Following Tim Brewster’s abrupt departure from Mississippi State to join Jimbo Fisher’s staff in Tallahassee, Bulldog bloggers at For Whom The Cowbell Tolls are taking a look back at Brewster’s effusive social media antics:

Just got back from a beautiful Christmas Eve service. So blessed and thankful! Merry Christmas to all!—
Tim Brewster (@TimBrewster) December 25, 2012

How we viewed before: Man! That Tim Brewster is not only the best coach around, he’s a down home family man! I knew I liked the cut of his cloth. He’s the kind of example and man we need associated with our program.

How we view now: I kind of imagine him typing this with a huge grin on his face — like one so big it hurts. Then his wife asks him what he’s typing, and he yells the sentences back to her. I only remember him by his tweets, and since he used a lot of exclamation points, I assume he yells a lot, like Dave Chappelle in the Sam Jackson beer commercial.

It’s comforting to know that there’ll be somebody capable of filling that James Coley-shaped Twitter void in Tallahassee, no?

Here is an Eastern Michigan cannon being fired during a game against Ball State, which is as close as we’re allowed to get to the joke we really want to make. (ZUMAPRESS.com)

• By all means, enjoy yourselves. And just like that, less than a week before the season, we have a new leader in Favorite Offseason News Thing. Good hustle, Ball State!

This will cause some locker room jokes. #Ball State players Jonathan Newsome, Toney Williams tried to shoplift “male enhancement pills”

— Doug Zaleski (@DougZaleski) August 24, 2012

Ball State, as you may know, is named “Ball State.” This’ll be fun.

• #Menphis things afoot. We’ll let Matt Stevens and Kyle Veazey catch you up, but real quick: Joe Schad says Mississippi State receivers coach Angelo Mirando resigned while under NCAA investigation; Dan Mullen does not care for Joe Schad, and the investigation in question leads back to Memphis (the city), which is already under NCAA scrutiny for Jovon Robinson-related reasons. Hey, Tim Brewster! Neato?

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The Insight Bowl trophy is awful, but as a former pizza bowl, the institution deserves protecting.

Lauded in this space just a month ago for clinging to its dot-com sponsor for a decade following the collapse of the tech bubble, the Insight Bowl suddenly finds itself set adrift, in a basket on a strange doorstep, with a note pinned on its blanket reading “free to good home, for money.” A quick adoption fact sheet, for those of you considering placing this lovable game  under your organization’s banner:

• Family history: Less than ideal. Cousin to the famously corrupt Fiesta Bowl, and at times seems neglected by caretakers. The website is relegated to a folder on the Fiesta Bowl’s site, and should interested parties click through to buy merchandise, they’re redirected to the Fiesta Bowl store, which is (sorry, OU fans ) currently splashed with Cowpoke victory swag, wall to wall, with a lone lousy banner ad strung up for Sooners products.

• Trauma history: Relentlessly awful trophy. Aired for a time on the NFL Network. Has been known to lash out at the teams themselves. Has not received all its shots, but after hosting Tim Brewster two years in a row you’re pretty much inoculated against the big stuff.

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