We may not can fire Lebby, but we can fire Selmon

[leeinator]

We have no choice. We are stuck with it. We will have to live with the pains of hiring a green horn.

Yes, bend over, hold your ankles for the next 3 years and let Lebby have his way. Same with Selmon. Fire these 2 after one year and the Bulldog nuclear winter will last another 10 years.

 

[Son_of_34]

I had high hopes for him, but he appears to be over his head. His strategy of observing for a year isn’t working out.

He's looking for a way out anyways I wouldn't fret much longer

 

[Dawgzilla2]

In hindsight, not a terrible idea. But…..definitely hindsight after seeing this trainwreck.

Better idea would have been to get a real, sure thing experienced coach last year.

That's a great idea, but who decides whether an experienced coach is a "sure thing"? Even the Blue Bloods with unlimited funds have a hard time with that.

 

[patdog]

That's a great idea, but who decides whether an experienced coach is a "sure thing"? Even the Blue Bloods with unlimited funds have a hard time with that.

No hire is ever a sure thing. But what we really needed after Leach dying and Arnett being fired was a high floor coach. Someone who could come in and stabilize the ship and keep it from sinking. Because it was obvious then that a year like this one was very possible. Instead, we hired a head coach with no experience and coordinators with no experience. Same as what we did the year before.

 

[pseudonym]

No one serious thinks we should fire Lebby. And if we’re not firing Lebby, why would we fire Selmon?

 

[dog12]

If I was a player and I saw the 2023 season on film and knew the whole coaching staff was let go with a completely new staff coming in, I don't think I'd go to that school if I had other options. There are reason's people work at MickeyDees and not Tesla, it's talent level.

Bingo.

 

[StealYourState]

He's looking for a way out anyways I wouldn't fret much longer

Weird that he’s building a house in Starkville then. Selmon Derangement Syndrome runs rampant on here…

 

[Perd Hapley]

And you’re going to end up with the same pool of candidates. Guys no one is coming here if you keep firing coaches every year.

We’re getting that same pool of candidates regardless. It’s not like Nick Saban is gonna come out of retirement and come to Starkville if we let Lebby coach through 2025.

We gave Croom 5 damn years, still didn’t get a hire with a resume any better than Lebby’s was. In fact, the runner up for the job that time was also the OC from Oklahoma. We were just lucky that it was the right hire that time.

 

[Podgy]

Lebby's getting at least two years. He'll win two this year and we can't do much about it.

 

[Leeshouldveflanked]

Keith Carter is running circles around Selmon, who continues to “observe”.

 

[GloryDawg]

At what point of suckness do you fire a coach? We fire Jo Mo after two bowl years. Who says we can't fire a guy. If it is really obvious, he doesn't know how to fix the problem, why keep him around? Time should not be an issue. As far as I can tell Arnette was a better head coach. We fired him after one season of suckness.

 

[MagicDawg]

He'll win two this year

I, for one, have not yet counted that chicken.

 

[patdog]

We gave Croom 5 damn years, still didn’t get a hire with a resume any better than Lebby’s was. In fact, the runner up for the job that time was also the OC from Oklahoma. We were just lucky that it was the right hire that time.

This is exactly why "you have to give a coach time or no one will want the job" fails. A coach will either be interested in your job or not. But neither way will he care one bit about how many years the prior coach sucked before he was fired.