OMG WE BEAT STATE IN RECRUITING LET"S MAKE A VIDEO

I'll never understand when fans make stupid videos that they think are funny.



Wow... genius. That was clever. I see what you did there... ha. The bulldog... his face... eyes... mouth... hilarity.

Hey, at least it's funnier than this one.

The Red [REDACTED] Cup Officially DOES NOT Endorse the Proposed Fayetteville Flyover

Just in case anyone was curious, the Red [REDACTED] Cup does not and will likely never support something as asinine as flying a smack-talkin' banner over Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium. Why? Well:

1. It's stupid. Just because they did it (to themselves, mind you) doesn't mean that we should.
2. I don't care if it's got coach Nutt's blessings. They treated him like garbage so I would expect him to say somewhat crazy, vindictive things about them. Have you listened to the man talk? He's wacky.
3. We're 3-4. You don't talk shit when you're 3-4, even if it is to another 3-4 team.
4. Just the thought of Ole Miss doing something this juvenile is insanely embarrassing.
5. The money raised for this little "project" could do plenty of better things. For example, you could donate to the Basketball Practice Facility. You could donate to the University's general scholarship fund. You could feed your fat fucking children. The list goes on.
6. The plans call for it to say "Ole Miss is NUTTS about Houston." Are you serious? You're going to spend a lot of money on something which is already a bad idea and, just when I thought it couldn't get any lamer, outfit it with a "Nutty" pun? We've been over this shit before; click the tag.
7. You think we're crazy? You think LSU is crazy? Try Northwest Arkansas in four days. That will be the craziest Goddamn shit you've ever seen. The zaniest, most delusional fans this side of Tuscaloosa will be as pissed as they've ever been. Why would you want to further incite an already savagely threatening environment?
   
8. I think it's safe to say that an overwhelming majority of Ole Miss fans are NOT in support of this. You may call us "bad" fans for saying that. Nevermind the fact that we run an Ole Miss sports blog and know more about football than you anyway, we don't like your shitty banner so we're "bad" Rebels.

Don't do it. Use the money for something else.

Having that been said, Arkansas hate week is on, y'all. If I've got time, my series of the "Arkansas Straw Men" will open today with Straw Man #1: Ole Miss is a talented football team.

Saturday Evening Scrimmage Report

Today's scrimmage in Vaught-Hemingway was certainly a let down. While many players had good days and showed great potential, an upsetting large majority of the scrimmage was dedicated to third team vs. third team plays which is pretty damned boring. Here are our notes:

1. Jevan Snead didn't throw very much. He was only in for a couple of drives and most of the plays called during his drives were either runs or short pass plays. The same goes for Tapp. Stanley was in for a half-dozen drives or so and threw a great deal more than the other quarterbacks. He was mediocre as he threw a few picks (at least one was most certainly the fault of the receiver) and occassionally underthrew his targets.

2. All of the runningbacks had great days. Brandon Bolden and Devin Thomas got a lot of reps and both ran very hard. Bolden played especially well as he continued to demonstrate just how hard he can be to bring down.

3. Andrew Harris, while currently on the third team, showed incredible athleticism and was able to evade several defenders after the catch. Yeah, the defenders were also third teamers, but some of the moves he made took a great deal of skill.

4. I saw no fewer than three different t-shirts which utilized some sort of Houston Nutt related pun. Everything from "The Rebels are NUTTY" to "Welcome to the NUTT HOUSE" is seemingly printed on a t-shirt. Thankfully I saw nobody older than 13 wearing one of these shirts but I was still a bit disappointed. Seriously everyone, stop buying these damned things.

5. Jerrell Powe was a wrecking ball out there, against an offensive line made of walk-ons and freshmen. We, as a fan base, have shamefully hyped this kid to mythical heights. He's got potential and most certainly can contribute on our defensive front, but he's no messiah. During the scrimmage he got an encroachment penalty called against him for jumping the snap early and knocking Billy Tapp (who was wearing a red jersey) to the ground. Shortly after this penalty, several hundred people cheered, clapped, et cetera. One woman in my viscinity even said she was "glad to have him here." What the Hell, people? He committed a damned penalty and knocked over a guy who he wasn't even supposed to touch. That is absolutely nothing to cheer over.

6. Joshua Shene did not miss a single field goal. Being as how we haven't had a seriously capable kicker in several seasons, it would be nice to see Shene show up as a true special teams weapon this fall.

7. Jeremy McGee took a big hit and was escorted off of the field after being attended to for a couple of minutes. Hopefully he's alright.


Honestly, that's about it. Having third teamers practice against one another does not really lend to noteworthy practices or detailed and relevant practice reports. I understand that the coaches didn't want to have a lot of potential starters out there in order to avoid the injury bug so I'll forgive them, this time.

Nuttables

Invitation Oxford, the local "making upper-middle class white people feel more significant than they really are" magazine recently released their August issue which featured none other than Houston Dale Nutt and family as the cover story. Aside from the obvious information which one can simply glean from the cover photograph (his daughters are hot and he has a nice pond, for example), the piece explains that, in the Nutt household, "it's all about family, football, and the farm."

Click here for a PDF of the story.

What I found to be a particularly interesting feature of the article was a list of "Nuttables" (this is getting out of hand) which is apparently a list of tenets which are followed closely in the Nutt household. Here is that list as pulled directly from Invitation Oxford:

Why share this? Honestly, it's an early Sunday afternoon with football being an excruciating 4 weeks away and nothing passes the time like baiting Arkansas fans. I can see it now: they'll attack his claims of humility, character, and commitment while completely ignoring the glass houses in which they live. Yes, I'm being petty but c'mon, give me a damn break. What else is a rogue blogger to do?

Nutty jokes have made their way to Starkville

Per NAFOOM:


This t-shirt was sold at a recent Jackson area Mississippi State alumni event. If you have yet to read our power rankings of the SEC fanbases (shame on you), check out number two and tell me I wasn't dead fucking on with that one.

If you see someone wearing this shirt, be sure to let them know just how much of a moron they are for dropping a Hamilton on it.

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!