Welcome to the Boneyard with Steve Robertson. As always, I am your good friend and host Steve Robertson here on the magnificent Monday edition of the yard. No Michael Leach press conference today as it is an open date. Not sure if we're even going to have media availability this week. Not sure. And that's not atypical. I don't want anybody to read anything into that. But a lot of times they give the players time off from us in addition to everything

else when they have the buy week.

Of course, they'll still practice.

But without an opponent to prepare for or preview, there's not, there's never really

no sense in us interviewing Will Rogers and those guys about Auburn two weeks for the game. That's not to say that the Bulldogs won't be implementing their game plan and doing some film review. That's already begun. They'll have two weeks to kind of prepare for Auburn. And speaking of Auburn, you're happy to know that Mississippi State and Auburn will be a 630 kick on ESPN 2. So nighttime football at Davis-Waid Stadium,

we have not had the opportunity to have that great nighttime environment this year.

You said, but Steve, I'm right. You guys were around for Memphis. Remember we were going to kick it off?

We were so excited to have nighttime football in September, and we had the lightning and rain delay. It ended up being Sunday morning football. Right. Remember how crazy it was? And even though we won that ballgame and played pretty well, it wasn't a great atmosphere when the game got going again because many of you left and that's not

to know anyway being critical it's just the reality of life so hopefully we can navigate through

this next ballgame without any weather delays and we can have a good time so you'll have all day

to be here have a chance to tailgate with friends and family and Mississippi State's making it easier for you to be

here perhaps than ever before they announced today a couple new ticket buying packages that are

available to you you can come to the Auburn game and bring three of your friends and get a parking pass for 99 bucks.

That's an amazing deal. And that's we're going to need you here. And I think again,

it shows the administrations doing what they need to do to get people here. So four tickets

and a parking pass for $99 to watch your Bulldogs play Auburn on Saturday night. Not this Saturday, but next Saturday.

That is a great deal. Now, in addition to that, you say, Steve, it couldn't be any better than this.

Oh, it gets better. Many of you that listen to the sound of my voice, and maybe even four tickets for 99 bucks bucks is a bit pricey for you. Maybe it is. I'm not judging. There have been times in my life that I've been there. The thought of having to spend $100 hours and then have to buy everybody snacks and pay for gas, it's a lot. I get it. East Tennessee State, maybe you've never brought your kids to a game. Maybe you've never had the opportunity to do it. Maybe you just couldn't afford it. Mississippi State is going to make it easy for you. East Tennessee State, we don't know the time for that game yet, but I'm told that we're done with 11 o'clock. Could be a 3 p.m. kick. could be a night kick. Who knows? The fact that it is an

SEC network plus game means Mississippi State can kind of set the time there. I suspect John

Cohen and M have probably already made some decisions about that. It just won't be announced

for in the week. But you can bring your family. You get four tickets and a parking pass for $40. That's incredible.

And even if you were thinking, I'm just going to watch it home, all of a sudden you got a chance to be here and have somewhere to park for 40 bucks.

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