build a roster to even know if he can coach

[StarkVegasSteve]

D

He was handed a shit roster from Leach and Arnett. But he did miss on some portal targets where we were the top offer(Yam Banks comes to mind). Shapen going down and having to turn to a true freshman who was, and still is, nowhere near ready was also death sentence in and of itself. We should have won 4 games so that is why I go D. His offense and their slow starts against ASU and Toledo were the reasons we lost those games. You can say what you want about Hutzler and the D and they do deserve some blame, but we had the D out there FAR too long in those games. Add in to that we have no talent on D and less depth and it is very easy to see why 2-10 was the end result.

[parabrave]

What makes everyone think we would've been better under Shapen?? He won a game against E Kentucky and nothing else. Then he got hurt, again. I think MVB did a hella of a job this year. No oline to speak of and only One true gifted receiver. Get him a OLine capable of stopping a bull rush and a big TE and and he will be better next year. And to add a QB Coach who can teach him because Lebby can't/

[HailState2008]

Ridiculous to give him any higher than an F. 2-10 (worse than any year Croom ever had), 0-8 in the SEC (never even had a single-digit loss), got completely dominated and humiliated by a 7-5 MAC team, full of moments of incredible stupidity, low football IQ, and boneheadedness. There's just not a single positive to take away from this season, not a single glimmer of hope or optimism looking at the future.

I get that Arnett left him in a bind with the talent, but there's no excuse to be this disgraceful. NIL and the Portal are leading to non-prestigious programs all over the country being much more competitive with the Elites and reinventing themselves over one offseason. It could have been us too, but instead we are the worst Power Conference team by a significant margin (other than maybe Purdue?).

And why are we in this situation? Because our lazy Athletic Director promised us a national search and then just hired his buddy who no head coaching experience, a guy that our fans already disliked from his years at Ole Miss, and who had some ... baggage ... that prevented any other school from ever hiring him as a head coach.

We're stuck with him for one more year, but without some kind of shocking turnaround, we'll be looking for a new head coach a year from now.

Due to the hand he was given, It was a solid C until 1st and goal inside the 1 tonight. Now, it?s a F