It depends. The offense and recruiting is literally cowbell.
But the AD's dream about being Vandy
Objectively false, as usual. The offense is Mullen’s, like it or not. MSU did not run it before or after he was there. The recruiting is much better than what he was doing there but let’s peel it back: his recruiting while there was within the +/- for their historical norm but is decidedly in the “-“ for ours. You could argue he is recruiting worse relative to expectations here. But why is the question: is he just that bad, do facilities hurt that much, are all the broken relationships from coach’s past still hurting, or what % of each of the preceding three contributing? Either way, its not comparable to Cowbell.
Might be right about Vandy but numbers do not support. I’m guessing you are just BSing as usual. The power is with the boosters, always has been and always will be. He is just like Roger Goodell.