Jackson Jambalaya

No need to speculate about USM's future conference affiliation. I'm sure the OM and MSU fans can make SWAC and Gulf South Conference cracks without any help. Fact is, CUSA and the Mountain West are very close to an all sports merger with 16 teams. It's not ideal, but it's no worse than CUSA as exists now, and nothing like the Sunbelt scenario you paint.

Sounds like a few alums were heard!

Gianini, for the most part, has always been an invisible man. Some say Bower should never have been fired as his job was to win games. Well, I disagree. Bower never smiled, had no interraction with the fans, appeared once a week at a totally dull and uninspiring phone-in show and was impervious to the stands who desperately needed to feel involved.

Similarly, Gianini had nothing to do with the fan base or alums except those he would court on occasion hoping for donations. Otherwise, nobody would recognize him if he were to walk down main street in the middle of the day.

If you were to take the personalities of Bower and Gianini, put them in a brown bag and shake them up and dump them on a table, you might equal that of Junior Samples.

I won't be surprised if Brett Favre gets involved in coach search as well as A.D. search on some level. He would bring more name recognition to the process than the 65 year old Drew-relic Ole Miss brought out of the shadows simply to recruit a high school girls' basketball coach.

Brent does not give a rat's ass about the USM; he has always been a spoiled selfless person.

We have to look at this as a new opperyunity. We now have the chance to bring in another hungry young coach, that can build on our sucess.

Lets face it USM doe more with less than any other program in the country. If USM were in New Orleans, or Memphis they would be courted by some of the bigger conferences, because of the TV market. But reality is we are in Hattiesburg ( agreat city) but very small TV market. We do nothing to help with TV contracts, where most of the money comes from.

So we go out get a young coach, a New AD with vision and energy to move a program forward.

I for one am proud to be a USM fan.

USM makes one more step to total irrelevance. The "Teachers' College" should have everything going for it, but her "fans" don't ever show up for the dance.

"Brent does not give a rat's ass about the USM; "

Who's Brent?

What is "USM"? I thought Hattiesburg had a satellite campus for the Univ. of Iowa.

Just asking to be sure I am not confused......

So USM's AD can get out in days, but it takes Ole Miss thirteen months to get rid of Pete Boone? Of
course when I say get rid of Pete Boone I mean before he leaves the AD job and goes to highly paid with perks consultant job at Ole Miss. Isn't this what all the good ole boys in Oxford do when they "retire?"

He made decision to go to Hawaii then blamed the decision on the players.

Pete isn't going to be moving in to a consulting role. He's retiring. He doesn't need an income stream. Remember, he was involved in the sale of two banks in which he owned a substantial amount of stock. He was doing the AD job out of love for the school and as a "dream job". It went nightmarish for him this time out.

Or will he be paid at the same level as Amy Tuck and her Truck at MSU?

Shadowfax,

Yea bring Brett out to help with the coaching search, I just hope the pill popping, exposing himself to women on cell phones part of his personality does not come out with the coaches wives or daughters.

11:33; you remind me of the libs who are still chortling over GWB's enrollment in and success with alcohol rehab thirty years ago. If a decrepid redhead from Drew can recruit a high school girl's basketball coach for Ole Piss, surely Brett can assist USM in their search for their next coach. Dontcha thank?

What about the texting of his woodie? Rehab for that or just a stupid sophomore prank by a 40 year old? Not smart enough or respected like the "redhead from Drew". Go buy your double-knit polyester black and gold from wal mart and watch the birds play in Haywaii and dream of going one day.