With National Signing Day just a few days away, friend of the blog Blake McCollum thought up an idea for normal people like you and I to tweet out what how they would announce their school if they were a 5 star recruit. The results were pretty impressive/hilarious. Here are the best of the #ifiwasa5star tweets from today:

@hadbrains (tweet)

#ifiwasa5star id go wwe style. Have coaches present, announce for TSUN & celebrate only to clothesline Freeze & high five Dan

@RWaldrop89 (tweet)

#ifiwasa5star I'd use @SBCoffeehouse's sign to announce my decision.

@DMacJr (tweet)

sky writing plane. parachute out after and let plane crash and burn on opposing school's campus. #ifiwasa5star

@Jeff_Walker1 (tweet)

(#ifiwasa5star) I would do some Kenny powers style video and pull the hat out of a watermelon I just chopped in half w/ sword

@michael_boler_ (tweet)

#IfIWereA5Star I would have a weird creature (octupus, spider, tiger) pick the hat for me

Great work ladies and gentlemen. All around.

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Note:  I posted this over on Rock M Nation--the Mizzou SB Nation site--originally, when the MU to SEC deal seemed to be done but wasn't official yet; I've made a few modifications now that it's a done deal.  It's not a serious "these are our (MU's) traditions, etc." piece; more of a semi-humorous, entertaining piece.

Me personally:  I went to Mizzou and was there for some horrible football (like the 5th down game) and awesome basketball in the late 80s/early 90s and Mississippi State for some semi-horrible football (Derrick Tate era under Coach Sherrill, post Peach Bowl) and awesome basketball (like the '95 trip to the Sweet 16 and '96 trip to the Final Four).

Truman Tiger is buying a new house in a new neighborhood, and goes up to one of the new neighbors' houses.

The following is how his conversation goes with one of the 12 neighbors on the street and in the new cul-de-sac.

(Knocks on door)

(Door opens)

Hi!  I’m Truman Tiger, and I just bought that new house up the street.  I thought I would stop by and introduce myself to the neighborhood.

I’m recently divorced and looking to get on with my new life in a much more stable environment.  No kids, so that should make it an easier transition.  My home life was pretty stable for a long time, but when we adopted 4 orphans from Texas things started to go downhill.  One of them turned out to be a real bully, and ran off a couple of my older siblings and even ran off one of the orphans—Reveille Aggie—we adopted:  Reveille’s moving into that other new house up the street.  He’s OK, just doesn’t like to sit down and is obsessed with the number “12” for some reason.

Oh:  our new house.  Glad you asked about that.  We had some problems selling our old house.  It turns out that the buyers are having some legal problems which is keeping them from buying it, which in turn is kept us from getting rid of it.  I talked to my attorney, and apparently my assets are too great to have a short sale on it, but the bank representative said that they'd be OK if we just moved out and they'd be OK without us.  I’m worried about what kind of hit to my credit it's going to give.  Crazy, isn’t it?

What’s that:  you have a Sugar Bowl?  Well, originally my Bowl was healthy:  an Orange Bowl.  However, when my family adopted the Texans, our health declined as we traded in the Orange Bowl for a bowl of tortilla chips.  They tried to jazz up the name a bit with the name “Fiesta”, but it was still a bowl of chips.  You do use all natural sugar in your bowl, correct?  I’m trying to get the preservatives out of my diet that my family was consuming to try to keep us together when it was clear it was over.

We’ve heard some really strange things from some of the realtors and people down at the grocery store.  They said things like “we won’t fit in just right”, or “we’ll try to buy a new house in a different neighborhood that they think we’d like better”, or “we won’t take care of our house the way the rest of the neighbors do”.  That’s silly.  I understand their skepticism:  I’m pretty skeptical myself.  I think that’s part of my genetics.  That’s OK:  I’m from Missouri, so you’ve got to show me; I’ll show you because that’s just the way I am and wouldn’t expect anything less.

You should try some of this barbeque I made.  I also make a pretty mean spaghetti sauce.  It just depends on which side of the kitchen I’m cooking on.  Oh, have a beer, too:  I made this myself as well.

