Tuesday Question: One of Rapport

Then I guess our job is REALLY attractive.

1. It is… right now. The system is what a coach fixes when he comes into a new job.

2. There is no AD, which means you can implement your system entirely without a boss to constrict what you want to do with the program. There is a Chancellor that has been Chancellor for two years, and has shown that he will not meddle into your program and has bigger and better things to worry about than your football team.

3. The cupboard is full of freshmen and sophomores with experience, most of whom were highly recruited out of high school, as seen on recruiting websites and on TV this year. Both LSU and Alabama are viewed as the best in the country year in and year out, which gives you an opportunity to jump into the elite of the nation every single year. Other programs don’t have this ability.

4. Not one of the current players on the roster has said that they are leaving, meaning that they are all willing to commit to your system when you get here if you have a system worth selling.

Ole Miss plays the highest competition, you finally got something right.

5. Ole Miss last won 9 games when Miles and Saban were at LSU and Alabama when both teams had won 10 games in the previous two years. Ole Miss can compete with the best teams. You have a B personality that accepts being a bitch. However if a new coach with an A personality takes the job, he can compete with Alabama and LSU, as evidenced by the fact that we play them close every year minus this one. Gene Chizik showed that you can win a national championship in an SEC West school even with Saban at Alabama. Petrino is knocking on the door of back to back BCS bowl games. Other teams can compete with and replace the current best teams, just as Oklahoma State has done with Texas in the Big XII. All it takes the right coach to take Ole Miss there.

6. Its not hard to be successful as 1 of 3 schools in Mississippi when you are the best of the three. There is enough talent to make one hell of a football team, you just have to make sure as the best school, you get the best players. This past recruiting class should be the rule.

Finally, you understand. The right coach and the right AD, and Ole Miss is damn good at football again. That’s what makes it an attractive job dumbass. You can win here if you are a winner. Yes, the performance on the field has been the worst in history this past year. That doesn’t make the job a bad one. You are the idiot that is only looking at the past 2 years, yet preaching to look at a decade from now. Look at the last decade, where we tied for the west and won 9 games 3 times. You can win here, recruit here and have brand new facilities. You can play the best and become the best. That can’t be said for everywhere, but it can here, which is why we are an attractive gig.

FWIW, I’ve heard Malzahn’s name being thrown around recently. I still want Leach.

The attitude that Ole Miss can’t compete is exactly why they never will. Ole Miss aims low and achieves at an even lower level.

between negative and realistic. I would love for us to get Urban Meyer and win 11 games a season. However, factoring in some inherent disadvantages, I temper my optimism to prevent myself from going insane in seasons such as this.

It’s not like our players feed off positive energy and praise like they’re Zeus. In the same breath, you could tell the players to man the fuck up and win some games if the “negativity” gets to them.

If the negativity on message boards and this distinguished blog is the reason Bradley Sowell can’t keep his goddamn hand on the ground pre-snap, then fuck him.

of all time.

“Had to get wasted before I got it because it hurt like eight bitches on a bitch boat.”

OSU’s get-caught-cheating syndrome?
Miami’s get-caught-cheating syndrome?
USC’s get-caught-cheating syndrome?
Oregon’s holy-shit-this-is-the-worst-climate-in-the-country syndrome?
UGA’s next-time-you-lose-to-UF-your-ass-is-grass syndrome?
State’s we-make-good-fertilizer-and-shitty-billboards syndrome?
And so forth…

Deciding to move to a new place and new program is very personal and important decision for the person making it. There are so many variables involved that it’s impossible to predict what a candidate will do: Are his kids struggling in school and need to be somewhere new? Does his wife need a type of medical treatment offered in a particular location? Does he need to be closer (or further) from a particular family member? Etc…

Along with the infinite number of variables that we cannot account for, there are a few relatively superficial factors that are slightly more measurable—How important is: money, the opportunity to build a program, a mascot controversy, the lack of an AD, a second-tier athletic budget, etc.? Even here, however, we cannot accurately predict how a coach will perceive Ole Miss.

Although “Is the Ole Miss football head coaching job an attractive one?” is impossible to answer, at least from the coach’s perspective, there are a few things we can do to encourage a “yes” response: stop bitching about mascots, stop bitching about the administration, show support for our players, donate money, and stay classy.

is that he failed to take decisive action as the football program imploded and the university community tore itself apart this fall. I have said in another thread that I thought he should have thrown Boone under the bus for throwing Nutt under the bus after Vandy. In my view, he failed a critical leadership test then, and I think he re-failed it by allowing Boone to outlast Nutt. I also said that I didn’t think either of those failures was disqualifying. But I’m skeptical. That said (again), I’m done talking about Dr. Jones for the forseeable future because I do not generally believe that university chancellors/presidents should be judged by how they deal with athletic directors and football coaches – Penn State is an obvious exception.