You guys are sincerely very good athletes. This team should have been a top ten and SEC West contender this year. The difference has been this coaching staff. I blame all of them, starting with Joe Moorhead. I just simply don't have the words to describe how bad Marcus Johnson is, but the whole staff is bad including the head coach. The things we were told by this bunch has just been a line (championship standard, etc.). It is painful to have a former head coach come into your own back yard and hand it to you with players who are not as good as you are. Dan didn't love Starkville. We have to accept that. It's not for everybody. He is a very good coach and he took a good group of coached with him. He coached one heck of game tonight and for that I tip my hat to him. He was not going to stay forever. Those of us who love Starkville love it for our own reasons. It's not because it's the biggest place in the world or has all of the bells and whistles of a bigger city. It does have charm. It does have character. It does have family. And it will get in the hearts of those who open themselves to it and stay forever. It's OURS, by GOD!
Many of you will have great pro careers and go on to live productive and happy lives and you all deserve it. I don't at all blame you for what happened tonight.
You deserved better than this.
Many of you will have great pro careers and go on to live productive and happy lives and you all deserve it. I don't at all blame you for what happened tonight.
You deserved better than this.