at 7-0 noone was calling for the heads of any coach and noone wanted a new QB or different running backs. We have back to back losses by significant margins and the fan nation is ready to implode. We will be fine IF the team doesn't have the same feeling. Only they know the answer to that.
Fickle fans galore....
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100 percent agreed......
i don't mind if fans vent on message boards, but i hope we still show up to support the team, and give. that's our job as fans.
i don't mind if fans vent on message boards, but i hope we still show up to support the team, and give. that's our job as fans.
I'd say we've done our job. Yesterday, neither the coaches nor the players came anywhere close to doing theirs. The game plan, or lack thereof, was pitiful. We are fundamentally a very bad team. There was little to no effort, let alone "relentless" effort, by the coaches or the players.
So, excuse me if I do feel one shred of sympathy for the players who got butt hurt yesterday looking into the stands and seeing a ghost town. Grow a 17ing pair, get your 17ing head straight and come out and act like you are a football player and people might actually stick around.
So, excuse me if I do feel one shred of sympathy for the players who got butt hurt yesterday looking into the stands and seeing a ghost town. Grow a 17ing pair, get your 17ing head straight and come out and act like you are a football player and people might actually stick around.
It's not that we lost 2 in a row. It's HOW we lost that makes me so butt hurt. 31, 38, 38 pts given up the last 3 SEC games, and no sign of improvement from game planning from the coaches, and the fundamentals look lost. THAT hurts. THAT is what they are paid to do.
Totally agree. Do we have any Sr. leadership on this team at all? Any pride? ..
I saw a defense that mailed in the last drive A&M had before the half, and so did Nessler and Blackledge. They were saying that MSU needs to call a timeout because the Defense seemed to have lost all focus. They especially said that there was no use to take 3 timeouts to the dressing room. That is game management.
I saw a defense that mailed in the last drive A&M had before the half, and so did Nessler and Blackledge. They were saying that MSU needs to call a timeout because the Defense seemed to have lost all focus. They especially said that there was no use to take 3 timeouts to the dressing room. That is game management.
No joke.
In both of these losses, I've come to this board only to see 95 threads about jumping off the ledge at 7 or 14-0. Jesus, have some backbone. We have the same problems now as we did in our earlier games. Only now we are playing teams that not only have seen our weaknesses, but have the personnel to expose them.
It's pathetic to walk out on your team at halftime. I don't care how bad they were playing, you don't do that. Cheering them on when they're winning doesn't entitle you to call yourself a true fan or to say that you've "done your part". It only shows me that you're only there in the good times... there's no loyalty in that. Again, we have the same problems now that we've had all year; be realistic in that there are going to be teams that are going to beat us. We don't need our team coming back at half time to see a third of the stadium gone.. you think that gives them any kind of confidence?
We played terrible- agreed. We look like we were still caught in last week. I don't mind people being critical of that. But I don't want to get on the internet and read 95 threads about jumping off the ledge at 7 or 14-0. And I sure don't want to see people take to Twitter and blow it up. The worst thing we as fans could have done is give up on them with three more regular season games left.
If you want them to play for you, show up for them and be there for them in the good and bad. Whether you think they should be playing for them or not, that stuff matters.
Attack this if you wish, but that was an Ole Miss type response.
In both of these losses, I've come to this board only to see 95 threads about jumping off the ledge at 7 or 14-0. Jesus, have some backbone. We have the same problems now as we did in our earlier games. Only now we are playing teams that not only have seen our weaknesses, but have the personnel to expose them.
It's pathetic to walk out on your team at halftime. I don't care how bad they were playing, you don't do that. Cheering them on when they're winning doesn't entitle you to call yourself a true fan or to say that you've "done your part". It only shows me that you're only there in the good times... there's no loyalty in that. Again, we have the same problems now that we've had all year; be realistic in that there are going to be teams that are going to beat us. We don't need our team coming back at half time to see a third of the stadium gone.. you think that gives them any kind of confidence?
We played terrible- agreed. We look like we were still caught in last week. I don't mind people being critical of that. But I don't want to get on the internet and read 95 threads about jumping off the ledge at 7 or 14-0. And I sure don't want to see people take to Twitter and blow it up. The worst thing we as fans could have done is give up on them with three more regular season games left.
