National Media... Here we Go

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Originally Posted by WinningIsRelentless

I would say our administration might have made a very smart move. You lose the Egg Bowl and he is gone no question, but if you win it let him stay around to sign the recruiting class and coach the bowl game. If he screws the bowl game like JoMo did then you can him. It gives you 10 plus days to sign a new coach during a dead period of recruiting and allows the contract to roll into a new year thus lowering the buyout.

JoMo just wasn?t smart enough to see this.

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^^^^ This. Exactly! Brilliant move.

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Originally Posted by HoopsDawg

That wasn't his plan but better to be lucky than good.

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Yeah if it works out he will have backed into it but like you said better lucky than good and it should be great for us!

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Originally Posted by RezDog7

C'mon man, don't believe the shit that douche says.

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I don't necessarily believe Neal's take on the sequence of events, but Keenum has always been way too concerned with beating OM.

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Originally Posted by BeardoMSU

Exactly. He's a hack. He gets so pissy at the slight questioning of his journalistic integrity, yet he's openly stated that "his business" (a ****ing fan site) does better when OM is doing better....yup, no bias there...none at all.

In his last tweet, he said "This storyline (just trust me) could be absolutely fascinating moving forward.".....wonder what he means here, because knowing him, it's obviously in reference to something negative directed to us.

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Key words. could be.

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Originally Posted by Todd4State

Yep. We're in the 7th inning with a three run lead. It looks good but it ain't over yet.

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Yep but we have Hudson, Paplabon, Holder, and Ethan Small in the pen Fresh, warm, and ready....

I tried to tell y?all earlier... check the flight records... It would have all made sense...

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Originally Posted by TNDawg35

Yep but we have Hudson, Paplabon, Holder, and Ethan Small in the pen Fresh, warm, and ready....

I tried to tell y?all earlier... check the flight records... It would have all made sense...

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This guy gets it!

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Originally Posted by TNDawg35

Yep but we have Hudson, Paplabon, Holder, and Ethan Small in the pen Fresh, warm, and ready....

I tried to tell y?all earlier... check the flight records... It would have all made sense...

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Explain the flight records for us non aviators out here

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Originally Posted by BuckyIsAB****

Explain the flight records for us non aviators out here

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I don't get this either since Cohen never left Starkville.. unless coaching agents flew into Starkville.. doubtful but I suppose possible.

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Originally Posted by mstatefan91

I don't get this either since Cohen never left Starkville.. unless coaching agents flew into Starkville.. doubtful but I suppose possible.

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Cohen never left Starkville. There was however a private jet that came in to Starkville airport and was here when Cohen “couldn’t make it” to the baseball meeting...

Do y’all honestly think Cohen would leak all this out without having his guy signed and ready to roll. I’m not saying we will announce it Fri, but just be patient. There is a reason a certain name keeps popping up...

Some of y’all freak out before you need to freak out...

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Originally Posted by TNDawg35

Cohen never left Starkville. There was however a private jet that came in to Starkville airport and was here when Cohen “couldn’t make it” to the baseball meeting...

Do y’all honestly think Cohen would leak all this out without having his guy signed and ready to roll. I’m not saying we will announce it Fri, but just be patient. There is a reason a certain name keeps popping up...

Some of y’all freak out before you need to freak out...

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You obviously know more about planes than me but that meeting was in Nashville. He came home way before that he couldnt have made it to that if he wanted to

Didn’t want to start a separate thread about this. I know I don’t post a lot so flame away, but my roommate is a GA for the team and he came in tonight saying Joe has been fired. Take it as you will

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Originally Posted by Jeb Busch Lite

Didn’t want to start a separate thread about this. I know I don’t post a lot so flame away, but my roommate is a GA for the team and he came in tonight saying Joe has been fired. Take it as you will

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Good stuff

Hugh Freeze?

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Originally Posted by BuckyIsAB****

You obviously know more about planes than me but that meeting was in Nashville. He came home way before that he couldnt have made it to that if he wanted to

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He prolly could have, but the person he was meeting with was more important. It takes a little time to get a jet up and moving. It’s not like a car.

The meeting didn’t take as long as Cohen was expecting. Everything went smoothly... That’s a good thing...

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Originally Posted by Jeb Busch Lite

Didn’t want to start a separate thread about this. I know I don’t post a lot so flame away, but my roommate is a GA for the team and he came in tonight saying Joe has been fired. Take it as you will

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Jack, Billy, Tre', or Nyeem?

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Originally Posted by TNDawg35

He prolly could have, but the person he was meeting with was more important. It takes a little time to get a jet up and moving. It’s not like a car.

The meeting didn’t take as long as Cohen was expecting. Everything went smoothly... That’s a good thing...

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Just say it. I looked at flightaware and didn't see anything good

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Originally Posted by TNDawg35

He prolly could have, but the person he was meeting with was more important. It takes a little time to get a jet up and moving. It’s not like a car.

The meeting didn’t take as long as Cohen was expecting. Everything went smoothly... That’s a good thing...

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I dont think that jet had Napier on it. Could have had Grantham but I highly doubt Napier left bowl prep with no one knowing

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Originally Posted by BuckyIsAB****

I dont think that jet had Napier on it. Could have had Grantham but I highly doubt Napier left bowl prep with no one knowing

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I think what he’s saying is his agent.

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Originally Posted by TNDawg35

Cohen never left Starkville. There was however a private jet that came in to Starkville airport and was here when Cohen “couldn’t make it” to the baseball meeting...

