From the 3rd Quarter of his Forde Yard Dash:
MESSIEST OFFSEASONS
Every fan base is excited for the season to begin. But some schools might be more excited than others, if only because actual football games will change the subject from unpleasant headlines during the offseason:
Mississippi (26). The coach went from pious to embattled to gone, in the amount of time it took interested parties to check his phone logs. And Houston Nutt’s lawyer isn’t finished yet. The NCAA case is in its final stages, with the school leaking documents to supportive writers in an 11th-hour effort to frame the Committee on Infractions hearing as a Mississippi State problem, too. After this mind-boggling melodrama, South Alabama can’t show up soon enough for the Saturday opener.