The sad part about this year...

Will be very interesting to see how the team finishes and whether the team that showed up Saturday will show up the rest of the way. Or will we play disinterested and play down to our competition.

Had orgeron not stuck his nose in his offensive coordinators offense, we wouldve probably beat state and troy. His ego cost him those 2 games.

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Probably beat Troy...not State.

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This is absolutely right. The Troy loss was a complete fluke, epitomized by the field goal that they kicked just before half time, after having time put back on the clock, that went through off the crossbar and ended up being the margin of victory. If we played Troy ten times--even at that point in the season--we would win nine of them. Mississippi State, on the other hand, was just better than we were AT THAT POINT. Given our youth, injuries, new offense, etc., we weren't set up well to win that game on the road in September. It's not like we barely lost, and a few tweaks would have changed the outcome. We got taken behind the woodshed, and we as fans just need to own up to that and tip our hat to the Bulldogs. Also, for those who say we lost that game because Orgeron interfered with the play calling, remember that our defense got pushed around pretty good in that one as well.

All that said, who knows if the team would have had the "come to Jesus" moment that they needed without hitting rock bottom in the Troy loss? All in all, if we can finish the season 10-3 (with a bowl win), this will be a reasonably successful year given this roster's relative youth and lack of depth on the lines.