The Legend of Powe

The Ole Miss fan base actually has something to get excited about for once in a long while and these borderline absurd YouTube videos should prove it.

Also, Read what Chris Low of ESPN.com has to say if you've got a few minutes to kill. I really enjoy his work. For more reading material, here's CBS Sportsline's take on Powe's clearance and Sports Illustrated/The Associated Press has this to say.

EDIT: Hell, while I'm at it, here's another video:

Jerrell Powe Cleared

Okay... where's the hidden camera? When is my alarm clock going to rip me from this sublime dream?

Wait, this is really happening?

Yep, after submitting his papers for the first second third fourth time, Jerrell Powe has been declared academically eligible to play football at Ole Miss in the fall.

For any of you non-Ole Miss fans, I don't think you can fathom what this has done to the Ole Miss faithful. Jerrell Powe has been a myth in Rebel circles for three years. His legend has taken on fantastically large, Paul Bunyan-esque proportions. If the legends be indeed true, he once ate a live bear because he thought it was Casey Dick and even scared Kobayashi away from a hushpuppies eating contest. I've also heard that his stat line against Memphis will be 16 tackles, 13 sacks, 4 interceptions, 3 forced fumbles, 124 rushing yards, 6/6 for 300 yards passing, 8 touchdowns, and three injury causing tackles. To many of us, all of our wildest hopes and aspirations for this young man are finally beginning to take form.

But seriously, Jerrell Powe will make a defensive line that was already set up to be one of the conference's best (see: two players projected to go in the first round this April) into a line that rivals any in the nation. While I don't have incredibly high expectations for Powe's actual output, he can provide 10-15 solid plays a game as a high intensity, 325-pound man who, for his size, can fly to the ball-carrier (he has a reported 4.9 forty).

Thank goodness he didn't go to junior college. Had he gone, he would have definitely been a junior college all-American. We all know our track record with those.

So here's to Jerrell Powe. We're proud of you big fella. Now go work out.

2 things:

1. We're the #2 party school in America, again. Motherfucker. What are we going to have to do to get over that hump? The #2 party school ranking is sorta like NCAA super regionals for us.

2. An announcement saying "Powe is 100% in" will be made later today. Tune in to OleMissSports.com for more information.

CUPDATE: It's official. I has eligibility.

Has it ever gotten to this point in years past?

Parrish Alford is reporting that Jerrell Powe has been cleared to play. He's just awaiting a formal call from the SEC at this point.

I'm not sure we've ever had an actual news source report that Powe has been cleared in years past. I'm not ready to say that Powe will get in yet, since he hasn't even gotten to practice on the field with the team yet this year (as he was able to do last August). Still, this has to be encouraging news.

If he gets in, I don't expect him to play every down or anything near that, but I do expect him to be a difference maker during the plays when he is in the game. If we can just get 15-20 snaps a game from him that are solid, it would help a good bit.

As for people who want him to lead the "Are You Ready" against Memphis, that probably won't happen. The Powe-tron may not even be ready by then (though I know they say it will be).