15 days until kickoff

The countdown of horrible Ole Miss moments from the last four years continues as kick-off comes ever nearer.

While this countdown may seem depressing, it is simply a reminder of what we accomplished the last four years: nothing. If you find yourself down over it, congratulations, you've reached a reality check.

I'm glad we've got a new coach and that Michael Oher came back. These are positives, but just take time to remember and laugh about the bad old days.

16th Worst Moment of the Last Four Years: 2006 Loss to Mizzou

I made the drive up to Columbia, so this long sticks in my memory probably more than some others. Let's take a quick look at the numbers, or lack thereof, 162 total yards of offense...for the entire game...against a Big 12 defense: WOW. Ben Jarvus Green-Ellis had 52 yards on 15 carries. Brent Schaeffer threw three interceptions. It was a dismal day for the Ole Miss offense, and the defense let up nearly 500 yards of offense for the Tigers. A 34-7 loss was actually somewhat kind considering the ineptitude and inability to move the ball.

This clever asshat was dancing in the streets after a thrashing of our Rebels. Go ahead and let your blood boil.

15th Worst Moment of the Last Four Years: These players who left, were kicked off or didn't academically qualify for future years of ballin' outrageous in Oxford.

Chris Strong, Mico McSwain, Garry Pack, Jamariey Atterberry, Jerrell Powe(pick a year), Leroy Diggs, Leron King, Rogers Loche, Robert Russell, Quentin Taylor, Hayward Howard(parking ticket extraordinaire), Terry Levy, Roderick Davis, Colby Arceneaux, Isaiah Smith, A.J. Jackson and Jamison Hughes(even though he was just following his dad).

17 players that we had planned to give scholarships to be future players.

I wonder why we were always so thin at LB and D-Line. Hmm. What substance could we possibly assume affected the lives of these gentlemen?

THIS, THIS, AND THIS.

Okay, maybe not the first one, but definitely the last two.

There's still so much more ahead, stay tuned and stay proud.

Grayshirt?

It's amazing that we cann afford to grayshirt a guy like Andre Sterling. Don't let the stars and lack of offers fool you. This guy is a phenomenal running back. No one recruited him because no one thought he would qualify. He had 345 carries for 2,717 yards and 30 TD's in his senior year alone (according to Rivals). Sterling is a workhorse back that we don't have at Ole Miss right now. Apparently though, he's not quite big enough yet. Weighing in at only 190 pounds, it makes sense. Since he has a bruising running style, he needs more weight and muscle in order to compete in the SEC. While his stats are different on the a preps website, they could be discounting the playoffs. Anyway, they're still really impressive.


Check out the run at the 3:10 mark.

After signing with Ole Miss, Sterling defied all odds and earned a qualifying score on the ACT and got his core GPA up to where he needed it. Still, the coaches want him to go to Hargrave so that he can "get bigger and stronger." This is obviously a situation where we are thanking Hargrave and Coach Prunty for the 45 guys we signed from hargrave this year. That's fine. They get a dominant running back since we oversigned. We didn't need him this year anyway. Plus, it's very likely that Sterling will honor his commitment since Prunty loves Nutt and encourages people to honor their commitments anyway.

Because of our depth at halfback, we don't really have to get him on campus right now. That means that we'll have this guy redshirting in 2009-2010 and ready to play for four years afterwards. Also, he'll get done at Hargrave in December, so he'll be here this spring with 5 1/2 to play 4.

I think that our runningback situation is going to continue to improve as long as our head coach is a NUTT. Please note the new tag. Nutty jokes are awesome!