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The vogue thing to do these days is to fire the coach mid season. It is an utterly stupid way to run a football program. I did not like it when State did it two years ago. Let the season finish out and then make a decision. And Coaching stability is vitally important to a college football program. Lebby is only two years in and making good progress and yet some of our own stupid fans were clamoring for a change over the last two weeks because we lost two gut wrenching games. I get it that emotions come into play. But only a one fourth brain person could not conclude that State is on the way to success. Seldom does it come instantaneously generally it comes in increments. Let’s look around the conference. Smart and Kiffin have been at their respective jobs for a while now = success. Heupel, Sark have been doing their thing for several years = success. Auburn, Florida, LSU changing coaches frequently is causing instability and their success is diminishing or has already diminished. A&M & Bama have relatively new coaches but they both came into good situations and are continuing to have success. Lea at Vandy is in his fifth season = success. Stoops at KY has struggled some last year and this year but they came up with a big road win last night. KY has done the right thing by riding with him through the low points. Arkansas-they have just not done a good job of hiring the right HC. Beamer at SC has had mixed success but I think they will do the smart thing and keep him. Just an observation from me. Frequently changing HC generally leads to diminished results over a period of time.

Which means we need stability at State. Lebby has a good thing going and we need to ride this wave for a while longer. Georgia good but they are not invincible either. They have been vulnerable all year. We just need to find a way win it next week.

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Arkansas totally destructed with all those penalties. And they were all legitimate. They pulled a State and let us back in the game. Finally getting to enjoy a victory drink. It has been about six weeks.

Wow a win win I sure hope Green is okay

USCe-Ole Miss. OM plays a bit like they did against Wazzou. SC will threaten an upset but Ole Miss wins an ugly game 35-28. State-Arkansas. Toilet Bowl. One team is 2-6 and the other is 4-4. Four win team should break through but it is on the road. To win State needs to run the ball effectively, NOT commit stupid penalties and win the fourth quarter. Can we do it? I sure hope so. Here is going out on a limb. State 41, Arkansas 34. Vandy@Texas. Vandy wins on the road and confounds the pundits. Vandy 34, Texas 27. Georgia>Florida though it will be a closer game than most expect. Not a lot of points to be scored however. GA 20, FL 13 Tennessee crushes Okie. TN 40, Oklahoma 24 (Sooners score late to make it look better). Upset special. Kentucky pulls the unthinkable and finishes off Hugh Freeze with an ugly win. KY 17, Auburn 16 (Auburn has an extra point blocked).

Absolutely true. The Internet never lies. Does it? Though barring injury our starting QB should be set for the next several years with Kamario Taylor. So I would tend to think that is some idiot trying to stir up something out of nothing.

Lebby is in good shape. Emotions just need to settle down some. This mentality of discarding coaches after a single loss or even a win is just mind boggling. And we might see coaches staying put rather than jumping from the frying pan into the fire. If I have a good gig, why I am I going to leave that for FL or LSU where I going to be set up for failure.

Firing Kelly is ridiculous. $54 million would fund NIL for two-three years. And I will say it again. The days of guaranteed long term Coaching deals are over. Why tie up all that money when the guy is going to get fired after 2-3 years. Stupid is as stupid does.

And even Georgia has the makings of a competitive game. They are strong as always but they have had their share of close games this year. Hopefully our guys will keep plugging away (and I believe they will) and snag a couple of wins before the season ends.

I know the folks that get overly emotional are jumping off a cliff right now. These three losses have been excruciating but people still need to realize we were under talented against those teams. And we still have not learned how to finish out a win. Arkansas & State are probably about equal talent wise. Obviously they will be favored with the game being there. We were actually listening to Neil & Matt at the end on the radio. And Matt talked about how difficult it is for a team to push through to a win. I do agree with 83 that a win over Arkansas will help calm folks down some. Being a State fan for over 60 years, I have experienced a number of these games…1975 Bama (had a first goal at the one yard line up 10-7 in the fourth quarter and failed to score), 1981 Bama game, 1983 Egg Bowl, 1984 Bama (WR fails to catch a game winning TD pass and we lose 24-20), 1997 Egg Bowl and on.

