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Byrne has done nothing but exceed expetations to this point, and I fully expect him to talk Petersen into coming to State.

I don't buy the crap about State not being a top job. I think we are a top 25 job if not better. We will be offering $2.5 M and the opportunity to recruit the State that produced Bret Favre, Walter Payton, and Jerry Rice among others. Yes, Nutt had success this year, but he is historically not a great recruiter. He seems not to care too much abou it. Personally, I find that refreshing, but if I had to coach against him I would see the opportunity.

The days of "We can't get a good coach at Miss State" are gone. The reality is we can, and will. Our alumni just don't see it yet.

So, I am saying we get Petersen. Byrne gets him. Taht is my prediction.</p>
 
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chewgumm

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Byrne has done nothing but exceed expetations to this point, and I fully expect him to talk Petersen into coming to State.

I don't buy the crap about State not being a top job. I think we are a top 25 job if not better. We will be offering $2.5 M and the opportunity to recruit the State that produced Bret Favre, Walter Payton, and Jerry Rice among others. Yes, Nutt had success this year, but he is historically not a great recruiter. He seems not to care too much abou it. Personally, I find that refreshing, but if I had to coach against him I would see the opportunity.

The days of "We can't get a good coach at Miss State" are gone. The reality is we can, and will. Our alumni just don't see it yet.

So, I am saying we get Petersen. Byrne gets him. Taht is my prediction.</p>
 
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And I hope high school recruits down here have seen Boise State play on t.v. and will be excited to come play for him. I would have bet the farm that Croom would be back next year, which leads me to believe Byrne has something up his sleeve and has someone already lined up.
 
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chewgumm

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So, tripling your salary with the chance to coach against the best in college football?

I don't think it is a pipedream.

I think taht thinking like this landed us Croom.
 
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he coached with Saban. Saban hired his OC. He wants to coach in the SEC. I would hire him.
 
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I honestly am not overly optimistic that we will or can get Peterson. Simply being that he has been offered jobs so much he has declined them all. Plus, from my sources were being pretty open about our coaching search. Its not just a bold attempt to go after one guy.
 
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You guys have overreacted so much about the Cohen hiring. He played at State and was coaching at Kentucky for God's sake. You act as though he brought Babe Ruth from the grave to coach at Msu.
 
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Frances Drebin

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...any moron could've hired Cohen. It's the way he got Polk out the door and then showed him who was really calling the shots around here that has endured him to many of us. If we had an AD with less sack (like LT, for example), Raffo would be the coach currently, if not Polk.
 
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Other than telling Polk he can shove Raffo up his *** and be gone, he just fired crooms when not too many thought it would happen.
 
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hiring Cohen wasn't as cut and dried as some people make it out to be.

First of all, Cohen is one of the top young baseball coaches in the country. He probably would have been on our short list with or without ties to MSU. His ties to MSU are a nice bonus. I looked at his resume along with about 20 other coaches, and to me it was the most impressive considering his age and where he has been.

Plus, you had his mentor telling him not to take the job, and doing so would mean that his friend wouldn't get the job that he wanted. Then you had UK offering him a ton of money- maybe even more than we did.

Now, you have Byrne who it appears was planning on canning Croom, which is a move that would NOT have been made by the previous regime.

Basically, he is running our AD like a D-I school and not Mantachie High School.

Plus, he is raising money for new facilities, he is bringing in more people to the BC, our gameday atmosphere is 10 times more organized than in the past, sans the flyovers. That is just the beginning.
 
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I agree. The handling of the Polk situation, and now Croom, have a lot of State people really excited for the first time in a long time. UM folks will downplay anything that Byrne does because they do not want him to be aggressive and do good things here. After all, the majority of those guys hate Boone. Kinda like if you hate your toy, you are going to tell me mine sucks because of it.

They don't want Byrne to be good. They didn't want us to be able to get Cohen and they sure as hell don't want us to be able to get a guy like Peterson. The nerve of us.

The Mantachie comparison was spot on. I know first hand.

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grayghost.sixpack

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This way the frim will bring in a black coach to interview so we can keep the Rev's (Sharpaton and Jackson) out of Starkville, even though I believe white guilt is dead now that a colored man has the top job across the land.
 
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A guy that can win at TCU could win at State and it is a more prestigious league.

MSU would be a step up in my mind.
 
