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Our success will come down to how willing the big time boosters are to open up their pocketbooks. SEC is a LOS league so we need to be paying for quality OL and DL or it?s going to be more 5-7 seasons in the future
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OM's team this year would have went 9-3 against the schedule they have next year if it was played this year.
Predicting them to be 9-3 is predicting no drop off. Looking at next year... the bottom end is entirely plausible.
vs. Louisville (in Nashville) - tossup
vs. Charlotte - win
vs. LSU - tossup
at Florida - Pete's first road game, tossup between first year coaches with lean to home team
at Vandy - probable loss
vs. Mizzou - tossup
at Texsa - probable loss
vs. Auburn - another first year coach battle - tossup with lean to home team
vs. Georgia - probable loss
at OU - probable loss
vs. Wofford - win
Egg Bowl - depends on each team's season to this point. So tossup.
I see 8-4 if things break good for them. 2-10 on the table if they flub. (2-10 is on the table for us as well - but 10-2 is entirely possible if things break good for us)
"Once the game starts, it's gonna be easy." - Lebron, July 10th, 2010
"No one ever said it's gonna be easy." - Lebron, June 12th, 2011
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Originally Posted by
DownwardDawg
We all know that. But that's not the point. They are all united and pull together. We eat our own.
Let's see what happens when they take two steps back next year and the fan base splits on Golding
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Originally Posted by
Coach34
No they won?t be 11-1 next year at the end of the season. But they will likely be an 8/4/9-3 team no doubt. They have a strong front office and will spend a lot of money to get talent.
Need to let the roster sort out, but 9-3 is likely their ceiling.
And their front office is at lsu now along with one of the best offensive minds in CFB.
They will still be relevant, but not the consistent 9-3/10-2/11-1 that Lane did.
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Originally Posted by
msstate7
Ok, then we aren't in disagreement. I absolute can see 8-9 wins, but there will be a drop.
8-9 is possible. Which is a significant drop.
So is 6-7, which is a huge drop.
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There was no drop off against Tulane without Kiffin but I'll bet it will be against Georgia.
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Originally Posted by
Tater
OM schedule next year is one of the toughest. Egg Bowl could be two 5-6 teams playing for a bowl berth.
Just like the olden days!!
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Originally Posted by
msstate7
Ok, then we aren't in disagreement. I absolute can see 8-9 wins, but there will be a drop.
Agree. Then 7 wins the following season. They'll be a 7-5 to 8-4 team after next season. Which is where we dream of being.
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Originally Posted by
R2Dawg
Agree. You can't spend your way out of a bad spot alone.
TAMU, Indiana, etc. The list is long on those that spent plenty and got nothing and those that spent a little and got a lot. Nothing has changed. Poor player evals happened before NIL and the whole recruiting rankings deal - see starters in NFL and what teams they play for to see how off talent evals are. Yes as a whole they can hit but the one off misses are way many.
Let me start by saying I'm in no way advocating for a Mullen return. However, this is why I think Mullen will do great when he gets his next big gig. He is excellent at player evaluation and player development. He's one of the best I've ever seen at development. He will be great in this NIL era. If they fix this ridiculous transfer situation.....lookout.
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Originally Posted by
LC Dawg
There was no drop off against Tulane without Kiffin but I'll bet it will be against Georgia.
Even Arnett won his OOC games. I don't think that's a great measure of future success especially given the fact that their roster and offensive staff will be completely different next year.
Edit to say I completely missed your last sentence.
Last edited by Todd4State; 12-27-2025 at 12:58 PM.
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Originally Posted by
DownwardDawg
Let me start by saying I'm in no way advocating for a Mullen return. However, this is why I think Mullen will do great when he gets his next big gig. He is excellent at player evaluation and player development. He's one of the best I've ever seen at development. He will be great in this NIL era. If they fix this ridiculous transfer situation.....lookout.
I disagree completely. Because to me you have to be able to recruit better than ever in this era. And how would he work with a front office scouting department? Honestly, I think the reality is we got leak Dan already from 2009-2017.
Personally I think a lot of MSU fans want Dan back because they think he is "safe". In other words they think he would win here but most of those same fans don't realize it's a different era now and Dan is a different coach now. And I understand that this isn't you advocating for him to come back.
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Originally Posted by
DownwardDawg
Agree. Then 7 wins the following season. They'll be a 7-5 to 8-4 team after next season. Which is where we dream of being.
In the meantime we are improving. If we win say, 7 games and they win 8 that's not a huge gap anymore.
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Even though I still have major question marks about Lebby and Selmon, I wish our fanbase would pull together more and get behind Lebby and KT for next season. I think the answer then becomes pretty clear if their is no improvement he is gone, but let?s support him and staff until that could possibly happen.
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With the transfer portal the way it is it's just ridiculous to speculate nexts years W/L, Heck Wisner is transferring from Texas. The only sure thing is UGa and OhState will be in the CFP.
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UNLV's QB just entered the portal. This was a guy who was the MWC player of the year.
Dan is going to struggle in this era.
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66% of ole miss roster is transfers. Lane and his GM had a good system of evaluations.
I don't see them simply being as good as they were and now have a tougher schedule.
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Originally Posted by
Todd4State
UNLV's QB just entered the portal. This was a guy who was the MWC player of the year.
Dan is going to struggle in this era.
He just went 10-2 at UNLV and signed the number one class in his conference. He'll be fine.
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Originally Posted by
confucius say
He just went 10-2 at UNLV and signed the number one class in his conference. He'll be fine.
UNLV won 11 games the season before Mullen was coach
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Originally Posted by
confucius say
He just went 10-2 at UNLV and signed the number one class in his conference. He'll be fine.
Boise State is ahead of them in the 247 rankings. And he finished 10-4.
New Mexico's coach is better than him and Hawaii will catch up to him very quickly.
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Originally Posted by
Todd4State
In the meantime we are improving. If we win say, 7 games and they win 8 that's not a huge gap anymore.
I agree 100%. I've been thinking the same thing. 7-5 vs 8-4 is the same team with a few breaks falling here and there.
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