Rebel Roundup - 8/18/10
by The Ghost of Jay Cutler on Aug 18, 2010 9:17 AM EDT
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According to the EotC, the quarterbacks did not have a good scrimmage yesterday, Markeith Summers was out with a tweaked hammie giving Melvin Harris plenty of reps with the first team, and Fon Ingram worked out with the first team defense over Damien Jackson. There's that, and then more, but the details are scarce because the practices are now closed and the media is only allowed to watch the first 20 minutes.
And just avoid the comments thread on this one. Shit's gotten wierder than ever. Now, SMU is, for some reason, a target of the Clarion Ledger reader's vitriolic ire. And then there's this:
DAVID Bradndt, this is to YOU / Gae a kid from MS to go to bamam and the CL foams. A feel good story for days. DAVID, any reason that these feel good stories have faced TRUTH and now 6 Mississippi kids have been removed by Sabamn and Bama???????????? Or are you too big of a "ladie" to attempt to cover that? CL is dang proud when a Mississippi kid leaves and gets a Bama offefr.. Care to follow up in the 6 that have been removed and all? Or is saban an off topic? Wanna wear a hat and make it easy?
Yeah! David Bradndt! Fess up... or something.
Reviewing Ole Miss' Scrimmage | ESPN
ESPN's SEC blogger Christopher of Low writes of Masoli's abilities, Enrique Davis' promise, and the receiving corps benefiting from our qurterback talent.
SEC Inter-Divisional Play | Overall Records
Year2, SBN's resident SEC statistician, has compiled information regarding every SEC team's play against teams in their opposing division over the past 18 seasons. Ole Miss has, barely, a winning record against the East since interdivisional play began, but a somewhat low SEC record overall. When considering how unusually common Rebel victories over Florida are and how unusually rare Rebel victories over Alabama are, this makes some sense.
Andy Kennedy Settles Lawsuit | KansasCity.com (why are they covering this?)
So I'm not really following this:
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As for the Kennedy suit
It was a PR move on his part to sue to begin with. Basically his lawyers realized that Kennedy was going to be sued as a result of the incident, because it would be easy to extort a settlement out of Kennedy in order to keep everything out of the public eye. Because of this, Kennedy’s lawyers beat them to the punch, suing them first and making himself out to be the victim. They counter sued with the same suits that they would have brought anyways, but now they are the defendants instead of the plaintiffs, making Kennedy look like the victim in the courtroom.
All in all, Kennedy gets an apology and pays some money, which would have been a whole hell of a lot worse than if he had waited to be sued by the cabbie and valet to begin with. I give props to Kennedy’s lawyers, they were on top of this from the get go.
I arrived on campus at Ole Miss in the fall of 2003. Col Reb had just been banned over the summer, so I technically never knew him as my mascot. A student led initiative caused a campus wide vote to keep Col Reb alive. Though the vote passed to keep him on life support, the administration still pulled the plug on him. Though I never knew him, I was there and witnessed Col Reb's Last Breath.
by ColRebsLastBreath on Aug 18, 2010 9:33 AM EDT reply actions
Kennedy gets apology, cabbies get paid.
Everybody wins. I mean, from all appearances Kennedy was in the wrong from the get-go, so this has to be just about the best possible resolution for him.
Is it really negative?
Or just an honest assessment of a poor day for the QBs? I mean, he has quotes from the coaches saying that they had a rough day. It’s not like he just came up with this on his own.
for what it's worth...
I’m pretty sure all the media is allowed to see now are the stretching drills (which is all that takes place in the first 20 minutes). So any assessment of the QBs would be based on what the coaches had to say afterwards.
Also, any comments the media is making regarding who is running with 1st team, 2nd team, etc. would also be based on who they are stretching with – not who they are taking reps with – so I would take any practice reports when only the first 20 mins are viewed with a grain of salt, or maybe less
Lovin' that MAXIM piece...
…and wondering how Cow Poly responds to this dis from a slick periodical like them.
Remember in November.
What does our practice report have to do with SMU?
Granted, I only scanned the report, but I’m confused.
