College football is only dead at certain schools, the ones that haven't ever done **** for football. The schools that committed to it and did things correctly are benefitting.
Yep. Even at the lesser than SEC levels it's fun. I went to the Apple Cup in Seattle a couple of weeks ago and PO little Washington State with no conference and way less resources than us beat their much bigger in state rival. Throughout the whole game they were a blast and won me over as a fan.
When I go to friends houses we are watching Washington State, Boise State, and Oregon State games usually. They are fun and competitive games.
I can hardly find the energy to watch Mississippi State because we are so poorly coached this year and last. Those 3 schools have been through as many coaches as we have and just as much bullshìt in some ways in the last 5-10 years. They have less money and way less talent to find nearby. Yet they are finding a way to compete.
Leach was a desperation hire from Cohen and was by far the best we have made since Mullen. Outside of that you have had multiple AD's hire crap coaches.
Lebby sucks. There's no way around it. You don't get railroaded by Toledo and give up 300 yards rushing to a guy that will be teaching middle school PE next year if you know how to coach. You go tell the mother17ing DC to put a 7th or even 8th man in the 17ing box. He ran the QB like a rented mule and broke him. He hired an idiot at DC. And he can't grow a real 17ing beard or shave every day. Pick one àsshole.
17 selmon. 17 Lebby. And 17 Keenum. This isn't about a lack of resources. It's about pìss poor leadership.
Imagine if Napier had taken the offer, then we wouldn't even have the decent Leach years to look back on.