We were 9-4 Leach's last season. Then we hired Arnett.

People want to blame Leach's recruiting but that's a lame excuse from the Arnett supporters making excuses for him destroying our program trying to make us "Mississippi State football" again.

If Leach was still alive we would have Sawyer Robertson as our QB who is a Heisman contender this year. Leach also brought in Makai Polk, Justin Robinson who became the Outback Bowl MVP, he kept Tulu after Moorhead was fired, RaRa was a good receiver for us, and so was Zavion Thomas who were both Leach recruits poached from MSU by bluebloods. Trench's? He brought in Albert Reese who won the Hull trophy last year, Charles Cross, brought in Canon Boone who might be our starting center this year and also added in Steven LaSoya who was a quality o-line recruit.

Even defensively we recruited better- he brought in Forbes who wasn't recruited by Buckley for some weird reason, Tyrus Wheat, Jackie Matthews, Decamrion Richardson, Randy Charlton, Marcus Banks, and Jordan Davis were all quality players.

And a lot of those we got out of the portal despite Cohen sucking at the portal so I don't think it was that.

The quality of players dropped off after Leach passed away and it had nothing to do with Leach or the Air Raid. There's a reason why Stonka, SanFrisco, Harrell, and MVB committed almost immediately after Lebby was hired. Arnett and the boosters friends like Brad Peterson, Will Friend, Kevin Barbay, and etc were radioactive toxic. You go from a HOF coach to a medicore coaching staff running the worst offense I have ever seen in my life and you get what we got. How MSU handled Leach's death was a really bad look and it has taken a couple of years (and maybe going) to fix it.