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Rebels fire him ASAP. Kingfish, they can afford anything they want to afford....MSU grad here. This season is GONE anyway, get an interim, then get a new coach like Mullen (I know you don't want to hear it, but your spirit, crowd, attitude et al is GONE and needs a spark...what he, Mullen, has done at "home" is amazing).

Forget this cocky "national search ego boost BS" at the end of an embarrasing season, and come to grips with where you are, and where you need to be.

Geazus, at LEAST get competitive and you are staring down the barrel of a 1-11. How worse can it get.

FIRE HIS ASS, AND EMBRACE A SPARK IN YOUR "PROGRAM", or what is left of it.

NOW.

If you don't send Pete packin' nothing else move-wise matters. If there is going to be no accountability then you'll always enjoy your half-measures until the rubber meets the road.

BTW, anyone else remember Pete's kid here in Jacktown pushing Morgan Keegan funds and WCOM stock (while Taylor's wifey worked @ Bernie's in Clinton)?.

TRUTH IS 5:57, IT WON'T MATTER.

Ole Miss is so lost in how cool they are, that they can't seem to understand that although the Grove is great, the stadium game day personality is the worst in the SEC, and THAT translates into W's.

Dreamers.

I love those preppy types with their dolled up dates. Never played a down in their lives. All huffed and puffed up over Ole Miss "football" (that is a stretch)

Black Bear...MY ASS!

I don't even like sports but this is like a train wreck:you have to watch it.

The only thing that I find equally compelling in athletics is Les Miles in the 4th quarter.

Boone is the problem. Look at what he's done. Fired Cutclif, hired Orgeron, hired Nutt. Look at your basketball program as well.

I was headed South on 55 at the Batesville exit over the weekend and saw a balck Escalade taking the eastbound exit. Tag number was Croom-1.

Let me share what everyone is missing, the problem is not Boone, it's Jones, he let's Boone exist because he/they don't want great sports, he want's to be Vandy! Ole Miss can afford to buy out Nutt and hire a new guy, don't know whether they will or not but they can. Sad sams and complainers in MS will always hate ole miss regardless of sports because you didn't go there and chances are, you work for an ole miss grad. Sorry, that's just the way it is and it won't change.

That's bullshit 8:42. I used to be a huge UM fan, back in the sixties and early 70s. Converted to MSU after that. And have hired quite a few UM grads and wannabe grads over the years. Most of them, however, don't want to get the loafers dusty or wrinkle the Polos. But they're hell on wheels at the after hours sports bars. Great fun. Head to the bathroom and never pick up tabs though.

8:42 You can always count on some arrogance to come out when you are discussing anything to do with Ole Miss. Truth is there is nothing to be arrogant about. There never was, but there sure isn't now. The truth is your law and medical schools now are filled with students who have undergraduate degrees from other schools, and they could care less about Ole Miss anything especially Ole Miss sports. Your school is a Tier III national public university with a ranking around in the 140-150 range. Nothing wrong with this, but it is what it is. You can get a good education there, but Ole Miss while you all like to pretend is not an elite school. It's not even close. It's one of three I guess you could say four really major universities in a small poor state. So get over yourselves. People don't work for Ole Miss grads anymore than they work for USM, JSU, or MSU grads. How damn ridicious can you be?

heard that Mike Leach is speaking at river hills football club event tomorrow night...... hmmmm

sorry,,, typo Leach will be speaking at the Touchdown Club event tomorrow night ( 17th)

Sorry, but the last thing Ole Miss needs is another coach who didn't work at another school, and Ole Miss certainly doesn't need a weirdo like Mike Leach. Why would Ole Miss hire Leach and no one else will touch him?

Ole Miss needs a national search for a young coach who is agressive, smart, hard working coach who will work 24/7 and appreciate having an opportunity to coach in the SEC. Don't ask me who. I don't have a clue, but nothing will convince me there's not someone just like this out there somewhere already in the coaching ranks who would love the chance to coach in the SEC. One more coaching hire screw-up and Ole Miss can forget football in the SEC, and let's don't even talk about the millions of dollars that has been literally thrown away on these clown coaches hired in Oxford. It's going to take $6M just to get rid of Nutt on top of about $2M to pay the assistant coaches contracts off.

Ahhh, ain't it time for UM to get em a minority (as they say) head coach. This would round out the destruction of racist symbols and vestiges of slavery. Mr. Khayat once said they needed to get rid of flag sticks and songs in order to recruit good black players. I reckon a black coach is the answer. The end of apartheid is at hand.

What is wierd is the UM does so many things right, but have screwed this football deal up for years. YEARS.

And will continue to do so, 5:35.
They are still in 1960's when
they "won" those hardy har "national champinships" from Wheaties or someone.

Know how many Ole Miss grads it takes to change a light bulb?

6. One to change the bulb and 5 to sit around and talk about how GREAT the old bulb use to be.

That would be Division III

The Black Bears looked helpless. It was amazing. It was a horrible football game, but I couldn't take my eyes off it. This Nutt character has no idea how to coach a football team.

5:35 is right. This train wreck has been building speed for years. As an Ole Miss grad., and football fan that formerly showed interest in what happed in Oxford, I usually don't even know if Ole Miss won until Monday morning when the MSU fans tell me. Look at photos of the stadium on game day, it has less people than the grove. The alumni assn. is where I place the blame. They should have told the school a long time ago to stop jacking with the traditions or no more support from us. MSU has totally embraced the cowbell tradition, which is completely a violation of NCAA rules. As of now, my kids can go to MSU as far as I care. Someone got it right earlier, Ole Miss and MSU will always be mid-level competitors from a small state that have good seasons once every 5-10 years. That is the best any of us will ever do competing against 2 1/2 universities for the best players that can't stand going more that 2 hours from their mama. At least let us be proud of school. Changing the mascot is not how to do that.

