Here's were Mullen has his work cut out.
Beating Auburn was an emotional high for our program and for our players, and rightfully so. Hadn't beaten Auburn in 5 years, hadn't won our conference opener in 13 years, first West team other than Ole Miss we've beaten under Mullen. Pretty much uncharted territory for this team. But we have to get to the point where we aren't emotionally spent after those games. Mullen has to get the players to the point to where we just chug right along after conference wins. That will be a tough task at MSU but I think he can do it.
To me wins like last night help bring that point into perspective. We were able to do the things necessary to overcome a tough atmosphere, first road game, querky offense, and poor pay on our part. Our team now has experience coming off an emotional win and having to turn right back around and play a fiesty team that could have ruined our high season hopes after beating Auburn.
Mullen is building this program, and we are going to face some difficult times. We will be breaking MSU statistical records, we will be facing situations most of these guys have never faced in college, and it's going to take time to build our team to the point where we can just roll through these games. But Mullen's biggest hurdle is going to be the emotional let down after big wins and I'm hoping last night was the game that will help him drill that point home. We played like crap in our first road game off an emotional conference win against a team that had nothing to lose with their biggest crowd in history. Lot of stuff in play and we still got to 3-0.
