Because for the majority, supporting Mississippi State athletics is
more than W's and L's.
If you son is playing for a losing team in Little League, do you tell him to quit before the season is over?
If we keep saying firing Rick Stansbury was the right decision then there is a significant percentage who will begin to believe it. A low down sleezy politician once said something similar about Obamacare.
For some anything less than perfection is failure.
There are certain life experiences that bring success into perspective and people with the defeatist attitude only testify to having yet achieved that perspective.
There are so many things to celebrate but yet the amount of self pity...