Trying to figure out just when they lost touch with reality and went nuclear with recruiting. Was it because of the Our State billboards?
Did the billboards push OM over the edge?
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Interesting that after Sherrill showed up, the Bears started cheating bad. And after Mullen won 3 in a row...
It was certainly part of it.
See, dubmass johnny ******** keeps saying "liL brothER just Couldn't stand US BEating them! They had to TURN US in fer cheatin!!!!1"
However, the reality is, we were getting our *** whipped up and down the field by them, mostly. So we go out and fire crooms and hire Mullen.
Mullen comes in and starts kicking their ***, and telling them they this is the way things are going to be while he's in charge. We start putting up billboards, the whole "our state" deal, and rubbing it in. We just are having our way with them.
This drives them nuts. Even though they're having success, overall, they CANNOT stand "little brother" beating them. Combine the constant ****-talking, and they go crazy.
Their answer to the problem, fire their coach and go out and hire the biggest fraud in college football. Also, they basically tell him to do anything and everything in his power to shut "little brother" up. Of course, he does, fast forward to today, and they are about to go down as one of the dirtiest programs in history.
That is the truth.
See, dubmass johnny ******** keeps saying "liL brothER just Couldn't stand US BEating them! They had to TURN US in fer cheatin!!!!1"
However, the reality is, we were getting our *** whipped up and down the field by them, mostly. So we go out and fire crooms and hire Mullen.
Mullen comes in and starts kicking their ***, and telling them they this is the way things are going to be while he's in charge. We start putting up billboards, the whole "our state" deal, and rubbing it in. We just are having our way with them.
This drives them nuts. Even though they're having success, overall, they CANNOT stand "little brother" beating them. Combine the constant ****-talking, and they go crazy.
Their answer to the problem, fire their coach and go out and hire the biggest fraud in college football. Also, they basically tell him to do anything and everything in his power to shut "little brother" up. Of course, he does, fast forward to today, and they are about to go down as one of the dirtiest programs in history.
That is the truth.
If I could draw it up like I badly want to do, this board would crowdsource a month-long billboard ad for Rosebowl's book at a prominent intersection on Hwy 6 just in time for the mass ******** move-in just before classes start. Big *** photo of Rosebowl grinning like a mule eating briars. Special introductory price of 20.55. Buy three or more copies and the price is 17.39 each.
Same thing happened when Sherrill came to town. He was a proven name and consistently had his teams in the top 5. They didn't hire a new coach, though. They just amped up "the process" which included "escorts" (same ol' same ol'). Of course, most Landsharks have completed the stages of grief over that NCAA probation and have long since achieved acceptance.
When Mullen got on the mic after the EB and proclaimed that there is "One team on the rise". That really pissed em off (good OM friends said he didn't have to do it and it was tacky). Followed up by the billboards and they reached a level of Pissed they couldn't control.
100% agree that the post game mic drop is what set the wheels in motion. Just recall the context of that game. We were almost double digit underdogs at home to a team that had just beaten us 45-0 the year before. They were having a successful but somewhat disappointing season, considering they were ranked in the top 5 at one point. We had absolutely nothing to play for other than salvaging some pride from the humiliating beating the year before. And Dan Mullen took Houston Nutt behind the woodshed. This was a real turning point in the two programs as Nutt's last two seasons at Ole Miss were unmitigated disasters, and we have not missed out on a bowl game since that season. It pissed them off at the time, but over the next two seasons it proved to be true, which really got them hot. The rest is history.
This is their 3rd or 4th time being in serious trouble for recruiting since the late 80s right? They are averaging at least once major infractions case every decade at least.
They have a culture of cheating and doing whatever it takes to boost their image (in reality this only occurs in their minds only). The cheating is nothing new. This is who they are.
This does not speak for the casual Ole Miss fan who actually cares more about their family and careers than National Signing Day, but this does speak for 9/10 Ole Miss fans who are emotionally invested in their program.
Hell, they cheat like hell in track and women's basketball...
They have a culture of cheating and doing whatever it takes to boost their image (in reality this only occurs in their minds only). The cheating is nothing new. This is who they are.
This does not speak for the casual Ole Miss fan who actually cares more about their family and careers than National Signing Day, but this does speak for 9/10 Ole Miss fans who are emotionally invested in their program.
Hell, they cheat like hell in track and women's basketball...
Trying to figure out just when they lost touch with reality and went nuclear with recruiting. Was it because of the Our State billboards?
ANYTIME the MSU football program looks like it might be surpassing the OM program it pushes them over the edge. They can deal with almost anything else in their little worlds except that. They went over the edge in the late 90s Sherrill days by hiring the private investigators to follow our recruits and coaches around (not to mention greasing the pockets and sleeping with NCAA investigators) to get Sherrill taken down by the NCAA and they went into full out SMU style rogue recruiting tactics when Mullen beat them 3 times in a row and stuck it in their face because he is not the easy NCAA target that Sherrill was and it appeared like the NCAA had lost its teeth anyway at the time. The big time OM boosters can handle pretty much anything other than not having the perceived superior football program to MSU. That has been pretty obvious for a long while now.
It was a lot more than the billboards. There are a couple more major factors here as well. Simply put, they had the combination of money and perceived opportunity. Regarding opportunity, they saw AU with the Cam Newton fiasco essentially buy an NC in broad daylight right under the NCAA's nose and get away with it and said why not us? Regarding money, they were flush with tobacco settlement cash burning a hole in their pockets thus providing the money to make it go. They even attempted to copy AU by hiring a relatively unknown, aw shucks, wet behind the ears HC. I suppose to provide cover.
Their observation of AU with newton was spot on but they, with their well documented inflated opinion of themselves, assumed their gravitas in the NCAA to be equal instead the reality of about two levels below in the role of NCAA whipping boy. So essentially, they are about to pay for AU's Cam Newton sins as well as their own.
Their observation of AU with newton was spot on but they, with their well documented inflated opinion of themselves, assumed their gravitas in the NCAA to be equal instead the reality of about two levels below in the role of NCAA whipping boy. So essentially, they are about to pay for AU's Cam Newton sins as well as their own.
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