Is Lebby about to repeat 2025?....
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I'm not sure about that but if we somehow only win 5, I would fire him. I think we will win 6 even without Kamario. Possibly 7 or 8 with him.
I think he plays this week, Lebby has got to get someone in there other than Daddy’s money
Agree about the 2nd part. If we get a few players back healthy soon, 7 wins is definitely still in the table. Could win 6 even without them. On the fence about firing him if we only won 5 without them. Ordinarily it would be a no brainer to fire him. But if we have to keep him to keep Kamario, man that would be a hard trigger to pull.
He did what he had to do in September to give him the breathing room for October. If we are 4-4 heading into the last four, he is still set up for a 7-5 season that assures him another year. 6-6 probably gets him back too, as long as the Egg Bowl isn't an embarrassing disaster.
On T&L’s latest episode, it is discussed that Lebby is the reason the team is in the shape it is in. We could possibly be 6-0 with a healthy K1. We could also be 5-1 with a serviceable QB2. But instead, Lebby had 2 huge mis-evaluations on transfer QBs and a horrible OL that got QB1 hurt in the first place. This on top of previous two years should provide all the motivation/reason the AD needs to find better options at HC.
Vandy and Tenn tech are very winnable without KT. I think haveing Fluff without KT gives us a little better chance in a few of the other games.
Ive been critical of him, but if Taylor and Bothwell can't play this weekend then I don't hold it against Lebby. We knew October was gonna be brutal, but we are in as good or better position than most predicted for this year. We need more talent and depth but you can't tell me we're not looking more like our aggressively average selves than we have in a long time.
I think anyone with sense can see how this story ends. Lebby has proven he can’t build a roster and can’t hire quality coaches. He (or rather Kamario) will win just enough to bring him back. Or our alums fear of losing Kamario will bring him back.
Next year could be slightly better but I expect to still fall short of what we hope due to lack of surrounding pieces. 2028 will be a whole lot of the last 2-3 weeks. Next man up in 2029
Next year could be slightly better but I expect to still fall short of what we hope due to lack of surrounding pieces. 2028 will be a whole lot of the last 2-3 weeks. Next man up in 2029
I think we are going to win the Egg Bowl. Total gut feeling.
My guess would be Lebby brings K1 back for Oklahoma and in the 2nd quarter we all realize it was too early as he limps off the field and into surgery. I kinda hope he holds him out until Texas even if they think he is good. We are in for an uphill climb without him. And why no talk about Fluff ? These backups will improve as the season goes on but not nearly fast enough. I honestly expected 9 maybe 10 wins this year. That dream is fading fast. 7 is looking more likely.
Forget 2025. This team is currently playing like 2024. And they played that badly against Bama even with KT.
I've been patiently waiting for Lebby to prove he can be a successful head coach. He can't.
I've been patiently waiting for Lebby to prove he can be a successful head coach. He can't.
If K1 can run he isnt K1. He is not gonna play good until he is 90% healed. Him being a statue that cant push off when passing is a loss waiting to happen. Plus higher risk for further injury
We're one more run at this away from September Mississippi State becoming a thing.
I've been saying since last year, we are going to improve but not so much that the haters will be satisfied. So 7-5 is the record. He'll be able to say he's improved every year, which he has. 2027 is the year. Retain K1. Improve the lines. Win 8-10 games. Which still won't satisfy some. But this has been visible on the horizon for a while. It's his MO at this point.
Quite frankly if I were KT and there was serious talk about firing Lebby right now I'd be con$idering leaving . I just don't think it's time for this conversation .....yet .
I don’t think so. We have already met last year with a TN Tech win. Auburn and Vandy are as winnable SEC games as you could ask for.
My hope is Oklahoma will be a get right game for the defense. If KT and Fluff play we can absolutely win. Getting just 1 game in October will be a shot in the arm for the final stretch.
PS. Hadad saying we could lose to TN Tech without K1 is wild. We lose that game and you can fire Lebby
My hope is Oklahoma will be a get right game for the defense. If KT and Fluff play we can absolutely win. Getting just 1 game in October will be a shot in the arm for the final stretch.
PS. Hadad saying we could lose to TN Tech without K1 is wild. We lose that game and you can fire Lebby
The feeling may be indigestion
If that scenario plays out, nobody will be complaining. Well, I take that back, the folks who are obsessed with Ole Miss will be crying about them beating us 3 times in a row. But 7-5 with retention of the roster will get us hype going into 2027. 8-10 wins has us likely in the expanded playoff.
I was just thinking, here we are basing decisions on keeping a coach or not by if we beat Vanderbilt and TN Tech but get totally exposed by the others. What a way to run a program................
Something that Hadad also mentioned is that the team’s two most urgent portal needs were LT and a pass rusher, and Lebby completely whiffed on both.
No matter how you want to prioritize the team’s needs this offseason, aside from WR, why should fans have any confidence whatsoever on he and Arnett fixing them?
I think that after the season is over we will have under-performed again and yet Lebby will still keep his job.
After all,
We are Mississippi State.
After all,
We are Mississippi State.
So the consensus going into the year was we better win a lot in September because our October schedule is brutal.
Isn’t that kinda how it’s played out?
We still have 4 of our final 6 games at home, each of those against unranked teams.
We need Kamario back ASAP but I wouldn’t even say we’ve gotten off track yet. The runway to 7 or 8 wins is still very much there, and very realistic.
Isn’t that kinda how it’s played out?
We still have 4 of our final 6 games at home, each of those against unranked teams.
We need Kamario back ASAP but I wouldn’t even say we’ve gotten off track yet. The runway to 7 or 8 wins is still very much there, and very realistic.
2027 needs to have Lebby, Kamario and Fluff all back. I don't really care how things play out with our injuries this year.
I honestly don't think it's a decision at all. The administration is very committed to Lebby. Firing was never on the table unless we just completely tanked the season (which still could happen). But that's something where your hand must be forced. Barring some crazy lose out situation, or a mishandling of Taylor, Lebby will be back.
To ever think that we were going to fix a LT and DE issue in the portal, was a flawed concept to begin with. After QB those are the most sought after positions. It's not happening.
We actually did address those "needs", but the players just aren't as good as we wanted them to be.
Like it or not if Lebby keeps improving we will be seen as a program that is slowly getting better. That will help us in getting better OL and DL. NIL will only do so much. We have to offer more than just $$$. “
Absolutely. There's a reason why McDonald's and Burger King were runaway success stories.
ISO agrees. Quality is your ability to produce stuff in a repeatable, documented manner.
Why Lebby? Make it make sense. I’m not saying don’t bring him back if we get to 8 wins or something, but he absolutely does not get a free pass at all just to preserve continuity.
KT and Fluff, sure. Love those guys. Do what we can to keep them.
But if they are both back in like 2 weeks, but we still stumble to 6-6, what is the incentive to bring back the coach who couldn’t do better than .500 with a generational talent at QB?
We already know that the price to keep KT in 2027 is going wayyyyyy up…..and that’s less available for supporting pieces. We need to stop acting like Lebby is the only offensive mind out there. Over half the damn SEC runs a similar system. It isn’t special.
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