Imagine the early morning phone call ...

[Shmuley]

Bill Byrne: "Holy ****, son! What the F is going on?"

GB: "Dad, everywhere I turn there are talking heads and ex-coaches talking down this job. They're calling it a hellhole and a **** job. They're killing this search before it gets off the ground. I can't turn on ESPN without some idiot saying State is a coaching graveyard. And they're buying it. It sucks. Now, we're down to f'n coordinators, and THEY'RE dictating to ME when they will start, IF they take the job."

Bill Byrne: "Son, we've got to get you out of there before that place becomes an AD graveyard."

 

[GoToHellOleMiss.sixpack]

Who pissed in your corn flakes......last week you were the torch bearer for the People's Optism Party....now this. It's true......We are MState!!

 

[Shmuley]

to where they should have been and should have never departed from.

 

[Coach34]

so one head coach has turned us down, maybe 2...for us to hire a coordinator from a BCS championship is a HR we could have never pulled off before...our last 3 hires have been Felker, Jackie, and Crooms- 2 nobodys and the NCAA's most wanted man...

we've come a long damn way

 

[Hanmudog]

This "worst job in America" crap is wearing thin. Look around at all the rotten teams in college football ie Tulane, UAB, Duke, etc. We were in a bowl just last year in the toughest conference in America. Our stadium is bigger than half the schools in the country. Our facilities are better than many in the country. We currently have the 21st best recruiting class. Worst in the SEC? Maybe. Worst in the nation? No freaking way.

 

[Todd4State]

about Gene calling and asking if he's a scientologist. That probably didn't help.

If I was Byrne, I would pull the plug on the Swan.

Of course, that would mean that they would all come here, so maybe that's not such a good idea.

 

[Irondawg]

Remember his dad just hired Mike Sherman instead of throwing big money at Nutt or Patterson. I'm personally hoping he doesn't lean on his dad for too much advice on this one or we'll end up with Art Shell or something.

 

[Todd4State]

We are in the unfortunate position of just having to take a chance on someone who probably won't be all that great. Then we get start all of this over in three-five years.

I think we are going to end up with Wilson or Mullen and I'm afraid that they aren't going to be all that great without OU/UF talent.

 

[Stormrider81]

To which I say, have your lost your minds? Finally we have an AD with the gumption to try to hire an established and successful head coach, and people complain about it. Unbelievable. Only at MSU. Our fans, wow.

Look, we took a shot at these guys. I applaud Byrne for that. Like a poster kept saying last week, hiring someone else's head coach is hard. You pretty much have to be either Florida or lucky. We took a shot and apparently came pretty close. Now we are looking at two of the top assitants in college football. That's a pretty good scenario for MSU. Anyone that is disappointed in Wilson or Mullen is a moron. Anyone not fired up needs to re-check the pretige level of the MSU football job. Hiring Wilson or Mullen would be a huge, huge, monumental, ginormous step up from the previous administration, and arguably be the biggest hire for MSU football in quite some time (Jackie coming in with baggage and all).

I still don't see the big deal with Wilson wanting to stay through the national title game. I think that is being overblown.

Can we avoid extremes? Is it possible? Byrne goes from genius superman to idiot who couldn't hire the towl boy from Michigan in the matter of a few days. The real Greg Byrne is somewhere in between, probably closer to the former than the latter.

 

[Shmuley]

 

[RonnyAtmosphere]

...In ESPN's world, there are only 2 teams in the SEC: LSU & Florida.

LSU & Florida causes every last ESPN talking head to orgasm.

Meanwhile, in order for Corso & Herbstriet to name the other 10 SEC teams not Florida & LSU, you would have to give them some time to think & a bunch of hints.

If you are looking for ESPN to show Miss. State some love:

1) That was never going to happen in the first place.

2) What tiny amount of love ESPN was ever going to show MSU went out the window when Croom "resigned."

 

[saltybulldog]

I am officially bummed out. Im not even sure that is how you spell "bummed" and I dont give a **** or care enough, at this point, to look it up. But, it doesnt look right. Anyway, this time last week I was giddy as a school girl and MSU had me on a roller coaster last week. I loved this coaching search. We very well may hire a great coach, but the silent treatment is ********. Fortunately, I can go back to my regularly scheduled life and not be on edge waiting for the latest "inside source" report.

Mstate, thanks again.

 

[Mr Meoff]

Somebody has a case of the Mondays...