Greg Byrne and numerous Mississippi State staff and a national marketing firm.
An Ole Miss guy wrote the article for Outkick referencing the same stupid **** you are.
I'm starting to think the overall intellect of our fanbase is lower than I presumed it was. Some smart people came up with that logo. They could have abandoned the M-State concept at that time, but they didn't. And there has never been a more apt time to clean house and scrap everything, than that time period where Keenum, Byrne and Mullen took over. And guess what? The fruit of that short time period, from early 2008 to early 2009, was the best athletic decade in our history. So they obviously saw a lot of value in the M-State message, so they modernized it.
Of course, ever since Cohen left, the mouth-breathers saw their 'in' to come in and undo all that branding work. And it's not even intentional, they're so stupid they don't even know they are doing it. That's why they try to shame and silence us so much, because they think they are doing the right thing.