It was 50K announced which seems about right. That's 9k under capacity. Tennessee will be sold out assuming we hold serve. 9/27 will be electric at Davis Wade.
Alright so is everyone bought in now?
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I am 100% bought in baby. I didn't see more than 2 wins before the season, but now Florida, Missouri, Arkansas, TN and OM are in play. Stay healthy, and we win 3 of those. #wooly
Yeah, I haven’t posted anything today because I just want to enjoy the win, but that miracle score made a lot of ugly football disappear from people’s minds. 42 minutes since our prior points, complete inability to stop the run even when we knew they were running, and a lot of questionable decision making from both Lebby and Shapen.
With that said, that looked like a team that can at least compete with a few of the SEC teams on this year’s schedule, and that’s about all I could’ve hoped for this season
I just read the attendance stat. I can’t imagine how much louder had the stadium been at full capacity. We had a group of 10-15 ASU fans down a few aisles. It was funny to watch all of them with their fingers in their ears unless they were double fisting. From what I saw, their fans enjoyed themselves, while interacting with ours in a very positive way. Great energy
I think the majority of the fanbase is bought in. That being said, it might be important to define what that means. I think we all now have confidence in Lebby and believe this team is better than we originally thought. What it doesn’t mean is that we think we’re “back”
I'm feeling good right now but I will feel great if Arizona State makes it back into the Top 25 in the next couple of weeks. Then we will know.
I was texting a couple friends during that drive. We knew it was just a matter of time, then the shoestring TD saving tackle on the only pass on that drive. Intensity was different after that play.
Not yet but it is was a big step in the right direction.
It was a fantastic turn of events and the euphoria was well warranted. There is no denying that we got whipped in the trenches on both sides of the ball in the second half although a damn fine goal line stand and being able to take advantage of a defensive gamble won it for us. We will find out in SEC play whether we are truly back or if this was an outlier.
It was a fantastic turn of events and the euphoria was well warranted. There is no denying that we got whipped in the trenches on both sides of the ball in the second half although a damn fine goal line stand and being able to take advantage of a defensive gamble won it for us. We will find out in SEC play whether we are truly back or if this was an outlier.
This is the type of play most you said would never happen this year. We are improving and finally have leadership, yet some of you are still scared, weak men who just want to feel sorry for themselves. The question isn’t about how many games we will win or how dominant can we be. It’s if you are bought in to the direction or vision of the program. Just show up and support the football program. It’s 6 Saturdays a year. You can spend the other 46 weekends laying around the house jerking off
The answer to this question, is no. I am not bought into the direction and vision of the program.
Saturday night was fun, but we had some fun nights with Croom and Moorhead too.
It's not pessimism to look at a brutal schedule and be a realist. We could be much improved (are it looks like) and still struggle to win 5.
Saturday gives me hope we have a staff that can learn and grow and build us back into a respectable program. I was very unsure of that very recently.
It was a really big jumping off point for the Lebby era. He needed it badly, and so did our fans.
I still think we have an uphill battle in conference play, especially if our best DL is out.
It does make me hopeful that we can continue to improve our talent level and be where we want to be in a year or two.
I was highly skeptical of Lebby going into Saturday, based on early returns. Now, I at least have something to point to for legit reason to be optimistic.
I still think we have an uphill battle in conference play, especially if our best DL is out.
It does make me hopeful that we can continue to improve our talent level and be where we want to be in a year or two.
I was highly skeptical of Lebby going into Saturday, based on early returns. Now, I at least have something to point to for legit reason to be optimistic.
Again, it is too soon to get entirely on board. But at the same time, I pointed out this game during the summer. This could be our turning point. I don't think we will have a surprise winning season and make it to a bowl, but you never know. At the same time, I feel like we'll be in a few more games than I thought we would be at the beginning of the season. I like the direction we're headed. We need to make better decisions on the field, both coaches and players. MANY BETTER DECISIONS.. But this is one hell of a start.
i just hope the powers that be at MSU saw how electric that night game was, and will adjust subsequent games appropriately.
Wow. Not shocked. You have dug your heels on the hate Lebby bandwagon and refuse to see the actual proof we are headed in the right direction. At no point under Croom or slomoe were we headed in the right direction. It’s you and your thinking that’s what’s wrong with this fan base.
