10/22/02
STARKVILLE, Miss. ­ The Mississippi State University athletic department announced Monday that its football game with the University of Kentucky, Saturday, Nov. 2, will kick off at 1:30 p.m. CT. There will be no live television for the Southeastern Conference contest.

MSU is open this weekend, while Kentucky plays host to the University of Georgia in a game to be televised by CBS.

Source: MSU Media Relations Department

10/14/02 - Memphis head football coach Tommy West talks about his team's close loss to Louisville last week and the upcoming game with MSU. Both teams stand at 2-4 on the season.

38-32 loss to Louisville
"I was extremely proud of the effort and the intensity level that we played at. We are just a team right now that finds a way to hurt ourselves by execution or mental errors. Once we get out of that, we are capable of being a decent football team. It is the best we have played, defensively, from an attack mode. We like to think we can put pressure on the offense and make them adjust to what we do defensively. That is probably the first time this year that we have done that. We'll take that and try to build on it. Louisville is an awfully good team overall, but they are an outstanding offensive team. I thought that our kids hung in there pretty good with them."

Thoughts about Mississippi State.
"We can't turn the ball over and have errors in the kicking game. If we do that, then this will be a heck of a football game. It is always a physical game. Anytime you play Mississippi State or one of Coach Sherrill's teams it is going to be physical. I expect this to be that. I think you are going to see two teams that will fight like crazy to get a win. We go into conference play after this and we need some momentum going into the conference."

10/09/02
STARKVILLE, Miss. -- Mississippi State's student-athlete graduation rate for the 1995-96 incoming class led all public institutions in the Southeastern Conference, the National Collegiate Athletic Association recently announced.

"Our student-athletes, coaches and academic staff are to be congratulated on an outstanding job in the classroom during this period," MSU Director of Athletics Larry Templeton said. "This is an outstanding accomplishment for our university and program."

MSU graduated 62 percent of all incoming student-athletes for the 1995-96 school year, a figure that trailed only Vanderbilt in the SEC. That 62 percent rate also topped the university-wide 53 percentage from that same class.

The Bulldog men's track and field team graduated 100 percent of its incoming athletes from that class to lead the league, while the baseball (60 percent, 2nd in SEC), men's basketball (67 percent, tied for 2nd in SEC), football (55 percent, 3rd in SEC), and women's basketball (75 percent, 4th in SEC) teams all achieved top-half of the league finishes.