Sideline View with Dale McKee

MERIDIAN, Miss. (WTOK) –

1000’s of Mississippi State and school soccer followers gathered final Tuesday in Starkville to recollect and honor Bulldog head soccer coach Mike Leach. A memorial service at Humphrey Coliseum included tales about Leach, who will likely be remembered as a larger-than-life persona of humor and love but in addition an excellent soccer coach. The VIP checklist for the Leach memorial was stuffed with among the high names in school soccer, together with all 13 of the SEC head soccer coaches. His legacy will likely be remembered as he would need us to “stay your life to the fullest.”

Each Ole Miss and Mississippi State are making ready for his or her bowl video games this week. Ole Miss (8-4) will play this Wednesday at 8 p.m. as they journey to Houston to play Texas Tech within the Texas Bowl. Quantity 22 Mississippi State is not going to play till Monday, January 2, after they tackle Illinois in Tampa within the ReliaQuest Bowl at 11 a.m.

Mississippi State saved intact the final Mike Leach recruiting class led by 4-star quarterback Chris Parson of Brentwood, Tennessee. Mississippi State signed 27 gamers to scholarships with 15 of these new recruits hailing from Mississippi. The Bulldogs inked 14 of the highest 25 highschool gamers within the state. 4 of these signees have been Mississippi JUCO gamers and one Texas JUCO product. The Bulldogs additionally grabbed an LSU and a Miami switch.

Ole Miss signed 12 highschool prospects that included eight 4-stars led by Mississippi’s high two prospects in Raleigh’s Suntarine Perkins and Ridgeland’s Ayden Williams. The Rebels additionally signed 4 3-star gamers. The Rebels’ haul additionally included three of the highest gamers from Mississippi. Lane Kiffin is thought for his switch portal experience, so you’ll be able to search for extra additions.

Will Corridor’s second signing class at Southern Mississippi landed 23 gamers that included 4 extra quarterbacks. Eight of the signees have been transfers from Clemson, Arkansas, Arizona, Memphis, Ole Miss and MSU. The Eagles additionally signed three JUCO gamers from Co-Lin. The Eagles did lose quarterback Trey Lowe to the switch portal, based on Lowe’s twitter web page.

Regardless of Deion Sanders leaving Jackson State, new head coach T.C. Taylor landed 14 gamers together with portal transfers from Oregon, USC, Louisiana Tech and Troy.

The Tigers have had 15 gamers enter the switch portal since Sanders’ departure as his sons and Travis Hunter will be part of him in Colorado.

The state’s third greatest participant in Picayune working again Dante Dowdell signed with Oregon whereas the fourth greatest Isaac Smith of Itawamba inked with MSU. The fifth greatest Jamarious Brown of Moss Level signed with Ole Miss adopted by Ocean Springs quarterback Brayson Hubbard who inked with Alabama.

For the primary time in his profession, New Orleans linebacker Demario Davis acquired an invitation to the Professional Bowl. The Brandon native leads the group in tackles and sacks this season and was the one Saint invited.

The Mississippi State males’s basketball group (11-1) lastly fell final week on the highway at Drake. The Bulldogs will open their SEC schedule by internet hosting No. 9 Alabama on Wednesday. Ole Miss (8-4) was shocked by North Alabama final week and now should journey to No. 8 Tennessee this Wednesday. Southern Mississippi (11-2) fell on the highway to UNLV final week and can open their Solar Belt schedule by internet hosting Troy on Thursday night time.

The yr 2022 will likely be lengthy remembered because the unimaginable run of Ole Miss baseball to claiming their first nationwide NCAA baseball championship. What’s in retailer for our state’s huge sports activities headlines in 2023? Properly, the information was good within the Collegiate Baseball Journal’s preseason rankings as they’ve Southern Mississippi ranked at No. 18, MSU at No. 22 and Ole Miss at No. 24. The Southeastern Convention had six groups within the Prime 10 with LSU (1), Florida (2), Arkansas (4), Tennessee (5), Arkansas (7) and Vanderbilt (9). The NCAA Division 1 season opens on February 17.

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