Rebel Roundup - May 16, 2011
by The Ghost of Jay Cutler on May 16, 2011 9:19 AM EDT
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PrintWright helps Ole Miss end MSU's streaks | The Dispatch
The Rebels may have taken Saturday's game in a convincing fashion, but Ole Miss still, in such a perfectly predictable Rebel fashion, managed to lose Thursday and Friday's games against the rival Mississippi State bulldogs a week after taking the series against one of the most talented baseball squads in the nation. The "losing to a Mississippi State team that's just as middling and inconsistent as we are" meme has become more trite than a broken record, and it becomes more disheartening when, as was the case with this past weekend, the Rebels do more to lose than the Bulldogs do to win.
Arkansas looks to home series with Ole Miss to lift SEC record | GreenFieldReporter.com
The Rebels must win the series against Arkansas in Fayetteville this weekend if we're going to earn a spot in the SEC Baseball Tournament for the tenth consecutive season. I've got my fingers crossed, but I'm not at all optimistic that we'll make it.
Pair of SEC titles for Ole Miss in track | Veazey
Here's something to give a bit of a boost to your wearied Rebel spirit: Ricky Robertson won his fourth straight SEC high jump title this past weekend while Lee Ellis Moore won the SEC's 400-meter hurdles title.
Wait. We've got two guys who are lightning fast and possess phenomenal leaping ability enrolled at Ole Miss and they're NOT playing wideout? Who let that one get by?
Ole Miss spring wrap | SEC Blog - ESPN
During the spring and summer months which make up the college football offseason, unbridled optimism or soul crushing pessimism are the two most viciously competing schools of thought related to the future of Rebel football. After reading Edward Aschoff's spring wrap over at ESPN, one can find a legitimate case for both. On the one hand, we return a veteran offensive line which allowed for rising senior Brandon Bolden to rush for 976 yards, whereas on the other hand we return five starters from what was the worst defense in perhaps the history of Ole Miss football. Those concerns, coupled with an arguably tougher schedule, make any sort of prediction about this team's prospects an untenable one at best.
Two Ole Miss players arrested for public intox | CBSSports.com
In a blatant act of not-givin-a-damn-ery, defensive end Delvin Jones and linebacker Clarence Jackson were arrested this past Friday for public intoxication. Draconian Oxonian boozin' laws aside, Jackson and Jones should know better than to get swerved about town after having already suffering a suspension apiece this past season. Jackson, if you'll recall, tried to steal a TV from Hume Hall in an act of brazen idiocy, whereas Jones was suspended towards the end of this past season for allegedly setting furniture on fire.
I, perhaps for one, don't give much of a hoot about this most recent incident and don't think they'll suffer much over it, aside from some lungbusting "voluntary" workouts. Public intoxication, especially in Oxford, Mississippi, is hardly a damnable offense and, much more importantly, these guys are good at football and are pretty close to untouchable over a minor offense.
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If Delvin Jones
gets kicked off the team because he lit a coffee table on fire and had a bit too much fun at the Library Square Books, then we’re lucky to still have Brishen Matthews considering his exotic pet store he was running out of the dorms.
by Mexter Dccluster on May 16, 2011 9:56 AM EDT reply actions
RE: Public Intox....
I seem to recall a Nobel Laurette from Yoknapatawpha County who was known to get likkered up real good and make an ass of himself. I can hold myself to a certain standard, and I can WISH the footballers would, too…but I won’t be such a hypocrite as to impose such stringencies on these youths who are acting like I did when I was their age.
I remember very well waking up at like 4am on the mossy ground under the cedars, pines and magnolias of Rowan Oak after using my favorite poison trying to conjure “Count No Account.” I’m just lucky some of Oxford’s Finest didn’t haul ME in back then.
Get AWAY from that wheel barrow! You KNOW you don't know nothing about MACHINERY!
This quote....
and it becomes more disheartening when, as was the case with this past weekend, the Rebels do more to lose than the Bulldogs do to win.
This quote has made it all the more difficult to watch Rebel sports this season. We have given a whole lot of games away in all three major sports- via either way too much herp and derp from the players, or the coaching staff looking like they were too busy during the week to bother with minor details like game planning/preparation. I’m not sure, but it seems like it was a whole lot easier to deal with the losing back in the Ed O days when we just weren’t talented enough to compete with most of the teams we played (though his coaching, too, left a lot to be desired).
Nah. The "tolerable" part of the O years (if you can even use a word like tolerable to describe the O years)
was the fact that we didn’t expect a damned thing after his first year. We were awful. We all knew we were awful. We all knew we were going to STAY awful. Therefore, no expectations and no let downs. Every W was a gift from the SG’s. Period.
Yeah, that's what I mean....
we knew we sucked, so it wasn’t overly upsetting when we lost. I actually have (mediocre) expectations now, and it was pretty upsetting when we fail to reach those.
Whatever
Mico McSwain will always be the “one that got away”.
by Mexter Dccluster on May 16, 2011 1:02 PM EDT up reply actions
CJ better come ready to play.
Lord knows he’s being paid enough.
/BookFarmer’d
by RightRev on May 16, 2011 2:48 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Honest to God
A bookfarmer told me this weekend “It’s obvious that CJ is either being paid, smoking weed, or both.”
I’ve gathered that the collective bulldog response to CJ’s Revolt is:
“Oh mah gawd, y’all, that boy went to TSUN instead of goin’ to play for Lord Mullen. I wunder how much that musta cost ‘em hotty toddy lawyers? I heard that that boy likes to smoke the mari-ja-wana, anyway. He’ll prolly’ fit in’ real nice up there with them other thugs.”
One day, I'll tell my grandkids that the most fun days of my life were the 4 years I spent in Oxford, MS.
Well dammit. One the one hand, I was guilty of "public drunkeness" every damned weekend (and most week nights) from August 93 to May 1999.
So I’m wondering if the PD charge is a lesser offense to what they were REALLY doing which was a terminable offense in Nutts book.
On the other hand, both have had off-field issues in the past with OM and were the equivalent of on probation with us, so you kind of HAVE to kick ’em, even if they were only guilty of jaywalking.
Any chance at all this thing galvanizes the team into playing like wild, rampaging beasts for 60 full minutes every Saturday this fall? sigh………
I fanshot this for you.
This is some bullshit.
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