First Head Coach Question..

[512taylor]

In each of the three major sports, who was the head coach when you first came on as a fan at State?

You can add women's basketball if you are so inclined.

 

[QuadrupleOption]

1991
Football: Jackie Sherrill
Basketball: Richard Williams
Baseball: Ron Polk (1st tenure)

 

[Leeshouldveflanked]

Felker, Polk, Williams

 

[mount lefroy]

I'll make it the year I started going to games

In each of the three major sports, who was the head coach when you first came on as a fan at State?

You can add women's basketball if you are so inclined.

Basketball: Kermit Davis Sr. (McCarthy gym)
Baseball: (Rookie) Ron Polk
Football: Bob Tyler
Womens basketball: Libba Birmingham...that's the name I remember anyway.

 

[ezsoil]

Tyler, Polk, Greene

when I left 3 and a half years later, it was

Bellard, Polk, Hatfield

 

[KentuckyDawg13]

1985
Emory Bellard (football)
Bob Boyd (basketball)
Ron Polk (baseball)

Needless to say, major changes occurred immediately afterward. First Rockey Felker was hired in 1986, then Richard Williams in 1987. Rockey’s lone winning season was his first, 6-5 after blowing a 6-1 start and #13 ranking. I can still remember every blowout win against MSU that season, including the 47-0 butt whopping vs LSU. Richard Williams on the other hand was a solid hire, winning the SEC regular season in 1991 highlighted by a Final Four in 1996.

 

[thatsbaseball]

Charlie Shira...good man/poor coach, Paul Gregory...great coach(saved the LFL from the SPD), Joe Dan Gold/Kermit Davis...awful, Not sure if we even had women's basketball

 

[Duke Humphrey]

(saved the LFL from the SPD)

What is the story on this?

 

[CochiseCowbell]

1991
Football: Jackie Sherrill
Basketball: Richard Williams
Baseball: Ron Polk (1st tenure)

I don't remember the exact year when I became a cognizant fan, but this is the answer for me as well.

 

[thatsbaseball]

SPD really hated the LFL because it was rumored some of us students may be drinking (gulp) beer out there. They (SPD) were in the newspaper threatening to bust the party up. It was strongly rumored at the time (I personally think it was factual) that coach Gregory went to the administration and put his foot down that under no circumstances did he want the city messing with the best and most loyal fans he had. The SPD never showed up and the rest is history.

 

[Duke Humphrey]

Interesting, but (sadly) not surprising.

 

[Go Budaw]

SPD really hated the LFL because it was rumored some of us students may be drinking (gulp) beer out there. They (SPD) were in the newspaper threatening to bust the party up. It was strongly rumored at the time that coach Gregory went to the administration and put his foot down that under no circumstances did he want the city messing with the best and most loyal fans he had. The SPD never showed up and the rest is history.

Were there different jurisdictions back then for the city / university police? Last I checked, SPD has absolutely no jurisdiction on MSU’s campus. University police run the show, and get help from the sheriff’s department if they need it for DUI traffic stops, drug use, fighting, etc.

 

[anonymous.sixpack]

Charlie Shira...good man/poor coach, Paul Gregory...great coach(saved the LFL from the SPD), Joe Dan Gold/Kermit Davis...awful, Not sure if we even had women's basketball

To attach some historical perspective to MSU football, Shira went 16-45-2 and has a building named after him.

Something to remember the next time MSU "only" wins eight games.

 

[CochiseCowbell]

SPD really hated the LFL because it was rumored some of us students may be drinking (gulp) beer out there.

I can only assume the campus was alcohol free back then as well. However, the drinking age was 18 at the time. Why would the SPD care? Public intoxication, open container, etc?

 

[TBone.sixpack]

Felker
Williams
Polk

 

[thatsbaseball]

Not sure. I just remember threats being made by local authorities to "dry up" the LFL and everyone seem to know that coach Gregory liked us being there and made sure nobody screwed it up. For the record, there was no "drinking age" all alcohol possession was illegal period in the city and county.