I don’t see Kiffin leaving Ole Miss. He has a good thing going. Not exactly the same but there would be some parallels to Mullen leaving State in 2017 when he was about to have his best team in 2018. He has got a lot of momentum there. Why leave that to walk into a cesspool in GNV or BTR? Going forward I think coaching contracts are going to be for shorter durations. I just don’t see schools tying up so much money long term with the coaching turnover that we are seeing in the present day.

Game last four quarters. Two costly penalties by the defense. 1. Gave them a TD instead of a FG 2. Late hit on the QB on a fourth down play. Totally turned the game there. Otherwise it would have been over at that point. Did a lot things well but we have to learn how to finish out a game and not give the other team more opportunities.

Solid first half for Ole Miss but they have to play four quarters.

Ole Miss @ Oklahoma. I think Ole Miss is going to find a way this Saturday. OK is good but not Jawja good. Ole Miss 31-28. TX@State. I just don’t know. Somewhere along the way we are going to win a conference game but I just don’t think it will today. Similar to 83. We give a great effort but fall a bit short. TX 24, State 20. A&M @ LSU. Red Stick has generally been a nightmare for A&M. And it could be again this year. It is going to be ugly but I will take A&M 14-10. Mizzou-Vandy. Gonna keep riding with the Dores. Vandy 24, Show-Me State 17. Bama-SC. Now I am not suffering from a fever. Upset special of the day. SC 27, Bama 25. After running the table for four weeks in a row, Bama does the unthinkable but yet the perfectly reasonable thing here. Plays flat, overlooking an inferior opponent and pulls a loss out of what you should be an easy win. Today will remind us that Saban is no longer the coach at Bama. Arkansas 30, Auburn 27. I do think Auburn is done for save the Iron Bowl where they will play with their hair on fire. Tennessee (name the score) > KY (2-3 Touchdowns less than TN).

Is Lebby their coach as well?

Softball? Baseball? Soccer?

East Central has had some injuries and their FR QB just has not developed as well as they expected this year. The travails of Juco football.

The door opens a bit wider for State. But of course LSU, Arky, A&M & TX and others are going to be strong. While I see us being more successful this year, I hope fans will have a bit of patience and realize that no matter how good a coach, the first year always has a learning curve and there will be some ups and DOWNS during the season. And not to jump off a cliff if things go sideways for a week or two during the season.

I know he was successful at Tennessee but I for one am glad he is gone from the SEC. His arrogance and overboard cockiness always rubbed me the wrong way. How Tennessee fares going forward will be interesting to follow. I think they will be back to the bottom half of the conference in baseball.

And we also beat Coach O as well before he was fired.

As frustrating as yesterday was for State, Lebby does have us moving in the right direction. We are on the verge of breaking through. Had State pulled out the win then almost assuredly Napier is gone. And Freeze? I don’t know. Auburn is good defensively but offensively (which was/is supposedly his strength) they are just plain bad. And I am thankful Arnold ended up there and not State. And Stoops may be wearing out his welcome in LEX. They did everything but win that game last night. You got to have some imagination at the goal line when a team with a strong defense front is bunched together in the middle.

I think he suffered from dyslexia and back in 1970’s-80’s, and the diagnosis and treatment were not nearly as good then as they are today. Obviously that negatively affected his academics. As a result he went to a Juco in Kansas and then to State for two years.

Add Stoops into the knuckle head group tonight. Texas D has the middle totally stacked and what do you do. Run twice up the middle. Got to have some kind of RPO there.

He is a truck. Wished he would have gone to State. He is basically stuck as a reserve at Bama.But glad to see him get some action tonight. His Dad , Demetrius Hill was the best High School defensive player I have ever seen play. Period. He anchored the Meridian High 1985 defense that had 9 shutouts, outscored the other teams for the year 37-34. Also were the only team to hold Starkville RB David Fair to under 100 yards twice. Regular season and again in the State Championship game that year. He played DT and had an incredible combination of strength, agility and speed. He was virtually unblockable. So Daniel definitely comes from good DNA.