RSC Poll: Diamonds in the Rough?

Of the several less-highly rated (gettin' PC here) signees we inked yesterday, who do you feel has the potential to be great and prove that their two or three stars were the product of either poor scouting or evaluation?

Your choices are:

Michael Brown - OT
Jesse Grandy - ATH
Terrell Grant - WR
Dele Junaid - DB
Ja-Mes Logan - WR
Emmanuel McCray - OT
Andrew Ritter - K
Charles Sawyer - DB
Alex Williams - DE

I whittled this down to a list of eight by removing the obviously grossly underrated (Z Mason, for example) and likely grade casualties (Eric Smiley, for example). My choice would most certainly be Dele Junaid. While was very lightly recruited and scouted, he was an All 5A safety in Texas. He's got a great frame on which to build and I wouldn't be surprised to see him end up at OLB after a couple of seasons spent in the weightroom as a result of him taking a redshirt and riding the pine.

Vote on the left and share your pick and reasoning if you please.

Who's your Heisman?

A couple of days ago, during a time when I should have been working, I followed Chris Low's ESPN.com online chat session. Low, for those of you not in the know, blogs about the SEC for everyone's most hated batch of evil, anti-[MY TEAM] journalists EVAR favorite sports network and, in my opinion, does a damn fine job at it.

In Low's chat session, he revealed his Heisman ballot to have Tim Tebow, Sam Bradford, and Colt McCoy ranked in that order. Shortly thereafter, a few Oklahoma fans quickly polluted our fair, Southeastern chat with cries of Chris Low's despicable habits of drinking "that SEC juice" and not paying enough attention to the Big XII.

Low, with his remarkably pithy writing, replied "Where were you in 2003 when I voted for Jason White (ed: over Eli Manning*)?"

He then made a brief case for Tebow and pointed out that, no matter who wins the Heisman, we're going to have a couple of fan bases bitching about how their guy got hosed.

And he's right. We have three, if not four (if not five) deserving candidates for the trophy. Bradford, McCoy, and Tebow are all three incredible quarterbacks. Graham Harrell is certainly as worthy a dark horse as we've had in a while and Michael Crabtree, a future NFL ballertron 5000, is only the 5th dog in the pack because he's not a quarterback.

So who am I voting for? Well, nobody because bloggeurs don't get a vote. But, if I did get the chance to I'd pick Tebow. My reasons are as follows:

1. I'm biased towards the SEC. Yeah, I said it.
2. I don't care what Bradford's, McCoy's, and Harrell's stats are. While they're certainly important and decent indicators of success, statistics aren't everything. If statistics were everything, then that Colt Brennan douchebag would have won the Heisman last season.
3. Tim Tebow is the single best leader in college football. Sure, Bradford, Harrell, and (espeically) McCoy mean a lot to their team, but seeing Tebow live up to his promise to work his absolute hardest to win ballgames after dropping a stunning loss to the Rebels was pretty phenomenal. The other candidates are certainly important to their respective teams; but not nearly as important as Tebow is to the Gators. Oklahoma and Texas would be something like 10-2 without their respective quarterbacks. Florida would be at best a 9 win team without Tebow.
   

Tim Tebow is the kind of player your grandkids are going to ask you about. I personally take some sort of bizarre pride in the fact that I have seen one of the greatest SEC athletes of all time play in person. And, yes, I do mean "one of the greatest SEC athletes of all time." Just watch. Soon enough, you'll hear Tim Tebow mentioned in the same breath as Herschel Walker, Bo Jackson, and the Mannings. Along those same lines, twenty years from now Sam Bradford will be lumped into the "great OU quarterbacks" pile with Josh Heupel and Jason White while Colt McCoy will still be playing 2nd fiddle to Vince Young in Longhorn folklore (despite the fact that he's a statistically better quarterback).

Of course, if all three come back for another season, all of this could change.

Oh, and you know what? I've put a new poll regarding this topic up. Yes, now loyal Cup fans, barely literate Arkansas trolls, and bitter Texas Tech visitors alike can weigh in on this issue.

Vote and tell us who you voted for and why.


*No, Chris, your sins and transgressions against the Rebels and the Manning family are not yet forgiven. Repent now and tithe your earnings (to the Cup) and we'll kinda-sorta-maybe consider forgiveness.

New RSC Poll: The Fate of the Walrus

With regards to the most recent poll, only 3.3% of voters chose what has become our most likely bowl destination: The Cotton Bowl. Congrats to you few, proud Cup fans with the insanity/foresight to make such a bold choice. To the people Arkansas fans who took up the 18.8% of the poll's votes selecting "Ole Miss won't bowl," you can kiss my ass.

And I don't mean 18.8% of the time, either. Have fun watching our asses on TV come January.

This newest poll focuses on another matter of great importance to the Ole Miss fan base: the employment of one Sylvester Croom. No matter which way you slice it, he's a shitty head coach. Last season, he nearly became the victim of Ed Orgeron's lone SEC victory... marinate in that one for a moment.

Alright, moment over. Honestly, he's done nothing more than ride a wacky 2007 season based more on luck than coaching ability into a contract extension and (short-lived) respectability. We Rebels hope that he stays at State for a long while and, with the firing of the first ever black SEC head coach being a likely media shitstorm, this may end up being the case.

So, cup fans, how fired is Sylvester Croom?


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New Poll

The most recent poll has concluded. For those of you with shorter memories, this poll inquired as to how many sacks our defensive line would have by the Florida game. The winner was three which, beleive it or not, was nearly dead-on.

Our D-Lin had two-and-a-half sacks before Saturday... That's it. Only two-and-a-half sacks in four games. After the Florida game they had a total of five. The difference maker was, without any doubt, Greg "I'm on the cover of SI, what did you do this week?" Hardy.

Those are some nice Heisman hopes you've got there, Timmy.

This new poll will run until the picture of Ole Miss' post season hopefully becomes much, much clearer (let's, for simplicity's sake, say 4 weeks). This question is as follows:

Ole Miss' postseason will most-likely involve which bowl game?

Now get your ass (cursor?) over there and vote! Of course, as some of you may have guessed, the next few weeks of this blog will see a fair deal of hog slop so ignore the inevitable fact that "Ole Miss won't bowl" will be the poll's "winner."

New Poll

The "what will our record be" poll has ended. If you're curious, 7-5 won with 35.6% of the vote. Hopefully our Rebels can live up to those expectations (and then some).

Now, our poll offers a question whose answer may not be so hopeful. With the injuries along our defensive line, we could have serious trouble putting pressure on opposing quarterbacks. The Florida game is when we're most likely to see a defensive line made up of nearly 100% healthy first teamers so the poll's question is "how many sacks will we put up before the Florida game." Answer and, if you deem it necessary, opine on this matter in our comments box.