Rebel Roundup - March 28, 2011
by The Ghost of Jay Cutler on Mar 28, 2011 8:42 AM EDT
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PrintNFL Stars Return to Ole Miss For Grove Bowl | OleMissSports.com
BenJarvus Green-Ellis, Mike "Burnell" Wallace, Kendrick Lewis, Tutan Reyes, Micheal Spurlock, and Deuce McAllister will be returning to Ole Miss in a few weekends to take part in the Grove Bowl festivities, a return which I find rather bittersweet. Yes, these footballers brought us great moments on the gridiron, but they languished on largely poor, undercoached Rebel sqads. When I see BJGE, Wallace, and Lewis on Sundays starting for playoff contending professional franchises (Kendrick Lewis and Mike Wallace having done so as rookies!), I realize that some of our football squads over thep past few seasons, despite the frustrating losses, had some legitimate football talent on the roster.
Vols blanked in series finale by Ole Miss, 8-0 | Tennessee Journalist
An SEC road series win is always something to be proud of. Even though this team can't figure out how to win on Saturdays (there may be more on this from yours truly if I can find a moment to sift through the numbers - yes, I do that sometimes), it will be a competitive team in conference this season.
The Ole Miss switcheroo: Holloway a Rebel again? | Veazey
As absurd as it sounds, Murphy Holloway has a legit shot of getting an NCAA waiver to start next season. Being as how Ole Miss is the school for whom he signed out of high school, the NCAA may recognize his reasoning behind his Ole Miss to South Carolina transfer as a hardship, granting him permission to return to his initial college choice. It's not a given, but it's not all that unlikely either.
Ole Miss assistant on Tech’s ‘hot’ list | Ruston Daily Leader
Michael White, the former Ole Miss guard turned assistant Rebel coach, may be heading to Ruston, Louisiana to become the head coach at LA Tech. I haven't the faintest clue as to what this implies regarding the future of our basketball program, so I'll take it as an opportunity to wildly speculate that we're doomed.
Men's Tennis Takes Out South Carolina 6-0 | OleMissSports.com
The #23 ranked Men's Tennis team moved to 4-2 in SEC play after blanking the South Carolina Gamecocks this past weekend. Tennis: we're good at it.
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Be interested to see what you find: Re: Ole Miss Baseball, Saturday edition.
Goforth seems to me to be hard luck, 0-4, but with a 3.38 ERA. (E.G. Tracy is 3-1 with a 3.38; reference small sample size, level of competition, etc).
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He has has some hard luck...
in 4 of his starts (2 losses, 2 no decisions), in the 26 innings he was on the mound, we scored a grand total of 3 runs (2 to Houston, 1 to Tulane). not saying he is lights out by any means, but as you pointed out, his overall body of work is better than 0-4 in 6 starts.
Just another "good for nothing law school grad".
by RebelBarrister on Mar 28, 2011 11:18 AM EDT up reply actions
Wonder how much that has an effect on him mentally...
He has taken a turn for the worst since SEC play began (0-2 with a 5.56 ERA). Most of his peripherals have gone up too accordingly in the past two outings.
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Yeah, I think his weakness is in between the ears...
in the innings where UT got baserunners, whether by his pitching or the errors, he seemed to pay more attention to the runner than the hitter, which affected his ability to get into pitcher’s counts. Not saying he didn’t have reason to be concerned with the runners, as it seemed everyone in UT’s lineup had the green light to steal, but sometimes you just gotta bear down on the guy at the plate and not worry about the potential steal.
Also, I feel he is still relying on trying to blow the ball by everyone, and tends to miss with the fastball as it still has very little movement, which is accordingly leading to some untimely walks.
Just another "good for nothing law school grad".
by RebelBarrister on Mar 28, 2011 4:11 PM EDT up reply actions
You have to be bothered
somewhat when your shortstop who has been fairly solid makes three errors.
I have seen
several times this year, when Blake has to make a play on the run, he tends to throw the ball away. Seems to be rushing it too much.
Was Saturday where they were running wild? I think it had to be from this...
And 4 errors total – yikes.
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This Murphy Holloway transfer story
is one of the craziest transfer stories I have ever heard. Don’t get me wrong- I will absolutely welcome him back (and he should help our team out a good bit), but the story is pretty wild. There has to be more to the story than we know, right? By that, I am not insinuating money or anything like that, but rather some disagreements with coaches or something.
