Mississippi State says that former tight ends coach Scott Sallach left the school on his own, but that’s not the way he sees it.
The program and former assistant have had an apparently messy split turn public on Twitter after the school announced Thursday that Sallach had left the program, as reported by Joel Coleman of the Starkville Daily News.
MSU football announced director of player personnel and former TE coach Scott Sallach has left program to pursue other opportunities
— Joel Coleman (@JoelTColeman) July 13, 2017
By Friday, though, Sallach provided an emphatic rebuttal to that view of the situation:
I'm not pursuing "other opportunities" I am good coach & was not wanted where I was.