Mississippi State Football: Luke Getsy proves Joe Moorhead’s staff doesn’t get it

When the Mississippi State football offensive media availability occurred Tuesday night, Bulldog fans were more frustrated than ever.

The Mississippi State football team has gotten off to a terrible start in SEC play. The Bulldogs have lost their first two games in conference play, and the team has only scored a combined 13 points.

The problem has been the offense has not clicked. The downfield passing attack Joe Moorhead and his coaching staff prefer has not worked out. Meanwhile, the highly potent rushing attack has been neutralized simply because the coaching staff has elected not to use it.

On Tuesday night, members of the offensive side of the Mississippi State football team were made available to the media. Fans were hoping they would hear there would at least be some tinkering with the offense to try to make it fit the personnel of the roster.

Bulldog fans did not get that. They got the exact opposite. Here is what Offensive Coordinator Luke Getsy told the media Tuesday night.

After some of the worst offensive performances in the last ten years, the Mississippi State football coaching staff don’t seem all that concerned. When the offense takes the field this Saturday against Auburn, you can expect more of the same that we have seen the last two games.

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The Mississippi State football team leads the SEC in yards per carry with just a touch under six yards per carry. That’s a really good number.

But when you compare it to how often they have actually run the football, it’s mind blowing. The Bulldogs pick up more yards per rush attempt than any SEC team, but they are 10th in the SEC in rush attempts per game at 36.6.

Comparatively, the Mississippi State football team is 8th in the SEC in passing yards per game with 215, dead last in completion percentage at 48.3 but rank 7th in attempts per game at 28.6.

I get that Head Coach Joe Moorhead and his offensive staff want to find the big plays. But at some point, they have to come to the understanding that the offense they inherited isn’t built for such an offense.

Right now, they don’t and they are going to fall into the same trap every bad coaching staff makes. Try to win a certain way because “that’s who we are” and fail in the process, or they can adjust to what your team can actually do and start winning. It appears they are going to opt for the first choice.

That’s their right as the coaching staff. But as the failures and the losses continue to mount in an unproductive offense, the Mississippi State football fans will continue to lose interest and watch in frustration as the program slips back down to the state it was during the Sylvester Croom years.