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Mississippi State head football coach Dan Mullen stood at the podium on the Humphrey Coliseum floor on Thursday. With the caskets of freshman defensive lineman Keith Joseph Jr. and Joseph Jr.’s father, former MSU linebacker Keith Joseph Sr. on either side of him, the seventh-year leader of the Bulldogs addressed those gathered to pay respects to a pair of beloved teammates, friends and family members.
“Whenever I saw (Joseph Sr. and Joseph Jr.) together, the pride that they had in each other, the pride that Keith Jr. had in his father and Keith Sr. had for his son, it’s a special thing,” an emotional Mullen said.