Ole Miss stumbled onto Nutt, or maybe he stumbled onto them, but had he not been canned at Arkansas they would not have been able to hire a quality guy with any time as a head coach. They already ran into that after Tuberville. Cutcliffe, then Orgeron, neither with head coaching experience. They either need to go after a coordinator at a top 10 school, sort of like Florida did with Muschamp, or dip down into the lower divisions like Ohio State did with Tressel. There's a possibility that a head coach from a lower level BCS conference like the Big East or ACC might want to move up to the big time like Brian Kelly did when he went from Cincinnati to Notre Dame, but Ole Miss is in the best division of the most competitive league in the country. Who's going to want to move here just to finish 4-7 in a good year? Move over, Vandy, there's a new doormat in town...

This is one MSU fan who wants the Rebels to do well (except on Thanksgiving weekends). It's good for the state.

That said, for ANY school in Mississippi to HONEST TO GOD believe that their school is just one coaching hire or one player signing away from a national championship is lunacy. Mississippi is and always will be too small, and our reputation on a national level isn't always positive (see: heart disease, obesity, literacy, etc.) We can't recruit the kind of players we need (see: Newton, Cam). Even when we do, it's usually on one side of the ball only. Offense is great, defense is awful, vice versa.

I'm not saying anyone should hang on to a coach who has obviously failed -- but the fan bases need to get a grip. Those schools exist to educate, not to make it to bowl games. When the success or failure of the football team means more to alumni than the school's ability to graduate quality human beings who can succeed, then the tail IS wagging the Dawg (or Black Bear).

Now, I love football as much as -- probably more than -- the next gal, but I never forget that I went to school to get an education, not to see a winning football team. One of my favorite memories from MSU is when we beat the Ole' Ball Coach and Shane Matthews in S'ville in 1992 for our Thursday night ESPN debut. My favorite drink is no longer available -- cold Coke in a stadium cup, whiskey from the flask your date hid in his sock, stirred with a wooden pom-pom handle. I LOVED all of that about my time at State, BUT IT WASN'T THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF COLLEGE.

Yes, I know athletic programs produce revenue for academics, and yes, I know that successful athletics can be a major recruiting tool. But I've talked with Ole Miss friends of mine in the last two days who seem to think the loss to Vandy is the equivalent of someone taking a backhoe to the Grove or burning down campus. It's not. And, good grief, the posters on the C-L all seem on the verge of either murder or suicide.

Just some perspective that I'm pretty sure no one cares about but I felt like adding anyway.

I wonder what it would take for the "educated" grads of all the Mississippi universities (and I am one) to admit that there is no rational reason to maintain so many universities in a state with such a small population.

I realize this idea is received as well as Richard Dawkins at a Southern Baptist Convention conference, but one can dream reason will prevail one day.

10:12,

As an Ole Miss grad, I can't get any more damn "ridicious" than your post. How's that?

2:22. Clearly you didn't see the "ridicious" display Saturday morning/afternoon. UM calls a time-out to regroup, and Nutt just stands there, time after time. Doesn't open his mouth to "coach".

Ridicious.

Next the blog boards at UM will be clamoring to hire Andy Reid or some other big name that only their arrogance can conjur up.

Ridicious.

How's that?

2:22. I hate to bust your bubble, but 10:12 is spot on. Nothing in that post that wasn't true. It is what it is. Ole Miss is one of four major universities in a poor state and has at best average academics and below average athletic teams. Ole Miss is as far away from being an elite academic school as your football team is from winning the BCS National Championship.

There's just too much competition for talent in this state to support more than one SEC college football program in this state. Any coaching candidate with half a brain would see that and run, as there's very little chance of being successful(Dan Mullen may be finding that out the hard way). Ole Miss would do well to step aside and let Texas A & M take their place in the SEC West and joint the Big East or ACC - maybe even the Big 12 if it's still around. That will never happen, so they'll either have to get used to losing or get used to bitching about their coach.

This "ForwardRebel.org" stuff is PRICELESS. Talk about publically eating your own. God some Ole Miss people are arrogant and stupid.

They are probably the numerous "boo birds" at the mecca of game day intimidation..."The Vaught"

IF Ole Miss had any pride, they would surrender their position in the SEC. Plain and simple. They can't compete consistently in ANYTHING save tennis.

I remember in the early 1990's when Steve Spurrier complained publicly about his elite Gators having to waste time playing teams from Mississippi, that it was actually embarassing (and shortly after, MSU whipped his visored ass on national television). Please note that he made no distinction between Ole Miss and Mississippi State, he just said Mississippi.

So, 6:07, you carrying Spurrier's water for him now? What you are saying is really no different. Ole Miss is having a bad stretch, they'll get over it, and then have a good stretch. Mississippi State will follow the same pattern.

I am a Dawg through and through, but I would personally be disappointed to see Ole Miss gone from the SEC. They bring a lot to the conference, even if they aren't in a bowl game every year.

I am a State fan, and this whole thing makes me sick, especially for Ole Miss fans.

Hell the whole state, or the part of the state with any compassion, is hurting too.

THANKS, DAWG.

State is just pissed off they don't make near what an Ole Miss grad makes. Bunch of Aggies!

6:46....OMG. Here we go. There's that Ole Miss arrogance again. You can bet it's always going to show up, and people are always going to laugh at fools like you.

ForwardRebels.org

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