Our administration and coaching staff are telling the fanbase that football isn't a top priority and we should accept failure. I wish the entire fanbase would boycott football games next year. What a complete failure.
If Hutzler is retained - what is your response as a fan?
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I had some hope at the beginning of the year. SHOWTIME hype! Talk of high scoring games. Currently, I see us as only slightly improved on offense (not saying much) but continuing the downward spiral on defense. Overall, I have no faith in the direction of the program. So, although nobody will notice or care, no more season tickets for my family until I see a reason to believe the trajectory of the program has changed. HOWEVER, I will still attend the egg bowl for no other reason than to not break my streak of consecutive egg bowl's attended - next year will be number 49 for me and 18 for my son. Other than that game, I'll find a better way to spend my fall Saturdays.
I’m out. I’ve sent what to me was a lot of money over the years. Into the 6 figures when you add all the years up . But I’m done period. I don’t care if Saben shows up later I’m done.
I mean I'm not going to stop going to games over it, but I'll just be aware that Lebby's on the two-year plan like JoMo.
Hard for me to be less checked out. I'm past disappointed/embarassed. Now it's just a laughing stock scenario so I guess I'll laugh along with them.
Keeping Hutzler screams the obvious. The money isn't there to fire him and, more importantly, to be trusted with Selmon and Lebby to find an upgrade. It's pretty obvious that Lebby doesn't have any good industry connections that want to gamble on working for him. So why give him more money to waste on another undeserved promotion to SEC DC. Selmon / Lebby are being told "what we gave you the first time better work or you are both gone".
Keeping Hutzler screams the obvious. The money isn't there to fire him and, more importantly, to be trusted with Selmon and Lebby to find an upgrade. It's pretty obvious that Lebby doesn't have any good industry connections that want to gamble on working for him. So why give him more money to waste on another undeserved promotion to SEC DC. Selmon / Lebby are being told "what we gave you the first time better work or you are both gone".
I checked out last year. I watch games and try to make 1-2 in person, but with kids getting older and having no interest in attending MSU, I don't have much going anyway. Sad to see the university we love in the way it is.
This is basically my feelings. How plastic man has handled football along with his AD pick has completely dismantled our football program while he is off wining and dining with the CFP committee
I Lebby believes in him I will too but Lebby is will be forever tied to Hutzler. So if Hutzlet continues to fail so has Lebby. Their fates are tied.
Been there. My freshman year, 1971. Vanderbilt skull dragged us to a tune of 10 - 49 at DWS. Vandy was 4-6-1 that year. To me that year Vandy was a powerhouse. We have come full circle.
If a buyout is the only reason we are keeping him around, all I can say is where is Lee Begley when you need her?
Like I said in the thread I started a couple of days ago, I won't be renewing my tickets, and I'm not giving anymore money if he's retained. It will be just another in a long line of indicators that we're not serious about football and that the leadership is incompetent and doesn't care to do anything to make our plight any better.
I'm not rich and I don't like forking over big bucks to be miserable for months at a time, so I'm going to find something else to do with my entertainment money and fall weekends other than watching this horsesh!t.
That's my thing. What are they doing with the money they have now? Doesn't look like it was used wisely and I don't trust them with decisions being made the way they are all the way to the top
Lebby isn't impressing me much more than Hutzler. Hutzler is just a symptom of the problem.
There’s no way a $2 million buyout can be an obstacle here. No way.
Training wheels, indeed. That was a good analogy. We've got us a greenhorn coach and a greenhorn AD, neither of which has a 17n clue what to do.
After Leach died, I was sad and depressed.
After the Arnett fiasco, I was numb.
This year I had a glimmer of hope.
Then I was in the stands for the first half of the Toledo debacle.
The rest of the season does not exist.
It is almost as if there was never a 2024 season in my mind.
It now appears that the status quo is acceptable for the decisionmakers.
Fine. See y'all at Alumni Band weekend 2025. It is the only reason I have to go to a game anymore.
After the Arnett fiasco, I was numb.
This year I had a glimmer of hope.
Then I was in the stands for the first half of the Toledo debacle.
The rest of the season does not exist.
It is almost as if there was never a 2024 season in my mind.
It now appears that the status quo is acceptable for the decisionmakers.
Fine. See y'all at Alumni Band weekend 2025. It is the only reason I have to go to a game anymore.
My dog already stays clear after this season, so not sure what or who else I can kick at this point.
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It's not the money. It's the head coach and his loyalty. As others have said up this thread - he's now adopted Hutz, so Lebby has made them a package deal next year.
Lebzler? Hubby? We need to workshop names for the dynamic duo because their fate is knotted together at this point.
I checked out on football when Leach died honestly. I quit writing the checks when they took my baseball parking pass away that I’d had for years. They obviously haven’t missed me.
Nothingness. I have no feelings for MSU football any more. Pay some attention to basketball, but not much. Baseball is the only MSU sport I'm involved with or care about. Just that time I have accepted our lot in SEC football. We are the win-feeders for the other SEC teams. We only exist to pad their records.
Ole Miss was there 5 years ago. It's just unfortunately our time in the shitstorm which came at the worst time possible. There's so much change happening in college football - you don't want to suck.
I defer to you, O Great Nomenclator. You are like sixpacks peak's upscale version of Bluto in Animal House.
Conspicuously absent from this thread is that pearl clutching cuntshit, Bulldawg77.
Imagine being so tone-deaf you guilt our fan base to give more money to this coaching/admin clownshow.
Imagine being so tone-deaf you guilt our fan base to give more money to this coaching/admin clownshow.
Our whole AD office involving football appears to be amateur hour
Self inflicted by our president s d AD if you ask me. If any time begged for experienced AD and experienced coach it was right now but Keenum either too dumb, emotionally blinded, or too busy with CFP commitments that he didn't see a clear path when he needed to and the Selmon didn't understand the assignment. Brings in Lebby who was a good OC but then had no clue couldn't convince players nor position coaches to join him like Moorhead or Mullen. Then went no experience for DC. Just self inflicted all around.
At this point I just assume Keenum (and everyone else in charge) are just a bunch of idiots. It's probably why Jans tried so hard to get away after last season. To answer the question though, I'll just save my money. If they don't care, why should I care?
App State fired their head coach today, and presumably the new coach will bring his staff with him.
I wonder how Lebby likes the mountains of North Carolina?
I wonder how Lebby likes the mountains of North Carolina?
After the Toledo game it was obvious our HC wasn't ready for "Showtime" or any other time for that matter. I go back to Coach Mullen's first year, which in my opinion was his best, it gave us all hope and we were excited for the next year. Also, with each game we improved. Not the case for this year with Lebby. We did not improve in any area to the extent we had a chance to win a single SEC game in the 4th quarter. I'm out unless some serious changes are made that demonstrate the HC wants to get better quickly. It's hard to justify continuing to donate and spend hundreds on a game weekend to watch us get whipped each Saturday. I hate this for the fans and the Starkville business community. We are a household with 4 State alumni so we love the Dogs but not this!
Similar for me. Except I am going to hate every program that hired a new coach this past year and had enough success to build on for next year!
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