David Murray

Starkville

Managing Editor, Writer at 247Sports

Working with Bulldog Football since 1979 and I'm still apparantly sane. And now safely wed, too...

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Counting Down to Kickoff 2025: Day No.69

6 days ago | 247sports.com | David Murray

Our counting down to kickoff 2025 is at Day #69, as in… the number of Mississippi State games won by Dan Mullen in his nine (almost) complete seasons as head coach. From kickoff in 2009 through the 2017 Egg Bowl, the first-time head coach's teams posted a 69-46 overall record. This is the second-most career wins by a Bulldog coach, trailing only Jackie Sherrill's 75 victories from 1991-2003. Yes, Sherrill had four more years on the job.
Draft-rated Diamond Dog signees counting down to MLB's selection days July 13-14

6 days ago | 247sports.com | David Murray

Don't look now. But with all our attention rightly turned to the continuing work Brian O'Connor and staff are doing in putting a roster together for the 2026 season, there is another factor looming. And it's not all that far away now, either. Major League Baseball will hold its annual summer draft in another three weeks. Yes, it is closing in a little faster now and the new Mississippi State regime does have some reasons for concern. So, the long-time Diamond Dog fan surely says, what else is new?
O'Connor snags Seton Hall catcher Kevin Milewski in transfer portal

6 days ago | 247sports.com | David Murray

Mississippi State has obtained a crucial catcher commitment in the transfer portal with Kevin MilewskiMississippi State is not just re-building the catching corps. Brian O'Connor must do a near-total restocking of this part for his first Diamond Dog roster. So the commitment of Kevin Milewski is as big a piece of Bulldog baseball news as any other transfer the new head coach has scored. Milewski is coming to Mississippi State from Seton Hall where he has played the past two seasons.
Counting Down to Kickoff 2025: Day No.70

1 week ago | 247sports.com | David Murray

We are are at Day #70 in our counting down to the 2025 season kickoff, and 70 is a jersey worth recalling. It was worn by Jimmy Webb, one of the premier defensive linemen in Mississippi State history and among the most-honored from any Bulldog position.
Making out a lineup and rotation from the All-CWS Diamond Dogs roster

1 week ago | 247sports.com | David Murray

Our team didn't make it to Omaha, again. Which is something Brian O'Connor has been hired to fix and fast, but that is not our topic for today. Rather, it about the fact that even when Mississippi State is missing out we still watch the College World Series play out. It's just what Mississippi State baseball fans do, especially we who've experienced the most purely enjoyable event on the college sports calendar.
Counting Down to Kickoff 2025: Day No.71

1 week ago | 247sports.com | David Murray

It is Day #71 in our counting down to Kickoff 2025. So we recognize the 1971 season for which Frank Dowsing was named first-team All-Southeastern Conference. Yes, there have been many Bulldogs voted or selected to all-league teams. Dowsing was the first African-American to represent Mississippi State with this honor.
Analysis: Bulldog basketball draws a competitive lineup in SEC's 2026 scheduling assignments

1 week ago | 247sports.com | David Murray

With presentation by the SEC of members' league schedules for the coming basketball season, it's time for fans to debate who is obviously a darling of the conference office and who is clearly hated by the folk on Arrington Blvd. Well, alright. Were this football, yes absolutely we would be reading 16 versions of we-got-shafted-and-how opinion pieces. But the SEC put the 2024 and '25 slates out a year ago so that's a little more muted this summer.
Counting Down to Kickoff 2025: Day No.72

1 week ago | 247sports.com | David Murray

Counting down the days to Mississippi State’s 2025 seasonIt is Day #72 in our counting down to 2025 kickoff, and our number is… the 7-2 record Mississippi State has posted for games played in the Louisiana Superdome. Yes, kids, there was a time when Bulldog football made regular trips to New Orleans for football, sometimes for season openers in fact. That was back when Mississippi State resumed what once was a regular series with Tulane.
Counting Down to Kickoff 2025: Day No.73

1 week ago | 247sports.com | David Murray

Counting down the days to Mississippi State’s 2025 seasonIt is Day #73 in our counting down to kickoff for the 2025 season. 73 as in … the total passing play (that word matters) touchdowns accounted for by Dak Prescott over his four varsity falls as Mississippi State quarterback. No, it is not the existing record. Will Rogers has pushed that one so far ahead with 94 that it may never be matched by a Bulldog in today's transient-roster game.
'Recruiting is 1A, and scheduling 1B' in Chris Jans' games-plan for Bulldog basketball

1 week ago | 247sports.com | David Murray

Chris Jans is completely clear: signing the best available players is top task of college coaching. Even more than the actual, you know, coaching of those players. What ought interest Bulldog basketball fans is the coach's next priority for Mississippi State. "To me, recruiting is number 1A," Jans said. "And scheduling is probably 1B in terms of success of your program."Since Mississippi State has shown success for now three straight winters, Jans obviously has cracked the scheduling code.