1. Dee Bost has a serious chance to be the best true point guard that MSU has ever had. The things that kid is doing as a freshman are amazing.
2. Elgin Bailey - I have never seen a kid work so hard to be completely out of position on defense and for rebounds. I mean that in all seriousness, also. He is constantly moving and gives a heck of a lot of effort, but he just never seems to be in the right place on the court. Vanderbilt completely abused us in the paint every time Bailey was in the game.
3. The team, overall, is as athletic and fun to watch as any team that I've seen play at State. If you don't hustle and give 100% effort, you're not going to be playing this year. Kudos to Stansbury for this and for becoming the all-time winningest MSU coach in SEC games. I'd like to post a sarcastic "Fire him" comment right here, but I'll just let it go.
4. As this was the first game that I attended, it was also the first time that I realized that we sit four seats to the right of Greg Byrne... IN THE UPPER DECK. It is extremely refreshing to know that we have an AD who puts the university before himself and sees himself as somewhat of a common man. While I don't know the history of where our former ADs have sat during basketball games, I bet there are few who hung out at the top of the Hump. Also, the man had a crumpled up piece of paper that he was scribbling on the entire game. I don't think he ever quits working.
5. The halftime reception for Mullen and his staff was great. The crowd was deafening and it's definitely a great time to be a Dog.
One side note - We stopped by an old friend's place in Starkville before the game who is one of the few people that I can claim as an inside source. Anyway, he claims that Mullen called the coaches together for a mandatory meeting a few days ago after the Knoxville paper reported that Wilson had accepted a job a UT. In front of everyone, he asked Frank point blank, "What the hell is going on?" Frank said that he had not taken the job jet, but he was still thinking about his options. Mullen said that he'd do the thinking for him and told him to get the hell of the room and not to plan on ever working for him again. Mullen then talked recruiting for the next couple hours with the remaining coaches.
I think we can safely say that we now have an AD and football coach that are not going to take BS from anyone.
2. Elgin Bailey - I have never seen a kid work so hard to be completely out of position on defense and for rebounds. I mean that in all seriousness, also. He is constantly moving and gives a heck of a lot of effort, but he just never seems to be in the right place on the court. Vanderbilt completely abused us in the paint every time Bailey was in the game.
3. The team, overall, is as athletic and fun to watch as any team that I've seen play at State. If you don't hustle and give 100% effort, you're not going to be playing this year. Kudos to Stansbury for this and for becoming the all-time winningest MSU coach in SEC games. I'd like to post a sarcastic "Fire him" comment right here, but I'll just let it go.
4. As this was the first game that I attended, it was also the first time that I realized that we sit four seats to the right of Greg Byrne... IN THE UPPER DECK. It is extremely refreshing to know that we have an AD who puts the university before himself and sees himself as somewhat of a common man. While I don't know the history of where our former ADs have sat during basketball games, I bet there are few who hung out at the top of the Hump. Also, the man had a crumpled up piece of paper that he was scribbling on the entire game. I don't think he ever quits working.
5. The halftime reception for Mullen and his staff was great. The crowd was deafening and it's definitely a great time to be a Dog.
One side note - We stopped by an old friend's place in Starkville before the game who is one of the few people that I can claim as an inside source. Anyway, he claims that Mullen called the coaches together for a mandatory meeting a few days ago after the Knoxville paper reported that Wilson had accepted a job a UT. In front of everyone, he asked Frank point blank, "What the hell is going on?" Frank said that he had not taken the job jet, but he was still thinking about his options. Mullen said that he'd do the thinking for him and told him to get the hell of the room and not to plan on ever working for him again. Mullen then talked recruiting for the next couple hours with the remaining coaches.
I think we can safely say that we now have an AD and football coach that are not going to take BS from anyone.
