Dan Wolken interviewed by Neal and Parham.

[ShotgunDawg]

BS! Shotgun is 100% correct. If we signed a top 5 recruiting class this year, 92.7% of us would try to rationalize it... 1) Well, Dan has built a solid foundation 2) DAK! 3) He's been voted 2nd best coach in the SEC 4) Starkville is growing and eventually they'll re-pave Hwy 12... etc...

Yup.

It's a lot like how an overbearing parent is with their kid.

It's not that the parent is dumb or a bad person, it's that they are so emotionally tied to that kid that they've lost the ability to see things objectively.

With the exception of some of the clowns that have agendas, I think most of these OM fans are good people that are simply too close & too emotionally tied to the situation to see it objectively. Like MSU fans, they've always believed their campus is pretty, Oxford/Starkville is a great town, & that they have a great stadium & game day atmosphere that every one should want to play at.

Thus, when you start landing recruits, it just becomes confirmation bias because you agree with what the recruit believes. It's like preferring to hear what you want to hear rather than the truth.

Their capacity to to see this thing objectively is lost. It's like trying to explain how terrorism is wrong to an insurgent