In my 40 years, there has only been one brief moment when I felt like accountability existed at MSU, and that was when Foglesong and Byrne were around.
The percentage chances are low in all coaching hires. Feel like there is plenty of data to prove that.
Neither did some of our fans which is why these opinions are like A holes. Everyone has one and they all stink.
I've found the large number of Poor Ole State fans that love to expect mediocrity as a great season, because that's all our poor school should expect, is very "boomer" based. So the people with the money just don't care if we win because they don't believe we can. But they will complain when the younger crowd says we should expect more.
Expecting more is fine. I expect more all the time in all aspects of my life.
Mississippi State is a historically great representation of Mississippi as a whole accepting being last and mediocre, but just happy to be invited to the party (SEC or USA). However, the state is beginning to break that mold slowly. In addition, Ole Miss is doing whatever it costs to win while we continue to stay mediocre.
HOGWASH. It's insane to even entertain the thought that the administration at MSU is deliberately tanking everything about the university. It's NUTS, completely bat guano crazy.
I didn’t say that they were doing it. I said that it “feels like” they are at times. Reading comprehension isn’t your strength. You should be ashamed.
I’d like to think I’d do a lot, especially considering I’m not even a State alum.
I guess my point is that ole miss alums are doing more than mississippi state.
I think it’s a combination of both. Keith Carter and their chancellor seem to realize the importance of being competitive and have seen the explosion of student applications due to a good football program and now a good basketball program.
Yes i agree their current admin is doing a good job.
Keith Carter is an Ole Miss alum. He's completely bought in on Ole Miss. He's probably at his dream job.
It was not just the unavailability of debt, it was lifestyle too. Not sure if this was unique to my town, but people just didn't spend money traveling and eating out the way they do now. Even the rich people we knew mostly didn't travel out of the country. Even for the really affluent families, it was basically a week at the beach or a week skiing, and then state or ole miss sports and a hunting camp that was owned rather than leased. Nobody racked up frequent flier miles unless they flew for work.
What’s sad is that our last two ADs (Cohen sucked) have left for other jobs. We don’t seem to have the loyalty to our school that they do.
It blows my mind thinking about this now, but I can distinctly remember taking out my first mortgage in ‘07, and the lender was literally pressing me to go ahead and take nearly 50% more because hey, you’re qualified so why not?
Even entertaining the thought that is what they are doing is HOGWASH and insanity, as I said. Reading comprehension isn't your strength. You should be ashamed.
This is true, but there was an age of people that I would guess are 50 all the way down to maybe 35ish that were constantly indoctrinated that student loan was "good debt" at the same time that going to college was no longer really a solid indication of being a good or even better than average student. Even when I was in school, I remember some guy talking about how he was going to change majors and spend an extra year and his debt would only go from like $50k to $60k or something. And he was I think changing to history or poli sci, but said it was "good debt". I thought he was stupid at the time, but even though I was reasonably smart about finances for a senior in college, I still don't think I realized what an albatross that was going to be for that guy. I'm guessing he came out and either went into teaching or went into the service industry and probably had debt that was 2.5 to 3x his income. Granted, that's not the best example because he was probably 22 when he was making this statement, but for the 18 year olds coming out of high school constantly being told student loan debt is good debt, I have some sympathy for the idiots that did things like go to Washington and Lee and get a degree in English.
If you had to rank college administrations with very little information, I'm not sure you could do much better than rank them in inverse order of how much the faculty dislikes the administration. You would surely miss badly on some, but I don't know what single metric would do any better.
OM leadership is hiring better coaches in athletics, not better human beings, better coaches. They have their supporters all on the same page. They don't distance themselves from organization of things like ours. We over here grabbing some OC who hired his buddy who can't coach defense and we kept all that even after seeing it. Baseball lol!
Yes that mindset changed in the late 90s to early 2000s.
We've got to find them.
