A Super Talk Mississippi Media Production.

We're here on a Friday afternoon.

Michael Borky there in the studio.

This is Brian Hayden, of course.

And now we're going to be joined for the first time since he arrived here in the state of Mississippi,

the new athletic director for Mississippi State.

Zach Selman joins us on the Farm Bureau guest line.

Zach, before we talk, facilities, vision, anything of that nature,

I've been one to ask you one question since your first press conference.

I have to know why your youngest daughter is called Meatball.

That's a fair question, Brian. Thanks for having me on. You know, from her early age, she was always had a little spicy attitude and really sassy, no neck, a really big kind of afro. So we just said, hey, you look kind of like a meatball and it's stuck. And still to this day, every morning I ask, hey, do you still want me to call you meatball? And she loves it. Her principal calls her meatball. So the origin started when she was just probably seven, eight months old. We could tell she was a little spicy. That's a great nickname. Just off the bat. I want to let you know. I give you full credit for that.

That's good stuff.

So in Oklahoma, the Selmans are like royalty.

That is the royal family of Oklahoma football.

I don't know if Mississippi State really has a family like that.

I would say, obviously, with Ole Miss, you have the mannings. What is it like growing up in a family like that with that kind of love and attention

around your dad and your uncles?

And then how hard was that to walk away from to come to Mississippi State?

You know, growing up in our family, never really thought anything was special or out of the

ordinary. You just knew that we was special or out of the ordinary.

You just knew that we had some great role models, great men in our family, and not just

the ones that played football, but there were three older brothers as well that were all

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