Mississippi State football enters Joe Moorhead Era

For the first time in a decade, Mississippi State is going through spring football with a head coach not named Dan Mullen. Thus beginning the Joe Moorhead era in Starkville where the Bulldogs are hard at work at their first week of NCAA sanctioned practice.

A lot of the focus from the new coaching staff is the Rosetta Stone of training camps as players and coaches are battling through the growing pains of being on the same page.

With every new system comes new terminology and verbiage, especially on the defensive side of the ball, where the Bulldogs have had five coordinators over the past five seasons.

To break down the language barrier, Moorhead says he’s implemented a strict regimen of installation on Tuesdays and Thursdays with a weekly review on Saturdays. “We’re no huddle so a lot of it for the skill guys is hand signals so you’re essentially learning sign language, and then for the guys up front you’re learning verbal communication. So it’s kind of a two-prong thing there. And then defensively it’s a color or it’s a number, I mean that’s what kind of the translation is. And I think for our kids defensively, our fifth defensive coordinator in five seasons, this is them learning a fifth different language,” said Moorhead.

The Bulldogs are working up to their annual Maroon and White spring game on April 21^st.