re: Ole Miss's Demise what caused it.

Pretty simple IMO

The facilities suck arse, stadium sucks arse and the athletic department will not commit to hiring top coaches and coordinators. Talent pool in MS blows and the good ones go to MS state, LSU and Bama

Ole Miss fans want to belive they got money and are elite on some type of level but the truth is they rank near the bottom in endowments and they can't dismantle their own good ol boy network long enough to move forward.

I mad

I fricking hate Ole Miss

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And USM - USM has gotten the best in-state recruits the last 30 years due to lower admission standards and the best fan base of the 3.

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Completely wrong.

The demise of the OM football program is the lack of progressive thinking from the athletic department. They failed to capitalize on the success of the 60's and 70's and did not have the foresight to move the program ahead, instead were content to sit on their asses while other schools easily passed them. Instead it became an Old Boy's Club full of croynism, entitlement, and laziness.

Sure things like small state, academic troubles, small town, MSU, small stadium etc are a factor, but not the crux of the problem. They are the results of a crappy athletic department.

The one guy who put the program at the national level also tore it down. Johnny Vault. After he retired, he kept on publicly armchair quarterbacking every coach who went in. He turned into a constant source of controversy. Not too many decent coaches want to walk into that. I don't think the racial thing is as big as folks make it out to be anymore.

Ole miss isn't any more or less racist than any other school in the deep south.

Qualifying academically and talent raiders hurt more than anything.
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Have you SEEN that broad? There had to be some Carrie-esque rigging going on for those results.

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Actually she is a very popular student among her peers on campus. With all the extra curricular activities she is apart of, I'm not surprised that the students voted for her.

Man if you think the talent pool in Mississippi blows you don't know jack about high school football. They have problems but this (and a plethora if fine pussy on campus) isn't one of them

Economics is a huge issue. The state is so poor and education is so bad that it's hard to raise money or even get the good athletes into college.

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Those have been gone a long time, Ole Miss got worse since they have been gone ,not better,so not the reason

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Ole Miss' "glory days" were pretty much during Segregation, so they didn't have to worry about recruiting black players.

I think their biggest problem is there are a big portion of top state recruits that can't qualify. High school academics in the state are taking a toll.