Jeremy Pruitt Will be announced tomorrow! - per an unknown poster with his 1st post

[Dawgfan77]

No please..... we need someone MUCH Younger....

Your thinking of chuck this is will his son.

[Dawg-gone-dawgs]

I hope this guy only posts when things are a certainty. Imagine the power to be "The Source" and to be batting 1.000.

I'm saying it is one of the mods with a different screen name.

[Cary Hudson's little bro]

I'm not sure how I feel about Napier as an OC. They were 6th in the PAC 12 and he was fired as an OC from Clemson. If he's a WR coach I am totally good with that.

Will Friend is probably the OC Pruitt hires. He's been better than Napier. Napier to WR coach. Or Co-OC's

[Commercecomet24]

Only thing I know about Friend is that his resume is outstanding. Top 15 offense nationally this year, Top 25 last year, and one of the best offensive line coaches in the country. Unless I'm missing something, he'd be a big get.



I have no idea if there's a realistic possibility of keeping Grantham, but if so, that'd be awesome, especially paired with a Napier/Friend-led offense.

Related question:

Anyone else not getting a damn thing done at work today?

lol absolutely nothing today!

[Commercecomet24]

One question. Will Pruitt hate unm as much as we do? Only half joking

[yjnkdawg]

If true The Source is a legend. 1 post.

LOL True 61

[Prediction? Pain.]

Considering we were tied for 37th in Scoring (ASU 39th), 41st in total yards (ASU 35th), 66th in Red Zone (ASU 5th) and 49th in Total O (ASU 14th) - it could be an upgrade.

For all the hoopla about "Dan the Offensive Genius" we never were ranked all that high.

Mullen's offenses were up and down in his nine years at State. 2014 was obviously a high point (8th nationally in offensive S&P+ ranking), and 2015 was, overall, pretty good as well (top 20 nationally in offensive S&P+). But in numerous other years, the offense was pedestrian.

As for Napier, this year's ASU offense is a bit of mixed bag, but probably performed a little better than our 2017 offense in context. Higher S&P+ ranking (ASU's offense - 38, State's offense - 65), and better in-conference stats for scoring offense (ASU 4th, MSU 7th), 3rd Down Conversion rate (ASU 2nd, MSU 3rd), yards per play (ASU 7th, MSU 13th), and Red Zone TD% (ASU 2nd, MSU 8th). ASU's offensive line didn't play as well as ours (in either sacks allowed or TFLs allowed), though interestingly they dominated their conference in time of possession, just like MSU did.

[Big4Dawg]

Will Friend is probably the OC Pruitt hires. He's been better than Napier. Napier to WR coach. Or Co-OC's

No one knows if he's been better. No one knows if Colorado State's offense is his or Bobo's

[Bubb Rubb]

As for Napier, this year's ASU offense is a bit of mixed bag, but probably performed a little better than our 2017 offense in context. Higher S&P+ ranking (ASU's offense - 38, State's offense - 65), and better in-conference stats for scoring offense (ASU 4th, MSU 7th), 3rd Down Conversion rate (ASU 2nd, MSU 3rd), yards per play (ASU 7th, MSU 13th), and Red Zone TD% (ASU 2nd, MSU 8th). ASU's offensive line didn't play as well as ours (in either sacks allowed or TFLs allowed), though interestingly they dominated their conference in time of possession, just like MSU did.

It's not apples-to-apples, though. I'd like to see an analysis of the defenses that each team faced. I doubt ASU saw anything like the Georgia, Auburn, Alabama defensive gauntlet.

[Dawg-gone-dawgs]

For Tennessee? or MSU? He or she didnt specify.

[AlSwearengen]

One question. Will Pruitt hate unm as much as we do? Only half joking

I would be perfectly happy if the next coach just goes about his business and doesn't prod ole miss. They don't need it and it only makes living with them harder than it already is.

[Dawg-gone-dawgs]

I would be perfectly happy if the next coach just goes about his business and doesn't prod ole miss. They don't need it and it only makes living with them harder than it already is.

I agree. We are above them and will get further above them in the coming years. We should just not even acknowledge them at all.

[msudawglb]

Coaching carousel....December around the corner.... Use or lose coming up..... forget about it!

No truer words have been spoken....I can say this because I too am a govt worker.

[TrapGame]

I would be perfectly happy if the next coach just goes about his business and doesn't prod ole miss. They don't need it and it only makes living with them harder than it already is.

In hindsight maybe the shit Mullen started shouldn't have been. It was snarky. It was fun up until Hugh Freeze pushed Dan's shit in.

With the sanctions I'd just as soon treat them like any other game. Make them irrelevant.

[StarkVegasSteve]

Treating it like any other game is why they've had our number. We need to treat it like Bama and Auburn treat the Iron Bowl

[Prediction? Pain.]

It's not apples-to-apples, though. I'd like to see an analysis of the defenses that each team faced. I doubt ASU saw anything like the Georgia, Auburn, Alabama defensive gauntlet.

Yeah, it's definitely hard to compare teams' stats when they're in different conferences. But that's why I used stats for conference games only, which should hopefully at least somewhat show how each offense performed against like-talented teams. So yeah, maybe ASU's offense wouldn't have been so good on third downs or in the red zone if it was facing SEC defenses. But that's not fair either, because ASU's offense is stocked with PAC 12 talent, not SEC talent.

I'm not saying that ASU's 2017 offense was a national juggernaut in comparison to MSU's, but only that in the context of their respective conferences, ASU's offense this year seems to have been a little better than MSU's.

[Commercecomet24]

I would be perfectly happy if the next coach just goes about his business and doesn't prod ole miss. They don't need it and it only makes living with them harder than it already is.

It's a rivalry game and if you think they aren't still pissed and aren't gonna turn the Egg Bowl into a war ever year, you're mistaken. We have to bring intensity to that game and I want a coach that's gonna treat it like a rivlary game.

ETA After what I watched them do Thursday night, we better not *****foot around them.

[Commercecomet24]

Treating it like any other game is why they've had our number. We need to treat it like Bama and Auburn treat the Iron Bowl

This is what I'm talking about.

[NCDawg]

Will Friend is probably the OC Pruitt hires. He's been better than Napier. Napier to WR coach. Or Co-OC's

I guess you're right. I probably do hold a grudge too long. It just kinda' pissed me off when I went to the State-Alabama game in '97 and they had Will Friend's picture on the front page of the program. They did it because they knew he had chosen them instead of us. BTW, I still hold a grudge against Dick Pace for his PI call in the '81 Egg Bowl. It's hard for me to forget things like that.

[AlSwearengen]

I agree with treating the game as if it is a war but Dan made a lot of unneccessary comments. When he made the comments, I knew they would become "ole miss X 10" in an effort to get rid of him. Just beat their asses down in the egg bowl and don't mention them in the press.