If you want them to play for you, show up for them and be there for them in the good and bad. Whether you think they should be playing for them or not, that stuff matters.
Attack this if you wish, but that was an Ole Miss type response.
Disagree ddog. I think if you look back on this board @ past Sunday postings, there were lots of questions being asked about coaching, particularly about the defense. After the Troy & KY games I remember plenty of criticism and questions. This team hasn't collapsed in the last two weeks, the competition has just drastically increased and we have been exposed for what some saw we were early on and not for what most had hoped we were.
There are 2 games worth of film out there now for the rest of the competition to see how others exposed us, I'm afraid it will only get worse. I expedt a drubbing @ Red Stick next week, a loss to the Pigs in the low double digits and a toss up in Oxford as always.
There are 2 games worth of film out there now for the rest of the competition to see how others exposed us, I'm afraid it will only get worse. I expedt a drubbing @ Red Stick next week, a loss to the Pigs in the low double digits and a toss up in Oxford as always.
Did our players actually call fans out for leaving before the end of the game? The fans showed up in full force. Both sides of the stadium were blanketed in white. We got whipped on both sides of the ball in a way I haven't witnessed since the Jackie Sherrill coaching death rattle in 2001-03 or during the Croom Error.
Between dues,tickets my time and other expenses I spent about a grand taking 4 people to Vegas yesterday. You ?
For the record the fellowship, tailgating and chance to visit our beautiful campus this time of year it was worth every penny of it and more. Watching Mullen try to back up his alligator mouth with his hummingbird *** not so much.
For the record the fellowship, tailgating and chance to visit our beautiful campus this time of year it was worth every penny of it and more. Watching Mullen try to back up his alligator mouth with his hummingbird *** not so much.
When has this board ever been objective when we are losing?
Never that's why it's a message board because you can vent. Some take it further than others no doubt. As for walking out on the team at halftime, I think it's pathetic that you had fans drive 3 and 4 + hours to have our players quit on the fans and our coaches quit on the fans. That's whats 17ing embarrassing. Same thing with Bama. We are getting skull dragged across the field and I see Mullen smiling on the sidelines before halftime when you have Bama skull dragging us and one of their sophomore CB's gets beat on a drive we don't even score on and Saban is ripping his *** a new one. If you accept mediocrity then you will be mediocre. Started when Mullen quit on the Lsu game. And don't get me wrong, I still support Mullen but I'm ready for us to win a game that matters besides the Egg Bowl. I'm ready for us to beat a team that finishes the season with 10 wins not name Middle Tenn. I'm ready to have a hard nosed defense that's going to knock the 17 out of you. Instead we have 2 LB's that are in the top of the SEC in tackles because the RB trips over them after getting 5 yards down field.
Never that's why it's a message board because you can vent. Some take it further than others no doubt. As for walking out on the team at halftime, I think it's pathetic that you had fans drive 3 and 4 + hours to have our players quit on the fans and our coaches quit on the fans. That's whats 17ing embarrassing. Same thing with Bama. We are getting skull dragged across the field and I see Mullen smiling on the sidelines before halftime when you have Bama skull dragging us and one of their sophomore CB's gets beat on a drive we don't even score on and Saban is ripping his *** a new one. If you accept mediocrity then you will be mediocre. Started when Mullen quit on the Lsu game. And don't get me wrong, I still support Mullen but I'm ready for us to win a game that matters besides the Egg Bowl. I'm ready for us to beat a team that finishes the season with 10 wins not name Middle Tenn. I'm ready to have a hard nosed defense that's going to knock the 17 out of you. Instead we have 2 LB's that are in the top of the SEC in tackles because the RB trips over them after getting 5 yards down field.
If I'm back in Mississippi, there are people I want to see. I don't want to spend half a day watching players either trying to execute a terrible game plan or not executing at all, and I damn sure don't want to see players playing undisciplined and missing tackles. But most of all, I'm not going to watch players play without energy. So I left at half-time. I'm not mad at the players (maybe a little at the coaches), but I'm not going to sit there and punish myself to be a good fan. Once the players checkout, I do to.
