I am by no means an expert nor do i pretend to be.
I think there are good wins you just can't expect bears or espn to tell you they are. You have to realize the history our program and while looking at where we were and what we were in the last 10 years.
I consider good wins
2009 Ole Miss; 2010 UGA; at Florida; Michigan 2011 Wake Forest 2012 Auburn; Tennessee; Arkansas
Mullen is 4-0 vs Kentucky and 3-1 vs Ole Miss
Any wins we can get off the middle tier no matter what their years are like are good wins
While we may not have any huge wins, it is also a saying that in 50 games Mullen only has 1 maybe 2 losses that are deemed bad ...last year at auburn and this year at ole miss ...you can't say losing to a 10win team is a bad loss when you have only won 10 games twice in 117 years.
this year when asked what I thought about the season, before even looking at the schedule you have losses to ark; lsu; alabama, well ark lost their coach and they came back to reality ...lsu and bama are really on another level than ours which makes seasons when they are at davis wade; 2 easier games on the road ...so don't look for a great year next year, road games are harder than home games, ground breaking, I know. We are fighting to even say we belong in the middle tier, do we? I am not sure we have only had 6 good season in the last 15 years, most teams in the middle tier have only had 1-2 losing seasons in that same 15 year stretch ...can you take a kid that grew up in mississippi that loves southern; and easily convince him to play in the sec with offers to bama and lsu right now NO!
What has Mullen done?
...he has came in and redshirted and that is no easy feat at msu ...you have a hard time telling me beniquez brown couldn't have at least helped our lb core this year, but Mullen knows redshirting true fr and getting them more up to speed will only benefit our program down the road. While it is hard to do this, the lucky thing is Mullen has just completed his 3rd year of doing this and we are going to our 3rd straight bowl game ...are we whipping top teams, no but we are competing and winning consistently for the first time in 13 years
...the year i believe 2010 when mullen brought in 5 offensive lineman, really set our program back ...why because we needed a juco t, but he sacrificed short-term gains and moved a dt to lt to try and get by and for MSU standards I would say it worked, we now have quality linemen starting in 2013, but we also have quality 2 deep lineman on the offensive side, I doubt this has ever happened
...a lot of things has made me scratch my head about Mullen in the way he has done things, that I am not accustomed to at MSU, but none have been for the benefit of the present, every decision has been to benefit the program in the future; the good thing about that is we are now getting into the future, we now have to go and add talented stars that we can filter in to a developed foundation to hit that once or twice great season in the middle of consistently winning and no burn redshirts and hope freshman lead us to the promise land
...look at what we asked from the 2009 freshman class ...look what we have asked from the last 3 freshman class ...we have only played 3 in 2010, 2011, I haven't looked yet to see how many he redshirted, I think this year he played more than the previous 2 but that is also telling how our recruiting is getting better.
I still have my problems with Mullen, being to conservative, he seems to coach not to lose instead of coaching to win ...but at the end of the day, we have a respectable program on the field. It is not like we are tailgating all day wondering if we are going to get ran out of the stadium and dominated by a Maine or lose to Troy at home. He is 100% right now in those games, I chose not to try to predict when he will lose the first one and enjoy the success we haven't had in my life time.
I went to msu in 2002-2004. WE WENT 8-23. I will take 8 wins in 1 year every damn day!
