LOL that's why we finished 2nd in the West. Bottom feeder. You may not know this, but Ole Miss is more like the NYJ of the SEC. Relevant 40 years ago, occasionally might win the division now, with bad years too. Houston Nutt, however, is an amazing coach, and for atleast the next 5 years you will see plenty of OM at bowl games, maybe even in Atlanta playing Urban Meyer's team for the Conference Title soon. Yes, the coaches you've listed are tools, but their programs do fine, so your argument sucks. Vins, i'm really not going after CUSA that much, some games are entertaining, I just don't feel CUSA teams or fans have the right to trash talk the SEC. We play Memphis on a yearly basis and have not lost to them as long as i've been in school here. (I want to say the streak is older than me too, I believe we've won 4 in a row, i've seen 3 of them.) Even our "bottom feeder" schools are capable of beating eventual conference (which to us is pretty much the national title) champions and sometimes even legit national champs..or in the case of OM this year, both..not to mention the complete routing of the golden boy texas tech quarterback in the cotton bowl. By the way, it's a lot harder to go undefeated in a real conference like the SEC when truly anyone can beat anyone else because the outcome of conference games often fall on who makes the first mistake. I'll take 9-4, 2nd place SEC West, Cotton Bowl champions over winning the Mountain West..although the Mountain West is getting much more improved. Conference USA, just like Nick Saban at Alabama, has a long way to go. I'm just going to make this easier and list my top respected conferences in order, my favorite one i consider up and coming, and the ones i dont list might as well not exist. SEC, ACC, Big 12 QBs, then CUSA and only the top teams of that conference. Up and coming goes to MWC. SEC/ACC right now are the only "real" conferences to me because it seems almost every year they alternate between having the most entertaining games in my opinion. Pac 10 is not listed because it needs to wake the fuck up and find a championship game and someone other than Pete Carrol to carry the conference.
Calling the ACC a "real" conference just shows how much you know. I didn't see you running your mouth when Ole Miss was 4-8. Two of your nine wins came against Samford and UL Monroe. ...play a "real" schedule.
Again, talking shit about CUSA is retarded. They're a non-autobid conference and wont ever succeed without the bid. Just because I go to a CUSA school, doesn't mean I don't know college football. And I know the ACC is awful. Best autobid conferences over the last few years: SEC Big 12 Pac 10 Big 10 ACC Big East When Miami and FSU lost their stranglehold as the top two teams in the ACC, thats when the ACC began to suck. It was an ultimate collapse in power. -UNC is climbing the ranks, but they're still not close to premier status. -Clemson, easily one of the biggest Choke schools in the country. But they need to get out of the ACC.. hopefully take Arkansas's place in the SEC. -VT, reaching ND status when it comes to preseason overrating. -Georgia Tech will die once everyone figures out how to stop the Triple Option.
I think Alabama had a great class............ D.J. Fluker is the best OL in the Country, the guy is bigger than most NFL lineman. Trent Richardson is going to be a monster RB.
Going to a game as a student means nothing to me. I went to every Fresno game, which students had to pay to go to. I was at the game where they lost to USC - I had to pay to watch them blow the biggest upset of all time, besides App State/Mich. Now I go to every Carolina game and they are hyped up every season, and then their offense sucks and everyone is let down. It's free...I'll go to anything if it's free.
And that's why student season tickets aren't cheap, nor is the drycleaning of a suit and tie every week for the grove. I paid for every single one of ed orgeron's miserable home games, and I am happy to finally have redemption..and it feels good to be able to shit talk with the team backing it up. The only shit we don't have to pay to see is baseball because the alumni are so rich they decide to fund the team directly. Why is this an issue? When you live in Mississippi, you pick between 5 schools usually. Ole Miss, MS State, Southern Miss, LSU, and Bama. I picked Ole Miss, that's my team, is now and ever shall be. I can't just pick a college somewhere in anywhere usa and like them without having ties to it.
But it's a tradition, and we're proud of it. Not everyone does it, it's not even that a suit and tie is mandatory..just dress up in more than jeans and a t-shirt, especially if greek. Its traditions like that to lead to records like these: (From a Dallas magazine) http://friendsoftheprogram.net/2009/01/04/ole- miss-setting-records-all-over-dallas/
I'm not just talking Ole Miss... I didn't even now fans did it there until you said it.. I'm talking everywhere. My school included.
I thought you were directly referring to the suit and tie because you might've been familiar with the grove, although this picture doesnt do the suit and tie tradition much justice. Some of you may have been to the world's largest outdoor cocktail party, but you probably haven't been to the best.
I have ties to both schools that I mentioned...I attended Fresno State as an undergrad and now I'm across the country at the University South Carolina as a grad student. Don't act like you're some sort of a better fan and/or super fan because you attend a school and wear a suit to the games. I go to every game too...and I don't waste my money on some stupid fratastical suit.
Dude, you're really misreading me. I am not being hostile at all, or badmouthing either school. I am not questioning your ties, nor am I questioning your fanhood. I honestly don't care, I'm just trying to explain and defend my traditions, not belittle yours.
Tennessee reports third violation Kiffin screwing up repeatedly... this guy probably can't wait to coach a real game. I hope he makes it that far http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/football/ncaa/02/13/tennessee.violation.ap/index.html
This is really a non-issue and is only being made one because he's a new coach. Last season under Coach Fulmer, Tenn. self-reported 7 secondary violations. You remember hearing about any of those? No, of course not. Do you think any other SEC schools had secondary violations that you didn?t see in print? Of course, they did. As of right now, he's got 3 secondary violations that don't do shit to Tennessee in any way. And its still less than what Fulmer did last year. Granted, he's not making it easy on himself when he calls out Urban Meyer.
It's only an issue because he called out Meyer so now the media is making him out to be a bigger ass than he is (although that must be tough).
There are some that feel it's all intentional. He has accomplished one thing and that is make the other SEC teams wary of him or at least pay attention to what he's doing.
