Welcome to the Boneyard with Steve Robertson. As always, I am your good friend and host Steve Roberts.

And here on the hump day edition of the yard much later than I hope to be. A bit of busy day.

A lot going on. A lot of book stuff happening too. A lot of book stuff happening. We're 13 chapters into the rough copy of the dude.

I don't know. Probably got seven or eight chapters left. You know, so we're rolling, man. We're getting this thing done. The goal was to be done

roughing this thing out by the end of May. I think there's a good chance I'll be done somewhere

around the 1st of May. And that next month we'll open up pre-orders now again when you pre-order the book it doesn't

come until it's printed right so we have we deal with that every time like it'll say pre-order

allow you know four to six or whatever or whatever's eight to 12 whatever and then I'll start

getting emails like the next week I don't control any of that. But I'm just letting you know,

because many of you have had a great level of interest in this.

And I'll tell you where we are in our development right now.

In our project, we have now reached the end of Duty Noble's first tenure

as your athletic director.

Major Raff Sassy is about to be hired it is 1935 that's where we are now it's not a year by year accounting though we do go over every year

some years in greater to tell than others like we win a conference championship well that deserves some of

our time right but a couple

stories that i think you're going to find of interest in the remaining chapters we're going to talk

about the coaching search that led to the hiring of one alan mckeen some wild wild stuff about all that

stuff and then shortly after spike nelson got fired you may recall spide Some wild, wild stuff about all that stuff.

And then shortly after Spike Nelson got fired,

you may recall Spike Nelson, short-lived coach here at Mississippi State,

was supposed to be the Dauner's pick to be our savior after we ran Alan McKeown off on a rail,

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