The reason you don't win national titles, the reason you don't recruit nationally, and the reason you don't have a stadium as loud as LSU, Florida, UT, or Alabama is because you don't have the resources.
Your alumni base and your student body are much smaller than those other schools. Your state's population is much smaller than the states those other schools reside in, AND you still only get a split of the state's walk-on fanbase, unlike schools like LSU and UT that get ALL of their state's walk-on fans. To go further with the state population thing, your home state doesn't produce the sheer amount of talent that the other states in the Southeast produce, largely because of its smaller population. The only SEC states that produce less talent than Mississippi are Tennessee, Kentucky, and Arkansas. Tennessee and Arkansas have the benefit of having all the walk-on fans and most of the state's players growing up fans of their school. Tennessee has the benefit of a very large enrollment, a large alumni base, and a lot of money, that allows them to go out of state to recruit more successfully.
The sooner you realize that your school is not going to become a national power or compete for national titles in football without those factors changing, the better off you'll be. Most of those factors are out of your school's control as well. Hiring a coach and showing up to support your program won't all of a sudden reverse the fortunes of your program.
It took me until I was about 22 or 23 to figure that out for myself, but ever since then, I've enjoyed my football program a whole lot more, because I now understand that there are certain things that just aren't going to happen, and if they do it'll be a once in a lifetime chance. I'll go ahead and spoil another one for you as well. You may win 1 or 2 SEC football titles in your lifetime, if you're lucky, at least as long as none of those other factors makes a dramatic change.
