Houston Nutt fired

Let me find James Meredith's phone number and you can ask him.

 

Because it's not 1964?

 

Yeah, anyone who thinks Ole Miss or its fan base is all that different from any other major Southern university has never been there.

 

It's not Starkville...

 

Point taken, and this is drifting a little off topic, but I've long wondered by black players would consider going to Ole Miss, what with the Confederate flags and the Rebels' nickname. Yeah, other major southern universities play on nostalgia too, but they're more passive about it. Ole Miss makes it official.

 

Wasn't Colonel Rebel (Yosemite Sam looking plantation owner), or whatever he was called. retired?

 

Remember the stolen iPod alarm clocks? If not for that, he would've possibly gotten that final year. That was the proverbial straw that broke the Cajun Caveman's back.

The expectations at Ole Miss are so out of whack vis-a-vis reality as to be laughable. They're not a championship contender. Maybe once a decade.
They're a middle-tier football program that should win 6-7 games per year minimum and 10-12 every 10 years if everything aligns correctly. The problem is multifold:
• Their athletic budget isn't even close to Alabama's. Florida's. LSU's. Auburn's. Georgia's. Better facilities are a huge draw for recruits.
• Mississippi high school football is inferior to the surrounding states, except for Tennessee. While Mississippi produced more than its fair share of NFL greats, overall, the talent level here is pretty thin. Besides the big programs, the second tier is pretty bad. Our county has one legit D-1A prospect amongst four high schools and two borderline ones. Ouch. The school systems in the state aren't so great either, so good luck getting what talent there is to qualify.
• Ole Miss has to share that talent with three major programs. Louisiana's high school football, top to bottom, is some of the best in the nation and LSU doesn't have to share it with any other competitor. The Rebels also have to go into Georgia, Florida and Louisiana plus Tennessee to get whatever scraps left over from Alabama, LSU, Auburn, Georgia and Florida.
But hey, at least they win the party. The women are gorgeous and dress to the nines. That's gotta account for something.

 

Yes, with Admiral Ackbar ... I mean a black bear.

 

Leach is already lobbying for this job. To be fair, it'd be a pretty damn good fit.

 

I'm not sure how he'd "fit" per se, but he would make the SECW that much more dangerous. Folks got "Croomed" a lot, and I suspect it would be similar with a Leach-led Rebel squad.

 

It's a job where they need someone to come in with something to prove. If Leach can win at Texas Tech, he can win at Ole Miss.

 

Just guessing here, but I'd bet Colorado or Maryland would be a lot better off than they are now if they'd hired Leach.