In this 1973 movie, Clint Eastwood plays a stranger who gets revenge on both the Outlaws who murdered him, and the townspeople who stood by cowardly.
Archie Manning's heroics delayed the university of olemiss's decline into obscurity by about four years. Fast forward to 1994....the Rebel faithful repay him by cussing and threatening him after son Peyton follows his heart and chooses Tennessee over their scandal-plagued, corruption-ridden school.
In desperation, the olimiss townspeople desperately want to fend off an eventual drop into Division II status- so, to keep Eli from following his heart and going to Texas or Virginia, they hire David Cutcliffe just so they can get back into Archie and Olivia's good graces.
Then, a mere year after Eli leads them to their greatest season with black players EVER, they conveniently dispose of Cutcliffe in favor of a semi-literate Cajun with little actual coaching experience.
Imagine the anger and rage Archie had over how poorly he was treated by people who should've been worshipping at his feet. My guess is that he began plotting....and Revenge is a dish Best Served Cold.
What better way than to hire a girls basketball coach, encourage the latent-homosexual jocksniffer fan base to buy four and five star recruits, and encourage the University to defy the NCAA at every step.
All we're waiting on now is for Archie to tell the townsfolk to paint their town red and call it "Hell".
Archie Manning's heroics delayed the university of olemiss's decline into obscurity by about four years. Fast forward to 1994....the Rebel faithful repay him by cussing and threatening him after son Peyton follows his heart and chooses Tennessee over their scandal-plagued, corruption-ridden school.
In desperation, the olimiss townspeople desperately want to fend off an eventual drop into Division II status- so, to keep Eli from following his heart and going to Texas or Virginia, they hire David Cutcliffe just so they can get back into Archie and Olivia's good graces.
Then, a mere year after Eli leads them to their greatest season with black players EVER, they conveniently dispose of Cutcliffe in favor of a semi-literate Cajun with little actual coaching experience.
Imagine the anger and rage Archie had over how poorly he was treated by people who should've been worshipping at his feet. My guess is that he began plotting....and Revenge is a dish Best Served Cold.
What better way than to hire a girls basketball coach, encourage the latent-homosexual jocksniffer fan base to buy four and five star recruits, and encourage the University to defy the NCAA at every step.
All we're waiting on now is for Archie to tell the townsfolk to paint their town red and call it "Hell".
