Msu Football History

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Templeton and his small minded and penny pinching nature kept us from really exploding as an athletic dept. Hell, thank god for President Zacharias or Templeton would've hired Bobby Wallace instead of Jackie.

He really was a plague on our athletic dept. He convinced everyone for so long that we were this poor school that had to pinch pennies, cut costs, and sell home games just to survive as an athletic dept.

While I was completing my third career teaching Middle School for 11 years there was a Sports Illustrated book in the HS library that had the history to date at that publishing of every major college football program. Not only were our "powers to be" making all these football decisions like playing Alabama or LSU 20 or so straight times on the road as we played them continually for about 75 plus years , look what OM did in their "glory years" under Vaught. They didn't even play Alabama as a regular season game in those years and you should see their OOC opponents. You could even have a SW Conference cupcake like opponent designated as one of your SEC games and only had to play about 5 or 6 SEC games a year. They also had Vandy as a regular all those years and beyond. We have a terrible history of those running our program since our success after the 1940"s. Heck, as a preteen and teenager, every year we finished every season with a Murderer's Row of bama, Auburn, LSU and OM and many of those games in Jackson. No wonder our history is what it is! "Yes Sir, May I Have Another?"