This is hands down the dumbest sh!t I’ve read here since Alvin was booted into oblivion. Without otherworldly talent to overcome his crayon-riddled playbook, Dan’s offense has no chance in hell. Add in his ridiculously poor game management skills (or, the total lack of) and absolute refusal to pay attention to details (wristband debacle, did he even practice special teams?), and you get exactly what we’ve seen over the past 4 years: a non-stop sh!tshow that ultimately ended with a team that quit on their coach. A coach who never figured out that putting points on a scoreboard matter more than anything else; and everything must go into that effort.
When Dan was at MSU, he once said going to UF was a “lateral move”. We all took those words to mean that he was saying MSU was just as good of a job as UF. No one thinks that. But I think he was admitting that he couldn’t do any better at UF than he doing at MSU. It was the only time he was ever honest to us. Dan’s biggest problem is that deep down, he knows we won championships in 06 and 08 in spite of him. Not because of him. He’s not a good coach, and he knows it.
You have some serious problems when all the experts say the opposite and only fans agree with you.
Football fans are well known for their inability to deal with reality.
They attach their self worth to their beloved team winning.
It is a mental illness that is very common.
What your team does has absolutely nothing to do with your self worth.
Get counseling because winning is just not that important.
Please know that about 50 million dumb rednecks agree with you.
They live and die with their team winning or losing.
When Bama loses, thousands of fans call into shows like Finebaum and scream insanity.
Once on ESPN a announcer made a slightly derogatory remark about the mania of Tennessee football fans.
The resulting flood of telephone calls to ESPN's phones closed down the telephone sector for hours.
Watching football and rooting for your team is great but getting so wrapped up in any sport's team that you cannot function when they lose or you cannot be objective about the team or coaches' performances is mental illness.
I love to win. I am a very competitive person. When I was in college my girl friend was asked in one of her classes how competitive was I. She replied that on a scale of 1 to 10 I was a 26!
So I have quite a reputation for being competitive.
But I can go and eat after a loss for one of my favorite teams now when I could not when I was younger. I learned that neurotic and psychotic behavior did not mean that one was more of a fan than others. I basically learned that it was crazy.
Like attacking Mullen for all the imaginary things that one can think of. That is not fandom. That is mental illness!