So give ALL the new hires a letter grade (incl. AD)
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I have no clue. No one truly knows. It’ll take months to years to determine if these were successful hires.
I like the youth in these hires. Dudes with something to prove. Should be fun to watch.
I don’t have anything against any of them. But I will say MSU is the only team in the SEC that would employ this many young guys at once.
Amen. No point at all in grading anything on completely subjective criteria that fans and media assign before games are even played.
Signed,
Chris Lemonis and Joe Moorhead
You need to figure out your ring size.
I forgot about that. Boy if that doesn’t make you cringe I don’t know what will.
Time to get the next generation of leaders in Maroon and White. Wish them luck.
They'll make some mistakes, but the potential is there.
Folks need to give as much POSTIVE support and energy moving forward. We'll all know when it's actually time to jump ship/meltdown. TODAY IS NOT THAT DAY.
They'll make some mistakes, but the potential is there.
Folks need to give as much POSTIVE support and energy moving forward. We'll all know when it's actually time to jump ship/meltdown. TODAY IS NOT THAT DAY.
But whats funny is our whole fanbase ate that positivity BS up when he first said it. He was the anti-Mullen after all.
Great, our athletics are run by a bunch of participation trophy millennials **
I'll give it an A. Seems like we hired some hungry coaches and I expect recruiting to pick up. I don't think many teams will outwork this bunch.
B-
We missed on the OC we wanted. Got a great OL coach, got a meh OC, Bump is a question mark IMO regardless if he's a Bulldog. Looks like we kept Washington, which is a plus. No issues on defensive side. We loaded up on MS recruiters, which is cool, but also limits us IMO.
Hope they're an A+ next fall. Damn happy to get away from the specific type of Air Raid we ran.
We missed on the OC we wanted. Got a great OL coach, got a meh OC, Bump is a question mark IMO regardless if he's a Bulldog. Looks like we kept Washington, which is a plus. No issues on defensive side. We loaded up on MS recruiters, which is cool, but also limits us IMO.
Hope they're an A+ next fall. Damn happy to get away from the specific type of Air Raid we ran.
Yeah, because winning isn’t important; just working hard.*** Once you get above Little League i don’t think they give it Hard Work trophies any more. I’ve never seen a hard Work trophy in Division 1 football but I have seen the Winner’s Trophy. That’s the one I want for us.
Gotta love giving our new OC an F before he has even coached a single down for us. And, if that grade is based on his resume, then I must have been looking at the wrong one. With fans like ours, who needs enemies?
I'm going to give the coaching hires an A+.
I was concerned about changing the offensive staff, since Arnett himself was chosen to prevent change, as we had a very old team coming back that we needed to keep together. But considering the recruiting prowess of Friend and Bumphis, and the actual offense Barbay brings, it's hard to see any negatives, unless Tulu actually leaves (and that's more on his own stupidity).
Bartoo is very high on Barbay and he should mesh well with Rogers and our current personnel. It appears Arnett had a plan and stuck with it. The defensive hires are obviously good.
AD? Eh, I wanted Benko because I like him, but that's my own bias, and I'm certainly OK with Selman. As long as they are ambitious it's hard to know. I'll give this one an A+ as well, because if Keenum liked him better than Benko, then he must be good.
I was concerned about changing the offensive staff, since Arnett himself was chosen to prevent change, as we had a very old team coming back that we needed to keep together. But considering the recruiting prowess of Friend and Bumphis, and the actual offense Barbay brings, it's hard to see any negatives, unless Tulu actually leaves (and that's more on his own stupidity).
Bartoo is very high on Barbay and he should mesh well with Rogers and our current personnel. It appears Arnett had a plan and stuck with it. The defensive hires are obviously good.
AD? Eh, I wanted Benko because I like him, but that's my own bias, and I'm certainly OK with Selman. As long as they are ambitious it's hard to know. I'll give this one an A+ as well, because if Keenum liked him better than Benko, then he must be good.
This is correct. The AD hire seems fine… OC hire seems fine. I still have a problem with Arnett. No reason to think he will be a disaster but we will never know the potential coach we passed on by rushing a hire of Arnett
Well hard work equals winning dipshit. You think lazy people win? You must have missed the Croom years. And when I say nobody will outwork them, I'm talking about recruiting, game planning and such which is what it takes to win.
Too early to grade. OTOH, what's outstanding is the youthfulness of all hires across the board, which is an unusual move by Mississippi State. Time will tell whether it was the right move. Hoping that it is. With transfer portal and NIL, it may be a good one since younger folk seem to adapt to change better than old farts and retreads.
Everybody gets an I right now
Ask this question again in about three years.
Except maybe for Selmon. His answer might arrive a year earlier.
Ask this question again in about three years.
Except maybe for Selmon. His answer might arrive a year earlier.
Then wouldn’t that apply to every poster in this thread? The entire thread’s premise is letter grade for people that have done no work at State.
I don’t think you meant to say, “Well hard work equals winning dipshit.”
You probably meant to say, “Well, hard work equals winning, dipshit.”
I never said or inferred that lazy people win. I think lazy people are some of the ones who didn’t pay attention when they were teaching grammar and punctuation in elementary and high school. Illegal aliens picking fruit in California work hard but do you call that winning? Reading comprehension seems to be easier for some than it is for others.
If working hard at “recruiting, game planning and such“ is “what it takes to win“, does that mean that we’ve never done those things? I only ask because we’ve never won a National or SEC Championship in football.
Maybe you have a crystal ball (and I hope you’re correct about their hard work) but, at this point, it remains to be seen whether anyone will outwork them. BTW, how would you quantify that anyway? Please be specific.
There are 5 NFL coaches under 40. The days of 70 year old greybeards is coming to an end. With the cost of buyouts these days many of these coaches are going to make their fortunes by 50 and then go on to the house or the broadcast booth.
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