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[Todd4State]

JWS had losing seasons in 6 of his 13 seasons. And of those 6, five of them were compete disasters with 3 or less wins.

Half of those were from 2001-2003.

1993 we had 2 ties that season. That could have very well been a 5-6 win season with today's rules.
1995 was a disaster I'll give you that.
1996 we went 5-6 and beat Bama and Ole Miss. That's probably a 6-6 season during Dan's era.

Dan was here for 9 years. If you compare what Dan did to Jackie's first 9 years then Jackie is clearly better.

[BrunswickDawg]

Half of those were from 2001-2003.

1993 we had 2 ties that season. That could have very well been a 5-6 win season with today's rules.
1995 was a disaster I'll give you that.
1996 we went 5-6 and beat Bama and Ole Miss. That's probably a 6-6 season during Dan's era.

Dan was here for 9 years. If you compare what Dan did to Jackie's first 9 years then Jackie is clearly better.

Dan also had 1 more cupcake game - usually FBS - that Jackie never had. Yeah, Jackie lost some OOC games but he likely beats an FBS every year pre-2001. Jackie also didn't have anywhere near the resources Dan had - nor the support to go get them like Dan had with The Ninja and Loafers. Jackie got Templeton Troughs.

[Coach34]

Dan also had 1 more cupcake game - usually FBS - that Jackie never had. Yeah, Jackie lost some OOC games but he likely beats an FBS every year pre-2001. Jackie also didn't have anywhere near the resources Dan had - nor the support to go get them like Dan had with The Ninja and Loafers. Jackie got Templeton Troughs.

Jackie got to coach in an SEC with Bama having Mike Dubose and Dennis Franchione in it after they forced Stallings out. Pine Box Tommy beat his ass and then left for Auburn. Dont get me started about 4th and 29. Jackie's struggle with UPig is why 1999 wasnt more special. That loss put us in the Peach Bowl instead of a much more prestigious bowl.

8 straight bowls by Mullen. Nationally relevant. We wont ever see that again. What Mullen gave us was generational. We will chase what he gave us for decades

[Todd4State]

Dan also had 1 more cupcake game - usually FBS - that Jackie never had. Yeah, Jackie lost some OOC games but he likely beats an FBS every year pre-2001. Jackie also didn't have anywhere near the resources Dan had - nor the support to go get them like Dan had with The Ninja and Loafers. Jackie got Templeton Troughs.

Exactly.

[Todd4State]

Jackie got to coach in an SEC with Bama having Mike Dubose and Dennis Franchione in it after they forced Stallings out. Pine Box Tommy beat his ass and then left for Auburn. Dont get me started about 4th and 29. Jackie's struggle with UPig is why 1999 wasnt more special. That loss put us in the Peach Bowl instead of a much more prestigious bowl.

8 straight bowls by Mullen. Nationally relevant. We wont ever see that again. What Mullen gave us was generational. We will chase what he gave us for decades

DuBose won the SEC and for the first six years Jackie had to deal with Gene Stallings.

We got screwed against Arkansas. They called back a TD on a "hold" that doesn't get talked about enough. The SEC was going to make damn sure that Jackie didn't win the West back to back.

The late 1990's we were absolutely nationally relevant. Dog Pound Rock. On every other Thursday night it seemed like. Jackie and Joe Lee Dunn and his crazy defense. And we won the SEC West in 1998. That is absolutely nationally relevant. We had Tennessee on the ropes and it basically took a perfect pass to beat us and Tennessee made it. And we didn't have JJ for the Championship game either. Keefer passing away really hurt us because he would have been a senior and would have been the other half of the running back duo Jackie liked to have like Davis/Bouie and Dicenzo/Dontae.

The 1999 team finished 12th in one poll and 13th in the other. 2014 we finished 12th in one poll and 11th in the other. Basically the same spot. Give me the season with the Egg Bowl win and Peach Bowl win over 2014 though. That kind of shit matters when you are talking legacy and Dan didn't get that or cared. He wins the Egg in 2014 or 2015 just one of those- I view him differently. 2017 would have helped too. Say what you want about Jackie but he never let a job search distract him like that. And as you know he was up for the Alabama job in 2000. What did Jackie do? He absolutely kicked their ass in. Pretty badass actually. Dan would have been distracted and not had us ready to play at all and would have lost by three and then lost the UConn job he was trying to get.

[Matt3467]

DuBose won the SEC and for the first six years Jackie had to deal with Gene Stallings.

We got screwed against Arkansas. They called back a TD on a "hold" that doesn't get talked about enough. The SEC was going to make damn sure that Jackie didn't win the West back to back.

The late 1990's we were absolutely nationally relevant. Dog Pound Rock. On every other Thursday night it seemed like. Jackie and Joe Lee Dunn and his crazy defense. And we won the SEC West in 1998. That is absolutely nationally relevant. We had Tennessee on the ropes and it basically took a perfect pass to beat us and Tennessee made it. And we didn't have JJ for the Championship game either. Keefer passing away really hurt us because he would have been a senior and would have been the other half of the running back duo Jackie liked to have like Davis/Bouie and Dicenzo/Dontae.

