USA TODAY
At the end of a month in which his utter mismanagement of the Mississippi State football program was laid bare for all to see, athletics director John Cohen pulled the only lever he had left.
He hired Mike Leach to coach his team. We’ll get to that in a minute.
But long before the hire was made Thursday, with Cohen tweeting a video of a pirate to foreshadow his agreement with The Pirate, had already backed himself into an administrative corner.