Nick Fitzgerald pleads with Mississippi State recruits to stick with team after Dan Mullen departure

Dan Mullen recently took the Florida head coaching job, leaving Mississippi State without a coach.

That throws the Bulldogs’ 2018 recruiting class into turmoil, as the current commits have no idea who will eventually take over the program.

However, star QB Nick Fitzgerald will still be in Starkville next season (after recovering from ankle surgery), and he did his best on Tuesday to try to convince Mississippi State’s 26 2018 commits to stay on board. As you can see in the tweet below, he said the team that the Bulldogs have is ready to have success next season:

#stateteam18 Y’all didn’t commit to a coach.. you committed to a program, to a family! Coaches didn’t make those throws, catches, tackles, etc.. The real Miss State team is still here in stark and we about to do something special! Come be a real part of it!

— Nick Fitzgerald (@nickfitz07) November 28, 2017

Mullen certainly led the Mississippi State program from obscurity to national prominence, so the next coach will have his hands full trying to sustain the success Mullen had.

However, having a quarterback like Fitzgerald to work with is a great start for the next coach, so it’ll be interesting to see how many of those 26 commits (in a class ranked No. 5 in the SEC and No. 15 nationally, per 247Sports) decide to stick with Mississippi State.