State of Ole Miss Football

Along the lines of the President' s State of the Union Address, I will give my State of Ole Miss Football Address as we currently stand.

Last week's loss to Missouri could not have come at a more awful time. While it is not necessarily the loss that hurts, it is the way we lost that has started this snowball. Ole Miss was pretty much run over last week by a good Missouri team. I would say the fan base was spilt as to whether we would win or not going into the game. However I would say very few people thought we would have gotten blown out the way we did.

The Missouri loss sent all these wackos on message boards into motion. 85% of message boards are made up of fans that I believe are absolutely crazy. They worship a player or team one day and the next they are ready to fire and cut the same people they worshiped the week before. Going into the season, I said the Rebels would be 6-6, so I kindof expect a Missouri loss to be thrown in there.

The Jerrell Powe ruling has increased the amount of ridiculous posts on the internet. These people are blaming everyone from the NCAA to Robert Khayat to Sidney Allen as to why Jerrell is not in school. They will blame anyone and everyone given the opportunity. While I do think that it is wrong the way the NCAA handled the situation, I do not place the blame on them as to why he is not in school. I do place blame on them in the way they handled the situation. This should have been all taken care of back in July or early August.

If you want to place a finger on someone, place it on the Wayne County School System. Jerrell has been a member of this school system since he was a kid. They knew he was this way the entire time he was in grade school and high school. Did they try and correct this? No, not until he was a Senior, maybe even a Junior. This just shows how screwed up the public school system in the State of Mississippi is. I think the Dept of Education should go after the administrators at Wayne County and investigate as to why he was able to advance. And upon their findings fire the idiots for not doing their jobs. Would I love for Jerrell to be playing for Ole Miss right now, you better believe it. But all these people that are pointing fingers at our administration saying it is their problem, are way off base.

Bottom line: the disappointment of Powe not being ruled eligible and the miserable loss to Missouri have sent the Rebel nation into turmoil. We still have a football season left. We still play Kentucky this weekend, so lets drop what happened and look towards what is left and quit complaining. It is very possible we will loose to Kentucky this weekend. The season is not over by a long means. I feel like a win at Kentucky this weekend could help the morale of the fanbase and team drastically. If we don't win, who knows what all the wackos on message boards will be complaining about next week....Now if I can only figure out Pay Per View.