To my Bulldog family,
Thank you for letting me suit up in the M over S these past five years. It has been an honor to wear maroon and white as a player, and I will continue to do it for the rest of my life.
In the past 5 years, SEC schools have hired away:
- 5x CWS HC, Jim Schlossnagle from TCU
- 2x CWS HC, Jay Johnson from Arizona
- 2x Big Ten COTY, Rob Vaughn from Maryland
- 7x CWS, 1x Champ HC, Brian O’Connor from Virginia
- CWS runner up, Kevin Schnall, from Coastal
Mississippi State’s 2026 pitching staff was statistically one of the wildest ones in school history. 683 total strikeouts. 62 games. 11.53 strikeouts per 9 innings. That’s 3rd best in school history.
But the ERA tells the other side.
4.51 team ERA, tied for 38th in program history since 1976. Elite stuff, but in times of high leverage situations the moment was too big.
Mississippi State’s 2026 season was statistically the 2nd best offense in school history. 546 total runs. 62 games. 8.81 runs per game.
Trailing only the 1997 Omaha squad, which scored 633 runs in 68 games. 9.31 runs per game.
The 1972 screwworm epidemic killed 90,000 cattle in Texas after the fly was supposedly contained. It was devastating to Texas Ranchers. Here's a video put out by the USDA about it in 1972.
NEWS: Screwworm has been detected in Texas, USDA confirmed - marking a serious threat to US cattle and other animals
Larvae of the parasite were found in the umbilical cord of a 3 week old calf
Screwworm was eradicated from the US in 1966