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Re: Ole Miss Football: No reading, writing, or diplomas required

Zac — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 22:00:40 -0000

What it almost sounds like (Yes, we all know better.) is that Nutt is trying to "assist" MS Jr. Colleges develop better teams, in the "hopes" that he and his team may later reap the benefits. One sad truth he forgot to take into account: These "non-qualifiers", once placed in a college (jr or otherwise) still have to meet specific standards; i.e. they still have to at least get passing grades. Well they may do so in a MS Jr. College; that doesn't, however, equate to they're being academically successful at Ole Miss. He may luck out with one or two kids every other year or so, but I don't think it's worth the tightrope he's walk'n.

Re: Ole Miss Football: No reading, writing, or diplomas required

Porcine — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:21:53 -0000

"Big deal. Give the man all the rope he wants, he'll eventually hang himself."

This line says a lot.

Re: Ole Miss Football: No reading, writing, or diplomas required

USC1801 — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:54:05 -0000

Much ado about NUTTin'.

"Many, many, many schools will sign borderline players in hopes they qualify. If they don't, they may go to a JUCO, become eligible (hopefully), and honor their letter of intent."

Yes, and NUTT is dumb enough to come out and say what everyone else is trying to do in secret- build relationships with JUCO schools. Big deal. Give the man all the rope he wants, he'll eventually hang himself.

Re: Ole Miss Football: No reading, writing, or diplomas required

U.of S.C.1978 — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:28:40 -0000

Interesting post bwain. Sarcasm and humor, melded well, with opinion. Get you a logo before someone decides to run you off, because you don't have one, and they don't like your opinion. lol

Re: Ole Miss Football: No reading, writing, or diplomas required

Porcine — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:21:30 -0000

Danny, the squealer?

Re: Ole Miss Football: No reading, writing, or diplomas required

Mark Hooper — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:57:46 -0000

"It is genius and/or madness, but certainly better explains the 12 non-qualifiers signed in Nutt's class of 37 recruits in this year's class."

Here is a better way to explain it -- Nutt hasn't a clue what he is doing and never has. Except he does excel with ambiguously setting up conditions to provide him many available excuses and scapegoats. This appears to be another one of those perfect opportunities.

Can you see all the escape hatches built into this pseudo-system? The moment Nutt and his crew of inexperienced coaches begin to flounder with recruiting, he will draw upon this system and zero in on some certain uncooperative flaw -- like the coaches at these JUCO institutions, as a glaring example.

Nutt opened this new chapter (Ole Miss) to his perpetual roller coaster career right in step with his old routine. The fan base will fervently expect more this year and will be sourly disappointed, but will still buy into the endless spew of catch phrases like "National Championship under construction," "One heart," and, "More with less." Next year, mediocrity will bring about more tarnish on that ellusive brass ring.

I can hear it and see it now. Nutt will bask in all the potential "what-if's" but will admonish all the dreamers for expecting too much given the fact that the program graduated player X or Player Y, who happened to be a tremendous catalyst to last year's success. All the while, Nutt will skirt around his own track record for never having the ability to develop any depth -- at any school ever, during his awkward career. 'IT' is always on some other person's shoulders, but the responsibility will never settle squarely upon the preacher's shoulders. He is always good at slithering away (be it as a player at Arkansas when he transferred at midnight after returning from a team trip to Hawaii, or never meeting promises and expectations at Murray State, Boise State, or Arkansas) before such pressure can justifiably be applied.

Nutt will add this juco ploy into his arsenal of tools, used to manipulate the truth and keep the weight of honesty and integrity off of his awkwardly sloped shoulders. Meanwhile, a lack of planning and organization is the best (and correct) way to explain the 12 non-qualifiers in this year's recruiting class.

Nutt, as usual, had to quickly scurry to piece together a class that was not even on the radar...and with 12 players not qualifying, they are off the radar again, but well after the attention of national signing day has faded away. But, now he is putting on like this was all an intentional strategy. It is typical Forrest Gump-esque "I meant to do that" posturing on the part of Houston Nutt.

Re: Ole Miss Football: No reading, writing, or diplomas required

-TE- — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:28:28 -0000

I love it...You are actually comparing your head coach's tactics to a guy that you feel needs the NCAA to stop him, recruiting-wise...

