To be a REBEL is to be a LOSER
I'm not making predictions about Saturday's game. What I'm talking about is the Rebel Tradition of LOSING. It all began with the Civil War (otherwise known as either The War against the Northern Aggression, or The War To Bitchslap Idiot Slaveowners Too Lazy To Pick Their Own Cotton). The entire student body signed up to go to war against America...and they were killed.
What was left was the Cowards and Cripples. Yet, they wanted to remember those who fell in battle, so any time they see any winning a neuroses falls on them, causing them to react like Gay Activists Desecrating the Host.
Johnny Vaught becoming Head Coach was the worst thing to ever happen to ole miss. Vaught, a Texas man, came in and led the REBELS to several SEC championships. This was horrible for their fans and alumni....they've always based their self-worth and self-esteem on losing, and this winner was causing serious psychological breakdowns on a fan-base used to losing gracefully, then spending the rest of their lives slowly drinking themselves to death.
Vaught knew that he wouldn't get any winning players from the Pampered, self-absorbed limpwrist sissyboys that comprise the Rebel fan base, so he went out and recruited hard-nosed, rawboned, country boys, ie, Mississippi State Men. This caused an uneasy truce between the students and the players- true, their wins let them go party in New Orleans a lot, but this winning made them unbelievably hostile to the Rest of the State of Mississippi. In 1962, when James Meredith integrated the school, several football players tried to go out and tell the students to go back to their dorms....they were cussed out and they left dejectedly.
Lately, they've been recruiting winners like Yankees from New York, and Black Southerners (winners in the Civil War)....and the REBEL fan base is more upset than a Hillary Clinton Victory Party.
Subconsciously, Rebels WANT to be the lovable losers everybody schedules for Homecoming.