Quote Originally Posted by Todd4State View Post
And then we'll hire a WR coach and everything will be fine. Until Lebby runs a play the fans don't like in the bowl game.
Some have already made up their minds about Lebby. They may turn out to be right. They may turn out to be wrong. The issue is that IF they turn out to be wrong, they'll construe it as we still did things wrong but got lucky.

I know this much, it doesn't matter who we hire at WR coach. That is not going to make or break our program. Chad Bumphis sucked as a WR coach. His development was terrible(see Rickey Johnson, Sanfrisco Magee, JJ Harrell, Markus Allen, Cam Thompson, etc). The best receivers we had were finished products recruited by Jeff Lebby. That's the facts.

I also know that if we don't significantly increase our buy in and NIL, we will have to hire a project again if Lebby fails. Dan isn't coming. He's not. He doesn't want to come back to Starkville. He's fond of his time, but he just doesn't want to come back. G6 coaches are not going to be beating down our door to come coach a team that has very little NIL buy in, fairweather fans, and school that prioritizes a non rev sport over rev sports.