If the scenario is we finish 4-8 and Ole Miss finishes 9-3 or 10-2 (and we lose by 30+ in the Egg Bowl) our own beat writers will be calling for a change. And they are sunshine pumpers to the max.
I feel sure that scenario is what will happen. And honestly they are already saying he is on the hot seat. I just think when they let those other coaches go and brought in this hand picked staff they showed they were committed to this. I think the powers that be think this is the preferred path. I think it was a huge mistake but we will see.
I didn't have a huge problem with letting the old offensive coaches go. But the way we hired this offensive staff was bizarre. Nobody hires the position coaches before they hire the coordinator. In fact, now that I think about it, maybe we should lay off Barbay a little bit. He had no input in hiring his coaching staff.
He better get to 5 wins. Which means his a$$ better have 5 before the egg or it will come down to the egg.
I was initially hard on Barbay but you are probly spot on. He can only do so much with a suspect OL. Seems like the blocking scheme must be fairly complicated. And of course no defense.
He ain't winning the Egg Bowl period
Agree, it is going to be a long tough road to dig out of this hole, and I think the magnitude of the disastrous decisions will only be appreciated then. people still don’t understand what went wrong.
But can he run a defense ? Do you consider 60 something , 60 something and then 40 something last year as a good defense ? That needs to be 20 something if you are gonna make noise in the SEC. 2018 we were #2. That's impressive. 62 not so much. Just my opinion. And the offense is way ahead of the defense and it's totally different.
2018 was loaded with talent. Maybe he can. Maybe he can’t. But if I’m him I say “we historically recruit in the bottom half of the league and we were 7th in scoring defense and 5th in yds/gams”
That would be a weird standard and a sign of questionable leadership. Who doesn't ever make a bad hire? It's common. He doesn't even need to make a public confession. If this team doesn't improve, just change the team's leadership and let the AD handle things.
I think he's already been told he's done at season's end. Perhaps option to go back to DC or just go away. Done deal.
Yeah. I just don’t know how relevant a national rank is. I think the sec rank is more relevant. National ranks have a lot of noise in them. And I’m not necessarily advocating for the gun but those are the arguments he could make and they aren’t flimsy.
I prefer national rankings. We could be 7 in SEC and 60th nationally and the 5th SEC could be 30th. Doesn't look like much difference SEC wise but huge nationally. I mean I hear people say that here all the time. If your kid was being ranked smartest kid in Neshoba county or smartest kid in the USA which one is better ?
Well that’s not at all analogous. Most of our games are against the SEC which is the best conference in the country so I couldn’t care less is James Madison is ranked ahead of us nationally. It means nothing.
In the perfect world you are right. Executives often to have egos and blame failures on other things rather than own up to them. I don't know if Keenum falls in to that bucket or not but I doubt he concludes his hire was a bust after 1 year and allows Selmon to move us in a different direction.
Well I don't care what you think. I find it much more telling as to our performance as I explained. Everybody is playing comparable competition
This gets said a lot at the midway point of most every season.
Hope it’s greater than zero / I don’t have my hopes up though especially after the Lemonis debacle last year - when I was told by ring of honor player - he gone - then when it didn’t happen - he said it’s a crap show there
“Well I don’t care what you think”
I got no faith in our team and I am usually an optimist. Hell I was thinking 9 wins before I saw the AZ game. Hurt my feelings...lol
Hmm msybe but I doubt it. I don't think anyone would be told they are fired half way unless they were losing to fcs and group of 5. He might have been told this is your season to prove you can do it snd win otherwise we will have to decide at end of season
