Getting the Hell out of Oxford

The situation at Ole Miss gets more and more interesting. First the Rebels fire the very successful David Cutcliffe after one poor year. Cutcliffe was the only coach in the history of the school to win seven games in his first 5 years. Then the administration goes on some fantasy coach tour dropping names that Ole Miss couldn’t get in sniffing distance of hiring. The Rebels then settle on a COLLEGE POSITION COACH. He has never even been a coordinator and he is now expected to run the entire football program. Are you kidding me??? This smacks of desperation.

Now SEVEN new recruits have left the team for various reasons including players quitting, failing to qualify academically and guys getting booted off the team for disciplinary reasons. Orgeron stated that his late hire at Ole Miss forced him to take chances on a number of players, but losing this many guys within a few weeks raises a number of red flags. I thought firing Cutcliffe was a terrible decision and the hiring of Orgeron compounded the mistake. Everyone talks about his “enthusiasm and intensity,” but I expect Ole Miss to wallow at the bottom of the SEC West for the next few years.