Arnett was the perfect MSU hire for DC...

[anon1768925248]

It wasn’t just Keenum, which is my entire point. It was everyone involved. And I can’t stand Keenum, so if anyone was going to throw just him under the bus, I’d normally be the one driving it.

I guarantee you we had search firms beating down the door to get in with MSU the day that Leach passed. Any of the associate AD’s could have worked with them and MK to get the ball rolling. Boosters and donors have contacts all over the place, too. Plenty of high rollers were all resigned to just hiring Arnett and saying a Hail Mary that it would work.

Keenum was in charge of the entire decision making process. Not the associate ADs. It was 100 % Keenum's fault. Period. He is the one who decided to do what we did. He's the only one who had the authority. He didn't delegate it to anyone else. It was him and only him. No matter what Bob the billionaire from Bogue Chitto wanted.

 

[Perd Hapley]

Keenum was in charge of the entire decision making process. Not the associate ADs. It was 100 % Keenum's fault. Period. He is the one who decided to do what we did. He's the only one who had the authority. He didn't delegate it to anyone else. It was him and only him. No matter what Bob the billionaire from Bogue Chitto wanted.

Lol. Unless Keenum personally bankrolled the 85-90% of Arnett’s salary and buyout that came from the Bulldog Club, then I’d hate to tell you that it actually mattered quite a 17ing bit what “Bob the billionaire from Bogue Chitto” as well as several other heavy hitters thought about the decision.

 

[PrimeDog]

He’s going to save Lebby’s job. I’m not saying we are going to the playoffs, but he’s going to field a defense good enough to beat 6-8 teams this year if we just have the same offense as last year. If he gets an edge and a DE out of the portal this will be the best defense he has fielded here ever. We are not far off on defense. I don’t like where we are on the OL or at tight end, but defensively I’m very excited.

Therein lies the problem. We aren’t going to have the same offense as last year. It’s going to be completely different. Will we have the same or better production? Remains to be seen.

But when you have those games where the running game has been shut down and you need to move the ball downfield, do we have the guy that can do that? I don’t know that KT is that guy in just one offseason. Maybe he improves and the OL is a surprise. But there was a lot of stalled out drives in the bowl game when the run game wasn’t there for either KT or the backs.