SEC football opening day lines...

[Coach34]

Kentucky has to be a game we win.

Thats going to be one to watch. Their QB came back and they have recruited the trenches well. We havent won there since 2014.

[Jarius]

Thats going to be one to watch. Their QB came back and they have recruited the trenches well. We havent won there since 2014.

Yep. We have to turn that back into more of an auto win than a 50/50 game if we are going to get back to end of Mullen tenure type success. I'm not scared of their quarterback but we have completely shit the bed the last few trips over there. We need that to be an 11 am game.

[HancockCountyDog]

Yep. We have to turn that back into more of an auto win than a 50/50 game if we are going to get back to end of Mullen tenure type success. I'm not scared of their quarterback but we have completely shit the bed the last few trips over there. We need that to be an 11 am game.

Honestly, we are not in complete control of that. Kentucky gave Stoops time to build a program, he has done a good job recruiting Ohio and creating a culture that works there.

If I was drafting teams from the East for MSU to play over the next five years, id have Kentucky as one of the last to play, with only Georgia and Florida behind them.

[TrapGame]

Honestly, we are not in complete control of that. Kentucky gave Stoops time to build a program, he has done a good job recruiting Ohio and creating a culture that works there.

If I was drafting teams from the East for MSU to play over the next five years, id have Kentucky as one of the last to play, with only Georgia and Florida behind them.

This.

Stoops changed the complete nature of that program when he went big into Ohio. Add that the university gave him time to build a program. UK ain't the auto-win it used to be. Sucks, but good for Stoops.

[HancockCountyDog]

This.

Stoops changed the complete nature of that program when he went big into Ohio. Add that the university gave him time to build a program. UK ain't the auto-win it used to be. Sucks, but good for Stoops.

Honestly, they were a poor man's version of what Mullen was doing at MSU.

If Mullen had decided to stay and stop shopping he would have most likely had a job for a very long time, the same way Stoops does. For all his faults, Mullen did have an identity here and could have done what Stoops was doing, just a little better. Our ceiling is significantly higher than Kentucky, but our road to Atlanta was and is harder.

Stoops could only do what he has done at Kentucky, a basketball school that doesn't ask him to do to much, and doesn't care if he has a bad season. I hope he is smart and stays there, but my guess he will do something dumb and take the AU job once they fire Harsin in about six months.

[TrapGame]

Honestly, they were a poor man's version of what Mullen was doing at MSU.

If Mullen had decided to stay and stop shopping he would have most likely had a job for a very long time, the same way Stoops does. For all his faults, Mullen did have an identity here and could have done what Stoops was doing, just a little better. Our ceiling is significantly higher than Kentucky, but our road to Atlanta was and is harder.

Stoops could only do what he has done at Kentucky, a basketball school that doesn't ask him to do to much, and doesn't care if he has a bad season. I hope he is smart and stays there, but my guess he will do something dumb and take the AU job once they fire Harsin in about six months.

I really truly believe if Mullen had given the same strain to the football program he insisted the fans and the players gave we would have had two Natties. One with Cam at QB (yes, we would have paid Daddy) and the other with Dak. Then Dan probably would have moved on to the NFL in 2016 as a head coach while we were making bronze statues of him, Dak and Cam.

[DownwardDawg]

I really truly believe if Mullen had given the same strain to the football program he insisted the fans and the players gave we would have had two Natties. One with Cam at QB (yes, we would have paid Daddy) and the other with Dak. Then Dan probably would have moved on to the NFL in 2016 as a head coach while we were making bronze statues of him, Dak and Cam.

It's hard to argue with this. Dan gave a half assed effort.

[Jarius]

Honestly, we are not in complete control of that. Kentucky gave Stoops time to build a program, he has done a good job recruiting Ohio and creating a culture that works there.

If I was drafting teams from the East for MSU to play over the next five years, id have Kentucky as one of the last to play, with only Georgia and Florida behind them.

I don't disagree that Stoops has raised their floor and I would rather play someone other than Kentucky in the East every year, but we should still beat them more than every other year. The last 3 losses to them up there have all been extremely frustrating because it was mostly self inflicted. Going position by position, I would take more State guys than Kentucky guys if I were picking an all star team out of the 2 this year (and most every year). We need to beat them this year. I would predict them to be a small favorite based on them playing us at home, but that's a game Leach has to put in the W column most every year if he wants to stay in Starkville long term.

[FISHDAWG]

Thats going to be one to watch. Their QB came back and they have recruited the trenches well. We havent won there since 2014.

and I think we barely won that one .... If I remember correctly Kendrick Market made a game saving shoestring tackle late in the game to prevent the winning touchdown ... this game will indeed be interesting