....first of all, I am not a douchebag State fan coming over to give you guys a hard time. Yes, I was relieved to see you guys lose so that the gap between
our two programs did not widen any more than it already is. Having said that, it appears that you have a bonified choke artist on your hands. It's
obviously gotten past the point of bad luck or bad breaks. And when the announcers started talking about the team being a mirror image of their coach, it all
made sense. With Polk, we were pansies who didn't care. With Bianco, you guys get a tight asshole when it's on the line because he apparently does.
Either he doesn't address it (i.e. the elephant in the room) or he overemphasizes it, but I can't think of another coach in the big 3 in recent SEC
history who has choked like he is. And that's not a flame.
The point of all that is to say that as much as I have disagreed with Sourreb on Bianco needing to go, he starts to make more sense, and here's why. While many of us are unhappy with Rick's postseason failures, we can't seriously consider replacing him. We've been in the dance 6 of the last 8 years, and we've won numerous division titles and an SEC title. However, the biggest reason that we can't replace him is that there is nobody out there that we could get that would be as good (at least on paper). We could risk it, but we are probably much more likely to end up with somebody worse than him than somebody as good or better. We'd have to take a chance on an asst. or get some has-been. So we are stuck and we have to hope he pulls through at some point.
You guys are not stuck. There is somebody who is very likely to be as good as Bianco: Dan McDonnell. He is widely given credit for building your best teams. He has recruited very well in Mississippi. He is familiar with Ole Miss, and he has taken a team to the CWS and has continued to have success. Assuming McDonnell would come, you don't risk all that much by losing Bianco, at least to an outsider. Or would he be intensely loyal to Bianco and not take the job out of respect for him? Thoughts?
The point of all that is to say that as much as I have disagreed with Sourreb on Bianco needing to go, he starts to make more sense, and here's why. While many of us are unhappy with Rick's postseason failures, we can't seriously consider replacing him. We've been in the dance 6 of the last 8 years, and we've won numerous division titles and an SEC title. However, the biggest reason that we can't replace him is that there is nobody out there that we could get that would be as good (at least on paper). We could risk it, but we are probably much more likely to end up with somebody worse than him than somebody as good or better. We'd have to take a chance on an asst. or get some has-been. So we are stuck and we have to hope he pulls through at some point.
You guys are not stuck. There is somebody who is very likely to be as good as Bianco: Dan McDonnell. He is widely given credit for building your best teams. He has recruited very well in Mississippi. He is familiar with Ole Miss, and he has taken a team to the CWS and has continued to have success. Assuming McDonnell would come, you don't risk all that much by losing Bianco, at least to an outsider. Or would he be intensely loyal to Bianco and not take the job out of respect for him? Thoughts?