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dstatechamps

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In our pretend situation here you have one kid (UM) that has a toy (Boone) it hates. You have another kid (MSU) that has a similar toy (Byrne) that he absolutely loves. The first kid doesn't want the second to be happy with his toy either so he tells the second kid that his toy sucks.

Did I type that slow enough? Didn't think it was a stretch.
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Petersen would be great, but Patterson is the guy I want. Look at what he as done at TCU. Everybody was hot over Franchonie when he was at TCU, but I think its clear that Patterson made the wheels turn for that program. To me his teams play like an SEC team plays, the attach on D, and spread the field on offense. He and Todd Graham are the best candidates for MSU.
 
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are you just that stupid. One more time:

1. Its not about hiring Cohen, it was about telling Polk to go to hell. That's balls.
2. Firing Croom.
3. More B.C. members
4. Raising revenue through means such as the new courtside seats
5. New Video Board
6. Basketball Practice Facility
7. Bulldog Club Rewards Program
8. Seen all over campus on gamedays and now his Thursdays with Greg Byrne--huge step in the MSU alumni perception direction
9. New practice infield for Cohen
10. Press Conferences not only in Starkville, but in Jackson
11. Vision enough to take a compliance test so he could call all our commits today.
12. Bringing in consultants to work with our athletic dept on customer service, which has sorely been lacking.

Is that enough? None of these things would have happened under LT, particularly not 1,2 or 6.
 
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it was just kind of random and silly. i guess it's happened though. way to pull a piece of candy out of a pile of dirt. or something like that.
 
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FWIW, Wardlaw on BDJ shot down the idea of Peterson coming here. He seems to think Patterson is the guy being focused on. I'd love to have Patterson at State
 
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I disagree. The money is nice and all, but just getting paid nicely doesn't help your career. If you have aspirations of climbing the coaching ladder, the SEC is not the place to come and try to build your reputation. I may be wrong about that, because I'm obviously not in the coaching fraternity, but I would think that Big 10 or ACC jobs would be more desirable, because you'd have an easier time building a winner.
 
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gdogg

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doubt that Greg Byrne will blow us away with his coach selection? I can't believe his picture wasn't at the top of the sixpack page yesterday or today. He is the man!
 
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I disagree. The money is nice and all, but just getting paid nicely doesn't help your career. If you have aspirations of climbing the coaching ladder, the SEC is not the place to come and try to build your reputation. I may be wrong about that, because I'm obviously not in the coaching fraternity, but I would think that Big 10 or ACC jobs would be more desirable, because you'd have an easier time building a winner.
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If you are a good coach, then you should be able to win anywhere, well almost anywhere. You add the money, coaching in the SEC, along with having a competent boss that will work to get you everything you need to compete = very attractive job. As for aspirations of climbing the coaching ladder, any young coach that could make Msu a consistent winner shouldn't have any problems climbing the ladder. I'm not saying we can land Petersen, but I do think we will land a good coach. Of course, I think you can build a consistent winner at Msu. State was only a couple of plays from being bowl elgible for 2 years straight with Crooms walk-on recruits. It's not the impossible job as some of these idiot analyst make it out to be.
 
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Patterson would be a fantastic hire for you. Although Pat Hill is intriguing as well-Fresno seems to always thrive as the underdog-which is where we both seem to find ourselves most of the time.

As an Ole Miss fan these are two of the names I would least like to see on your radar. The other names being thrown around Fulmer, Peterson, etc... don't really do much for me.
 
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First, even if you're right that the ACC or Big 10 would be more desirable jobs than an SEC job, that's still less than 25 total jobs, many of which will not be available for years.

Second, if you win the SEC, you're basically guaranteed a chance to play for the national championship (in most years -- I realize Tuberville would disagree with this). It's much more likely to win the ACC or Big 10 and not play for the national championship.

Third, we are apparently willing to pay competitively with most schools.

In short, I think if you're a top young coach, you'd take the shot at an SEC job while it's available, because any SEC job gives you a shot at a national championship, and because even if there are other potentially more attractive jobs out there, there's no guarantee you'll ever get a shot at them.

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Peterson is probaly waiting for the Notre Dame job or another nationaly known school.
 
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For most people, I would think that coaching in arguably the best conference in college football and getting paid millions to do it would be the pinnacle. Are there better jobs? Of course, but anyone who considers getting paid $2-3M per year to be a head coach in the SEC as a stepping stone needs a serious reality check.
 
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