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#HailState

Earlier this evening OUR point guard Dee Bost tweeted out requesting MSU Athletic Officials to put together a "Midnight Madness" event due to the high expectations going into the season.  Famous locals such as Strangebrew Coffeehouse, Whit Waide among others joined in asking MSU AD Scott Stricklin to consider such an event.

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Nothing fancy here guys, just looking to hear your score predictions for tonight's game.

I'll say 28-17 State

#HailState

Dan Mullen 8.4.11

With us writing all these game previews, position previews, etc. here at For Whom the Cowbell Tolls, we also want to know: what are your thoughts on this upcoming season?  We are approaching the dreaded month of August: where football is so close you can taste it, but it's not quite here and oh by the way it's still 10000000 degrees outside.  So lets start up a thread on expectations this season.  It can be your expectations for the whole season, a single game, what you expect out of an individual player this year, anything really.  Just come by here and share your thoughts with us.

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Offseason caravans give university and athletic department officials the chance to hit the road and spread the good word about the state of their programs. For Mississippi State and Coach Dan Mullen, it’s no different. In between doing somewhat awkwardly close interviews or playing Tiger Woods golf, Mullen and his maroon-clad contigent spent the last week dotting the Southeast on the annual Road Dawgs Tour. Since starting May 9, the tour made 12 scheduled meet and greets in Mississippi, Tennessee and Georgia.

The group made their second-to-last stop in Nashville, hosted by the MSU Nashville Alumni Association. Here are a few notes…

• In continuing the great "Today. Tomorrow. Forever." push from the MSU marketing department, Mullen stressed the importance of a football-only complex. After explaining our facilities are “12-out-of-12 when it comes to the SEC,” Mullen noted that his office is in the Bryan Building, while his players converge at the Holliman Athletic Center and the Palmerio Center. “The players are never around the coaches’ offices,” Mullen said. “And if I call them to see me, they start getting paranoid.”
• Renderings of a newly expanded Davis Wade Stadium have excited the fan base, but it still sounds like it is a few years down the road. “After (Athletic Director) Scott Stricklin finishes crunching the numbers, we are expecting to have around 3,500 names on the waiting list for tickets,” Mullen said. “Before we put shovels in the ground for expansion, we are going to have to wait until the demand for season tickets is around 10,000 and that looks to be in 2014.” He also alluded to the fact that once the endzone expansion is complete, it would be home to the student section, like at Ole Miss.
• For those that are hitched, you have been told the cliché “happy wife, happy life.” Football fans know this. If a coaches’ wife doesn't get a good vibe about a town, she’ll put her foot down. For example, Rich Rodriguez’s wife + Paul Finebaum making fun of her 80s hairstyle = No thanks, T-Town. When Mullen opened the floor to questions, the first one was about his wife - “Is Megan happy?” After cracking a joke that she isn’t right now because he’s been on the road all week, he explained they both love the Starkville community. He stressed how generous and gracious people have been to his family since their arrival. Good to know, because I hear Happy Valley residents slaughter their young and is a hot-bed for terrorist activity. Please don’t take our coach, Penn State!
• Depth will again be an area of concern as despite returning 17 starters, by the start of fall practice, true and redshirt freshmen will make up 39 of the 85 scholarships on the team. With the departure of seniors like J.C. Brignone and K.J. Wright, Mullen stressed a leadership void and a little immaturity issues. "It's up to us to make them grow up pretty quick," Mullen said. "And over the summer, there is a certain strength coach named Matt Balis whose job it'll be to shake, cry or sweat the immaturity out of them. What he doesn't get out of them, the other coaches will in August."
• But the thing Mullen touched on throughout the speech was the state of the program is in pretty great shape but there is still work to be done. He's right. Winning nine games and the Gator Bowl is quite an accomplishment for a program that was one of the worst of the BCS conferences a few years ago. But we—and Mullen—want more. "The challenge is the immediate, not the future," Mullen said. "We have to keep asking ourselves 'are we satisfied?' I know I'm not. I want to keep climbing that mountain. It'll be tough but one day we'll get to the top." Here's hoping.