It’s hard to talk about the past with a man so continually focused on the future. Ask Scott Stricklin, Mississippi State’s Director of Athletics, about something one of his teams did this year and he quickly muses on their possibilities for next season. Compliment him on a year full of athletic successes, academic achievement and fan engagement, and he’ll tell you exactly how things can improve going forward.
Such is the curse of the job, it seems, but when he’s able to look back, Stricklin recognizes he’s at the end of a historic year for MSU, even if he does have an eye on the potentially greater one on the horizon.