The 1999 team finished 12th in one poll and 13th in the other. 2014 we finished 12th in one poll and 11th in the other. Basically the same spot. Give me the season with the Egg Bowl win and Peach Bowl win over 2014 though. That kind of shit matters when you are talking legacy and Dan didn't get that or cared. He wins the Egg in 2014 or 2015 just one of those- I view him differently. 2017 would have helped too. Say what you want about Jackie but he never let a job search distract him like that. And as you know he was up for the Alabama job in 2000. What did Jackie do? He absolutely kicked their ass in. Pretty badass actually. Dan would have been distracted and not had us ready to play at all and would have lost by three and then lost the UConn job he was trying to get.

I think you're letting feelings over Mullen cloud your judgment here. The SEC after Jackie left is a completely different animal. The last 20 years the NC has been won by an SEC team 13 times. The 20 years prior to that only 4 times. Mullen may have had a better OOC schedule but the in conference more than made up for that. 8 out of his 9 years here Mullen had offenses among the top 10 best ever at State. He holds the top 7 best single season offensive yards here. Love Jackie but objectively it's not really close.

[EdwardDrayton]

I think you're letting feelings over Mullen cloud your judgment here. The SEC after Jackie left is a completely different animal. The last 20 years the NC has been won by an SEC team 13 times. The 20 years prior to that only 4 times. Mullen may have had a better OOC schedule but the in conference more than made up for that. 8 out of his 9 years here Mullen had offenses among the top 10 best ever at State. He holds the top 7 best single season offensive yards here. Love Jackie but objectively it's not really close.

That TD pass to Peerless Price was almost as painful as the Greg Ellena HR.

[confucius say]

Half of those were from 2001-2003.

1993 we had 2 ties that season. That could have very well been a 5-6 win season with today's rules.
1995 was a disaster I'll give you that.
1996 we went 5-6 and beat Bama and Ole Miss. That's probably a 6-6 season during Dan's era.

Dan was here for 9 years. If you compare what Dan did to Jackie's first 9 years then Jackie is clearly better.

So your argument is that if I take out JWS's three worst seasons then he is better than Dan?
If that's the case, I get to take out Dan's three worst seasons, too.

And even if I'm only taking JWS's first 9 seasons, he still had losing records in year 3 (1993), year 5 (1995), and year 6 (1996). And two of those years, 1993 and 1995, were complete disasters with only 3 wins each.

[Todd4State]

So your argument is that if I take out JWS's three worst seasons then he is better than Dan?
If that's the case, I get to take out Dan's three worst seasons, too.

And even if I'm only taking JWS's first 9 seasons, he still had losing records in year 3 (1993), year 5 (1995), and year 6 (1996). And two of those years, 1993 and 1995, were complete disasters with only 3 wins each.

I took his first 9 years because that's how long Dan coached. So I took out 2000 and left in the three losing seasons you are referring to which I know hurt my argument to prove my point. Because in 2000 he beat both teams that won the division and the Snow Bowl. I also took out his win against Ole Miss and Eli in 2001 too.

And 1993 was not "a complete disaster" as I detailed in other posts. He had 3 wins but also had 2 ties as well. Add in the fact that we played one less game a year and 1993 was a lot closer to 2013 than not.

[Todd4State]

I think you're letting feelings over Mullen cloud your judgment here. The SEC after Jackie left is a completely different animal. The last 20 years the NC has been won by an SEC team 13 times. The 20 years prior to that only 4 times. Mullen may have had a better OOC schedule but the in conference more than made up for that. 8 out of his 9 years here Mullen had offenses among the top 10 best ever at State. He holds the top 7 best single season offensive yards here. Love Jackie but objectively it's not really close.

I'm basing it off of top 25 wins, SEC championships, and memorable wins. Jackie is superior to Dan in all three. Our run from 1996-2000 was the best run of football in the modern era. Dan never had a five year period close to that. And never had a three year run close to 1997-1999 or 1998-2000.

Like I said Leach had almost as many top 25 wins as Dan did in three years. And a good chunk of Dan's top 25 wins came in 2014 over a three week period.

[confucius say]

I took his first 9 years because that's how long Dan coached. So I took out 2000 and left in the three losing seasons you are referring to which I know hurt my argument to prove my point. Because in 2000 he beat both teams that won the division and the Snow Bowl. I also took out his win against Ole Miss and Eli in 2001 too.

And 1993 was not "a complete disaster" as I detailed in other posts. He had 3 wins but also had 2 ties as well. Add in the fact that we played one less game a year and 1993 was a lot closer to 2013 than not.