As I was sitting in DWS watching our offense create explosive TD after explosive TD (MSU leads the SEC in TDs of more than 40+ yards) which resulted in the best home atmosphere in over a decade, I thought to myself “you know what would make this even MORE exciting… a few Will Rogers 3 yard dump passes!” How are we able to have success in football post-air raid? I was told our program is nothing without it.
Agree that this roster has improved, and I'll give a tip of the hat to Lebby and Hutz for that. I was very skeptical about how many true difference makers we landed out of the portal, but it's clear now that they got more than a couple, and some of our holdovers have made strides as well. Development is vital for a school like MSU, and that's great to see.
With that said, I'm going to withold judgment about the confidence in Lebby part. We're seeing some positive signs here and there, but I'll again point out that we were 30 seconds away from from having gone a full 43 minutes since scoring a point and blaming the entire disasterous loss on Lebby's offense. It simply has to get better if we want to win more than 1-2 more games this year
I'm not sold. I feel better, but then I remember our two wins came from 1. beating the ONLY team I can think of with a worse record than ours last season and 2. a team we dominated for a half and then got dominated by the next half with the exception of one play on the goal line and a pass against a man to man coverage with no safety help. Winning this Saturday won't make me feel any better, not sure how much better a win against N IL will make me feel. Get back to me after TN
Some of you are underselling Arizona State. They have 10 players projected to be drafted this year including 4 OL and 3 DL. They aren’t on the same tier as UGA. But they gave TX all they could handle last season and are probably a touch better than Arkansas, OM**, Mizzou.
**cue all the OM trolls who will get upset by this comparison.
**cue all the OM trolls who will get upset by this comparison.
I won't be surprised if they win 8 or 9 games, but I also won't be surprised if they win 5 or 6. Time will tell how good they are.
That QB being in the Heisman conversation is ridiculous. Of that I'm sure. I said we had the better QB going in and he proved it.
Let’s break this down, you aren’t sold on Jeff Lebby right now because we struggled for a quarter and a half (in a game we won!) against the #12 team in the country that was a playoff team last season. You will only be sold if we beat Tennessee (another playoff team last season). Do you realize how stupid you sound?
I’m convinced this level of fan stupidity is one of the biggest obstacles that holds us back as a university.
I think you may be better served over on ED.
I hope you're on Selman's payroll, because if not, you're really getting yo asss taken advantage of, with all the free water toting n shlt
Goat you are literally the dumbest mother17er on here and no one respects a single word you say
You're acting like a massive douche. People having different opinions from yours isn't a reason to go postal at your keyboard.
Fact is, we may be much better, but our schedule contains 7 games vs teams that could compete for CFP spots at season start (we just beat one of them) and 2 more road games vs. solid SEC teams. So we could be a lot better and still have a rough year record wise.
I'm much more excited to watch it play out than I was two weeks ago, and I hope Lebby is legit.
Chill tha 17 out.
Who said we are going to be much better than 5 or 6 wins? No one. That’s not what I’ve said or claimed. Just pointing out the ridiculous hypocrisy from our challenged fans who seem to never be happy or have expectations that make zero sense.
I think they are more like the team that showed up in the second half than the first half. The first half was about us coming out fired up and ready and them getting rattled and abandoning their identity on offense. The second half was them settling in and playing smart football, and us hanging on for dear life and making a couple of clutch plays at the end.
I think that win will age well, regardless of how we do ourselves.
Fully agree, but you’re the one acting like an unbridled moron right now. If you want be sold on Lebby, be sold. But acting like rest of the fanbase should be based on one data point is as ridiculously silly as it would’ve been to fire him after Toledo last year.
This team won a game Saturday night on a miracle play that our collective fanbase has never witnessed before, and it was a helluva experience. That said, this team has a lot of holes to plug, and only time will tell if Lebby’s staff plugs them.
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I did not. HOWEVER, The long touchdown pass and thean sealing it with that amazing INT... We are usually on the losing side of such things. GRITTY. This team has a chip on their shoulder. When I saw that they were picked last in the SEC, I thought: They are exactly where they want to be. Non-rhetorical question: How many times has this team been picked to be last (or near the bottom) in the SEC, and they end up playing like this? It's still early. But my wool is awfully floofy today.
