Sometimes in an organization as big as a university that's as poorly run as Mississippi State has been since Dr. Z left you need an extreme guy to come in kick *** to get things started. Usually that person will piss off enough people to get canned, but he also takes the bullet, and clears the path, for the new hire. Hell, Keenum can continue to implement the good things Doc started, i.e., actually recruiting students, growing enrollment, rewarding departments for adding students, etc., but the people who hated Doc will love Mark because "he's so much easier to deal with than Fogelsong" or "at least he isn't Doc."