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Don’t let a five game losing streak make you emotional about a coach. Yes things are bad but firing a coach after a short period of bad games is totally stupidity. With Raiders 10 logic, we would be on our third head coach during this year alone. Lose a game or two jump into the coaching portal and sign a coach to a ten day contract. Win a game extend it for five days. Lose game, throw him back into the lake like an undersized bass.

So far it seems that State & Ole Miss have done a decent job in adding mercenaries to their respective teams. The proof will be in the pudding this fall.

Not sure either team is NIT worthy at this point in time. Embarrassing performance again tonight by State. Young guys off the bench seem to be playing better. Might as well let them play more going forward. Starters have been below average.

Indy for the win!!!! Wow what a great game!!! Mendoza with the run of the decade!!!

I mean the guy has led State to three straight NCAA tournaments. This year has been a struggle but it seems people have the patience of a Gnat these days. This microwave society that we live in today is just completely absurd. The season is barely half over and some knuckleheads are wanting him on the hot seat. Really? Let the season play out and then make an assessment on how he is doing. If everyone had this attitude in 1988-89-90, Richard Williams would have been fired. And there would have been no 1991 SEC Championship, no 1995 Sweet Sixteen, no 1996 Final Four…. completely ridiculous….

Are you guys hearing something that I am not? Yes this team has had some struggles this year but they are not a bad team by any means. Last night neither team played well. After sleeping on it, I think Hubbard may felt the extra pressure of the 1996 team being in the house. And as a result, he was pressing and struggled. Missing 5 FT’s? Just unheard of for him. And he missed several wide open threes. Last night was less about the coaches and more about the players just not making shots. Both teams had numerous open looks from three and just failed to make them. Way too much is made out of one game. Both Beard & Jans are good coaches. The game could have easily ended up with a State win had Hubbard’s layup gone in. That is how close it was. Credit to Ole Miss for scoring one more point last night. Nothing more, nothing less.

There is way too many school districts and the administration offices are bloated to the max. It seems to me that if a Principal is failing, the administration office creates a new position and then promotes said Principal into it. And then coaches seem to get shuttled around from school to school as many times as Zsa Zsa Gabor was married. 1. There should be one school district office for each county (and in some cases i.e. Issaquena County, one office for two counties). 2. Administrative offices should be pared back to the bare minimum. 3. State testing is needs to be completely revamped. There is way too much emphasis on it. Obviously you have to be able to assess where a child stands academically. But the current system discourages creative thinking skills and encourages learning how to pass a test. 4. Now with respect to the transfer issue, I see quite a few people whining about it but none seem to care about why some schools are failing to educate their students. Poor parenting, poor teachers, bloated administration, kids that don’t care, no discipline (thanks to the Southern Poverty Law Center for that) are some of the reasons. 5. If schools were succeeding in educating their students, this bill would have never come up. Some of these schools/districts seem to operate as their own little fiefdom and woe to anyone who attempts to make improvements to them, or force them to start living up to their responsibilities and expectations of teaching children. Period. We will see where all this lands but it is about time the Apple Cart got turned over in education and some real action taken to improve our schools and most importantly teach our children the highest standard possible.

Missed two FT’s and a layup. But it was an ugly game that State lost and Ole Miss did not lose. Coach Jans is safe. I can’t believe that someone would even broach that subject.

Free Throws will make you or kill you. We missed 9 FT’s and I think a couple of them were front ends of a one and one in first half. So effectively 11 missed FT’s. Costly when you lose by one point.

Ugly game. Hubs misses two FT’s and a lay up. Fitting way to end the game.

Basketball version of the Egg, Part 1. Have no idea what will happen. Must win for State since it is at home. Both teams have been underwhelming for the most part of this year with a few sprinkles of good. Ole Miss is certainly riding some good momentum after a tremendous win at Georgia. State needs to figure how to sustain play for than 12 minutes. Obviously emotion comes into play during this game and crowd will certainly be a factor. With that Let’s Go Dawgs!!!

I know I am in the minority here but I just don’t think State is going to quite be at the level as we are being ranked. Most of the time the baseball gods find a way to stymie first year head coaches. Now I know that times are different and there is really no team development anymore. You just plunk guys out of the portal and try to sign some good HS players and keep them from going pro. And then it is a crapshoot during the season. I am definitely a O’Connor fan but I would advise our folks to pump the brakes a bit and let the team play some games and gel. And hopefully not jumping off the cliff when we lose some games early. I agree that I am surprised that Ole Miss is not ranked. I have always been a Coach Bianco fan and have never understood all criticism he gets from the Ole Miss folks. And ditto to Southern Miss. Just consistently good every year in baseball. They have a nice ball park in Pete Taylor Park and a solid loyal fan base.

Hard to understand. Play very well for about 12 minutes and build a 14 point lead. And then poof , the team just melts like the Wicked Witch of the West.

But as usual Kentucky is kryptonite to State. For the last 15 years they seem to play their best against us and we lose to them Like clockwork.

But they still have to finish. Miami is down there with Michigan as the two teams I dislike the most. So hope Indiana beats them to a pulp like they have Bama & Oregon.

Have to give props to Ohio State. They played Indiana to a 13-10 loss. That is looking better and better these days.

Cignetti is an excellent coach but I can see Indiana dropping back next year. Ole Miss will take a step back. Both will still be good. But given the new normal I can see football becoming more wide open in the years ahead. Few teams will be able to sustain any kind of dominance. If the playoff goes to 16, more teams will have an opportunity to be this year’s Indiana. There will be more flash in the pans and less sustained runs.

It was definitely DPI, but unfortunately it seldom gets called in that scenario. I wished Chambliss would have lofted the pass more. When he let go of it, I thought it was going to be too long. Basically they ran out of time. Needed about 15 more seconds.

And they won by 4. If you are Ole Miss I don’t think you can ask any more of your players. They left it all on the field. Heartbreaking loss. This was the opposite of bad game between two bad teams where one team loses and the other team does not lose the game. One team won this game and the other team did not win this game.

Agree. Also need to make NIL payable as an end of season bonus after the team has completed their entire season including bowl games.

Long way to go and I would say we need to win 11-12 conference games plus one-two tournament games to garner a bid. The SEC is a grind but the conference is not nearly as elite this year as last year. It is cliche but we have to take one game at a time. Feels good to be 2-0. It seems like that the last several years we have started out conference play poorly. And then had to scramble during the year to recover.

He is definitely the classic garbage player (and I mean that as a compliment) in that he is going to score about 4-6 points a game i. E. a rebound layup, a dunk on a broken play etc. but he plays excellent defense, rebounds and hustles 110%. A good complimentary player that every team needs.

The depth on this team is surprisingly good. We committed a lot of fouls today but the guys off the bench played very well. As physical as the SEC is, that depth paid dividends today and for us to be successful going forward, it’s going to be crucial.

Huge win on the road for State at Texas in OT. Some redemption from the loss to them last year at home in OT. Team seems to be getting better. Of course their best player fouled out late. A complete team effort even though Hubs and Epps carried the scoring load.

Well that was bad, worse and then worst. Terrible injury to Taylor at the end but a very disappointing showing by State. Period. WF is a better than average team but they basically dominated the LOS tonight. Lebby & Co. have got a major job ahead building an OL/DL going into next season.