Undeniable facts...

[Griffdawg]

1. When OM fans and/ or other fans around the SEC begin finding fault with your head football coach, then rest assured, you have made a sucessful hire.

2. When OM fans feel the insatiable desire to post on MSU message boards to defend their schedule/ program, argue about their recruiting of Mississippi high school players, or to downplay the recent beatdown administered by their rival, then rest assured they are worried about the direction that we are heading in.

3. It should be apparent by viewing their OOC schedule over the last several years, that OM attempts to dodge every decent football team they can in order to get enough wins to be bowl eligible. It makes them uncomfortable that their rival (who they must play every year) is improving and will no longer be an automatic W on their schedule. While I do agree that our OOC schedule doesn't need to brutal (like it was this year), I also don't wish to play the ridiculous OOC schedule that the Rebs do every year. Their 2010 schedule is laughable. Millsaps could go 6-6 with that schedule. How excited can their fanbase get when they look at that home schedule? Give me a break!!

 

[lazlow]

1. When OM fans and/ or other fans around the SEC begin finding fault with your head football coach, then rest assured, you have made a sucessful hire.

2. When OM fans feel the insatiable desire to post on MSU message boards to defend their schedule/ program, argue about their recruiting of Mississippi high school players, or to downplay the recent beatdown administered by their rival, then rest assured they are worried about the direction that we are heading in.

3. It should be apparent by viewing their OOC schedule over the last several years, that OM attempts to dodge every decent football team they can in order to get enough wins to be bowl eligible. It makes them uncomfortable that their rival (who they must play every year) is improving and will no longer be an automatic W on their schedule. While I do agree that our OOC schedule doesn't need to brutal (like it was this year), I also don't wish to play the ridiculous OOC schedule that the Rebs do every year. Their 2010 schedule is laughable. Millsaps could go 6-6 with that schedule. How excited can their fanbase get when they look at that home schedule? Give me a break!!

agree with all except that maybe the fan base at *%$+ likes bowls...we can cry all we want about the other teams easy schedule but football is not like basketball and it does not reward SOS(except for bcs rankings)...**** we can't get either sport figured out (schedule wise). when u can beat 3 SEC teams and you can't find 3 w's OOC then "rest assured" you're guilty of shear %#@'in stupidity and a lack of administrative leadership....

let me give u a # 4...when your 5-7 team has produced the greatest attendance ever then "rest assured" you've made a successful hire.

 

[SLUdog]

next year. IF we had the proper schedule for our program we'd be 7-5 right now. Hell, we almost were 7-5 anyway. We should play Memphis, Tulane, UAB, Ark State, La Tech and no one any better than these teams in non-conf.

 

[Griffdawg]

with the brutal football schedule with regard to OOC teams. Trust me, I want us to have the best chance possible to go bowling in the years to come, but I would also like to get somewhat excited about our home schedule. If I were one of their fans, could I really get pumped about the home schedule for 2010? It's a razor-thin line to walk, but we need to schedule OOC games that are winnable but aren't absolute walkovers. I know we have to walk before we run so my argument is probably moot right now. But when I look at their schedule for next year, I just have to believe that their season ticket sales will be disappointing. Just my $.02.

 

[Todd4State]

I only see one thing wrong with Ole Miss's schedule- they play two I-AA teams. And that's something that they did not want to do originally. If I would copy anything about Ole Miss, it would be their schedule. It's smart. Look at what scheduling the no worse than second place in the ACC team, the likely C-USA Champ, in addition to the SEC schedule that we already have to play has gotten us. 5-7. Their schedule got them the Cotton Bowl. The fact of the matter is, even though we certainly dealt a blow to their confidence and huberis, a Cotton Bowl win would get some of that back for them. Just like our Indy Bowl win in 2000 did for us after we lost the Egg Bowl in 2000- in similar fashion.

We have a lot of momentum right now as it is, imagine what it would be if we were even going to the Papajohn's Bowl at Legion Field. We would probably sell the place out.

However, it's hard for me to complain because I know that Byrne gets it, and has already made amends to future schedules, and interestingly, Ole Miss has to play Texas in the very near future.

Our most difficult non-conference opponent after 2010 is USM, and next year it will be Houston. That is very acceptable to me.

 

[msumhsfan]

the excuses will be award winning