With Mississippi State’s football team starting spring practices, we’ve had a couple opportunities now to get more familiar with the new defensive coaching staff under head coach Dan Mullen and defensive coordinator Peter Sirmon. On Tuesday, reporters got to talk to new defensive line coach Brian Baker for the first time, an interview in which we expected to learn about his coaching tactics and instead learned much more about Baker’s human side, the reasons he’s in Starkville in the first place.
Plenty of people wish they could go back and re-live their glory days attending college, but Baker has been pining for the opportunity to re-live his college coaching days.