Do y’all honestly think Cohen would leak all this out without having his guy signed and ready to roll. I’m not saying we will announce it Fri, but just be patient. There is a reason a certain name keeps popping up...

Some of y’all freak out before you need to freak out...

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I ain't freakin out.. I just never saw/heard of a plane rolling in. It's my fault.

There was a jet from NOLA to GTR earlier around 5pm

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Originally Posted by hacker

There was a jet from NOLA to GTR earlier around 5pm

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Bingo.

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Originally Posted by hacker

There was a jet from NOLA to GTR earlier around 5pm

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Makes sense.

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Originally Posted by hacker

Just say it. I looked at flightaware and didn't see anything good

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Did a little research and notice 3 flights that were rushed flights and weren't necessarily planned weeks out. One came from Pensacola (flew in Monday), one from Jacksonville (flew in Monday), and one from North Carolina (which flew in yesterday). The Pensacola is interesting because it's pretty close to mobile..... right?

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Originally Posted by mstatefan91

Makes sense.

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Why fly from Nola when Napier is in Mobile and Lafayette has an airport bigger than GTR..... why drive to Nola?

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Originally Posted by defiantdog

Why fly from Nola when Napier is in Mobile and Lafayette has an airport bigger than GTR..... why drive to Nola?

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Because it was his agent, who’s based in NOLA flying in, my best guess.

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Originally Posted by FriarsPoint

Because it was his agent, who’s based in NOLA flying in, my best guess.

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Yep. Napier wouldn't take his agent with him to the bowl game.

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Originally Posted by mstatefan91

Yep. Napier wouldn't take his agent with him to the bowl game.

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Makes sense..... considering that plane has jumped in a different place the last few weeks more than my exwife did when we were married..... that bitch.

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Originally Posted by Todd4State

Yep. We're in the 7th inning with a three run lead. It looks good but it ain't over yet.

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Exactly. We are Ms State, after all. I just hope all this leaking doesn't lead Napier to get cold feet.

The damn jet is gonna fly into Brian Field in Starkville... Not GTR... Damn ladies... Get real...

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Originally Posted by Turfdawg67

Exactly. We are Ms State, after all. I just hope all this leaking doesn't lead Napier to get cold feet.

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Not if we handle it properly. I suspect we fire Moorhead tomorrow and say that we are doing a national search. (wink) Tell any media that leaks Napier as our coach will be cut off from MSU as far as access goes- especially that worm Horka.

We'll let Napier coach the bowl although we can't stop rumors totally. We probably won't announce his hire until either late next week or the day of the Championship Game to maximize exposure if I had to guess. Thursday at the earliest but my educated guess is next Friday.

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Originally Posted by Coach34

I dont see how you dont make a change at this point. You have neutered your HC even more if you dont make a change at this point- and made it nearly impossible to hire assts for a lame duck.

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Would be God awful if you kept him now. No way in the world you can keep him.

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Originally Posted by Commercecomet24

And that's exactly what was supposed to happen. Joe was done and then we effed it up. They have a chance to fix this screwup NOW!

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Neal is a UNM dick, but he's dead right on this, we had a chance to do it right and 17ed it up. Now its getting fixed, don't agree with all the verbiage that's coming out it makes us look rather amateurish, but its time to move on.

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Originally Posted by dawgday166

I kinda doubt it unless he was told to. He been mostly quiet tonight but when he does say something it's to counter a scenario that would make it impossible to fire Joe.

I think Cohen wanted this out for some reason ... just a guess tho.

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It's not Cohen that wanted this out unless he's trying to put pressure on Keenum or somebody else that he needs to persuade b/c the leaks tie his hands w/r/t firing Moorhead and decrease his negotiation leverage. These leaks could be coming from Napier's side. They make it where MSU can't go back so they either have to reach a deal with Napier or go on to plan B (or C or whatever we're on now). Dellenger is a great guy to leak to b/c he has Mississippi and Louisiana ties so it's not obvious who he is getting info from. If this were the normal part of the coaching cycle, leaking might be risky as it might be a reason to tell them to 17 off b/c they are not trustworthy. Don't think that applies since our options are limited at this point (although I think they are good options).

Or it's possible we really need to clean house in our athletic department to plug some leaks. It's crazy that we went from one of the best run searches in history with Mullen (if you remember, there was basically radio silence until we had just about locked Mullen down with some very random rumors, none of which were coming from multiple directions) to now every possible candidate is leaked out. Not sure if that was the Ninja not sharing with anybody beyond the search consultant, or if agents are more prone to leak now than they did then, or if our athletic department has just been filled with a bunch of gossips, or what.

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Originally Posted by Reunion Dog

The damn jet is gonna fly into Brian Field in Starkville... Not GTR... Damn ladies... Get real...

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Not sure if you're joking or not, but it's not much further to campus from GTR than the starkville airport. it's maybe a five minute difference. If the pilot is more comfortable flying into GTR, that's probably where they'd go. No clue what the amenities are at Bryan, but wouldn't shock me if it was missing some safety or security features that GTR has.

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Originally Posted by Johnson85

Not sure if you're joking or not, but it's not much further to campus from GTR than the starkville airport. it's maybe a five minute difference. If the pilot is more comfortable flying into GTR, that's probably where they'd go. No clue what the amenities are at Bryan, but wouldn't shock me if it was missing some safety or security features that GTR has.

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Correct, this ain't a Birmingham vs Tuscaloosa situation.