TX Mud Dawg said:
like sheep but next year will be different. Plus our schedule did not make things any easier. Growing pains/baby steps whatever you want to call it, there's no doubt that we are a better team than last year and will only get better. Keep your head up. Times are changing for us.
While you may be right, the problem with what you just said is that coaches, administrators, website moderators, and us fans in general have been regurgitating the same lines over and over until it gets to the point where it's hard to believe it anymore. Even listening to Mullen after the game tonight brought back memories of all the same late season coach-speak we'd become accustomed to hearing from Croom, and Sherrill in his last couple of years. Maybe things truly are different this time with Mullen in charge, but we don't know that for sure. We won't know it until we actually win more games than we lose in a season. And if we lose the last two games against Arkansas and OM this season, then we'll have the same record we had last year when we fired Croom.
Of course I understand there are obvious differences from last year's team aside from the record, and the schedule has been brutal this year, but at the end of the day we're all left with that same sick feeling that we're all so accustomed to feeling. And once again we'll be left with the long, agonizing off-season ahead of wondering if we'll ever find a good quarterback to put under center, which we know is what has held us back through most of our history. Will Russell be the guy or will he be another overhyped flop? Will we sign Newton, and will he be what we need? It's another year and more questions to be answered, as it always seems to be.
The only thing to do right now is move on, let the pain from this sickening weekend of MSU sports fade, and once again hope against hope for a brighter future. Unfortunately some of us may not be around long enough to enjoy the day when things look brighter.