Mississippi State Sports Blog

The Mobile Press-Register published a story in today’s paper about the coaching search currently taking place at the University of South Alabama (USA) in Mobile. The story confirms that USA athletic director Joe Gottfried has contacted Mississippi State offensive coordinator Woody McCorvey about their headcoaching position and plans on setting up a more formal meeting. [...]

Via Media Relations Coach Croom held a press conference today to officially announce that assistant coach Charlie Harbison has been promoted to the defensive coordinator position. He also announced that Louis Campbell had been hired as the new linebackers coach. “In choosing Charlie Harbison to be our defensive coordinator, I wanted to maintain the continuity [...]

While there is no official word from MSU Athletics, it seems apparent that Mississippi State defensive secondary coach Charlie Harbison will be promoted to the defensive coordinator position. Harbison coached safeties for the Bulldogs last year. Prior to joining the MSU staff, he had two stints at Alabama coaching on both sides of the ball. [...]

Gregg Ellis is reporting via Houston Nutt (of all people) that Louis Campbell has indeed been hired by Mississippi State to be the linebackers coach. Since Ellis Johnson was linebackers coach in addition to being defensive coordinator, this hiring confirms rumors that Croom will promote a current assistant to the DC position. This will likely [...]

Various sources around the internet are reporting that outgoing Arkansas defensive coordinator Louis Campbell will not be joining Houston Nutt at Ole Miss, but instead will be joining Sylvester Croom’s staff at Mississippi State. Some are saying he is coming on board as Linebackers Coach. Campbell has been serving administrative roles in the Razorback organization [...]

With the departure of Ellis Johnson to Arkansas, names are already starting to fly about who Croom will get as a replacement. Several names that have popped up are Jon Tenuta of Georgia Tech and Ron English of Michigan. Of the names that have been mentioned so far, I think the job is Brick Haley’s [...]