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The home team, Greg Medea covers the Virginia Cavaliers for the Daily Progress up there in Charlottesville.

And Greg, he started getting word really early in the search process for Mississippi State that Brian O'Connor was going to be a real candidate for the Bulldogs in this search.

When did it start making it way up there?

When did you learn that Brian O'Connor was going to be one of the top targets for this Mississippi State search?

Yeah, it's interesting.

Thank you for having me out, Brian.

Yeah, I think you go back to really the early part of May, right, where it started to kind of circulate nationally

that Brian O'Connor would be a target of Mississippi State.

At the time, I even wrote a story after talking with Brian O'Connor about the idea.

And at the time, he kind of shot it down and said, you know, he was really excited about

Virginia baseball's future that he thought the, you know, he was really excited about Virginia baseball's future,

that he thought, you know, the proper support and resources were going to be elite

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