Story is that the Gamecocks are a sinking ship.
It’s unreal what’s happening with turnover there.
As for White leaving, it would be for the best. Stop me if you’ve heard me say this before, but there has to be staff changes. 5 years with the same group and nothing to show for it is time to change. I like Mike, hoped he’d survive it all, but this staff has been unable to teach defense, zone offense, or develop big men. Some new blood on the bench is in the best interest of everyone at this stage.
I listen for the voice inside my head... nothin... I'll do this one myself
by buster_bluth on Mar 28, 2011 1:17 PM EDT up reply actions
Hmmm....who else are they supposedly losing?
I haven’t really kept up with transfers in and out of schools at this point. I feel bad for Horn if they are losing a whole bunch of players- they had a pretty young, talented roster this season that I thought could make a little noise next year with Murphy and a few recruits added in.
I think Murph will be a big addition to our squad, especially if he gets a waiver and is eligible immediately, but we could add ten 5-star type of players and it wouldn’t matter much if our player development, defense, and zone offense don’t improve (as you alluded to).
I don’t know how big of a loss Michael White will be (if he will even be a “loss” at all). If I am not mistaken, Torrey Ward is our ace recruiter? He would be one that needs to stay, but other than that, I agree with you- I haven’t seen much out of this staff that would make me upset if we lost most of them.
As of right now, Ramon Galloway and Stephen Spinella have left the program along with Murph...
and a fourth, Bruce Ellington, has decided he wants to play football as well, which could affect when he returns to the court.
Just another "good for nothing law school grad".
by RebelBarrister on Mar 28, 2011 1:57 PM EDT up reply actions
Wow, that's tough
I thought they had a chance to be pretty good next season, but with the graduation of Muldrow and the loss of all those players they will be in pretty bad shape.
I think Dino Gaudio would be a good hire to replace White, assuming he leaves
Gaudio did a good job at Wake Forest recuiting there and his team’s offensive and defensive efficiency numbers improved each year he was there. His last year there, they gave up 91.1 points per 100 possessions, which was 23rd in the country. We gave up 100.5, which ranked 133rd this year.
If Owen Miller leaves and we can replace him with a capable (preferably older) guy who has been around the block a few times and can put an effective zone offense in place, thigns would start to fall in line for some actual improvement.
I listen for the voice inside my head... nothin... I'll do this one myself
by buster_bluth on Mar 28, 2011 2:33 PM EDT up reply actions
Gaudio would be a good hire
I just don’t know if he would want to take an assistant coaching position at Ole Miss after having been a head coach in the ACC. Wonder if AK has any connection to Gaudio?
Who knows?
If he wants to get back into coaching in a big6 conference, he may have to take an assistant job for a couple of years before being hired. I still don’t get why Wake ran him off. Unless he had some behind-the-scenes issues, with the recruiting classes he was bringing in and the way the efficiency numbers improved each year, it seems like a mistake on Wake’s part, particularly when you look at how mediocre they’ve been the last two seasons since they fired him.
I doubt there’s any connection between AK and Gaudio. I just saw him on ESPNU the last several weeks as an analyst and wondered why he hadn’t gotten back into coaching yet.
I listen for the voice inside my head... nothin... I'll do this one myself
by buster_bluth on Mar 29, 2011 11:44 AM EDT up reply actions
Wimmen's Tennis defeated South Caronlina as well.
Which is great after the loss last year. Those South Carolina bitches were… bitches.
See you, Space Cowboy
Tennis trash-talk.
This may be a first for me.
In other news, I was glad to see the baseball team rebound on Sunday. I was beginning to think this was going to be a season full of weekend collapses after what happened Saturday.
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I have heard that Torrey Ward and Owen Miller are gone. This has only been through hear-say but it may be a case similar to what Nutt did this past offseason with the football asst coaches. We need a huge upgrade on the bench because AK has proven he can get talent to campus but he hasn’t been very effective at developing that talent — or keeping it on campus for that matter.
— or keeping it on campus for that matter.
His second biggest problem, imo.
Fundamentals are his first, but a very close second is keeping talent here, and happy.
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