re: Why MSU has no reason to fear Mullen leaving

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The latter infers cockiness without justification.

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by definition, they are one in the same bud

cocky1
[kok-ee] Spell Syllables
Word Origin
adjective, cockier, cockiest.
1.
arrogant; pertly self-assertive; conceited:

ego
[ee-goh, eg-oh] Spell Syllables
Examples Word Origin
noun, plural egos.
1.
the “I” or self of any person; a person as thinking, feeling, and willing, and distinguishing itself from the selves of others and from objects of its thought.
2.
Psychoanalysis. the part of the psychic apparatus that experiences and reacts to the outside world and thus mediates between the primitive drives of the id and the demands of the social and physical environment.
3.
egotism; conceit; self-importance: