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T&L Extra: Zac Selmon Joins SportsTalk Mississippi

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🗓️ 28 January 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Zac Selmon hasn't had much time to rest as the new athletic director at Mississippi State, so we were thankful he took time on Friday to join SportsTalk Mississippi. Brian Hadad talks with the new head Bulldog about his vision for the program short term and long term, his thoughts on the facilities in Starkville, and the soon to be expansion of the SEC.

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A Super Talk Mississippi Media Production.

0:06.0

We're here on a Friday afternoon, Michael Borcky there in the studio.

0:10.0

This is Brian A, of course.

0:12.0

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,

0:18.0

for Mississippi State. Zach Selman joins us on the Farm Bureau guest line.

0:22.0

Zach, before we talk, facilities, vision,

0:26.0

anything of that nature, I've

0:28.0

wanted to ask you one question since your first press

0:30.1

conference.

0:30.8

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

0:35.0

That's a fair question, Brian.

0:38.0

Thanks for having me on.

0:40.0

You know, from an early age she was always had a little spicy attitude and

0:44.2

really sassy no neck really big kind of afro so we just said hey you look kind of

0:50.4

of like a meatball and it stuck and still to this day every morning I ask her,

0:53.7

do you still want me to call you meatball and she loves it.

0:56.0

Her principal calls them meatball, so the origin started when she was just probably seven,

1:01.9

eight months old, we could tell tell she was a little spicy.

1:06.1

That's a great nickname just off the bat I want to let you know I give you full

1:10.1

credit for that that's good stuff so in Oklahoma the Selmans are like royalty

1:16.1

now that is the the royal family of Oklahoma football I don't know if Mississippi

1:20.5

State really has a family like that I would say obviously with

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