This afternoon, Mississippi State begins spring football practice, in some ways the beginning of the 2016 season, though Dan Mullen might contend that the 2016 team was born the day after his Bulldogs won the Belk Bowl.
MSU does have a quite significant amount of production returning in the team’s leading tackler – Richie Brown – and the SEC’s leading returning receiver – Fred Ross. However, an entirely new defensive staff and the exit of perhaps the team’s greatest player in the history of the program will make for some significant changes.
As practice begins, these are a few of the things I’ll be tracking, starting with the obvious.