Wearing a purple jacket and an LSU pin, Kim Mulkey felt happy to be home.
"I can't wait to eat some Ponchatoula strawberries," she said. "I can't wait to have some crawfish. You think I'm being funny — but I missed my food in Louisiana!"
Introduced on Monday as the eighth head coach in LSU women's basketball history, Mulkey addressed the fans, and a handful of her current players at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center in her first day as leader of the Fighting Tigers.
It was a homecoming and an introductory press conference unlike any other, in front of friends and family, for a Tickfaw, Louisiana native who felt 'unbelievably comfortable' to come back to her roots.