Bulldog coaching search appears to be narrowing down.
The Boneyard
Steve Robertson
4.4 • 518 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Mississippi State director of athletics John Cohen has been working through the process to find a replacement for Vic Schaefer as the Bulldog women's basketball coach.
A couple of names have risen to the top of the heap, so where do things stand as we roll through hump day.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Boneyard with Steve Robertson, as always, I am your good friend and host Steve Robertson here on the hump day edition of the yard. |
| 0:08.1 | A little bit later than I planned because I had to go out and chase some rumors and put some fires out. |
| 0:12.7 | That's what always happens with these coaching searches. |
| 0:14.8 | There's always somebody out there that has something true or untrue that creates unrest within the family. And so I have to go |
| 0:24.1 | look at all that. And that's a big part of the job. You do a lot of this, you know, research and |
| 0:29.3 | due diligence and you talk to people and you text people and you call people and you try to bridge |
| 0:33.4 | relationships and people you've never met before. and you just hope that perhaps the fact that |
| 0:37.8 | you got a blue check martin next to your name will get you a return message. It's as simple as it |
| 0:42.2 | is sometimes. But it's a lot of work. And so there was a report that came out earlier from an |
| 0:48.4 | independent women's basketball side. I believe it's women's hoops world. I believe it's correct. |
| 0:53.7 | It said Mississippi |
| 0:54.5 | State had its coach. Well, I can tell you with authority from an impeccable source that as |
| 1:01.0 | of this afternoon, we have not made a hire to replace Vig Schaefer as the Mississippi State |
| 1:07.7 | women's basketball coach. We're not there. I believe we're close, |
| 1:18.4 | but we're not there. And so the process, you know, people forget this, we just had the opening to merge on Sunday. Of course, John Cohen had a little bit of advance notice that this is a |
| 1:22.9 | possibility because of the fact that the University of Texas reached out to him on Friday |
| 1:28.7 | to request official permission to speak to Big Shaper. And so there has, you pull out your short lifts and you sharpen |
| 1:34.1 | it up and you say, okay, let's take a look at this and you start reviewing. You make some phone |
| 1:37.1 | calls and some inquiries with some agents and things like that. So it's not like that we just got |
| 1:41.9 | hit out of the left field on Sunday as a university. |
| 1:46.1 | Folks like us, you know, I had had a little bit of lead time that there might have been something brewing. |
| 1:51.5 | Now, I'll be honest with you, I didn't think it was going to happen. |
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