re: Southern Miss offers job to Tyrone Nix

you can tell BUTCH that we average more than 20K attendance and if he knew any better then he would know that not any sane golden eagle expects to be national powers, especially the conference that we are in or while we are not in a BCS conference.

we do expect to go and WIN conference championships with occasional liberty bowl wins in a conference that everyone knows is the worst in the country.

and purplehze - you really need to be a little more honest. Jeff Bower has had 17 years to produce. he was not backstabbed. any other program would have kicked him out YEARS ago. for those that understand what USM football is they will tell you they are surprised that he lasted as long as he has. you also must not be informed enough to know that Bower does not equal USM. he did NOT build USM. SOuthern Miss was winning before he came and will continue to win after.

during the 80s we beat more ranked teams in that 8 or 9 year span than we did Jeff Bower in all of his 17 years. we lost 2 CUSA games , TWO from 1996-2000. weve gone from that to losing 3 conference losses just this year, including RICE and only beating a BAD memphis team 1 time in 4 years. are you telling me we shouldnt look for something better?

gimme a break.

you want it in a nutshell? open your eyes, everyone that reads this thread and read this article.

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