I think regardless of whether you’re pro-Leach, anti-Leach, or somewhere in the middle, we’re all seeing the same thing. It’s the expectations of what we SHOULD be seeing that seem to be so different.
The team plays hard and is bought in. We get what we can out of the talent we have. On offense, we are middle of the pack in the SEC with a group of players with virtually no NFL prospects at any of the skill positions (and maybe none period). Thats pretty difficult to do in this league. For those same reasons, we often go into a shell at times due to inability to execute against defenses with more talent than our offense….which is basically all of them. Defensive talent isn’t much better, and neither are the results.
The biggest takeaway is that we don’t do anything consistently well, or consistently poorly, on either side of the ball. Thats a talent issue, not a coaching issue. So, we are back where we were with Mullen. Top 25-30 recruiting program and will likely never be better than that. Winning 6-8 per year in the regular season. Struggling mightily to bring in elite talent on offense, like always, for the same reasons we always have. That’s acceptable to some folks and not so much to others, and those groups will be forever at odds with one another.
What I don’t understand are those who craft every performance on how it supports their negative take on Leach (or any MSU coach), or on how it refutes an opposing positive take. Seems like a tried and true way to remain eternally unhappy with MSU football. But to each their own, I suppose.
