jackie-sherrill Stories - Team Speed Kills
Love (Of $$$) Will Tear Us Apart
I’m the fourth in a row in my family to have my name. The first one, a native of a small town in Central Texas, was a Longhorn. His son, my grandfather, was a military man and an Aggie. My father was also a military man, also an Aggie. I skipped the military and went to Texas, following a...
Big 12 Media Day: Mike Sherman
When will that Mike Sherman picture get played out? When it stops making me laugh. And that means never. Unfortunately, Mike Sherman is a pretty good guy. It's more fun when the Aggies are coached by a boil on humanity like Jackie Sherrill, so I can really get the hate on, but Sherm is a kindly...
The North Carolina Agent Fiasco The John Blake Stain
A man is known by the company he keeps, but also by the company from which he is kept out. - Grover Cleveland Butch Davis and the North Carolina Carolina Tar Heels made a statement to the college football world when they hired John Blake to head their football recruiting operations. And now...
The Living Ghost of Mississippi State Past
As Dan Mullen forges ahead to build the MIssissippi State program in his own way, there is an image that hangs over him. Indeed it will hang over anyone who takes that job until someone surpasses it. It is an image of controversy, and yet, of glory in Starkville. The folks there clearly still love...
It's Official - Jackie Sherrill Still Has It
Sherrill's got the touch. It's incredible. We reported here at TSK in an edition of last week's Sprints that Mississippi State was investigating whether an appearance of Jackie Sherrill at practice resulted in a violation. Head coach Dan Mullen said Sherrill was only there to "coach...
Insider Analysis: Ron Polk Resigns
After the surprise resignation of Mississippi State University baseball coach Ron Polk on Thursday, many diamond-ball fans in the Magnolia State have wondered why the all-time winning coach in SEC baseball history is hanging up his pantaloons...again. Rumors abound, of course. Some posit that the...
Croom Resigns -- Early Thoughts
Over the last five years, the fans in the SEC have had a lot of fun at Sylvester Croom's expense. After all, his teams were usually awful: 3-8 in 2004, 3-8 in 2005, 3-9 in 2006. Then came the 8-win, luck-fueled season of 2007, and it seemed that Croom might be able to get enough time to get...
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