MSU ranks #1 September 30, 2009
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The NCAA says MSU has the toughest football schedule in the nation.
MSU football rumor August 28, 2009
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Rumor is Mississippi State is about to announce future football games against gone but not forgotten in-state rival, Southern Mississippi. MSU and USM used to play every year. The rivalry ended many years ago when USM with its shrinking fan base insisted on 50% of ticket revenue.
These days, non-conference games have become difficult to schedule. Even small schools are commanding big money to come and play against SEC teams.
In recent years, MSU paid Jacksonville State several hundred thousand dollars to play in Starkville. Prior to the season, Jacksonville State canceled due to a higher bid from elsewhere.
Non-conference opponents that don’t require a huge pay-day usually require extensive travel to the likes of West Virginia or Oregon.
If MSU schedules USM, it is my opinion that finances were the motivating factor. MSU can offer USM guaranteed ESPN coverage. In return, USM probably agrees to more favorable financial terms and MSU’s stressed travel budget gets a break as well.
Not rumor is that MSU AD Greg Byrne has announced that a new football scheduling agreement has been made and an announcement is going to be made soon.
Just how bad was Croom-ball? August 11, 2009
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Here are your Mississippi State career punting leaders (year, average per punt, attempts, yards punted).
- Blake McAdams 2005-08 39.32 293 11,562
- Dana Moore 1979-82 40.83 217 8860
- Mike Riley 1987-91 40.24 213 8572
- Dick McGraw 1965-67 39.08 214 8363
- Jared Cook 2001-04 41.98 198 8313
Croom’s 4-year punter, Blake McAdams, has 30% more punting yards than the 2nd place guy. And McAdams wasn’t even a good punter.
Croom’s RB, Anthony Dixon, leads the school career rushing attempts. And he did it in only 3 years. Dixon has a barely decent 4.0 career yards per carry average. What that really means is that Croom ran Dixon over and over and over again for short yardage, then punted. Often.
On the bright side, I suspect Dixon might have a breakout year in Dan Mullen’s spread offense. In the spread, 8 and 9-man fronts may be a thing of the past.
2009 College Football Helmet Schedule July 16, 2009
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Here is this year’s version of the popular schedule. This comes from Mike Gardner’s “MG Helmets” site. Looks like Mike is the guy thats been making these from scratch.
This year’s spread sheet is pretty neat. The artwork is improved. And if you click on any helmet, it takes to you to that team’s schedule.
Southern Cal sleeps in the bed they made January 9, 2009
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After the Florida Gators won the BCS National Championship game last night, Mark May and Lou Holtz on ESPN said they felt USC is the best team in the nation. Some others have also commented that USC should be awarded a split national championship.
You can argue all day about whether Florida or USC is better. This isn’t my point.
USC has been “rewarded” by anti-competitive polices that they and the PAC-10 signed up for. The PAC-10 and the Big Ten have both vehemently rejected the idea of playing conference championship games like the SEC and Big 12 have. The PAC-10 and Big Ten have christened the Rosebowl as THE preeminent achievement at season’s end.
If USC has played in and won a PAC-10 championship against a quality team, this extra game would have given them a chance in the BCS poll to play Floriday for national championship. Instead, OU got that privilege after winning the Big 12 championship game.
So congratulations on your Rosebowl victory, USC. Its what you signed up for.
If USC’s Rosebowl victory seems lacking in prosperity, as I suspect it does, then USC should use its signifigant influence to have the PAC-10 man up and play a conference championship game.
The PAC-10 and Big Ten should wake up to the new rules. If you want to win a national championship, either run the table or win a conference championship like everybody else.
Are drugs hurting young athletes? December 22, 2008
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This site is getting way too common.
That’s USM’s DeAndre Brown who tonight had his shin bone broken clean in two. Notice this was a non-contact injury – meaning it didn’t happen from a hit by another player. He jumped. He landed. His shin snaped in two.
The same thing happened to Mississippi State’s Brandon McRae this year. The same happened to Alabama’s Tyrone Prothro a few years ago.
Its also been seen in other sports in recent years.
Professional ‘Wrastlin’s Sid Vicious had his shin snapped when jumping off a turnbuckle onto the wrestling ring’s spring-loaded surface. It also happened to UFC fighter Cory Hill, although his did happen when his shin collided with another fighter’s shin.
The Texas Ranger’s Ruben Mateo broke his femur, the biggest bone in the human body (“thigh bone”), while simply running to first base.
What do all of these snapped-in-two tibias have in common? Not much except that they’ve all happened in recent years.
Rewind to 10 yeras ago. Had you ever heard of this happening before? Didn’t think so. Not in non-contact situations anyway.
Joe Theisman’s famous injury seemed like a once-in-a-generation thing and his came as a result of contact and twisting awkwardly to the ground.
There was nothing awkward about DeAndre Brown’s landing. Or Brandon McRae’s making a right-hand turn untouched on the football field. Or Tyrone Prothro’s landing in the endzone. Or Sid Vicious jumping off a turnbuckle onto a relatively soft spring-loaded surface. Or for heaven’s sake – Ruben Mateo just running to first base.
These should be HIGHLY unusual injuries. Especially when there is no player-on-player collision. But it is happening. Almost once per year now.
You can’t say they don’t make shins like they used to. Every year athletes are in better and better shape. If anything, they should be injured less, especially in non-contact situations.
Could it be these guys have been on performance-enhancing juice that has made the bones and soft tissues more injury-prone? Its a fact that illegal anabolic steroids can do that. But this is the only explanation I can come up with.
Dan Mullen info December 11, 2008
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Bulldawg Junction has a nice page up on Dan Mullen.
Here’s the helmet December 11, 2008
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Looks better than the old helmet. I think it will grow on me.
Maroon is back! December 11, 2008
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“Maroon is all that matters” is a phrase coined for the Sly Croom era at Mississippi State. Ironically, Croom replaced State’s traditional maroon helmets with white ones which fans never liked.
With Dan Mullen’s arrival, the maroon helmets are back! Pictures haven’t surfaced yet, but reports from today’s on-campus pep rally are the that the new helmet is maroon with a new white M State logo.
MSU AD Greg Byrne (left) with new coach Dan Mullen
I suspect the M State logo looks like this one. It is only slightly different from the Croom era helmet logo. But at least the helmet is maroon.
I’d prefer an interlocking MSU, but I’m glad maroon is back!
MSU hired Dan Mullen December 10, 2008
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