I'm a hypocrite apparently.
I want us to run off Mike Bianco yesterday. I think Bianco has done a good job building a program, but I don't think his philosophy works, and I believe his time has passed. I want Tyrone Nix fired. I think he doesn't gameplan well at all. I think he has no ability to adjust in-game or even from week to week, and I think he's overpaid because of that. I want Houston Nutt to be out of he hasn't turned it around in the 2012 season. I think he's a decent head coach, but he's far from perfect. I actually think he'll have things turned around by 2012 and he'll do relatively well going forward. I think Kennedy is very mediocre with a drinking and philandering problem, but at the same time, given what we've put into basketball, a coach that consistently takes us to the NIT while playing a crappy brand of basketball isn't all that bad. I think Pete Boone needs to retire yesterday, and I think we need someone like a Michael Thompson to come in and run the show.
But apparently I have my head up our athletic department's ***.
On your programs, I think Stansbury is Andy Kennedy without the drinking with a slightly better recruiting ability and a slightly better idea of X's and O's. In other words, he's a better coach than Andy Kennedy by a little bit, but like Kennedy he has a ceiling that he likely won't ever get past without some luck, and he'll never sustain a higher level. I think Cohen is a good coach, but I think your program could do better.
I think Mullen is a good coach. I think his in-state recruiting strategy is going to be an interesting test case for Mississippi recruiting. I have my doubts about whether he'll be able to take you any higher than he did last year if he keeps up that recruiting strategy, but time will tell if I'm right or wrong. That said, I don't have a lot of respect for the way he carries himself. He's Lane Kiffin with a better offensive mind. I know your fans like it, because he's your guy, but that's just my opinion.
Those are my opinions, and no I don't defend everything Ole Miss athletics, because I attack parts of it myself.. I like this board mainly for the non-Ole Miss talk, and that's why I post here as much or more than Nafoom, but occasionally when I see a post that I think is asinine, I will call it out as such. Of course, I realize that to many of you lately, anything that doesn't praise Mullen as Football Jesus, while saying Ole Miss will never be good again is blasphemy. That's fine, but I'll still occasionally call someone out.
And yes, occasionally I like to write an essay. Read it if you'd like, or don't.