re: If LSU beats Notre Dame, O will be 32-32 as a head coach

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Ole Miss went to a Cotton Bowl in the immediate years in front of Orgeron and following Orgeron

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They went 4-8 in the year immediately preceding Orgeron. Orgeron recruited all the talent for Nutt. Once that talent dried up, so did Nutt

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Ole Miss went to a Cotton Bowl in the immediate years in front of Orgeron and following Orgeron. They weren't "bottom dwellers". Well, they were when O coached them.

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Actually, according to Hugh Freeze and other O assistants there at the same time O was there, who have been saying the following since O was still at USC, the losses that O suffered at Ole Miss were due to O's predecessor who was fired only after one losing season because it was already known by the Ole Miss Athletic administration that he had already miserably failed at recruiting. In fact, poor recruiting was cited as the primary cause for his dismissal.

Nonetheless, while at Ole Miss, O's two recruiting classes, on the other hand, were very outstanding. In fact, his recruiting classes coincide with the time that the book Meat Market was written.

Anyway, according to Freeze and those other assistants, had Ole Miss gave O the final year of his contract instead of pulling the rug out from underneath him, for all intents and purposes, the Ole Miss football team had already been rebuilt. However, O never had an opportunity to prove it because he was fired.

Meanwhile, the proof of it they cite is the fact that Houston Nutt came in and won immediately with the players that O had recruited to Ole Miss. Then subsequently when those players graduated, suddenly Nutt couldn't win with his own recruits.

In fact, Freeze and those other assistants suggest that had Ole Miss not pulled the rug out from underneath O and let him have his final season at Ole Miss as promised, that in all likelihood O would still be the head coach at Ole Miss to this day.

Of course, you will never hear any of this from O because O doesn't believe in excuses.