Well, let me tell ya, this whole Zach Arnett thing at Mississippi State, it’s been a real mess, like a chicken coop after a fox got in.
Zach Arnett and the Hot Seat, they say. Hot seat? More like a hot frying pan, if you ask me. That boy didn’t last long, no sirree. Only 11 games! Eleven! My goodness, even my old rooster lasted longer than that.
- They hired him, see?
- Then, bam! He’s gone.
- Just like that.
Makes ya wonder what went wrong, doesn’t it? Folks are sayin’ the team was struggling. Struggling? They were playing like a bunch of wet hens! Couldn’t hardly win a game. Got beat real bad by Texas AM, I heard. A real whoopin’. Like when my prize-winning pumpkin got squashed by a runaway tractor. Just a disaster.
Now, they got this new fella, Jeff Lebby. They say they gonna be patient with him. Patient? Well, I reckon they better be, after what happened with that Arnett fella. Can’t be changin’ coaches like you change your socks, can ya? It ain’t right. Gotta give a man a chance to settle in, like a good settin’ hen on her eggs.
Some of them city fellers, the writin’ kind, they been talkin’ ’bout Mississippi State. Sayin’ they one of them teams in trouble. Well, duh! Anybody with half a brain could see that. You don’t need no fancy degree to know a team’s playin’ like garbage.
This whole college football coachin’ thing, it’s a crazy business. One minute you’re the big cheese, the next you’re out on your ear. Like that time my prize-winning pig got loose at the county fair. One minute she was the star, the next she was gone. Just like that Arnett. Here today, gone tomorrow.
Mississippi State Football needs some stability, that’s what I say. They need a coach who’s gonna stick around, someone who can teach them boys how to play some football. Not just some fancy plays, but good, solid football. Like runnin’ the ball and tacklin’ hard. The basics, ya know?
I heard tell they paid that Arnett a whole lotta money. Money for nothin’, if you ask me. He shoulda worked harder, won some games. That’s what they pay ya for. It ain’t rocket science. It’s football. You run, you throw, you tackle. You win. Simple as that.
I hope this Lebby fella does better. I really do. For them boys, for the fans, and for the whole dang state of Mississippi. They deserve a good football team. A team that ain’t gonna embarrass ’em every Saturday. A team that can win some games and make ’em proud.
Coaching Changes happen, I get it. But this one, this Arnett one, it just seemed kinda fast. Like they didn’t even give him a fair shake. Maybe he wasn’t the right man for the job, maybe he was. But 11 games? That ain’t enough time to prove nothin’. Not in my book, anyway.
So, here we are. New coach, new hope. Same old Mississippi State, though. Always hopin’ for a better season. Always hopin’ to beat them rivals. Always hopin’ to go to a bowl game. Just like I’m always hopin’ for a good crop of tomatoes every year. Sometimes it happens, sometimes it don’t. That’s life, I reckon. And that’s football.
This College Football Coaching Carousel, it spins and spins, and sometimes you just gotta hang on tight and hope for the best. That’s all we can do, really. Just hope for the best and cheer on them Bulldogs. And maybe, just maybe, this new fella, Jeff Lebby, he’ll be the one to turn things around. We’ll see, won’t we? Time will tell, like it always does. Just like the seasons change, football changes too. And all we can do is wait and see what happens next.
Jeff Lebby, now he’s the man in charge. Got a big job ahead of him, that’s for sure. Gotta win over the fans, gotta win over the players, and gotta win some games. It ain’t gonna be easy, but nothin’ worth doin’ ever is. Just like farmin’, it takes hard work and dedication. And a whole lotta luck. So good luck to him, I say. He’s gonna need it.
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