Bulldogs add to portal haul. What's next?
The Boneyard
Steve Robertson
4.4 • 518 Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2022
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Mississippi State picked up the commitment of former Texas closer Aaron Nixon on Friday. That fills a big need. What's next for the Diamond Dawgs?
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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 Maroon Friday edition of the yard much later than I expected, but we had some big news today. Had some big news today is Aaron Nixon. Closer from the University of Texas has committed to Mississippi State. We're going to break that down here in the next segment of the show. |
| 0:21.9 | Really excited about that. Chris Lamontes and the staff doing good work. Doing good work. A lot of |
| 0:27.6 | people are like, oh, you know, Steve, how do you feel? Well, I tell you right now, I think we're an A minus in the portal. |
| 0:34.4 | We were a B. Now we've added the closer. I think we're an A minus right now, maybe a B plus, maybe a B plus, maybe that's a fair grade. |
| 0:43.3 | B plus right now. |
| 0:45.3 | Got a couple more spots to fill. |
| 0:47.3 | If we get another outfielder, we get another starter, we get another reliever, I don't know how you could complain. Still chasing some |
| 0:55.9 | arms. Got three already. Like that a couple more. So we'll talk about that some later in the show. |
| 1:01.3 | But a good start. Yeah, really good start. Nixon, a really good get. |
| 1:06.9 | Had a huge freshman season kind of up and down this year some of that may have had to do with |
| 1:12.7 | the pitching coach there but the reality of it is mississippi state adds another big arm |
| 1:17.3 | guy that loves mississippi state have you paid attention to this big ten stuff big news yesterday |
| 1:25.2 | i guess it was phthalammell that broke the news. |
| 1:30.3 | USC, UCLA, headed the Big Ten. |
| 1:32.1 | That's awfully interesting. |
| 1:40.8 | You know, we talked about that, you know, Wood State and Ole Miss and everybody kind of wandering through this new SEC picking up Texas, Oklahoma, and everybody said, ah, it's not over. And it's really not. |
| 1:46.7 | The thing that I think about is, you know, what does the Pact 12 do? What do they do? They're |
| 1:51.9 | well, you know, we're standing put for now. But what kind of eyeballs are going to be in that |
| 1:58.0 | TV package when you remove Los Angeles from your TV market. |
| 2:05.1 | Are there a lot of Oregon State fans in L.A.? I don't think so. Not to mention all the |
| 2:10.9 | intrigue and, you know, what does it do for the TV package? Also, what does it do for attendance? |
| 2:19.1 | What does it do for attendance? Yeah, Also, what does it do for attendance? What does it do for attendance? |
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