STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) — Vic Schaefer says he could have taken several head coaching jobs while he was an assistant coach for 15 years at Arkansas and then Texas A&M.
His former boss — Texas A&M coach Gary Blair — has an off-beat theory about why Schaefer finally took the Mississippi State job in 2012.
"It's because he's so cheap," Blair said. "Both schools wear maroon and he didn't want to change his wardrobe."
Jokes aside, Schaefer agrees there are similarities between the schools beyond the colors. Much like Texas A&M before Blair and Schaefer arrived in 2003, Mississippi State had never been a consistent threat in the Southeastern Conference.