Dawghouse: A Mississippi State Podcast

Alabama week has come early for Mississippi State this year. The SEC's nearest neighbors kick off at 8:00 for the final league broadcast slot. The Bulldogs (2-2) have a pair of league losses already before taking on the 11th-ranked Crimson Tide. State's passing game took off last weekend with deep throws and big hits not seen in years. But the ground game was stuffed and turnovers gave South Carol...

Mississippi State tries to recover from a beating by LSU with a first road trip of the season. The Bulldogs (2-1, 0-1 SEC) are at South Carolina (1-2, 0-1) with a 7:30 ET kickoff in Columbia. Coordinators Kevin Barbay and Matt Brock met with media after installation day practice. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal...

The SEC Network's Game Day crew is on the Mississippi State campus for the opening league weekend. Roman Harper and Tim Tebow talk about the matchup with LSU, the Bulldog program, and Coach Zach Arnett. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Zach Arnett faces his first SEC challenge as Mississippi State head coach. The 2-0 Bulldogs open conference play hosting LSU (1-1) on Scott Field. The 11:00am central kickoff is not the fan-friendliest SEC scheduling but should impact the late-rising Tigers more, maybe? State should have won last year's match in Baton Rouge and can even the score Saturday. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company....

Mississippi State goes from beating a FCS visitor last week to hosting Power 5 Arizona this Saturday. The Bulldogs were efficient in all areas beating Southeastern Louisiana. The Pac 12 Wildcats are a major step-up in competition. And offensive coordinator Kevin Barbay talks about the opening win and how his unit will attack this week. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com...

The eight-month wait for Bulldog football is done. Mississippi State takes to Scott Field against Southeastern Louisiana. This is a veteran roster with an enthusiastic young head coach and aggressive coordinators both sides of the ball. Season ticket sales have set advance records and a lively crowd is expected on campus. The depth chart is headlined by familiar names but the backups include intri...

After their second and final scrimmage of preseason Mississippi State coordinators Matt Brock and Kevin Barbay spoke about their squads' standing as the Bulldogs move into more mock game week routine. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The training camp portion of preseason is done. Mississippi State will scrimmage for a second and final time Saturday. Then comes an early start on game week as Coach Zach Arnett and staff shift the Bulldogs into a season-like routine. Some defensive position battles remain to be settled while the offense is taking shape about as expected. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz....

With a couple of days to review results Coach Zach Arnett talked about Mississippi State's first scrimmage of preseason Monday. He also offered an overview where the Bulldogs stand as the fall semester is about to begin and training camp transition to the next stages. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for adv...

Mississippi State moves into the next preseason practice phase after the first scrimmage session. Quarterback Will Rogers has some thoughts on the intrasquad action and where the Bulldogs are after a week-plus of work. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Coach Zach Arnett held his first preseason scrimmage Saturday with a closed session on the practice fields. The first-year head coach is using this intrasquad to judge progress in installation of schemes, as well as player position progress. But the real measure is how offense and defense both call plays, pick the players, and execute against each other. New coordinator Kevin Barbay also shares hi...

Mississippi State has put in four practice days of preseason, the last two in pads. Full contact begins now as Coach Zach Arnett ramps up the intensity, and moves the Bulldogs to work on the South Farm field. Media has limited observation time but at the end of practices so there is more worth reporting now than previous camps. After opinions by the Dawghouse, Monday's interview with Arnett follow...

Mississippi State starts practicing for the 2023 season Friday morning. First-fall camp Coach Zach Arnett and coordinators will plug some summer pieces into their spring camp lineups. On offense the only serious questions come at the new tight end position. There are more and larger questions for a defense that brings back the core interior line and linebackers but must re-fill edge and outside sp...

We wondered how low SEC media voting could go as far as Mississippi State's preseason predictions, and now we know. As low as it gets, with the Bulldogs forecast to finish seventh and last in the Western Division. Ignorance is no excuse for missing the mark in this year's balloting as the 2023 Bulldogs have enough strong points, and only a handful of weaknesses, to more than beat this year's press...

Running backs are a rarity at this year's SEC Media Days but Mississippi State is sending one. Jo'quavious Marks will speak for Bulldog football, the first running back State has sent since 2011 and further proof that the 2023 offense is serious about the ground game. Quarterback Will Rogers and defensive tackle Jaden Crumedy join Marks and Coach Zach Arnett in Nashville next Tuesday. The Major Le...

After climbing into the top-twenty football recruiting rankings last week Mississippi State improved its place a couple of notches with more commitments. Coach Zach Arnett's so-far class has quantity with 15 commits but also has the quality with a dozen prospects ranked among the nation's top 900 players overall. Bulldog baseball got good news again from Dakota Jordan with his renewed declaration...

Rising sophomore outfielder Dakota Jordan went in the NCAA transfer portal and quickly came back out, sticking with Mississippi State. This going-and-coming will be an ever-larger feature in off-seasons for college baseball, with coaches who survive the portal period immediately confronted by the Major League Draft in July. Chris Lemonis' hire of South Carolina pitching coach Justin Parker should...

It's been a full month since the Diamond Dog season ended and Chris Lemonis' search for a 2024 pitching coach continues. A number of reported or at least reputed candidates have emerged and a top target has just visited campus. With the NCAA baseball transfer season going there's urgency to sealing a deal for Mississippi State. Meanwhile Coach Zach Arnett is scoring commitments with summer camps f...

With last week's delay in implementing a schedule system for at least another year, Mississippi State and SEC cousins will play a one-time slate in 2024. The eight league opponents will be revealed on June 14. Coach Zach Arnett is using summer camps to commit prospects for this year's recruiting class and offense is leading the list so far. Meanwhile a pitching coach hire is still pending as Chris...

Word from the SEC's spring meetings in Destin haven't cleared up the league's pending plans for future football scheduling. Not so far, that is. Mississippi State favors staying with eight SEC games in a new 1/7 rotation but a 3/6 system has gotten almost all the attention. But could the league throw everyone a real curve and delay deciding on a full system while playing a one-off sort of slate in...

For a second season Bulldog baseball ends too soon. The SEC Tournament is again without the program which did more than any to make it an event years ago. Chris Lemonis will apparently be retained after two losing campaigns and says he has a young core to build around. But he has to bring in a load of immediate transfer talent if 2024 is to be a turnaround, most of all in the pitching staff where...

Zach Arnett has spent much of May getting out and talking with Mississippi State football fans who are invested in this program. Arnett liked the consistent work ethic shown in his first spring camp but his 2023 team is far from a final product. So is the roster as Arnett and staff are still looking for a couple more summer signees in the transfer portal, while also keeping busy recruiting high sc...

Mississippi State was swept for another SEC series and has lost eight of the last nine league games. The remaining schedule will make it difficult at best for the Bulldogs to reach the SEC Tournament or even finish over break-even. Not only are the Bulldogs losing but looking bad doing so with fundamental mistakes and team tensions rising. New athletic director Zac Selmon finds himself facing an e...

A sweeping at Tennessee and some of the worst types of pitching records by a Mississippi State program forced Coach Chris Lemonis to let pitching coach Scott Foxhall go. The Bulldogs cling to 12th place SEC, the last spot which would make the league tournament. But Mississippi State's remaining three opponents have a far better SEC record than those of Missouri and Ole Miss which the Dogs barely l...

A pair of won weekends had Mississippi State back on SEC track. A series lost at Auburn sends the Diamond Dogs right back into a hole. State is 12th in the league standings, which is the last SEC Tournament slot. Holding just that will be difficult against a murderer's row schedule the next three weekends. Bulldog pitching was already struggling and injuries have made things worse for both the rot...