Looking To The Future
This article crossed my screen a few days ago, and I wanted to make sure everyone had a chance to read it.
Pete Fiutak of FoxSports asks if we can “keep it up”. That’s what she said.
Sorry, couldn’t resist. Fiutak takes a look at many of the “suprise” success stories from last season, and asks if these teams have really turned the corner and will they be able to sustain this success in the coming seaons. Here is what he had to say about Mississippi State.
It’s not that Mississippi State was that bad under Sylvester Croom, but it wasn’t great and it still happens to be playing in the SEC. Those three-win seasons might have been six-victory campaigns in almost any other conference, but Croom was still on the hot seat. And then the defense turned things up a notch, the offense was opportunistic, if not efficient, and the Bulldogs cranked out an 8-5 season with a bowl win over UCF. After the school’s best season since 2000, the hope is to keep going forward and become more of a player in the SEC race.
Is it going to last? No. MSU will still be pesky and should be even more talented on both sides of the ball this year, but going forward, it’ll be tough to be a yearly bowl team as the rest of the conference improves. Ole Miss isn’t going to be a doormat much longer with Houston Nutt at the helm, Arkansas should be even stronger under Bobby Petrino, Alabama is about to emerge as a superpower under Nick Saban and Auburn and LSU aren’t going anywhere. That’s just the SEC West. That’s not to say MSU can’t be good, but it’ll be tough to build on the 2007 success.
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