If the team is playing an out of state SWAC school just to get a game in, couldn’t they just schedule a DII school like Delta State? My understanding is that a DII game wouldn’t count at all in the RPI, so it wouldn’t drag State’s RPI down, and you’d probably get a similar game that lets the...
Melendez is the first good hitter Texas has had since the Clemens brothers left. Other than them, their batting has been anemic for the last decade. I knew Tech had injuries that hurt their pitching, but I didn’t expect their hitting and fielding to be so bad, even with it being early in the season
Many of the summer leagues, including Cape Cod were on hiatus, but there were some summer leagues playing here and there. Brayland Skinner was on the roster for the Cotton States Baseball League. Houston Harding, Logan Tanner and Tanner Leggett were on rosters in the Honor the Game wood bat...
When Mack Brown was at Tulane, he brought in a group of consultants, including DKR, to help him identify what Tulane needed to do to be successful in football. Royal told Mack that there wasn’t really much they could do at Tulane, and that if Brown wanted to be a successful coach, he needed to...
After the end around Steele and the Auburn boosters ran on Gus, I wouldn’t expect too many head coaches will be lining up for Steele’s services anytime soon
The Great on Hulu is like a Russian period piece version of Veep (although there is almost no historical accuracy there). Sirens, one of my favorite sitcoms of the last 10 years, is also on Hulu.
It has been a few years since I was in Oxford, but to my memory, the rougher side(s) of Oxford are not quite as visible when you drive into town as they are in Starkville. Not sure that affects 18-year olds who want to play football, but it cannot help but affect the perception that Starkville...
Nice column today from Rick Cleveland about Pride: https://mississippitoday.org/2020/12/12/remembering-the-great-charley-pride-and-a-most-memorable-day-in-hattiesburg/?fbclid=IwAR2BVEgpUPfaSG4TIjxVMz5rWQZ7tkYUVl_8WtipLXgXjbJrS9khHczT8Po
Adidas appears to go retro similar to this (presumably) vintage State script used on this Homefield shirt. It is as if Adidas took this script that was designed to be at an angle then rotated it and “un-bolded” it. It is not successful
Virginia Tech
Texas
UNC Chapel Hill
Iowa State
Maybe 2-and-1 series with Texas State and/or UNC Charlotte
Personally, I would love a road trip to Colorado, but I don’t want State to play at altitude ever again.
I got to see Billy Joe at several of Willie’s picnics and a club show. He would raise hell and have fun, but when he got to one of his gospel songs, you could feel the Holy Spirit. It gave me goosebumps. It was almost like performance art but he was 100% real with no artifice. If you haven’t...
I have seen too many State teams that would get blown out opening week without a tuneup game or two. I am ok 86ing the FCS games. A 9-game conference schedule with 1 P5 non-conference game and 2 G5 games would be great as long as everyone in the SEC West played the same number of home games a...