There has yet to be anyone to provide facts that the air raid worked. All they say is ‘well we won 9 games one year!!!’ Go back and watch the games from 2020-2022 and look at the stats. We were a s h i t t y offense.
Yea the offense looked great last year. When’s the next time this program wins nine games ? 2034 ? Nicely done
You mean the SEC's second leading passer? This and this alone proves the elite coaching of Leach.
I’ve yet to find anyone, nor will I, who wants us to bring back the 2023 Mississippi State offense. But keep grasping at straws and dodging the question.
Uh, I think if you polled this board right now , a good 80-90% would say State should have kept Leach’s staff and the offense last year. Only a complete dunderhead would defend the wholesale firing of Leachs staff and installation of the Peterson/Friend HS offense that gained 7 yards in the first half against a horrible LSU defense.
I need to go a little further @retire the banner
Again, you’re diverting from the original statement. 1) The air raid was a s s cheeks. 2) the Arnett era was terrible as well 3) we can and will do better this year. This will be the best offense since Mullen left. We should be happy 2018-2023 MSU football is in the rear view mirror
Correct on all 3. Baseball is a waste of resources and money. I don’t want to disban the program. I just don’t think it’s wise to invest in it if we care about Mississippi State University and the city of Starkville. Football football football football football is all that matters. Time to wake up
Absolutely, just sit back and enjoy the ride. It’ll be more fun than Mike Ditka’s Bears
You and people like you should kept as far away from the football program as possible. We saw what your ilk could do last year and it was a disaster. You’ve been wrong every step of the way.
They outnumber us. Cohen realized this. It's why nobody wanted to be here (Mullen, etc.).
I’ll be there. Every tailgate and every game, my man. You can’t stop me!
If we're talking about a spelling bee or solving quadratic equations, I like my changes. If we're talking about installing a scheme that best uses our personnel and calling plays that exploit the opponent's weaknesses and making in-game decisions to take advantage of matchups, I would not put my money on myself.
No, the offense sucked last year. That doesn't mean it was some kind of juggernaut under Leach, because it wasn't.
Leach had a system that made most QB's put up big numbers. That's not that hard when pretty much all you do is through the ball.
Football pretty much pays the bills for ALL of the rest, including baseball. How do you think we were able to build the temple to non-revenue sports?
I seriously doubt that. I expect it to be not much, if any, better than last year. It's going to take time. We have very little coming back from a bad team. That is good in a way, but it does not lead to fast turnarounds.
The choices shouldn't be Barbay vs. Spurrier/Hollingshead. There was a third option, and that was for Keenum to get off his *** and name an AD in November 2022, bite the bullet in December and do a national search instead of handing the job to Arnett. It would've sucked with all the transfers out but how much worse could 2023 have been? And we would be in a better situation today. Who knows? We might've hired Lebby last year.
THIS times 1,000. Keenum failed us miserably with an unbelievably lazy hire in Dec. 2022.
This will be the best offense since Mullen left. It won’t set the world on fire, but it’ll surpass the Moorhead-Leach era debacle, which isn’t hard to do.
No, no, no. The choices WERE those two last year. It was the right thing to do at the time, for the players, coaches, Leach, everybody. We had been successful, may as well let it ride for another year with a veteran team. It may not have mattered for 2024, but it mattered for 2023. We don’t get those chances very often, similar to 2018.
At the time I agreed with what we did. That being said, I was wrong. We should have done exactly what you said.
The Leach style Air Raid has a cult following of football fans which, surprisingly to me, you seem to be a part of. Where the rubber meets the road though, as in the the guys that are getting paid to coach P5 (or what ever it is now), nobody runs the pure Air Raid like Leach did, not even the Air Raid guys. Leach did make a huge contribution to football. Virtually every modern scheme out there runs at least some Air Raid concepts. The pure Air Raid however, is as extinct as the pure option/Wishbone. Good defenses can almost always control it. Sure a few outliers still run the option, just like a few still run the pure Air Raid, but no team with serious aspirations runs either. One dimensional offense, either way, is hopeless against good defenses.
I mean… they are always picked last in the east, and we are always picked last in the west (despite almost never finishing there). It’s not anything new.
Wrong. I was skeptical of bringing Leach here. I thought you needed to run too, with a running QB. He changed my mind due to his ability to recruit, and his disciplinary style of running a program, which is of the utmost necessity at MSU.
I don't think we'll ever know, but I'll be damned if we don't keep trying to rehash the fight for some reason over and over and over and over and over and over again.
You joined the cult. Leach did nothing special at MSU. His immediate predecessor matched his best season, and HIS predecessor topped it. As for Leach's ability to recruit.....laughing out loud. He left the cupboard almost bare, unless you run the pure Mike Leach scheme. As for discipline, we ran Stansbury off for less than what happened on camera under Leach. Laughing out loud again. Do you even read what you post?
You don't, unless you start talking it up like it's the end all and be all.
Coming from the same guy who cried like a beech and whined all over the board when Leach beat Ole Miss. Did Leach bang your wife or something ? Your personal hatred for him is a little weird.
You’re just an idiot. Good luck with that.
Wrong. I was ok with him coming back after that. For one year at least, and said so here. Had he not won that game, I wanted him gone. 0-3 against Ole Miss gets you fired always at MSU. You are as bad as the goat for putting words in peoples mouth so you can argue with them. Fact remains that that was only Leach's second win in over 10 years against his school's main rival. I neither liked nor disliked Leach personally. As I have repeatedly stated, I thought watching his offense, and I first saw it in person when he was at Kentucky, was worse than watching paint dry. It was boring at best. At worst it was like fingernails on a chalk board, to me.
Stop lying, you made a ton of posts whining about Leach winning that game, I remember it well and I’m sure they are still in the archive unless you’ve deleted them
With Will Rogers running it. What happens when Braden Locke or equivalent is running it? Probably a damn good season.
It worked real well when Harrell,and Crabtree beat #1 Texas going 11-2, it worked real well with Minshew going 11-2. Odd. I wonder what would happen if Leach got his own players like Parson and Locke and we had 9 seasons to see it develop.
That’s what makes me think we really are cursed. We were set up to have Leach ball for a decade, as he was too old to leave. And he died. And our fans never appreciated any of it.
