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Ole Miss Is Wrong & Bass Ackwards
Posted by Joel on October 30, 2007
Coach Ed Orgeron, yes he the “wise” titty-twisting machine of a head coach, has suspended emerging star defensive end Greg Hardy for the dreaded “violation of team rules” rationale. Scott Cacciola of The Commercial Appeal has indicated that missing practices and meetings were the reason behind the suspension. Of course, no timetable has been set for his return.
The plot twist (or for Coach O, tit-twist) to this story is that Hardy and his family has been told by Ole Miss that should he decide to transfer, they would not grant his release to another SEC school or to the University of Memphis, in Hardy’s hometown, where Hardy starred at Briarcrest Christian and was a Rivals Top 100 recruit (and yet another recruit that Fulmer couldn’t get out of Memphis, but I digress).
So let me get this straight: You have a kid who leads the SEC in sacks and tackles for loss, who obviously does not want to be at Ole Miss anymore, but you will not allow him to transfer to another school of his own choosing??? By the way, there has been no indication that he has been missing classes and/or is failing in school. What are we talking about…practice??? Not the game, but we talkin’ about practice…
I understand that team meetings are important. I get that. I also understand that it takes a certain level of discipline to play football, especially at a major program. But to not allow the kid to leave because he is unhappy because he may go to a team that you face on your schedule for the next couple of years is asinine, especially if you are Ole Miss.
Does anyone realize this is OLE MISS FOOTBALL that we are talking about??? The same Ole Miss that fired David Cutcliffe after he had 2 losing seasons in 6 years but had plenty of 8 or 9 win years, including a Cotton Bowl win??? The same Ole Miss that has done just about nothing in my 30 years of existence of any major note (no SEC titles in football, no National Titles in football, or any other major sport that I can think of)??? The same Ole Miss who has no mascot because the Col. Sanders looking Col. Reb was deemed to “racially insensitive” and now there is no mascot at all??? The same Ole Miss that is proud of “The Grove” and all of its pageantry, but while everyone is dressed in their Sunday best, they are using Saturday night’s paper plates and plastic utensils, negating the “prim and proper” atmosphere they are going for??? That Ole Miss??? I just wanted to make sure we were talking about the same Ole Miss.
Coach O, if you are reading this (which I doubt, but you never know), here’s my take. If this is any other program in the SEC, you would be gone, if not now, but at the latest by the end of the season. However, you lucked up and landed the head coaching gig at Ole Miss. You are living off of the fact that you have brought in Top 100 recruits, but your fine coaching abilities have resulted in very few wins. Signing Day does not matter if you do nothing with the talent that you have come the following October. Hell, you haven’t done anything with them past the month of August, by October you have a very underachieving team. Coach Croom across the state has less talent and is winning. Even if he wasn’t winning this year, he has managed to pull off some upsets in the past few years. The Rebel fan base is either too set in mediocrity year after year with its football program or just doesn’t know any better. If it was Ole Miss instead of LSU, UT, Alabama, etc., you would have a moving truck in front of your home headed back to your boy Pete Carroll at USC today. You wouldn’t be alone, the athletic director Pete Boone would be gone too.
If Hardy doesn’t want to be there, let him go where he wants to go. He has to sit out a year anyway. What’s the point of keeping him there??? Ole Miss won’t let him transfer to a conference school or an out of conference “rival”. So by this logic would the school let him go to Ohio State, Oregon, Clemson, West Virginia??? Are these schools any better than another SEC school??? I am not excusing Hardy’s behavior. He should not miss team meetings. But the Bowden-Spurrier-Fulmer-Tressel-Meyer School of Player Discipline states that you sit him for a series or maybe a quarter. To put him on indefinite suspension, especially when he can help you, is excessive. At the same time, Ole Miss isn’t going anywhere and maybe boosters will wake up out of their “Hotty Toddy” stupor and realize that the current band of merry men that are running the athletics and football programs are no better than a guy carrying a raccoon club to a gun fight…
p.s. Did your fine academic department ever teach Jerrell Powe how to spell the word “cat”???
Big Orange Amy said
I think any excuse to show AI talkin’ about practice is totally justified. And to be this concerned about Ole Miss football is just laughable. I feel bad for the kid.
Thomas the Terrible said
“You are living off of the fact that you have brought in Top 100 recruits, but your fine coaching abilities have resulted in very few wins. Signing Day does not matter if you do nothing with the talent that you have come the following October”
That’s called the Phil Fulmer influence.
Taco Bell Soft Tacos said
Thomas,
I guarantee Coach 0 did not read this post. I know this because Coach 0 cannot read.
Thomas the Terrible said
LOL true but I didn’t write this one, Joel did…Joel also needs to send me a bio so I can add him to the “About the Writers” page.
Joel said
I can’t access that page to set up a bio…
Joel said
Nevermind. Sending it in a few…
Taco Bell Soft Tacos said
My bad Thomas, great post Joel.
You from Memphrica?
Joel said
Born and raised. You know, at times I miss the crime and corruption in the local government…
Taco Bell Soft Tacos said
cool. one of my room mates at Ole Miss graduated from White Station.
I do miss Drake and Zeke on Rock 103. They were the best.
