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Which Will We See More of From Hornet Football in 2025

Which Will We See More of From Hornet Football in 2025

  • Wins

    Votes: 2 40.0%

  • Arrests

    Votes: 3 60.0%
  • Total voters
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stingthemgood

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After our latest announced recruits, I feel we have to have this discussion. We have several new players who have had felonies in the last few years and we are coming off a down season.

We just lost our best LB and our starting QB to the portal. It's not looking good.
 
The whole "do things the right way" mantra went out the window when fans were calling for coaching heads during last season, regardless of the circumstances (starting senior QB quit, litany of injuries at various positions, redshirt freshman QB at the helm, etc). It should be evident more than ever after that campaign that fans only care about winning.

Couple that "win now above all else" fan sentiment with the current atmosphere in college athletics with the portal and revolving one year agreements with players and we are where we are. We've made our bed, now we get to lay in it.

I'll add that Coach Marion and Co have assembled a very talented roster. We should stack a good amount of wins next season regardless of who left in the portal. Enough wins to prevent Hornet fans from calling for Coach Marion's head? Well I guess that will remain to be seen.
 
SDHornet said:
The whole "do things the right way" mantra went out the window when fans were calling for coaching heads during last season, regardless of the circumstances (starting senior QB quit, litany of injuries at various positions, redshirt freshman QB at the helm, etc). It should be evident more than ever after that campaign that fans only care about winning.

Couple that "win now above all else" fan sentiment with the current atmosphere in college athletics with the portal and revolving one year agreements with players and we are where we are. We've made our bed, now we get to lay in it.

I'll add that Coach Marion and Co have assembled a very talented roster. We should stack a good amount of wins next season regardless of who left in the portal. Enough wins to prevent Hornet fans from calling for Coach Marion's head? Well I guess that will remain to be seen.
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And you think 3-9 is acceptable? AT and crew were waaaay over their head.

Why play the game if you don’t play to win? Kind of a lame, I told you so reply.

Go follow MBBall, they are the poster child for who cares if we win crowd.
 
HeavyistheClown said:
And you think 3-9 is acceptable? AT and crew were waaaay over their head.

Why play the game if you don’t play to win? Kind of a lame, I told you so reply.

Go follow MBBall, they are the poster child for who cares if we win crowd.
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It wasn't, never said it was, but we've litigated last season plenty. Lot's of reasons why it happened and sub-par coaching played a part. Regardless, plenty of folks (not me) were calling for heads after one down season. I would have been fine with another season of AT & Bobby with some tweaks made...

...then Andy bailed to go join Troy (oops) and Dr. Wood landed an up and comer OC (back to back MW championship appearances) from the FBS ranks to take over the program. Coach Marion is running the program so that we can win now so sit back and enjoy the ride.
 
SDHornet said:
The whole "do things the right way" mantra went out the window when fans were calling for coaching heads during last season, regardless of the circumstances (starting senior QB quit, litany of injuries at various positions, redshirt freshman QB at the helm, etc). It should be evident more than ever after that campaign that fans only care about winning.

Couple that "win now above all else" fan sentiment with the current atmosphere in college athletics with the portal and revolving one year agreements with players and we are where we are. We've made our bed, now we get to lay in it.

I'll add that Coach Marion and Co have assembled a very talented roster. We should stack a good amount of wins next season regardless of who left in the portal. Enough wins to prevent Hornet fans from calling for Coach Marion's head? Well I guess that will remain to be seen.
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In the 2-3 yrs if we aren’t winning enough to relevant we will turn into the next New Mex State struggling.
We need to win to justify a spot in MWC or PAC. Both have stability and growth opportunities for our program.
Coach Andy Thompson was handed the keys to the team and he couldn’t keep it together. The coach had to be exchanged. I think it worked great that he left to the farm to minimize drama & expense of a buyout of his contract whatever those terms might have been.
 
I agree. I think it all worked out for us as I think the Marion hire is fantastic and the timing of this hire and the push to FBS align perfectly. I don't expect him to be here very long if the product on the field lives up to the hype.
 
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