Is It Now Pretty Much a Done Deal That Ole Miss Beats Bama?
by KevinHog on Sep 5, 2010 1:42 PM CDT
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Like many of you, I am sure, I had a big schadenfreude grin on my face after watching the special ESPN coverage of Jacksonsville State and Jack Crowe (how many of you knew he was still coaching?) beating Houston Nutt and the Rebels in double overtime. You could have called it the Fired Razorback Coach Bowl if you wanted to. All the connections and ironies could easily make you think that there is some football scriptwriter behind the paste board mask of television games writing out a script whereupon he/she/it decided yesterday that the Rebels should be the next victim of falling to a non-division one school, and that just a few days after winning the NCAA Masoli appeal that was to make a not so great season into one better than expected.
And now the Great Scriptwriter has made Houston Nutt the coach behind two of Ole Miss's worse losses, the seven overtime game and now this. But in reality, there is no scriptwriter. The Greek philosopher Heraclitus once said that a man's character is his fate. And Houston Nutt's character as a football coach is one of a roller-coaster of emotional highs and then lows. From beating LSU last year (high) to losing to Miss. State (low) to winning an ugly Cotton Bowl (high) to losing to Jacksonsville State (very low). This as Arkansas fans know is pretty much what you get with Nutt.
With that in mind, I am feeling even more confident about my prediction that Ole Miss will beat Bama in Tuscaloosa this year because wouldn't that be a very Houston Nutt type of thing to do after losing to Jacksonville State? So before Ole Miss chooses Dr. Heimlich as their on field mascot, haha, they should just watch things unfold. Nutt will get them on a high again by beating someone they shouldn't (oh, Great Scriptwriter, please don't let it be us!) and then get ready for all the "what heart!" and "didn't let go of the rope" statements, that is until the next head scratching loss. Up and down, up and down, but always going in a circle.
I don't think they are flying banners yet over Oxford, but here is what you'll find over at Red Cup Rebellion right now: "Fire Houston Nutt. Hell yes. This is a knee jerk reaction. And hell yes, I'm drunk. I don't care. Fire Nutt. Fire Tyrone Nix. Strip all of our defenders of their scholarships. If they're not willing to at least pretend like they're in the SEC, then fuck'em. Fuck'em hard."
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I don't think it'll be Bama
Saban has them too well disciplined to lose to Ole Miss. And, shockingly, we might be okay, seeing as they play us immediately after the Bama game, and Nutt has never done well with the game after the big game.
That leaves Auburn and LSU. I’m leaning towards LSU, but I’m not sure, based on LSU’s NC game, that it’ll be that much of an upset.
Side note: How did Ole Miss not get Florida, Georgia, OR South Carolina this year? It’s lucky for those teams they don’t have Ole Miss, because you KNOW it would have been one of them, probably Florida.
I subscribe to these views
Tho I think in Nutt’s twisted world Arkansas might actually be “the big game.”
by aboynamedsooie on Sep 5, 2010 2:01 PM CDT up reply actions
Yeah...
That’s why he saved Dexter till they played us.
Auburn.
They’ll beat Auburn. Auburn is this year’s OM. And, they’re also this year’s Arkansas (good offense… BAD defense). Giving up 26 points to ASU proves how little their defense has progressed.
Trouble issues...
Third game in a row we didn’t score in the first quarter and the second team couldn’t score on TTU. This Could come back and bite us.
There's a meltdown of sorts happening over at Red Cup Rebellion
Fascinating post and comments thread:
http://www.redcuprebellion.com/2010/9/5/1670854/a-more-measured-response-or-lets
But, I would advise any Hog fans reading this to avoid going over there and place gloating comments. For one, it’s obnoxious…a little of that is fine, but after awhile it’s just kicking someone when they’re down. And perhaps more importantly, gloating from us now only increases the odds that Masoli has his breakout game of 350 yards and 4 TDs in a thrilling last second win over the Hogs in Fayetteville.
agreed!!!
Gonzo, please go over to Hogville and quit torturing those poor people at rcr. It will only come back on us so please be a human being.
Gonzo's been doing that for years.
Literally years. He’s hopeless.
On another note, it looks like Nutt’s beginning to cause a divide among the Rebel faithful, much like he did her (just a lot sooner). Maybe it’s just excessive emotion, but you’ve got people (season ticket holders, supposedly) who are claiming that they’ve given up on the Rebels this season, i.e., they won’t be watching or attending anymore games. On the other hand, you’ve got those that say “Nutt’s a great coach; after all, he took us to back-to-back Cotton Bowls”. It’s like looking into a dirty mirror, circa 2000… although, even that season didn’t have something as shocking as a loss to a I-AA opponent happen.
Wow wonder who...
Gets sacrificed to save Nutt.
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