I will say I sat through the Croom debacle and didn't leave games early, but they for the most part played hard until the last year (which luckily for me came at a time when it wasn't practical for me to go to the games anyway). Plus, it wasn't their fault they had a shittastic coach.
This is mostly true. Yes we were terrible but the fickle fans looked bad. We have every right to complain and come on a message board and play armchair QB but we should do our best to support the players by staying at the game and cheering when given something to cheer about.
Oh F that
The stands were packed at kickoff and loud. This was after dropping a turd at Alabama. aTm's first drive was across a loud stadium that is part of home field advantage.
But the players came out like they were about to sign posters for school children and head back home. They trotted around the corners on blitzes, they reached and tried to tackle with their arms, they let aTm's receivers run free.
If you decide to mail it in after one score then don't blame a damn thing on the fans. Rub some salve on that Alabama ******** and give aTm a game.
The stands were packed at kickoff and loud. This was after dropping a turd at Alabama. aTm's first drive was across a loud stadium that is part of home field advantage.
But the players came out like they were about to sign posters for school children and head back home. They trotted around the corners on blitzes, they reached and tried to tackle with their arms, they let aTm's receivers run free.
If you decide to mail it in after one score then don't blame a damn thing on the fans. Rub some salve on that Alabama ******** and give aTm a game.
It's not accepting mediocrity, it's being there for your team. You accepted mediocrity the second you were okay with winning with a bad performance. It rarely starts with losing.
I've been okay with our play this year, but I in no way have been satisfied. And I'm not shocked these teams did this to us. I expect better. But I'm still not going to walk out on my team before damn halftime. That's embarrassing. And a majority of those were students who probably don't even buy their tickets themselves.
I get the message board thing, but even last week, the bitching came way too early. The fans gave up after the first touchdown or so. To Alabama in their home stadium. We certainly didn't play great, but you saw from the get-go we were scared as hell. And, I can understand that. I've played in a big game or two, but none like that. I get where the jitters come, and I know if you don't start doing some things right it builds up.
As for Mullen smiling: I don't think he's smiling because he thinks it's funny or he's taking it lightly. Our kids were scared to death. Deer caught in the headlights. Nothing they were doing was right, which was compounding. What good do you think it's going to do to dog cuss one of them? In that kind of situation, that's a ****** coach that would do that and one to me that is pushing the blame off to the kids. They're just going to keep messing up. He's smiling to kind of calm them down and let them know he's there for them. Two completely different situations.
I'm not saying he's the greatest coach ever or our kids and he don't deserve any criticism or blame. But the whole "we're going to support you as long as you're winning and if not we're packing up and going home" attitude is stupid. It's very Ole Miss-esque. We've won 7 games so far, and have a chance to win more. I can guarantee you walking out on them isn't going to send any other message other than "we don't really care".
This was a bad loss, but there are very few losses under Mullen that I'm just completely pissed about.
I've been okay with our play this year, but I in no way have been satisfied. And I'm not shocked these teams did this to us. I expect better. But I'm still not going to walk out on my team before damn halftime. That's embarrassing. And a majority of those were students who probably don't even buy their tickets themselves.
I get the message board thing, but even last week, the bitching came way too early. The fans gave up after the first touchdown or so. To Alabama in their home stadium. We certainly didn't play great, but you saw from the get-go we were scared as hell. And, I can understand that. I've played in a big game or two, but none like that. I get where the jitters come, and I know if you don't start doing some things right it builds up.
As for Mullen smiling: I don't think he's smiling because he thinks it's funny or he's taking it lightly. Our kids were scared to death. Deer caught in the headlights. Nothing they were doing was right, which was compounding. What good do you think it's going to do to dog cuss one of them? In that kind of situation, that's a ****** coach that would do that and one to me that is pushing the blame off to the kids. They're just going to keep messing up. He's smiling to kind of calm them down and let them know he's there for them. Two completely different situations.
I'm not saying he's the greatest coach ever or our kids and he don't deserve any criticism or blame. But the whole "we're going to support you as long as you're winning and if not we're packing up and going home" attitude is stupid. It's very Ole Miss-esque. We've won 7 games so far, and have a chance to win more. I can guarantee you walking out on them isn't going to send any other message other than "we don't really care".
This was a bad loss, but there are very few losses under Mullen that I'm just completely pissed about.