Coaches press conference today

RebnPhilly · Wed Dec 21, 2011 9:54 am

JB, very well stated and echoes exactly my own sentiments. I was not satisfied with the hiring of Freeze as HC however like you I will be behind him and the team 100%. After Freeze was announced, I was hoping to lure a couple of well-established assistants with notable experience at a higher level of competition but yet again I was left underwhelmed.
I hope Freeze proves all of us doubters wrong and turns into the next great young coach and stays with us for 20+ years.

Go Rebels!
Hotty Toddy!
GTH LSU !

GS1953 · Wed Dec 21, 2011 11:37 am

I totally agree with the coaching assessment at this point. I have to assume that none of the higher profile coaches had any interest in Ole Miss. As I travel a lot with my job, I have heard on several talk radio sports shows that Ole Miss is not conisdered a very desirable job at this time. They have pointed to several reasons for this but it all boils down to and points directly back to Pete Boone. It was even said that Ole Miss was the least desirable job of any of the schools in Mississippi. I never thought I would live to see the day that Southern and State were considered in the football workd as being a better job than Ole Miss. With that being said, I still love and support Ole Miss and have to be behind this coaching staff and this team and hope it works out. We cannot afford another coaching change in 3-4 years.

GtownRebel · Wed Dec 21, 2011 11:43 am

It was even in a conversation from one of the talking heads on ESPN back a month ago and the guy went into detail to discuss what Boone had not done as AD. Basically, he said until Boone is removed or leaves, no coach would be successful at Ole Miss in football. Appears to be right so far as history is evidence of it.

Rebchuck18 · Thu Dec 22, 2011 9:45 pm

While I certainly wanted Boone gone....saying no coach could be successful with him here is just an excuse for coaches failures. If I am not mistaken the three most successful years coaches have had at Ole Miss post-Vaught (2003, 2008 and 2009) happened while Boone was AD. Again not defending Boone just tired of excuses for coaching failures.

GtownRebel · Thu Dec 22, 2011 9:55 pm

If they were so successful as you indicate, where are they now? They didn't succeed or they would still be here.

Rebchuck18 · Fri Dec 23, 2011 1:01 am

GtownRebel wrote:If they were so successful as you indicate, where are they now? They didn't succeed or they would still be here.

Relative to other ole miss coaches in the last 40 years they did. Again not defending Boone. In most respects he sucked at his job...but a great coach could still have won here during those years...and the on the field collapse these last two years was not because Boone was here any more than the two nine win seasons that preceded that collapse were...that collapse was because of Houston Nutt...period.

GS1953 · Fri Dec 23, 2011 11:12 am

The collapse was due to coaching there is no doubt about that. But there are other reasons why coaches at Ole Miss seem to loose their momentum and desire. Boone was too tight with the purse strings. No training table to ensure the players are fed properly. Busing them 5-6 hours for games rather than a chartered filight. Boone complaining about the cost of away meals. This can go on and on about Boone. All the reasons that no coach wanted to coach under Boone have been well documented. It is time for Ole Miss to put up or shut up. We need to fund the program like a big time SEC program and insist that the money goes to things needed to make sure the athletic programs thrive. If we are going to compete in the SEC, it is imperative that we have the proper recruiting budgets, SEC quality facilities and run the program like most other SEC programs. We must have a committment to winning to turn this thing around and be successful.