Mississippi State began its season with significant quantities of both talent and inexperience. Every week since the beginning of September, each payload has been presented, sent out onto fields of competition to see which side carried more weight.
More often than not, the scales have tipped in favor of the inexperience, all the possibilities and potential of talent sliding off their plate into a pile of youth and disappointment, opportunities just barely missed time and again.
It was an inconsistency senior linebacker Richie Brown saw in practice, where the young Bulldog team would string together two great practices, only to come out lethargic and sluggish the next day of preparation.