Greg McElroy rips Mississippi State for its 'inexcusably bad' Liberty Bowl showing
Mississippi State entered the Liberty Bowl as a 10-point favorite over Texas Tech but was thoroughly dominated in a 34-7 defeat.
Greg McElroy, the former Alabama quarterback and co-host of the “McElroy and Cubelic in the Morning” radio show, didn’t mince words Wednesday when it came time to discuss the Bulldogs’ performance.
“Mississippi State at times last night played harder after the whistle than they did during the whistle,” McElroy said. “How does that make sense? Oh so now you want to expel some energy. Now I want to fight. … Where was that after the ball was snapped?”
McElroy added that not only did Mississippi State’s showing reflect poorly on the program, the Bulldogs also let down the SEC in what has been an awful start for the conference to the bowl season.
“Mississippi State’s performance last night was inexcusably bad,” McElroy said. “I know that they were depleted in certain spots. I get that. … Just play hard. Just give me effort.
“And I got news for you. If you’re a fan of the SEC, you need your conference to look good. It’s good for the league. … It matters when the league lays an egg.”
They could always hire back Dan Mullen.
Negative ghostrider. State has a coach with a track record of einnin. Mcelroy couldn’t make it as a player in the league and just because he played for saban, he thinks his opinion matters
Ahh Missouri already got the Conference off to a bad start by sitting all their top players and using the play book Army never dreamed they would be dumb enough to use.
Just dropping in to say Fire Leach, hire Clark.
Who’s Clark? Hopefully your talking about SUPERMAN? Lol leave the pirate alone! Hell he may quit you bandwagon pukes. Lol good fun
I’m not the only one that sees it. I remember the 2 and 3 win years. We are livin in the glory years of mississippi state football
Mullen had 1 season with a winning conference record in 9 seasons at MSU. He had 3 .500 seasons, rest losing records in SEC play.
True, yet even the bookies thought MSU had a chance at most games they played because of the way Mullen recruited the line. Something he mysteriously didn’t do at Florida. The biggest gripe I had about Mullen was his refusal to get a good kicking game. MSU lost a number of games due to poor special teams play.
Says the girl that played in the band. Find a new team. We were down 16 players. Knucklehead.
6 STARTERS on defense. That’s over half the defense. Mcelroy’s just mad that he spent 4 years on his knees, in saban’s office to be a failure as a pro and wind up in a broadcast booth. Leach is the 5th winningest active head coach in the nation. Mcelroy bis a failure without saban’s hand to hold.
Lmao, weaksauce. Nah I’ll say what I want, but you continue to cry like a lil baby about it.
It’s impossible to judge leach on the 2 years that he’s been at state. Last year they agreed to play 5 games with fewer than the required number of players because he’s not a gutless coward like all the teams that cancelled games. The bowl game, state was down 16 players, 6bof which were starters bon defense. Did you want him rired after they upset a& m, auburn, kentucky. I don’t bknow you, maybe you did; but there are a lot of fairweather fans in the fan base that are showin theie true colors!
Yeah, I didn’t want him hired in the first place. Thanks for asking.
I like Leach OK as a person, but the truth is he isn’t getting the job done. Cark would be an improvement, but we need to keep our minds open since we don’t know who will be available. To be perfectly honest, Leach doesn’t recruit well and seems to only want 3-star players. Plus he gives away a lot of the offensive potential by only being one-dimensional. But if Cohen stays he will just hin might be a nice guy but he has hired two FB coaches who were lacking and a woman to coach BB who had health problems and resigned. He doesn’t seem to know what he is doing. This last game performance made Croom look good. Milsaps could have doner as well. Clark would be an improvement.
Greg McElroy’s always been a Leach-hater ever since Leach publicly called him out for de-committing from Leach’s Red Raiders immediately following a narrow Tech loss to Alabama in the 2006 Cotton Bowl… switching to play QB for Saban’s Crimson Tide the following year. Oh well… once a hater, always a hater…
@MskdRdr
I didn’t know that. Thanks for sharing.
I never have liked McElroy. If Alabama was out 16 players, he would have been full of excuses.
#HAILSTATE !!!
Leach’s talent is wasted at MSU.
The only thing MSU can do is ring their obnoxious cow bells; and, they wonder why people refer to them as “rednecks”.
McElroy—Alabama suck up — longtime hater of sec teams
Mostly, he is right, but i wouldn’t put all the chippyness on state. Didn’t som tech staffer go after Forbes on the sideline?
@bulldogbuck55
yepper. sure did. I saw it.