I really felt that Lebby lost us the game when we went for it on 4th down at the 49 versus punting and pinning them. Even at that, they were moving the ball at will on us, and now it might be that had we punted and pinned them on the 5, we would have given them precious time we needed.
the goal line stand got me to buy in. Heart keeps them out of the end zone in that case.....heart meaning "the desire to win"
the ultimate touchdown was talent and speed and a QB that saw it and executed to his amazingly fast receiver
I don't know that Arizone was truly the number 12 team in the nation, but I do know we won a game that nobody thought we could (but yes, I thought we could), and I'll stand with my previous exception of we go 4-0, and we have to beat any team we play that is ranked #21 through #25.....I want more than that, but to me, that would be good.
I will say, 7/8 win season is where I am standing today
the goal line stand got me to buy in. Heart keeps them out of the end zone in that case.....heart meaning "the desire to win"
the ultimate touchdown was talent and speed and a QB that saw it and executed to his amazingly fast receiver
I don't know that Arizone was truly the number 12 team in the nation, but I do know we won a game that nobody thought we could (but yes, I thought we could), and I'll stand with my previous exception of we go 4-0, and we have to beat any team we play that is ranked #21 through #25.....I want more than that, but to me, that would be good.
I will say, 7/8 win season is where I am standing today
If you didn't see Matt's Film Study, he points out that it's likely Boone only snapped the ball on that 4th down because he saw their edge rusher at the top was lined up in the neutral zone, but we didn't get the call.
LOL. I haven’t even made a single post in this thread, until now. You are quite the insecure, obssessed cuntshit.
By the way, here’s that rent I owe you for your headspace. The others above all pitched in as well….its all there.
I didn't see his take, and I'll admit, makes total sense.....but my stubborn head also says that a team of that caliber doesn't jump offsides!!!
All I can say......everything worked out, in the end, just fine!!
My favorite SPS pastime is reading all the negative, disparaging, a-hole comments about our football program from the usual suspects on here. Mostly given without any sound reasoning or objectivity.
When I call them out for being wrong, I’m a douche because I’m not being “SPS cool” enough
When I call them out for being wrong, I’m a douche because I’m not being “SPS cool” enough
No you're just being a douche, plain and simple.
And you need more positive favorite SPS pastimes.
You really need to remove your maroon State Script panties because they are cutting off the supply of blood to your head(s). You act like because we won 1 game by 4 points "WE ARE BACK BABY" and will breeze through the schedule now. They had run the ball down our throat the entire 2nd half and were on the 1 and went the field goal route instead of running it down our throats again. He's 2nd guessing big time about that one and a lot of commentators have said the same. Even if they had run it and not gotten it we would have been tied, 98 yds from a score with less than 2 minutes and hadn't done squat offensively the whole half.
So lets recap, we beat one of if not the worst team in all of football last season in our opener. Big deal, they won 1 last year, we won 2.
This past Saturday we won the 1st half, hands down. Then we struggled for all but 2 plays in the 2nd half (goal line play and our final TD) Why they tried to throw instead of running it in the first half Saturday still amazes most everyone. Last season they ran it down our throats all night and the entire 2nd half of this one. They outrushed us 279-92 Saturday, but only had 19 attempts in the 1st half to 32 in the 2nd. It's a head scratcher, why he didn't come out running in the 1st, I'll never know and he's kicking himself now for it. We had a whopping 14 yds passing in the 3rdQ and 39 in the 4th until the final TD when for some reason they went man instead of prevent. They had for the game 23 1st downs to our 17. Time of possession they had 38 minutes to our 22 (1 full Quarter more than us) They beat us almost everywhere except where it counts most (on the scoreboard) but I'm not blinded by only that. I look at the big picture which is the whole season, not 2 small samplings.
It's a big win, the biggest in awhile and for that I'm most grateful. But I'm not blinded by the flashing lights and fireworks in the stadium like you. We've got 8 SEC games ahead of us and as of now would probably be underdogs in most if not all of them. We should breeze through Alcorn but w/ N IL, who knows.
Put those maroon glasses back on again for a second and read what I said about TN. Nowhere did I say I would be sold only if we beat TN, I said get back to me after we play. If we go out and play them good, but get beat, I'll feel better but I don't get a woody for moral victories or give out participation trophies like pats on the back. We'll revisit this at a later date when we get to the meat of the schedule.
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