quite simply, my point is that our past shows a history of bad decisions and a decade ago is anything but distant history. we were horrendous in the croom and late jackie years as well, but it didnt stop us from scheduling multiple top 15 teams and consequently getting our teeth kicked-in on national tv in embarrassing fashion. i was relating how if we schedule better, the image of the program will improve over time and everything get a lot easier.
all this comparing msu to the rest of the sec is absurd....we are at the bottom of nearly every quantitative or qualitative list and you are fooling yourself if you think how much we lose does not affect everything in a major way. it shames me to no end that we have a losing record...apparently it doesnt bother you that we continue to make the same mistakes. im more excited about watching us win vs south alabama than having a 10% (that might be generous according to some prognosticators) of beating osu.
said another way, 10 wins vs uab, troy, usa, jsu, mtsu, ball st, memphis, tulane, la tech, ulm >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 2 wins in 10 attempts vs osu, ga tech, west virginia, oregon, clemson, louisville, or whatever myriad of other teams that are out of our league.
honestly, this is going to sound rude, which it probably is but i apologize nonetheless, i dont give a **** what you want to watch....i want to watch us win, as do most of our fans. if the team isnt at a level to provide said wins, we need to scale back. we have been getting our asses handed to us over the last 10-15 years with questionable 4th ooc games and striving for entertainment value/games with sizzle and its hurting the program.
and since you reference our last 4 years, how many wins do we have vs teams that finished in the top 25 in that time period? TWO. so why the 17 are we scheduling top 25 teams when our schedule is already LOADED with them knowing we have such a terrible record against them?
we are not anywhere near an elite team. we should be playing other teams in other conferences that are our level at best, and at worst, we should play teams that are guaranteed wins and not darkhorses to win the national title. once we build upon sustained success (i realize 3 bowl games in a row seems like success, but in the grand scheme of things, you really have to suck to miss a bowl...), mullen is still 29-22. maybe we can talk about playing national title contenders if mullens record is 92-22, but until then, gimme guaranteed wins over highly-publicized flashy games that we lose at a 90% clip. also of note, stricklin was looking for this game.....a one year deal....so its not like this was bad timing where oklahoma state was a nobody that came from nowhere before we decided to take a run at them. they are a perennial top 15 team and have been for some time now. this game is about sizzle, and quite frankly, isnt worth the risk because nobody cares about non big 6 sec teams even if we win and certainly not about the historically worst team in the league.
my mantra is that we must first recognize and correctly identify the problem before any progress can be made. if we argue about what the problem to the point where we fail to address it, we are bound to repeat it. scheduling is a major problem and we are not like the rest of the sec. we must be considerably smarter in our ooc scheduling because we have much smaller margin of error on everything, top to bottom. leave osu to bama or lsu or georgia. give me a win every time. ive never been pissed off at a win....my wife can tell you, after some of our losses, im a difficult man to share a car ride with for 2.5 hours. but hey, at least you were entertained by the marqui names and got to see our bcs bound opponent skull 17 us for 3 hours (90% of the time) in their badass nike uniforms.
sorry for being rude. truly.