Joel said
Yeah I spent a lot of time at White Station. Used to be a lot of “talent” there…
J K Jones said
Joel:
Know your facts before you post next time so you won’t look like just another idiot with a computer.
Joel said
OK, let’s review some facts in this post:
1) Greg Hardy is from Memphis. He went to Briarcrest Christian.
2) Greg Hardy plays football for Ole Miss as a defensive end.
3) Greg Hardy was suspended from the football team.
4) Coach Ed Orgeron stated he was suspended for violation of team rules.
Here’s a tricky one, sincce I apparently have to spell it out:
5) According to the story, AS REPORTED IN THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL (the local newspaper in Memphis, TN), Hardy’s parents were told he was suspended for missing practices and team meetings (if you don’t believe that, you can click on the link in the story. You will see the link because the reporter’s name is colored orange. Can’t miss it.) His parents were also told Hardy could not go to an SEC school or the University of Memphis, who plays Ole Miss annually in football.
6) Ole Miss has not won a National Championship in football in over 30 years (45 years to be exact, which is the same amount of time they last won an SEC title outright, not a “West Division Co-Title”).
There is no current mascot for the school, since the school has taken away Col. Reb.
7) Greg Hardy, at the time, was leading the SEC in sacks and tackles for loss.
9) Ole Miss won the Cotton Bowl in 2003, 2004 the team went 4-7 and David Cutcliffe was fired.
10) Coach Ed Orgeeron has not had a winning record since becoming head coach.
Now, let’s review some opinion:
1) Ole Miss football has been mediocre for a loooooooooooooooooooong time.
2) Coach O is the worst coach in the SEC, but maybe the best recruiter.
3) The football program and sports program in general is probably the worst in the SEC. I would say that right now both Miss. State and VANDY are better programs.
4) Ole Miss SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s called presenting the facts and then giving an opinion. If you do not understand those facts, please do the following:
1) Take your had off of the mouse and keyboard.
2) Step away from the computer.
3) Do not pick up a newspaper, magazine, watch any TV for approximately 12 hours.
4) Come back to your computer, put your hand back on the keyboard and mouse, log onto this site, and please let everyone know how the view from Never Neverland was. I have some vacation time saved up and am looking to take a trip…
memphis tiger said
Joel
Dad blame it you nailed the Mississippi Rebels really good. They always walk around with a degree of cockiness about them. What a loosing bunch of drunks. My high school class mate is serving 20 years after he killed a campus policeman there. All he learned at Mississippi was to get high and get drunk. The football program has been so down for so long. Why a black player would ever show up on that raciest campus is beyond me. The band still plays Dixe for the fight song. Every redneck pick up driving student has a rebel flag on their back windshield. I will never set foot on that campus again. Did I mention a 19 year old student fell from a tree this fall trying to reach his football at 4:00 a.m. and landed on his neck. School admin said drinking was not involved. The state examiner confirmed he was drunk at the time of his death.
Greg Hardy is not a lot smarter that J. Poe but at least his parents are involved in his explnation. Pete Boone should release his so he can be happy. Who could be happy in Oxford anyway. He is actually from Millington and played in Memphis for the Saints Coach Hugh Freeze the now acting coach of the Rebels.
Rebel man says said
Wow…Ole Miss has a couple of bad years and every punk ass son of a whore wants to take a shot. We will be back!!! Remember you heard it here first. Now for the Tiger High fan that roots for Ole Miss when those thugs arent winning in little conference USA. You sir can kiss my rebel ass. Hell you cant even protect you student athletes from being gunned down in that gang infested city of yours, arent you guys leading the nation in murders and corruption. Your class mate was just a fool for killing that officer, was he raised by animals? oh, but thats Memphis folks for ya huh, didnt a couple of those basketball players have court dates before the season? Something about a CLUB FIGHT and DRINKING? GO TO HELL TIGER HIGH, YOU WILL ALWAYS BE TIGER HIGH!!!!!
Joel said
A couple of bad years huh??? Let’s try a LOT of bad years. Yeah, one day, you will be back, but not today, not tomorrow, and not in the next 2 years. Not when every other program in the SEC West has lapped you or were ahead of you to begin with…
As for Memphis, even though I did not attend Tiger High, the city is my hometown. Though I do not live there anymore, yes it is filled with crime and corruption. But what major metropolitan area in this country does not have it’s crime problems??? The “student athlete” that was gunned down (Taylor Bradford) was an isolated incident. Would you call the guy that murdered all of those people at Va Tech a guy that was “raised by animals”??? What about the punter from Northern Colorado that shanked the starting punter in the leg??? Why didn’t the coaches and the school protect him???
And last I checked, it’s not like the Rebel football program is squeaky clean, but I guess you conveniently forgot about the 20 players that stole hotel pillows and alarm clocks. Oh, and don’t forget to check and make Jerrell Powe colors inside the lines…
Thomas the Terrible said
“Oh, and don’t forget to check and make Jerrell Powe colors inside the lines…”
Bahahahaha
bambam23 said
I just wanted to step in and add some fuel to the fire. You guys, ESPECIALLY REBEL MAN, should check out The Anti-Ole Miss Army’s page on MySpace. It’s friggin’ hilarious!