Enough is Enough

I actually found myself cringing on several occasions. I miss reading old RedCup where posts were generally witty. Perhaps this is a microcosm of Ole Miss…. Popularity killing terdishunz n shit.

So where, might I ask, was there anything about “Ole Miss” on the new cups at football games this year. In my opinion, that will be next to go, and we will simply be known as UM, which is a crying shame. Where has the pride in our school gone in the recent past? I remember going to games growing up and it was such a nostalgic experience, so much pride in our team, our mascot, our band, and the production on the field. Granted we never really won that many games, but we were consistently bowling, which I will take over a 2-10 season in a heartbeat. It seems that as more things are taken away from the program, starting with the mascot, then Dixie, etc., we are becoming less and less of a proud program and more and more of a lackluster fanbase and team.

I really don’t. And it’s just some sorry excuse that everyone at Ole Miss leans on for mediocrity. It’s always been that way.

Frankly, I hope whoever they hire stands up to the mic on the first day and says “I don’t care if you like Col. Reb or the Black Bear. I don’t care if you went to private or public school. I don’t even care if you are white, black, Asian, Native American, Martian or some other unknown race or some blend thereof. If you want to get your shot to play in the SEC and win in the SEC, then you need to come here. And furthermore, I don’t care what Dandy Dozen, high school freakin’ list you were on, if you don’t come here prepared to work your butt off to make yourself, and your school proud, then you won’t be here long.”

That’s all I’m asking for. I don’t think that’s too much. And drop the mascot drama.

Getting rid of the Colonel really helped us, didn’t it? All of those top tier recruits are just flowing in by the dozens now.

I love how you say we must surely be “rednecks” if we love the Ole Miss traditions that you worked so hard to trash. Have you read any of the reader posts from any articles that were NOT on this site? The black bear is a laughingstock, and so is Ole Miss for letting you politically correct rubes ruin our school.

Getting rid of the Colonel is going to win us some championships, eh? Well how about the last two record-setting years we just had?

Good work, assholes. If you hate Ole Miss so much, then why don’t you just go away? Go root for State and stop fucking up my school.

Flags and mascots have nothing to do with rednecks, racism, and politics…. and yet politicians (incl. college administration), closet racists, and redneck-decrying elitists insist on inserting themselves into the school-spirit discussion. Ole Miss has a rich and wonderful history in athletics, and there is nothing wrong with celebrating traditions…in fact, there is everthing right in supporting your school and its history. In the absence of success on the field in recent years, the school needs it traditions more than ever. When certain symbols or rites begin hindering recruitment, then the RELEVANT authorities—i.e. the coaches and players—will let it be known and the students can react accordingly.

Trying to forcibly erase history through the criminalization of traditions and harmless symbols is far more destructive and violent than waving a flag, celebrating a caricature, or singling a song. The university leadership and PC reactionaries have imposed their celebration of victimization on an athletic program and school which once celebrated victory. William Faulkner may not have done so well in his Ole Miss English courses, but even he knew the importance of history, the past, and victory to a culture and a people.

Now if our head coach is a villain out of “Batman,” why can’t we have a Star Wars figure for our mascot? Just asking.

No one really thinks the administration is going to pull a 180 and re-instate institutions it labored so long to abolish, but it is wrong-headed and small-hearted to attack other Rebel fans because they do or don’t wave a particular flag or yell a particular cheer as long as everyone is pulling for the Rebels. My work takes me throughout the South, and there is no widespread perception of Ole Miss as anybody’s laughing-stock. Generally speaking, they don’t regard us at all in football and to a degree, even basketball. Baseball and women’s basketball are about the only sports we’re recognized for at all. Quite a few fellow SEC school fans used to empathize with our plight fighting the PC administration and thought police, but that is old news now. Our goal needs to be winning again, and we’re only going to do that pulling together, and only then when anyone else even notice us.