Different eras for those guys. One year with no players and no NIL isn't much to go one, but you were saying the same about Selmon a couple months ago too and you've been proven incorrect. We'll see what happens this season. I'm not concerned with last season but there's no excuse for not winning 4/5 games this year IMO. I expect 5 myself but the schedule is rough. He needs to win every OOC game and a conference game or two. We'll know a lot about our coach and program after this season.
It's changed. But it's changed for everyone. The relative position of most all schools isn't much different than it was before. Most of our problems have been self inflicted, plus the tragedy of Leach dying suddenly.
How many of the good players off of the 2014 team that played for us the next year do you think we would be able to keep in today's version of college football ?
SEC has absolutely bent us over and torn us a new one with no lube with the schedules for 2024 and 2025. And, as you say, it's uncanny how when a team comes on our schedule they suddenly get good and when the go off they get worse. We finally lost Bama, LSU & Auburn and they go a combined 12-12, while teams we did play went 41-23.
Well I wouldn’t be proposing firing the coach if he had performed like the 2014 team did. I don’t understand the point you are trying to make? I don’t give a **** who leaves when we fire Lebby. Just like I didn’t care if the recruiting class that Arnett was hired to protect stayed or not. That turned out real good for us.
Do you think Prescott, Simmons, Jones etc etc etc would finish their careers at State in today's version of college football ? I have no opinion or care for Lebby at all but until somebody somehow injects at least some sanity back into college football what has always been an uphill battle for us has become Mount Everest and our HC job cannot be very highly coveted at this point.
Best guess at 2026 schedule. UMiss, A&M, Ark, Bama, LSU & Auburn almost for sure. Probably Okie, Vandy & Kentucky.
Who knows what they would do now…. But I feel like Prescott, Simmons and jones wouldn’t sign up to play at state now under Lebby.
9 conference games in 2026? That schedule wouldn't be terrible. We compete with 4 or 5 of these.
