A Super Talk Mississippi Media Production.

This is a Thunder and Lightning Extra.

We are here with Mississippi State Athletic Director Zach Selman on a Friday morning.

And Zach, you know, I try to get this interview with you back in October.

What have you been doing, man?

Like, are you been busy or something?

This is, what's the deal? Brian our communications must have got lost in translation.

Yeah we've got a couple of things going on it seems like October was yesterday

but all as well.

So I feel like I jinxed you.

In the first interview I ever did with you, I talked about hiring and I said, you know,

you're in a position where you shouldn't have to do that for quite a while

with yet we have so many coaches in their first year and instead you don't make it through the first

year before you have to make a decision there as much as you can just talk us through the timeline of the decision to move on

from coach Zach Arnett and bringing a new head football coach. Yeah, you know, I think

first and foremost I always want to thank Coach Arnett.

I think he did a fantastic job considering all the circumstances around our program

and everything that he did to stabilize the ship in a very uncertain time period,

challenging and just a traumatic time frame.

So I think Coach Arnett again did a great job as far as the timeline.

Talk a little about it in our press conference. Just you know, in these roles you're always

evaluating where you're at as a program and try to forecast where the future might lead the program too.

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