I know everyone is pissed right now and venting which is fine, this is a good venue for that and it does help get over the “pissed-offness”. No coaches are being fired because someone on a message board is mad online.
That said, Dan Mullen was always accused of acting like he’d built the entire football program in Starkville, and that WE were the ones lucky to have HIM here. Folks didn’t like his arrogant attitude and said he acted like like he was better than Starkville and MSU. Folks outside of the MSU family (the media and fans of other teams) said that the minute Mullen left we’d fade back into irrelevance, back to being a doormat in the SEC.
If you remember, when Mullen came to State we were one of the worst programs in all of college football. People said you can’t win football games at State. Mullen had to beg us to come to the games, buy the tickets, support the players, donate to the program, etc. He literally had to drag us off the Croom couch to come fill the stadium on Saturdays. Eventually we did and the success soon followed.
Well now Mullen’s gone, and we’ve lost two games in a row to two teams who are a combined 9-1, the only loss being between themselves. The program has hit some real resistance and for the first time in a while things aren’t going well.
Everyone is free to do with their time and money as they wish but I will put this out there:
If we decide that just because things aren’t going the way we want them to that we’re no longer going to buy tickets, come to games, donate money or support the new coaches, players, administration and the program, then we deserve to go right back to the bottom of the college football barrel where Mullen found us.
Great fanbases don’t hold the program hostage because things aren’t going the way they want them to. Great fanbases support the program with their time and money even when the results aren’t great.
I’d hate to see us give up the momentum we’ve spent a decade building. I’d hate to see Mullen and everyone else be right about us.
That said, Dan Mullen was always accused of acting like he’d built the entire football program in Starkville, and that WE were the ones lucky to have HIM here. Folks didn’t like his arrogant attitude and said he acted like like he was better than Starkville and MSU. Folks outside of the MSU family (the media and fans of other teams) said that the minute Mullen left we’d fade back into irrelevance, back to being a doormat in the SEC.
If you remember, when Mullen came to State we were one of the worst programs in all of college football. People said you can’t win football games at State. Mullen had to beg us to come to the games, buy the tickets, support the players, donate to the program, etc. He literally had to drag us off the Croom couch to come fill the stadium on Saturdays. Eventually we did and the success soon followed.
Well now Mullen’s gone, and we’ve lost two games in a row to two teams who are a combined 9-1, the only loss being between themselves. The program has hit some real resistance and for the first time in a while things aren’t going well.
Everyone is free to do with their time and money as they wish but I will put this out there:
If we decide that just because things aren’t going the way we want them to that we’re no longer going to buy tickets, come to games, donate money or support the new coaches, players, administration and the program, then we deserve to go right back to the bottom of the college football barrel where Mullen found us.
Great fanbases don’t hold the program hostage because things aren’t going the way they want them to. Great fanbases support the program with their time and money even when the results aren’t great.
I’d hate to see us give up the momentum we’ve spent a decade building. I’d hate to see Mullen and everyone else be right about us.