3-6-2 in year three is a complete disaster. One of the ties was to a 2 win Arkansas State team. Just a complete disaster.
And it's not really close to 2013's 6-6.
It's just as close to 3-9.

Regardless, you have to take their whole respective tenures, not just 9 years (Dan left after 9 years because he was successful. JWS was fired because he completely cratered the program).
When you compare their whole tenures, I think even you agree that Dan > JWS.

[HoopsDawg]

Jackie got to coach in an SEC with Bama having Mike Dubose and Dennis Franchione in it after they forced Stallings out. Pine Box Tommy beat his ass and then left for Auburn. Dont get me started about 4th and 29. Jackie's struggle with UPig is why 1999 wasnt more special. That loss put us in the Peach Bowl instead of a much more prestigious bowl.

8 straight bowls by Mullen. Nationally relevant. We wont ever see that again. What Mullen gave us was generational. We will chase what he gave us for decades

Jackie had to face peak Florida with Spurrier and Peak Tennessee with Fulmer. lol, are you trying to act like the SEC wasn?t good? It was much better than this years SEC.

[confucius say]

I'm basing it off of top 25 wins, SEC championships, and memorable wins. Jackie is superior to Dan in all three. Our run from 1996-2000 was the best run of football in the modern era. Dan never had a five year period close to that. And never had a three year run close to 1997-1999 or 1998-2000.

Like I said Leach had almost as many top 25 wins as Dan did in three years. And a good chunk of Dan's top 25 wins came in 2014 over a three week period.

Well if you cherry pick metrics, sure (JWS never won a sec championship though-he did win a bad West in 98 when we got to play USC, Vandy, and KY from the East, and he deserves credit for that).

But he also put up 6 losing seasons in 13 years, 5 of which were horrible 3-win-or-less seasons. All five of those were much worse than Dan's worst two years of 5-7. And he left the program in shambles, whereas Dan left it in the best shape it's ever been. He gets credit for all of that, too.

[msstate7]

Jackie had to face peak Florida with Spurrier and Peak Tennessee with Fulmer. lol, are you trying to act like the SEC wasn?t good? It was much better than this years SEC.

I think the comparison was sec during JS to sec during DM. It was much better during DM

[confucius say]

Jackie had to face peak Florida with Spurrier and Peak Tennessee with Fulmer. lol, are you trying to act like the SEC wasn?t good? It was much better than this years SEC.

He didn't face either of those two from 1996 through 1999. That benefited us greatly. 1998 and 1999 we drew KY, USCe, and Vandy from the East.
That's when you have to make hay, and to his credit he did.

[Coursesuper]

All this is just BS, what if we hadn’t fired Allen McKeen or what if Darrell Royal doesn’t leave after 1 year because we were cheap? All of these scenarios wouldn’t matter if we weren’t who we are. That’s what we have been unwilling to accept and adjust forever.

[StarkVegasSteve]

All this is just BS, what if we hadn’t fired Allen McKeen or what if Darrell Royal doesn’t leave after 1 year because we were cheap? All of these scenarios wouldn’t matter if we weren’t who we are. That’s what we have been unwilling to accept and adjust forever.

Or what if we would've hired Spurrier, who wanted the job, in 86. Instead we went cheap and hired Rockey.

Or, pivoting to another sport, what if we had pushed more for Roy Williams when we offered him the job in 86.


To put that into perspective, we could've had Roy Williams, Steve Spurrier, and Ron Polk all on campus at the same time.

[BrunswickDawg]

Well if you cherry pick metrics, sure (JWS never won a sec championship though-he did win a bad West in 98 when we got to play USC, Vandy, and KY from the East, and he deserves credit for that).

But he also put up 6 losing seasons in 13 years, 5 of which were horrible 3-win-or-less seasons. All five of those were much worse than Dan's worst two years of 5-7. And he left the program in shambles, whereas Dan left it in the best shape it's ever been. He gets credit for all of that, too.

I just don't think the eras are really comparable. Jackie had no real resources to work with. No $25 million Football practice facility. No East Side Upper Deck or NEZ addition. Terrible locker rooms. No real support coming from LT - unless you count the troughs.
And don't forget - we had the NCAA up our ass the day Jackie walked on campus.

[TrapGame]

Or what if we would've hired Spurrier, who wanted the job, in 86. Instead we went cheap and hired Rockey.

Or, pivoting to another sport, what if we had pushed more for Roy Williams when we offered him the job in 86.


To put that into perspective, we could've had Roy Williams, Steve Spurrier, and Ron Polk all on campus at the same time.

Or if we hired peak Jimbo Fisher in 2003 instead of Croom. Jimbo would have brought in most of Saban's staff from LSU including Muschamp.

[HancockCountyDog]

Ok, then we aren't in disagreement. I absolute can see 8-9 wins, but there will be a drop.

Of course there will be a drop, they won every one score game except one. That doesn't happen often, hell they lost every 1 score game in 2024.