Maybe Pete Boone knows what the hell he is doing. While I hate the fact that the press conference to announce Ed Orgeron’s firing cut into my tailgating time on Saturday, but it was still a hell of a press conference to watch. Those of you who missed it, can find it here.
Boone kept on bringing up the basketball search when he found a diamond in the rough with Andy Kennedy almost as to say, “hey, I know I fucked up the last football HC hiring, but I did good with basketball. Look!!!” The Build a Vaught program begins in Oxford.
We all should have known something was up when that vote of confidence came last month.
Erik at deepsouthsoutsports.net (he has a good list of potential replacements, BTW) and I have sparred over this for a while. I didn’t agree with the firing of Coach David Cutcliffe, after only one losing season, but now the hiring of the 0 makes sense. I have long said Ole Miss got shit backwards when they brought in a good coach (Cutcliffe) and then replaced him with a good recruiter (Orgeron). Florida did just the opposite (good recruiter in Zook followed by a successful coach in Herban) and it yielded good results.
Now Ole Miss has a chance to hire a good head coach who will actually have an opportunity to coach some talent in Oxford, but who knows how many of the players who have given verbals to The 0 will now de-commit? Also, how will this affect the next great savior of Ole Miss football, Jevan Snead. He already red-shirted a year after transferring from Texass to play for The 0. If he decided to transfer again, would the NCAA allow him to play right away at another school? I know he is getting some high quality SEC poon thrown in his face in Oxford, but is that enough to keep him if there is a coach hired that doesn’t feel the wildboyz, tittie-twisting, porto-crapper tipping coaching style that was an appeal to him when he transferred?
The talent is in Oxford (now not just the talented trim), but is there a coach out there who can coach and is willing to coach in Oxford over the forecasted 3 dozen schools that will fire/force resignations/be looking ’cause their guy went somewhere sexier? Ole Miss still has that certain image problem outside of Mississippi you know…
Coach 0 leaves us for the last time…
(Pic From Every Day Should Be Lemsday)
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