By JOEL COLEMAN Starkville Daily News Mississippi State athletic director John Cohen met with the media at noon on Friday to discuss the firing of head football coach Joe Moorhead after two seasons at MSU. What follows is a full transcript (slightly edited) of Cohen’s comments during his press conference. OPENING STATEMENT: Earlier I met…

By JOEL COLEMAN Starkville Daily News Mississippi State football saw its season end with a 38-28 loss to Louisville on Monday in the Music City Bowl in Nashville, Tennessee. Here are a few notable items from the game and the postgame media session with State head coach Joe Moorhead as the Bulldogs head into the…

By JOEL COLEMAN Starkville Daily News NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Mississippi State’s 2019 football season has seemingly been a rollercoaster ride for months. On a cool December evening in the Music City – Nashville, Tennessee – the Bulldogs’ campaign concluded on a sour note. MSU fell to Louisville 38-28 in the Music City Bowl. The loss brought…

By JOEL COLEMAN Starkville Daily News Chris Marve is indeed leaving the Mississippi State football program. MSU head coach Joe Moorhead met with local media on Friday night and confirmed Marve is leaving the Bulldogs after just one season to join the coaching staff at Florida State. “We wish him the best of luck,” Moorhead…

By JOEL COLEMAN Starkville Daily News Chauncey Rivers is only a few days away now.  On December 30, when Mississippi State’s senior defensive end takes off his pads and uniform following the Music City Bowl game against Louisville, Rivers’ collegiate career at MSU will be through. Perhaps for Rivers, there’ll be a moment where he…

By JOEL COLEMAN Starkville Daily News With Christmas Day now less than a week away, it’s the season of surprises. However for Mississippi State head coach Joe Moorhead and the Bulldogs, getting the expected was perfectly fine on Wednesday. MSU welcomed in the majority of its 2020 football signing class as the early signing period…

By JOEL COLEMAN Starkville Daily News In the aftermath of Thursday’s win over Ole Miss and with his job status under scrutiny, Mississippi State head coach Joe Moorhead said he’d continue to lead the Bulldogs until someone was to “drag his Yankee (expletive)” out of Starkville. On Saturday, it became apparent that Joe Moorhead and…

By JOEL COLEMAN Starkville Daily News In the span of four seconds of game time on Thursday, a Rebel pretended to be a dog and as a result, both the Egg Bowl trophy and presumably Mississippi State’s head coach are both staying put in Starkville. MSU topped Ole Miss 21-20 on Thanksgiving night in one…

By JOEL COLEMAN Starkville Daily News It was early last week when Mississippi State head coach Joe Moorhead said that for the Bulldogs to have a chance to beat Alabama on Saturday, MSU didn’t have to do anything extraordinary, it just had to do ordinary things extraordinarily well. By game time, the only thing extraordinary…

By JOEL COLEMAN Starkville Daily News FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Mississippi State arrived at Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium on Saturday with its season spiraling. The Bulldogs had lost four in a row. In a sense, MSU was drowning. Luckily for the Bulldogs, they brought with them a 5-foot-11, 215-pound life raft in the form of…