Losses like this one for Kiffin...

[Faustdog]

Losses like this one for Kiffin have got to be demoralizing. This was the year, and he's got losses to three mediocre teams.

You spend ungodly amounts of money to put together the best roster you can get to come to Oxford, MS, and this is the result you get. Teams like LSU and Florida in their down years are still able to match or even exceed your talent level.

This is why we lose coaches at MSU. And if it wasn't clear to Kiffin that it's the same story at UMiss, it should be now.

Of course the flip side to this and the fortunate thing for the Johnnies is that true blue bloods will want Kiffin less and less as this continues. The Rebs will not be better next year.

My bet is that Kiff bails soon for somewhere with an easier path, like Florida State. Florida won't hire him now.

Also please note that they beat no one of consequence last year. Both blue bloods they played ran them out of the stadium. Fortunately for the Johnnies they ran up against Penn St, known only for their defense, in their bowl game, and literally half of said defense "opted out" of the game.

The fact of the matter is that OM is only a better than average team. They are far, far from elite.

And they never will be that.

 

[Mobile Bay]

Florida won't be firing Napier after today.

 

[11thEagleFan]

Good news, Rebel fans! My sources tell me that Kiffin will not be going to a blue blood school. He’s yours for a long time.

Seriously though. Why would a high profile school want to hire him? You’ve seen what he’s done with high profile resources at a mid level school. Kiffin and OM deserve each other. May they go 9-3 every year, with an Egg Bowl loss.

 

[OG Goat Holder]

Losses like this one for Kiffin have got to be demoralizing. This was the year, and he's got losses to three mediocre teams.

You spend ungodly amounts of money to put together the best roster you can get to come to Oxford, MS, and this is the result you get. Teams like LSU and Florida in their down years are still able to match or even exceed your talent level.

This is why we lose coaches at MSU. And if it wasn't clear to Kiffin that it's the same story at UMiss, it should be now.

Of course the flip side to this and the fortunate thing for the Johnnies is that true blue bloods will want Kiffin less and less as this continues. The Rebs will not be better next year.

My bet is that Kiff bails soon for somewhere with an easier path, like Florida State. Florida won't hire him now.

Also please note that they beat no one of consequence last year. Both blue bloods they played ran them out of the stadium. Fortunately for the Johnnies they ran up against Penn St, known only for their defense, in their bowl game, and literally half of said defense "opted out" of the game.

The fact of the matter is that OM is only a better than average team. They are far, far from elite.

And they never will be that.

Correct. That was the best roster money can buy. And it’s another reason we should not try and mimic their path.

We need a niche. Innovation.

 

[She Mate Me]

I get it, but don't conveniently leave out the domination of the best team in college football the last 3 years just two weeks ago.

They are good, but Kiffin has a hard time overcoming his own arrogance.

 

[Barkman Turner Overdrive]

Losses like this one for Kiffin have got to be demoralizing. This was the year, and he's got losses to three mediocre teams.

You spend ungodly amounts of money to put together the best roster you can get to come to Oxford, MS, and this is the result you get. Teams like LSU and Florida in their down years are still able to match or even exceed your talent level.

This is why we lose coaches at MSU. And if it wasn't clear to Kiffin that it's the same story at UMiss, it should be now.

Of course the flip side to this and the fortunate thing for the Johnnies is that true blue bloods will want Kiffin less and less as this continues. The Rebs will not be better next year.

My bet is that Kiff bails soon for somewhere with an easier path, like Florida State. Florida won't hire him now.

Also please note that they beat no one of consequence last year. Both blue bloods they played ran them out of the stadium. Fortunately for the Johnnies they ran up against Penn St, known only for their defense, in their bowl game, and literally half of said defense "opted out" of the game.

The fact of the matter is that OM is only a better than average team. They are far, far from elite.

And they never will be that.

This Mississippi team is a lot like our 2000 squad. Led in every game, looked absolutely dominant at times, and lost to some lesser teams. Hopefully, the bottom drops out for them next year, like 2001-2003 did for us.

 

[Perd Hapley]

This Mississippi team is a lot like our 2000 squad. Led in every game, looked absolutely dominant at times, and lost to some lesser teams. Hopefully, the bottom drops out for them next year, like 2001-2003 did for us.

Hopefully Jaxon Dart gets the flu and has to come out of the Egg Bowl in the 1st quarter. That would complete the cycle.

 

[RopeDawg]

I get it, but don't conveniently leave out the domination of the best team in college football the last 3 years just two weeks ago.

They are good, but Kiffin has a hard time overcoming his own arrogance.

This years Georgia team is absolutely nowhere near the UGA teams of the last 4-5 years. This years UGA team is above average but in no way, shape or form elite.

 

[RocketDawg]

Florida won't be firing Napier after today.

Napier may be better than everybody thought. He's had a year full of major injuries.

 

[patdog]

I get it, but don't conveniently leave out the domination of the best team in college football the last 3 years just two weeks ago.

They are good, but Kiffin has a hard time overcoming his own arrogance.

Georgia is far from the best team in college football.

 

[Irondawg]

Well I for one would be quite happy with 9-3 every year

 

[GloryDawg]

Well I for one would be quite happy with 9-3 every year

The thing is a lot of those guys will be gone and they mortgaged the house to buy them. They went all in this season and failed.

