Quote Originally Posted by BrunswickDawg View Post
That’s not at all what I’m implying. I’m saying we need to do whatever we can to make sure that the program continues to get what it needs to grow and move forward. It seems every time in our history when it has gotten to hard to make the next step, we haven’t. A lot of times it was because we started infighting about the coach. We asked the wrong questions and got the wrong results.
Shira- stepped down to become AD. We didn't fire him even though he was bad. And even named a building after him. A guy that didn't win a SEC game for something like three years in a row.
Tyler- NCAA fired him.
Bellard- Retread essentially. Fired after four straight losing seasons and losing three Egg Bowls in a row. It was time.
Felker- Had one winning season in five years which was his first year and was allowed to stay two more years after Tech and 10. And then we hired him BACK as an assistant.
Sherrill- Left after three consecutive losing seasons and NCAA issues.
Croom- Had one winning season in five years. We fired him one year removed from his best season.
Dan- Current

It seems to me recently if we ever had a problem with football coaches it was holding on to them way too long. All of our coaches going back to the 50's got at least 5 years. I think the problem is as I think you are saying we didn't support them the right way. If we gave Jackie the same facilities and money to hire assistants relative to the 1990's as what we are with Dan right now- who knows what happens? I think the issue was more from the athletic department level until 2007 than anything. If you don't have support from them, you aren't going to hire a good coach unless there is some alum that is a MSU grad that is a coaching guru. And that's going to lead to not winning which leads to lack of fan support.