What started out as a joke became one of the staples of Mississippi State’s run to the Southeastern Conference championship in 2016.
It started in early March when it came time for Cole Gordon to get a haircut. The redshirt freshman was tired of getting picked on by his teammates about his long flowing locks.
“I had the long hair – the long, scraggly stuff – and everyone on the team was telling me how bad it looked,” Gordon said. “I didn’t really have many compliments about that (hairstyle). So I told them that if we swept Oregon I would get it cut.