 

[patdog]

If I’m Lane Kiffin, I’m not in panic mode, but I’m definitely looking for the 1st chance I get at a program that can legitimately compete at the highest level. This year tells me there’s a ceiling in Mississippi.

 

[She Mate Me]

Georgia is far from the best team in college football.

They definitely are by the "last 3 years" criteria I set. Unless you know of a team with a better resume than two national championships and a 42 and 2 record

 

[patdog]

They definitely are by the "last 3 years" criteria I set. Unless you know of a team with a better resume than two national championships and a 42 and 2 record

I skipped over the last 3 years part. My bad.

 

[She Mate Me]

This years Georgia team is absolutely nowhere near the UGA teams of the last 4-5 years. This years UGA team is above average but in no way, shape or form elite.

They'll be in the playoffs this year and they've won two of the last 3 national championships. Finished 13-1 the year they didn't get to play for it all.

Y'all are kinda silly.

 

[basedawg]

Florida won't be firing Napier after today.

Bert Stare approves this message.

 

[Barkman Turner Overdrive]

If I’m Lane Kiffin, I’m not in panic mode, but I’m definitely looking for the 1st chance I get at a program that can legitimately compete at the highest level. This year tells me there’s a ceiling in Mississippi.

And he’s hit that ceiling there.

 

[pseudonym]

I had an Ole Miss friend tell me he is taking the money he saved for going to CFP games and giving it to the Grove Collective.

If they can miss the playoffs every year, they can raise a lot of NIL money

 

[pseudonym]

You spend ungodly amounts of money to put together the best roster you can get to come to Oxford, MS, and this is the result you get.

 

[MSUDC11-2.0]

If I’m Lane Kiffin, I’m not in panic mode, but I’m definitely looking for the 1st chance I get at a program that can legitimately compete at the highest level. This year tells me there’s a ceiling in Mississippi.

Here’s the problem with that logic…. They aren’t 8-3 because they just can’t hang with the big boy teams. They smoked one of the big boy teams. The reasons they are 8-3 are because of Lane Kiffin. There is no good excuse for that roster to have 3 losses to unranked teams outside of a poor coaching job. I would argue he has done a poor job with that team. He has gotten every ounce of support he could possibly get from fan support, talent, resources, all of it…. Being at Ole Miss didn’t 17 it up for him, he 17’d it up for himself this time.

 

[Mr. Cook]

The fact of the matter is that OM is only a better than average team. They are far, far from elite.

And they never will be that.

Sadly, neither will MSU.

 

[TrueMaroonGrind]

That HELOC Brad took out to boost the grove collective is sure weighing heavy right now

 

[Drebin]

Well I for one would be quite happy with 9-3 every year

Not if you're projected to be better than that, overextended financially to buy a roster of mercenaries, and were favored in all three games you lost.

That would suck. It would possibly make me suicidal.

 

[Perd Hapley]

The “ungodly” amounts of money compiled by OM were still not enough to keep their most important offensive player from transferring to a blueblood. Judkins is 100% the difference in them making the CFP and not making it. Their offense has bogged down this year in big spots due to lack of physicality between the tackles.

That’s the thing. They spent a lot, but not nearly enough to be truly competitive. And they are spending 2 to 3 times what we are in both coaching staff salary and NIL. And its still not enough.

 

[BossDawg78]

Not if you're projected to be better than that, overextended financially to buy a roster of mercenaries, and were favored in all three games you lost.

That would suck. It would possibly make me suicidal.

My dentist is a huge OM homer and he said "if we don't make the playoffs this year it will be a huge disaster." I'm sure he's miserable about OM football right now. But yeah, it would suck.

 

[pseudonym]

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[patdog]

My dentist is a huge OM homer and he said "if we don't make the playoffs this year it will be a huge disaster." I'm sure he's miserable about OM football right now. But yeah, it would suck.

I suspect you may be seeing a root canal in your near future.

 

[onewoof]

When you circle the Georgia game, make it bigger than it is, celebrate a bit too much... It's not easy to get the team up like that again, especially on the road.

Georgia game ends up not being a statement game like you thought.

Going gangbuster on Arkansas and South Carolina on the road isn't worth anything if you look nervous and weak against a subpar LSU and Florida.

It means you're middle of the SEC. Again. Same song, different year. Same false hype. This time it's just a much bigger financial failure.

 

[Drebin]

When you circle the Georgia game, make it bigger than it is, celebrate a bit too much... It's not easy to get the team up like that again, especially on the road.

Georgia game ends up not being a statement game like you thought.

Going gangbuster on Arkansas and South Carolina on the road isn't worth anything if you look nervous and weak against a subpar LSU and Florida.

It means you're middle of the SEC. Again. Same some, different year. Same false hype. This time it's just a much bigger financial failure.

I thought it was pretty cringe when they stormed the field and took down the goalposts against Georgia. Now it looks even worse.

 

[MSUDOG24]

And yet with all of that said, they still aren't completely out of it after last night. Good grief will this never end, WTH Bama and A&M?. Still pissed GA couldn't put an end to it but thank goodness for the Gators.

 

[99jc]

I Would take 9-3 with an egg bowl loss every year

 

[Mr. Cook]

I Would take 9-3 with an egg bowl loss every year

 

[The Cooterpoot]

Kiffin has hit his ceiling and the young poon is wearing him out