Col Nutt and the Ole Miss "Tradition"

I think Ole Miss can put a quality team on the field this year. They definately have the capability to surprise some teams and play spoiler. With Jevan Snead at the helm of the offense (a guy many in Austin still believe should have won the job over Colt McCoy) and a stout defensive line, they will cause some teams trouble and win a game or two they shouldn't.

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Have you ever been to Oxford?

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I like Oxford...just saying

He's definitely a good coach, but I'm not so sure about "great". Great coaches win championships, and he didn't do that at Arkansas.

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I respectfully highly disagree. Nutt was an average coach....not even in the same class as Dinardo. ZERO Bowl Wins or championships with Felix Jones and D-Mac. 1 Bowl win (Shreveport), and zero Championships with Matt Jones.

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Please stop talking. Arkansas did not have much after that. Nutt did a hell of alot with less at Arkansas.

I don't know about a real threat, but I think they will be better this year.

Yeah, Casey Dick, or whatever his name is played the game of his life against us, and he stank a bit. However that long 4th down perp-body pass he did still haunts me a bit, good play by the kid.

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Sorry, I had to laugh. I've just never seen the words Ole Miss and Tradition on the same line.

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well then you know nothing about college football. As much as they have bit the big one the last few years, they were a national powerhouse for some years back in the day of Vaught and Archie.



To add to the topic. Ole Miss has gotten some talent the last couple years under some pretty decent recruiting by Orgeron and now that they have a competent coach and a pretty talented QB I wouldn't be surprised if they ruined a few team's seasons.

That being said, LSU dominates in Baton Rouge. Geaux Tigers.

Neither O.Miss or Ms. State has enuff $$$$$ to continually be a strong player in either the SEC West or the conference as a whole. Their stadiums are maxed out...at 57,000 each approximately & this is after recent upgrades. That rite there limits what they can do to compete in the conference. I am not saying that there are not rich supporters at either school,but they are just limited in fund raising,in comparision to the other teams, and the bottom line is it takes $$$$ to keep up in this conference.

Sirpak...

<<but before Sabban arrived,you were 45 years removed from a National Championship,and Dinardo brought you guys back from the abyss of the SEC>>

Huh??

Not sure what you are talking about. We were Bamas' only decent threat for much of the late 1960s and early 1970s, we had a decent program to wrap the 1970s up and either finished first or second in the SEC in 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987
and 1988, 6 times in 8 years.

Why people put so much stock into that 1989-1994
period is beyond me. LSU has been either a top ten or close to a top 10 program for 100 years.

Our so called "abyss" had everything to do with hiring two terrible gameday coaches back to back who couldn't recruit worth a damn either (Archer and Hallman). Even DiNardo with his limited coaching ability accrued 10-2 and 9-3 seasons.

Trying to say LSU was in a "45 year slide" is simply BS. Just like what Bama is going through now, (except Bama may not pull out of it anytime soon) 1989-1994 was a bad time for LSU.

LSU hired Stovall, Arnsbarger, Archer,and Hallman over the next 12 years. None of these guys had the complete package, and the money they were paid was indicitive to that. LSU turned the corner by making the committment to a total program in 1998.

The rest is history, past, present and future.
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Bottom line--

LSU... and only LSU...caused it's own abyss.

It really doesn;t matter what anyone else does
in this "evolved" state of the SEC.

An example.

Head over to Wilkipedia and review the records of Florida Gators since 1980. I would invite all to review how many SEC titles Florida had prior to 1990.

I would THEN invite you to see how many losing seasons UF has had over the last quarter century.

Florida evolved.

You can now insert LSU under that same criteria. If anything, LSU is now equal, or even better.

You'll never be able to insert Ole Miss there.

I'll pretty much second what TheCaterpillar had to say.

I'm looking for a solid 5 or 6 wins this year. Ole Miss has more talent that last year's campaign showed. Nutt seems like a good fit for Ole Miss. Has a history of getting the most out of his talent, which is a big deal at a school that isn't going to pull in many Rivals Top 100 guys. He seems like the right guy for the program right now.