I'm confused as well.
Red Cup Rebellion - Changing the Culture of Ole Miss Athletics
Take a picture, trick.
by The Ghost of Jay Cutler on Aug 18, 2010 3:58 PM EDT up reply actions
The only thing I can think of is people were spouting off about SMU being academically superior in previous articles.
One person was trumpeting them being ranked #56 in the USNWR rankings while we were a “lowly” #143. I don’t understand how that translates to preemptive bashing of SMU on our practice report.
Huh?
So, SMU fans were randomly spouting off on an Ole Miss site about their academic ranking? Or did Ole Miss fans randomly bring up SMU?
Now, I knew Tulane had a (sort of) rivalry with SMU…the fact that we also have a rivalry with a school we’ve played 3 times in our respective histories, and not since 1998, would qualify as news to me, as well.
(Incidentally, Ole Miss is 2-1 against SMU. Where’s your smug sense of superiority from not getting into Duke but turning down a partial scholarship from TCU NOW?!)
Yea or someone pretending to be them.
Here is a “TCU” fan on the CL
Frog: TCU is beginning its $105 million renovation of Amon Carter stadium. The funds were provided by just 34 individuals. Check the Fort Worth Star-Telegram for more details.
And here is the “SMU” fan:
Chancellor:
U. S. News and World Report’s Best Colleges 2011 ranks SMU #56 while UM is ranked #143 and State #151. Pretty embarrassing for a “flagship” university.
The TCU fan was saying they were superior because their alumni donate more
This is what I get for reading the C-L comments for amusement.
My favorite quotes from that article are
from people who don’t realize that being ranked #143 is actually quite good for a public university in one of the “dumbest” states in the country. It’s tier 1…
by Juco All-American on Aug 18, 2010 4:27 PM EDT reply actions
I should say
my favorite quotes from the comments of that article…
by Juco All-American on Aug 18, 2010 4:28 PM EDT up reply actions
Disingenuous
The fact is, USNews just got rid of Tiers 3 and 4 this year. Last year we were Tier 3, surrounded by the same basic schools surrounding us now in the rankings. (Arkansas, St. John’s (NY), Moo U, New School, UT-Dallas).
We’re Tier 1 because EVERY school that wouldn’t formerly have been in Tier 4 is Tier 1.
That was still a deliniation that needed to be made.
Yes, Harvard has more resources than Ole Miss. But what type of academic experiences or opportunities are available to Florida students that aren’t available to, say, Ole Miss students.
There are a lot of flaws in their ranking methodology (especially where professors rate other schools… look at all the UC Irvines and Santa Barbaras being ranked unusually high and tell me that isn’t a result of this), but having Ole Miss and State in tier 1 isn’t exactly misleading. Everyone knows we’re not Ivy League, but we’re definitely of the “if you want to learn something, we’ve got the resources available for you to do so” crowd.
Red Cup Rebellion - Changing the Culture of Ole Miss Athletics
Take a picture, trick.
by The Ghost of Jay Cutler on Aug 18, 2010 4:51 PM EDT up reply actions
Well, Yes and No
Personally, I prefer their new system wherein they rank as many schools as possible rather than ranking (x) amount, then having Tiers 3 and 4. (Amazingly, nobody was Tier 2 for a while, as there was Tier 1, which featured specific rankings, then Tiers 3 and 4, which just listed the schools alphabetically.)
I’m not dogging my school or anything, but we’re only “Tier 1” because USNews has changed what constitutes the tiers this year. If they rank those few schools left as Tier 4 national universities next year, well, then we’ll ALL be Tier 1, and it’ll be a meaningless fucking designation, and people can just refer to a school’s actual ranking.
I agree with you in thinking the methodology contains a whole lot of stupid, though. You also can’t tell me, though, that the schools left in the new Tier 2, the former Tier 4, especially the state schools such as Memphis, Houston, U.Alaska, Akron, ULaLa and UNO, can’t also say, “Everyone knows we’re not Ivy League…but if you want to learn something, we’ve got the resources available for you to do so”.
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