speaking of being lazy...

And no, I'm not talking about the rumors of Croom's recruiting style (ba dum, ching!). I've been a sleep at the wheel this past month. Time to step it back up.

The big win over Mississippi on Saturday was nice and needed. Rhodes' qoute was classic.

"We beat the crap out of Ole Miss tonight." Nice.

Here's the new nightmare scenario...

Rhodes and Gordon go on a tear and lead State to four straight victories to end the regular season. Then they tear up the conference tourney on a surprise run only to lose in the final game. Then they win a few games in the NIT on big time performances. Nightmare, you say?

Then Rhodes and Gordon have a joint press conference to announce they are going pro. That would be typical State.

Seriously though, IF Rhodes and Gordon both stay for two more years, this team could be scary good in 2008.

In Baseball...the Dawgs have moved up two spots to #11 in the lastest Baseball America Poll and haven't played a game yet. Nice.

According to Ian's blog, "Polk also called the team his most experienced since he's returned to Starkville as coach. Then he said that the key to winning is who has the most experienced players and who stays away from injury." Expecations coach, expectations.

And in da foosball news, Melvin Smith is back. Which is nice, seeing as how he coached the greatest secondary in MSU history and was a coach on the greatest teams in MSU history.

This coaching shuffle has Beamer coaching running backs (with a lot of HC oversight I'm sure), Johnson coaching middle and weakside backers, with Jones coaching strong side backers and keeping control of the special teams. I always think Beamer should be coaching special teams, but maybe that's just too obvious.