Jeff Lebby: Fans call for Mississippi State head coach to be fired during blowout vs. Toledo
Jeff Lebby is currently in his first year as the coach at Mississippi State, but things are off to a rocky start and they got worse on Saturday night.
After losing to Arizona State last weekend, the Bulldogs were looking to get back on the winning track. However, things went from bad to worse as Mississippi State was blown out at home by Toledo.
Even though it is very early in the Lebby era in Starkville, fans and the media are already letting their opinions be known on social media.
It’s very early but my take that Jeff Lebby is the worst FBS hire since Charlie Weis is looking pretty spot on.
— Dan Wolken (@DanWolken) September 15, 2024
To pay Toledo to come to Starkville, pay Jeff Lebby, and get embarrassed like this is a REALLY bad look for Mississippi State
— Russell Johnson (@RJohnson404) September 15, 2024
From what we've seen in 3 games, Jeff Lebby is a bad coach.
Obviously that can change, but this is his entire resume because we took a gamble on a guy who has never ran a football program before.
— Dudy Noble Field (@DudyNobleField) September 15, 2024
I’m typically against putting first year head coaches on the hot seat list but Jeff Lebby is trying his hardest to make an exception
— Barstool SEC (@SECBarstool) September 15, 2024
Down 35-3 to Toledo and the announcer just said “you get the feeling Mississippi State needs a touchdown here.”
— Brandon Walker (@BFW) September 15, 2024
Former Mississippi State head coach Jeff Lebby.
— Tony Gerdeman (@TonyGerdeman) September 15, 2024
Never forget when Mississippi State folks gave the entire #SECU staff for picking 4-8 in year one of the Jeff Lebby era.
Four wins is REACHING at this point. pic.twitter.com/9Agry3VmvM
— SEC Unfiltered (@SECUnfiltered) September 15, 2024
There's a reason Oklahoma fans rejoiced when Jeff Lebby took the MSU job. https://t.co/mQAFAaRTwR
— Matt Zemek (@MattZemek) September 15, 2024
Before he took the job, Lebby had been the OC/QB coach in Oklahoma the last 2 seasons while being the OC/QB coach at Ole Miss the previous 2 years.
While it is only 3 games into his career as the coach, the loss could be a sign of bad things to come as the schedule only gets tougher. After a home game against another struggling team in Florida, the next two games are on the road at Texas and Georgia.
For Lebby, the rumblings are getting louder, and the Bulldogs will be the underdog in every game up to the game against UMass on November 2. Can he turn things around? Or will the calls for him to get fired grow louder in the coming weeks?
LOL! After 3 games. This is the reason ADs don’t listen to the fanbase. They don’t have to pay all the buyouts, but they can scream of coach after coach to be fired after 3 games.
The game was an absolute blowout. It was shocking to watch. It was like an ncaa basketball tournament game where the small school has a team full of seniors and the big school has a bunch of 4 and five star young guys and the small school wins.
Calls for his firing are ridiculous overreactions. Yes it was painful and embarrassing to watch but he is starting literally from scratch. The team was totally gutted due to graduations and the transfer portal following the abysmal Arnett year. No one knows at this point if he will be a successful head coach or not but he deserves the chance.
Yes.
I was at the game and stayed the whole time…good thing was the traffic leaving was light as most fans started jettisoning around the middle of the 3rd quarter. By the time the 4th quarter rolled around we were sitting in the fancy seats…
Shame on the student section for not staying…blowout or not.
Keep your chin up, it’s year one and it’ll get better. Every school owns some ugly losses, it’s a part of the sport.
You are a good fan. Must’ve been that lone cowbell I heard ringing occasionally. I’m not going to lie, I turned to the KY vs GA game and tried to forget about it.
UF comes to town next week. I’m staying the coarse with Lebby. H deserves three years to show that he is building the team and it is showing progress it’s headed in the right direction. Now if they look like UF and they are still looking in year two are three like his first season. Then we need to move on. I’m hoping this week with UF coming to town that is the medicine we need. It seems like everyone UF plays no matter how bad they are playing. UF seems to make them look like a champion. Don’t like talking bad about UF ,but just seems as if Napier cant get out of his own way.
And State has UMass at home as well as Florida. And after the Hog home game with UAB, I’d say your Dogs should be a favorite at home against a bad Arkansas team.
That bad Arkansas team is better than State.
Agreed. Sadly.
We were a favorite against Arizona State. Hell, I’m scared of UMass at this point lol.
Don’t worry dawgtime,
Once the gators come in next week you guys will feel a lot better about your team. I will be headed to Starkville on Thur as me and some other dads are doing a father /kids trip. Hitting up bulldog burger that night… any other good restaurants or sights you could recommend for us ?
Meh. Same rabid fanbase that wanted to fire Leach after every loss (and during every off-season) even though they now pretend to have all always adored him.
Exactly
Thus is inaccurate. Sure, there were some idiots who did, but they were the exception, not the rule. Problem is rhe idiots tend to be the most vocal,thus get the most attention,as is often the case.
The vast majority of State fans did truly treasure CML.
Finally, a SEC team worse than Arkansas.
I’m not calling for Lebby to be fired. I was never sure about the hire to begin with, but I don’t get paid to make those decisions. No sense in starting (or prolonging) a coaching carousel where we never let the coach get his feet under him and move on the next one. I will say, I’ve watched some bad MSU football, but this has been surprisingly bad. I had us picked as 4-8, possibly as high as 6-6, but we’ve lost 2 of the games that I thought we’d win already so I think we are looking at 1-11, if that. I do not see us being competitive, much less winning, in SEC play at all this year. My question is, if we do eventually move on from Lebby, how exactly would we proceed? What coach (or players) is going to want to come to an SEC team that gets walloped by Toledo and potentially wins between 0 and 1 or 2 games? It’s going to be a long season. If there’s no improvement throughout the season or next year, then we can talk about another coach.
They need to fire whoever decided to change the helmets…AGAIN to that insanely ugly logo.
This is on Selmon for making a lazy hire. He had history with Lebby, and went with him without it appearing even to make an effort to bring in a proven coach. We had an opportunity to bring in a proven Group of 5 coach at least. If this disaster continues into the abyss, we’ll be back to assistants again. If Lebby can’t turn it around, he and Selmon need to go.
I’m on board with that. The generic cursive “State” reminds of the team in the Dr. Pepper commercials.