Why Mullen Won't Get to the Upper Tier

[dawgday166]

Mullen won't get to the upper tier until our fans and administration as a whole expect to do more than win the Egg Bowl and win the Liberty Bowl. If you tell a coach that's all he has to do to be here for life, that's likely all they are going to do. If we tell Dan that 2-16 (assuming loss to Alabama here) against ranked teams with a losing margin of 28-45 is unacceptable and he needs to up his percentage to something like .333 in those games and we expect to be competitive in them he might raise the bar.

We have too many fans that are truly happy with being average because of something irrelevant that happened in the 1960's or 1988. Or that Dan might get mad and leave and we'll never be able to hire a good coach again because once upon a time that happened at another school.

People tend to accomplish things in the range of what you expect out of them- whether that's just below expectation, meeting expectation, or going above expectation if they are a truly intrinsically motivated person.

Our goals should be:

1. Win the Egg Bowl
2. Win the Sugar Bowl
3. Beat Alabama
4. Beat LSU
5. Beat Auburn
6. Beat USM if they are on the schedule
7. Beat at least one team that finishes the season ranked
8. Win the games we are supposed to

I'm happy (resigned) to very seldom getting beat by teams we should beat, beating KY every year, and getting the hell beat out of us by any pretty darn good (not necessarily great) football team, while throwing in a loss or two to SEC W teams we should beat in a given year (we always lose a couple of reasonably close ones to 2 teams in W we should beat when they are having a down year). So at best we finish 4th, most often 5th or 6th in the West and I'm good.

And I'm gonna get pissed as hell every time the media doesn't "give us any respect". *****

BTW ... I'd move Bama down to last in your list. Let's shoot for the low-hanging fruit first. Although if we could beat Bama then we should be able to accomplish all of the rest of those ... although we wouldn't.