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T&L Extra: John Cohen Joins SportsTalk Mississippi

Thunder & Lightning

SuperTalk Mississippi Media

Sports, News, Sports News

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Mississippi State's athletic department, along with Ole Miss and Southern Mississippi, have made their position in the state flag debate clear as day. MSU athletic director John Cohen joined SportsTalk Mississippi to discuss that hotly contested issue and explain why he's supporting Kylin Hill's decision to sit out the season if change does not occur.

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0:00.0

A Super Talk Mississippi Media Production.

0:05.1

You like this show, huh?

0:06.3

Yeah.

0:06.8

Super Talk, Mississippi.

0:12.1

Sports Talk, Mississippi, streaming at supertalk.com.

0:18.3

With you on this Tuesday afternoon. Thanks for being with us. Let's go straight to the Farm Bureau phone line. Check out favorites.com and go with the home team at Mississippi Farm Bureau. Richard Cross, Brian, Hey Dad, Michael Borky. We're joined right now by the athletics director at Mississippi State. John. John, uh, certainly appreciate, uh,

0:38.4

some of your time. Hey dad told me yesterday when, when he set this up that the only thing you

0:42.7

were willing to talk about was the new tennis facility. Is that, is that accurate?

0:48.3

That's one of the many things I enjoy talking about. Uh, but yeah, we can talk about that. Sure. We might hold that to the end,

0:57.6

and if we have a little bit of time, circle back to it, if it's all the same to you. I think we've

1:03.6

got to start with what happened yesterday afternoon. It was right before we came to the show,

1:07.8

on the show, I guess about 1.30 or so. We saw the tweet from Kylan Hill,

1:12.8

and I don't have it in front of me word for word, but paraphrasing said, until the Mississippi flag

1:17.2

has changed, I'm done playing for the state of Mississippi. What was your reaction to the tweet

1:23.4

from the star running back, arguably the most important player on Mississippi State's football team?

1:29.1

Well, I think Kylan is showing a frustration that we all kind of feel here at Mississippi State.

1:36.3

I can't speak for everyone around the state of Mississippi, but there's definitely a frustration.

1:41.2

I understand it completely. We're in full support of Kylan. He absolutely has

1:48.8

the right to express his opinion. And obviously, it's an opinion that's held by many, which is,

1:56.1

we need a change here in the state of Mississippi, and I completely understand that.

2:05.6

John, there were some other players that kind of said to him in responses on Twitter that they support him.

2:12.1

Do you anticipate that this is something that turns into a movement, or do you think this is very much

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