Schaefer leaves State to head back to the ponderosa.
The Boneyard
Steve Robertson
4.4 • 518 Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Mississippi State fans were shocked yesterday when Coach Vic Schaefer accepted the head coaching position at the University of Texas. Despite that sadness, the sun came up today in Starkville.
Where will John Cohen look for a replacement and can that person keep the Bulldogs in elite status as women's basketball program?
In other news, State has seen a pair of football players enter the NCAA transfer portal. What should fan expect with all of that?
Another top ten list and so much more.
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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 magnificent Monday edition of the yard. Hope things are well with you wherever you are today. The sun did come up today in Starkville, Mississippi. I was not awake to see it. I did try to sleep in a little bit today after a busy day yesterday. Big News is Coach Big Schaefer has left God's country to return to his native land of Texas. |
| 0:28.8 | We're going to talk a lot about that today. |
| 0:30.7 | I know many of you are down in the dumps. |
| 0:32.2 | I am too. |
| 0:33.0 | It is very disappointing. |
| 0:35.1 | We all felt at some point this would happen. |
| 0:38.9 | We didn't think it would be to Texas. |
| 0:43.1 | I think many of us that said, you know, I held this wait for the Texas A&M job. He is an Aggie, |
| 0:50.1 | after all. Graduated from Texas A&M was an assistant coach there, won a national championship as an assistant coach at A&M. And I think now that Gary Blair has basically announced that he's just going to continue to coach for the foreseeable future, |
| 0:57.1 | Vig saw this as an opportunity to get back home, an opportunity to be closer to family, |
| 1:02.4 | an opportunity to help advance Blair's career. |
| 1:04.9 | You know, as a coach, I know that Blair Schaefer wants to be a coach and following her dad's footsteps. |
| 1:10.2 | So all of those objectives were kind of met. |
| 1:12.8 | So we'll talk about all that. |
| 1:16.0 | Had a chance to speak to Coach John Cohen last night about his direction in the search. |
| 1:20.5 | You can read that article for free over on jeans page.com. |
| 1:24.1 | It's rented as a straight Q&A, not me trying to be cute or anything. |
| 1:27.0 | I put the questions, the answers. You can see exactly what John had to say yourself.com. It's just rented as a straight Q&A. Not me trying to be cute or anything. I put the questions, the answers. You can see exactly what John had to say yourself. We're in good hands. |
| 1:32.9 | But it is the end of an era and it is something that was kind of unexpected. So we'll get into some of that |
| 1:38.7 | today. Got another great top 10 list for you. We'll talk a little bit about the transfer portals and |
| 1:43.8 | developments in that respect and a few other things. |
| 1:47.1 | Life goes on. |
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