 

[ZombieKissinger]

Football: Sherrill (last year)
Basketball: Stansbury
Baseball: Polk

I transferred after my sophomore year, but I got to experience last year of Sherrill and first year of Croom. Terrible, terrible football. Great basketball.

 

[Drebin]

Football: Emery Bellard
Baseball: Ron Polk
Basketball: Bob Boyd

 

[The Peeper]

Bob Tyler Kermit Davis Paul Gregory

Side note, in 1973 MSU had a football camp in Laurel where I grew up. The coaches actually came to Laurel and did a 2 or 3 day camp at the high school stadium there. I went as an 11 year old and remember Bob Tyler, Smylie Gebhart, Wesley Reed, Ray Perkins, and Tom Goode being there among others. The most memorable thing was I had NEVER seen anybody with hands as big as Ray Perkins and they looked even larger that week because he was wearing his Super Bowl ring.

 

[maroonmania]

1981
Bellard, Boyd, Polk

 

[TheStateUofMS]

2007
Football-Crooms
Basketball-Stans
Baseball-Polk

 

[$altyDawg]

Football: Bob Tyler
Baseball: Ron Polk
Men's Basketball: Bob Boyd

 

[Shmuley]

Tyler, Polk, Greene. (middish-70s)

 

[mount lefroy]

Football: Bob Tyler
Baseball: Ron Polk
Men's Basketball: Bob Boyd

Bob Tyler and Bob Boyd werent here at the same time. Would have had to have been :

If Bob Tyler: Kermit Davis or Greene
If Bob Boyd: Bellard or Felker

 

[Sickdawg]

Croom
Stansbury
Polk

 

[MSUDC11]

Sherrill, Stansbury, McMahon

 

[Maroon Eagle]

1973 - Tyler, Davis, & Gregory.

I don’t remember seeing baseball games though until Polk was coach.

 

[AROB44]

I know....I am really old...!!
Football.....Wade Walker (I have seen some really ****** football in my life)
Baseball....Paul Gregory
Basketball....The GREAT Babe McCarthy (I was a Jr before I saw us lose a game at home).

 

[LandArchDawg]

1991 for me, too. I was in middle school.

 

[Mayor of Little London]

All three sports fandom at same time would be my first year on campus as a student.

Sherrill
McMahon
Stans

Good times indeed!

 

[archdog]

Jackie Sherrill
Ron Polk
Rick Stansbury

Sherrill was alright, but already on the downhill, Stans was my favorite coach from that era. 2001-2006.

 

[MagicDawg]

Football: Saw some Bellard games as a kid, came to State while Felker was coach, but didn't really start caring until Sherrill showed up at band camp one summer and promised us a bowl game that season. He made me excited to be a fan of the game and the team.
Basketball: Williams
Baseball: Polk
Women's Basketball: Didn't much care until Vic.

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

Tyler, Polk, Greene. (middish-70s)

This would be it for me as well. I was in my teens and just started listening to the games on the radio.

The first game was Cal Poly when I was in the 8th or 9th grade with the football team.

 

[TaleofTwoDogs]

Charlie Shira...good man/poor coach, Paul Gregory...great coach(saved the LFL from the SPD), Joe Dan Gold/Kermit Davis...awful, Not sure if we even had women's basketball

Same for me. First women's basketball coach was Libba Birmingham in 1974. If you look at the women's all-time history, it just goes to show the unbelievable job that Coach Vic has done. Fanning-Otis knocked on the door, Schaefer kicked it down (courtesy of Bum Phillips).

 

[MaxwellSmart]

Gregory
Tyler
Kermit

 

[bbqbully]

1973. Bob Tyler, Kermit Davis, Sr., Paul Gregory.

 

[DawgsOnTheWing]

Tyler, Polk, and (sigh) Hatfield.

 

[SoulCatcher]

Football: Felker
Basketball: Bob Boyd
Baseball: Polk the First

WBB: Fanning

 

[Nunya.sixpack]

Felker, Polk, Williams

same here.

 

[Nunya.sixpack]

To attach some historical perspective to MSU football, Shira went 16-45-2 and has a building named after him.

Something to remember the next time MSU "only" wins eight games.

which building is getting Mullen'd?