Moorhead has personal ties to coaching hires at MSU

STARKVILLE — Joe Moorhead has personal ties to both of the assistant coach hires he has made as new Mississippi State football coach.

Moorhead’s second hire, confirmed Tuesday by Fordham University, is Fordham coach Andrew Breiner, who will be MSU’s quarterbacks coach and pass game coordinator. MSU hadn’t confirmed the hire as of Tuesday night.

Q Weatherspoon works late magic again for MSU

STARKVILLE — The basketball hit the floor in front of Quinndary Weatherspoon with a Dayton Flyer in pursuit and five seconds remaining.

Weatherspoon had every reason to let the ball go and let the final possession play out because he had been called for his fourth foul a few minutes earlier for pressuring the ball.

This wasn’t the time for hesitation.

MSU will play Louisville in TaxSlayer Bowl

STARKVILLE — Mississippi State interim football coach Greg Knox is confident he can take one thing for granted: his players’ attitude.

In the last week, MSU’s players have seen their head coach, defensive coordinator, and co-offensive coordinators leave for Florida, Knox named interim head coach, and Dan Mullen’s successor hired and introduced.

Bulldogs heading to Jacksonville

Mississippi State’s eighth consecutive bowl trip takes it to a familiar destination.

No. 24 MSU bound for the TaxSlayer Bowl

STARKVILLE — Mississippi State’s eighth consecutive bowl game is taking it to a familiar destination.

Starkville falls in heart-breaking fashion to Pearl for Class 6A title

OXFORD –It was fitting that, on a fourth-and-1 in what could have been the game-winning drive, Starkville High School handed it off to Dreke Clark. To that point, he had taken Starkville 172 yards and two touchdowns on 28 carries, so giving him carry No. 29 to keep the game alive made sense.

MSU men welcome Peters back for Dayton

STARKVILLE — Mississippi State’s 6-0 start to its men’s basketball season has been missing a few things. It’s missed a date with a team hailing from a conference with more than one team in last season’s NCAA Tournament; it lacks a team ranked in the top 120 nationally according to Ken Pomeroy’s advanced college basketball metrics.

Coaching versatility helps Moorhead win MSU job

STARKVILLE — In the process of finding Joe Moorhead, Mississippi State Director of Athletics John Cohen heard something he will remember for the rest of his life.

Previous coaching search experience helps Cohen land Moorhead

STARKVILLE — The best thing that ever happened to John Cohen was standing in the back of the room and saying nothing.

Notebook: Bulldogs get savings on Moorhead’s contract

STARKVILLE — Among Southeastern Conference head football coaches, a salary of $2.6 million would’ve ranked next to last in the 2017, beating only Missouri’s Barry Odom (while excluding that of the conference’s lone interim, Matt Luke). It would’ve ranked less than far less successful programs including Illinois, Purdue and Virginia.

Carter scores 35 as MSU men move to 6-0 with win over North Dakota State

STARKVILLE — While North Dakota State was missing eight straight field goal attempts to start the game, the Mississippi State men’s basketball team was hitting a rough patch, too.

Players feel championship vibe at Starkville practice

STARKVILLE — Starkville High School’s football practices are usually textbook examples of light-hearted yet structured productivity.

Moorhead wants MSU to attack on both sides of football

STARKVILLE — Joe Moorhead knows something about walking into an empty cupboard of a football program.

Moorhead will try to build recruiting ties

STARKVILLE — Joe Moorhead’s resume is littered with a variety of responsibilities.

From defense to offense to recruiting to special teams, Moorhead has worked in nearly every area since he started his career as a football coach as a graduate assistant at Pittsburgh in 1998.

Nick Weatherspoon maturing at point for Bulldogs

STARKVILLE — Quinndary Weatherspoon used to think his brother, Nick, had a long way to go.

Anthony Carlyle remembers the day he realized how Quinndary felt about Nick. Carlyle coached Quinndary and Nick at Velma Jackson High School. When Quinndary was graduating, he told Carlyle the team would struggle next season because it didn’t have any guards to run a system that relied on solid backcourt play.

Ware has become force up front for Starkville

STARKVILLE — For once, getting to the quarterback didn’t work out all that well for Jaylan Ware.

Going against Greenville in Week 8, the Starkville High School nose tackle busted through the line and reached for the quarterback with his right hand. But Ware suffered a broken ring finger when his hand smashed into the quarterback’s facemask. The injury ended his evening with a season-low three tackles.

Grantham leaving MSU for Florida

STARKVILLE — The Dispatch has confirmed through two sources that Mississippi State defensive coordinator Todd Grantham will follow Dan Mullen to Florida. New MSU coach Joe Moorhead will have to hire a replacement.

Boniol has emerged as kicker for Starkville

STARKVILLE — The final six weeks of the regular season were out of character for Garin Boniol.

In that stretch, Starkville High School’s sophomore kicker missed four of five field goal attempts and two extra points. Starkville coach Chris Jones asked Boniol what was wrong and received an answer he didn’t believe.

Mississippi State getting ‘Moor Cowbell’

Mississippi State waited 48 hours to find its next football coach.

Moorhead will be MSU’s new football coach

STARKVILLE — Mississippi State waited 48 hours to find its next football coach.