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Good lord. Hardest coaching job in the SEC West? Ok. Hardest job in the SEC? I’d argue against it. But hardest coaching job in college football? Come on Danthe six year losing streak was in the 2000s not the 90s....
Is Mississippi State the hardest coaching job in college football? Meet the unflinching 36-year-old now leading the Bulldogs
Arnett was promoted after Mike Leach's death and knows he has big shoes to fill. He's also undeterred by the challenges facing Miss State in the years to come.
Sloe Joe and Leach basically had the same records relating to %, 1 game above .500 Joe was 14-12 Leach 19-17
Joe was handed the keys to a Ferrari, Leach not so much.
I've always questioned the accuracy of this, but don't the talking heads call that "2 games above .500"?
.500 would be 13-13 for Sloe Joe and 18-18 for Leach. They both won one more game than if they had been .500 is how I see it
I agree with you, it was really meant to question the way that stat is typically framed - it's always bugged me.
That's not how games over .500 works. It's wins minus losses. Might make more sense your way, but nobody does it that way.
More like a mid-level F-150. The legend of how good that team was is more myth than truth. It wouldn't have mattered who the coach was, Fitz was not a consistent passer. I suspect Joe's first year we would have won one more game with Mullen, that game being Florida.
We were so bad the COVID year because we were trying to install a totally different offense with little to no spring practice.
Yep, they are referencing how many games you’d have to win or lose to get to .500.
So, if somebody is 14-11, do you say they're 1.5 games above .500? That argument is OK, but in common practice, it's just not done that way.
Nah, nobody would say that…. They’d say 3 games over .500. I can see it both ways, but it makes more sense to state it as how many games they’d have to win or lose to get to .500.
It may not be incorrect but it’s also a very odd way to state it, especially when you’re talking about coaches that won’t coach again at the school. Nobody is taking the wins away. So, you’d have to lose 2 games to be .500, which is why people say 2 games above .500
Oh man, I totally agree. I hate feeling like our athletic department is stumbling around half-conscious, not knowing who we are or what conference we're in**
We were 3-7 in 2020. 2-6 in the regularly scheduled SEC games. Figure we win 3 of the OOC games for sure, and as you say, at NC State is a tossup. So yeah, people claiming we'd be better than 5-7 or 6-6 with a normal schedule are full of manure.
