Mississippi State Sports Blog

According to College Football News. What will happen: MSU will be ready for revenge after blowing last year’s game against the Green Wave. Tulane’s defense doesn’t appear to appreciably better than last year’s porous group while the offense will need a few games to before it gets clicking. It won’t always be pretty, but after [...]

From an Auburn beat write: He’ll [Tuberville] also look to round his team into a cohesive unit against underdogs Monroe and Mississippi State before playing LSU on Sept. 18.

The Birmingham News looks at all the teams in the CUSA. Here’s what they say about Tulane: TULANE GREEN WAVE: 2003 RECORD: 5-7, 3-5 C-USA COACH: Chris Scelfo (26-34 at Tulane and career) THE BRIGHT SIDE: The Green Wave took some lumps last season by playing young but talented players on both sides of the [...]

Because of that stupid state flag and the NCAA’s stupid decision not hold tournaments in states with a stupid flag, MSU now has to hold it’s home games in the Coaches v. Cancer preseason tournament to Birmingham, Alabama. The Clarion-Ledger reports that State found a replacement for the Alaska tournament (Northwestern), allowing it to pull [...]

Depth Chart Notes: Culberson is running 2nd team at SS, Will Rogers missing, Rickey Wright running 4th at HB.

That’s what Aries’ new head coach Willie Totten implied in the Clarion-Ledger. Totten was Nelson’s high school coach and runs a similar wide-open system at Valley. Totten says, “it won’t be a hard system for him to pick back up.” These kind of systems are good for putting up gawdy numbers, but do little to [...]

Welcome banners were placed recently along the north entrance of campus. Note the fencing along the curb to keep you scofflaws from parking on the grass and not giving Larry your parking fees.

Raffy sat down with the Oakland Tribune for a qustion and answer piece. Here’s an excerpt: Q. You were a three-time All-American at Mississippi State, teammate of Bobby Thigpen, Jeff Brantley and Will Clark. Were you guys dominant? A. We were. We didn’t win the College World Series, but we did our share of winning. [...]

Former MSU trackster Dion Crabbe was given the honor of lifetime for an Olympic athlete, he carried his country’s flag into the opening ceremony. But who else could’ve carried it? He’s the only athlete representing the tiny island of the British Virgin Islands, an English protectorate.

Last night, Greenville alumni hosted head coach Rick Stansbury. Coach Stans called his returning team “a pretty good basketball team.” You think, Rick? You’ve got 3 starters back, one whom is a legitimate POTY candidate, plus all your key reserves. We had better be “pretty good.” Seriously, it seems Rick thinks this is the year [...]

New England Patriots Release Fred McCrary.

Tulane head coach Chris Scelfo has tabbed LSU transfer Lester Ricard as starter for the State game. Ricard is listed as a 6′-5″ sophomore and was highly touted coming out of Amite, La. He saw the hand-writing on the LSU depth chart last fall and transfered to the Green Wave, who graduated senior J.P. Losman. [...]

The Charlotte Observer reports that Kirk Herbstreit will be talking to “resurrected” coaches during a segment of Sportscenter. Coach Croom will appear this Wednesday. Don’t ask me why they consider Croom to be in the same class as disgraced former head coaches, such as Mike Price or George O’Leary.

Dawgystyle from the Sixpack message board posted this pic today on the new uniforms. I hope to goodness this is a hoax. They suck.

Like we need any more, huh? The Clarion-Ledger points out another one. Sherrill signed good recruiting classes late in his in tenure, in part, by telling the blue-chippers they could play the position they most loved. It worked with Culberson, it worked with others. To be honest, a lot of coaches do this, however, they [...]