Quote Originally Posted by Dawgology View Post
People don’t want to invest in this because it’s clear that those in charge, whether that is coaches, staffer, administration or boosters, don’t appear to know what they are doing. Why would I donate $10-20k a year for bad recruiting, poor talent evaluation, and continued bad coaching hires. I will invest but I want to see some cohesive, progressive direction from the entire athletic program and good choices happening. No one has seen anything like that in years.
I agree with that. The disconnect between the fans and the AD are big. Installing LED lights is a step in the right direction. Bringing back to interlocking MSU for one game even was a small step in the right direction as well- with the next step being to use it more and more until it becomes the primary uniform again.

For me personally, the most discouraging thing is I see MSU constantly making the same mistakes over and over, there never seems to be much emphasis on recruiting and bringing in blue chip talent- "Oh give up immediately on that guy from Meridian- Bama wants him." and boosters that have the football IQ that is incredibly low to the point where they make mind numbing decisions to the point where you question whether they really want to win or if they just want access to the program. There's a lot of screw what the fans want and what is really best for the program- we want what WE want.

And if you treat fans like that- eventually they are going to stop supporting the team. Because that is the only resort to change things.

The whole Mike Leach situation and how obviously botched it was- followed up with the typical MSU response of "It wasn't really our fault or anyone's fault because this is an unprecedented situation"- it's obviously BS and the fans are simply tired of being sold it. It would be nice if the boosters actually stopped hiding behind Keenum and actually took some ****ing responsibility for their actions for once. It will never happen until the next version of Rosebowl comes out with a book about it about 60 years from now.

I'm very tempted to just say- Hey don't give us your money if you want to run our football program like Louisville High School. But I know we need their money so...