Nice admission, there, Ringo...

Re: Ole Miss Football: No reading, writing, or diplomas required

gatorhippy — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:55:04 -0000

Now the question becomes... how many non-qualifiers will your school recruit next year? Will 40 LOI's be the new 25?

Given that Meyer has only had one kid, Dee Finley, not qualify academically in his four seasons...

I'll go out on a limb and put my vote in for ZERO...

Re: Ole Miss Football: No reading, writing, or diplomas required

Porcine — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:12:18 -0000

It's like deja vu all over again, again.

Re: Ole Miss Football: No reading, writing, or diplomas required

"BC" — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:17:27 -0000

Houston Nutt. way to go man. this is impressive.
i thought only Nick Saban was capable of coming up with great new ideas like this one.
brilliant.

let's take bets on how quickly the NCAA will come in and stop this with "The Nutt Rule" haha.
if you have more than 5 signees that don't qualify, for every one over five, you will lose a scholarship from next year's class.

Re: Ole Miss Football: No reading, writing, or diplomas required

Kevin @ Fanblogs — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:20:48 -0000

Any coach that admitted that he is actively recruiting guaranteed non-qualifiers would be in some doo-doo, as they say.

Re: Ole Miss Football: No reading, writing, or diplomas required

rebelNutt24 — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:19:02 -0000

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Re: Ole Miss Football: No reading, writing, or diplomas required

The_Observer — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:10:18 -0000

"sorry, but i missed the part where Nutt said he was activley seeking non-qualifiers."

Houston Nutt:
"It's going real smooth right now because you've got about seven guys right now that we know for sure aren't going to make it academically," Nutt said last week at a news conference to discuss spring practice. "However, they love Ole Miss and so what we're doing, to help out Mississippi junior colleges, is we are going to place them in the schools."

It's right there.

Re: Ole Miss Football: No reading, writing, or diplomas required

rebelNutt24 — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:51:16 -0000

sorry, but i missed the part where Nutt said he was activley seeking non-qualifiers.

Ole Miss had Seven (7) commits before the season even started, and after a winless confrence record the year before, the rebs were not exactly in position to land the highly rated prospects. Ole Miss would recieve 1 more commit during the regular season. After beating Florida and LSU on the road Ole Miss began to gain recognition with a lot of prospects and recieved eight (8) more commits between the Egg Bowl and the Cotton Bowl, while only one of them was a four star.

After demolishing Texas Tech in the Cotton Bowl on National TV, Ole Miss was probably the hottest team int the country and had people talking about them. They would get 10 more commits between the cotton bowl and the day before signing day while only managing to pick up 1 more four star prospect. Then on signing day Ole Miss closed better than anyone and picked up 8 more commits 6 being four stars or higher. When your hot, your hot

all that happened was that a winning season allows you to get in the game with more prospects. Is Nutt suppossed to turn down commits from guys like Patrick Patterson, Bobby Massie, and DT Shackelford because he is over the limit?

of the 37 players signed
Jamar Hornsby- already arrested (again)
Gabriel Hunter- injured his knee at the begining of his senior season, and was told by the staff not to play again until he arrived on campus, but he tried to play in the playoffs and ended up hurting it even worse
Eric Smelley-commitd his Junior year but never able to get academically eligible
OLE MISS SIGNED TWO KICKERS IN THIS CLASS- not likely to be an annual thing
Darius Barksdale- top player in MS last year, stared at South Panola, never lost a game in high school, went to school twenty minutes from oxford, one of those guys worth taking a chance on whether or not he gets in

Look at the 2008 class, combo of Nutts 1st class and last of Orgeron's recruits
Ole Miss signed 31 players
Barksdale was one of them
Another QB decided to play pro baseball after signing with the Rebs
One prospect worth noting however; is Randall Mackey, he signed with Ole Miss out of high school and failed to qualify academically and was placed into a JUCO by Nutt's staff and is curently the only commit the Rebs have for their next class

Nutt is hardly building a JUCO empire or actively recruiting kids to go to these schools. He doesnt get paid based on the success of the MS JUCOs. It would be a safe bet that the Rebs are muh more selective in handing out scholorship offers this year