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fishwater99

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It was a good season, far from great... When will Mullen could finally beat a Top 20 team?
We failed to win two winnable games, Auburn and USC, and he calls it a Great Season....... I call ********....
 
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FlabLoser

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The program is headed in the right direction and that's great. Consecutive bowls wins is great for the program. Player development has been great. Guys headed for high draft picks is great.

I'm not going to sit here and say I prefer a 7 win season to a 9 or 10 win season. But this season has kept us grounded.

This time last year, folks here inched towards putting Relf in the Heisman discussion. If we'd have beaten Auburn and South Carolina like we should have this year, there would be a bunch of hype here that we're a player or two away from competing for a national title.

We've taken another step towards where we want to be. We know where we are. We know where we're going. And that's great....while TSUN is still searching for North on their compass.
 
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patdog

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May 28, 2007
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Mullen knows this. It's amazing to me how many people are bitching about him calling it a great season and talking about our championship in the Egg Bowl. All he's doing it trying to talk up our program and build some excitement, both for the fans and recruits. I thought we wanted a coach who would build some excitement about the program. For the record, he has 2 wins over ranked teams.
 
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RonnyAtmosphere

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...I also saw the "great season" crack in today's CL.


I can't figure out why Mullen is setting the bar this low.


If 7-6 is a "great season" for Dan Mullen, then last year's 9-4 season must have been one of the best in college football history.


I get Dan wants to keep it positive.


But as far as a 7-6 season, word to Dan: A little more disgruntled rhetoric is in order.
 
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ckDOG

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Dec 11, 2007
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Right now, we are benefiting from a crap OOC schedule and 12 games to get 6 and bowl eligible. Our best win of the year was La Tech, followed by WF, UK, and Ole Miss. There is 1, maybe 2 decent wins among our 7.

We need to beat an Auburn/Arkansas/SCarolina before we get to a Mississippi State "great season". Don't get me wrong, I'm not bitching and am happy with the direction we are heading, but I'm also cognizant of us being bowl eligible this year by having favorable scheduling (not suggesting we change it, either).

ETA: I don't think Mullen thinks this was a "great season" either. He's just playing his PR part and doing his part to keep people interested - like a coach from a historically crappy program should be doing.
 
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Sutterkane

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Jan 23, 2007
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our schedule is slightly easier and our defense will probably be as good if not a little better, but there are HUGE questions on the O-Line yet again, which was our biggest issue this past season. We could go 5-7. Our only for sure wins in my mind right now are Jackson State, USA, and MTSU...Troy typically has a decent team and it's a road game(remember, we struggled against UAB this year); UK will be better and it's a road game; UT and Auburn both have the talent to beat us; A&M will be a very tough game; LSU and Bama are usually losses; Arkansas always seems to have our number; hell even Ole Miss could be a lot better next year with a fresh start, and we don't have Relf to bowl over them every play.

I'm not saying I'm expecting this, but it could certainly happen. Our team will only be as good as the offensive line.

If we give Tyler time to throw and have open receivers, and Griffin is a beast then we could win 10 games.

If Tyler is running for his life, we have tons of dropped balls, and we can't get any movement running the ball, we'll be in for a very long season.
 
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patdog

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May 28, 2007
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UK won't be better than this year. UT doesn't have nearly the talent you think they do. Those 2 will battle UM for worst team in the conference. Troy was 3-9 in the SunBelt this year and most of their losses were blowouts.

OL will be a question for us, but it should be better than this year's OL. We have a lot more experience for guys like Clausell, Day and Jackson (who is already a good player) and we're bringing in some JUCOs who will probably take some starters jobs away.
 
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Foronce

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looking at schedules that have lsu and bama at home, meaning you have 2 winnable games on the road, that you could have had at home
2009 5-7
2007 8-5
2005 3-8
2010 2-10
based on schedule results look average


12/27/80 Lost Sun Bowl vs Nebraska
12/31/81 Won HoF vs Kansas

1/1/99 Lost Cotton vs Texas
12/30/99 Won Peach Clemson
12/31/00 Won Independence A&M

2nd time in our history we have won back to back bowls
 
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Confrused

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Ya'll had how many returning starters? A returning Sr 1000 yd rusher + a Sr Qb returning starter. Almost your entire receiving corps returned. An AA D-tackle. Almost all of your D-backs returned. Sheesh, if that doesn't get you a win in the SEC W outside of OM, you have to wonder what will.
 
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Johnson85

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Confrused said:
if that doesn't get you a win in the SEC W outside of OM, you have to wonder what will.
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We've had two years now where we were a good team at ~19-20 positions on the field, but the remaining 2-3 killed us. replacing Mini-Lee in 2009 (and maybe toast?) would have made that a good team. This year we were two good offensive line (or one very good tackle) and a DE from being pretty good.

If our JUCO o-line and DE pan out next year, it could be the most complete team Mullen has had. If they don't, we'll be fighting for 6-6 again.
 
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fishwater99

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patdog said:
Mullen knows this. It's amazing to me how many people are bitching about him calling it a great season and talking about our championship in the Egg Bowl. All he's doing it trying to talk up our program and build some excitement, both for the fans and recruits. I thought we wanted a coach who would build some excitement about the program. <span style="font-weight: bold;">For the record, he has 2 wins over ranked teams</span>.
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FlabLoser

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Confrused said:
Ya'll had how many returning starters? A returning Sr 1000 yd rusher + a Sr Qb returning starter. Almost your entire receiving corps returned. An AA D-tackle. Almost all of your D-backs returned. Sheesh, if that doesn't get you a win in the SEC W outside of OM, you have to wonder what will.
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This year's issue was the OL. We had to move a good DT over to OT just to fill out the 2-deep. Then he got hurt in game 2. We also had other injuries to a razor thin OL.

Depth troubles at OL goes back to Croom's OL recruits not producing and/or quitting the team.
 
MeridianDog

MeridianDog

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I bet they differ quite a bit.

Publically I agree with him.We won our second bowl game in a row. Things look ok at this point for a good recruiting year and a respectable (for MSU) season next year. At this point, if I were him I'd publically say the same. Privately, I would say exactly the same things he is saying when he is at home in his den talking to his closest friends who would die or kill before repeating what he tells them.
 
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