Jerim

I think Lane definitely wants the Alabama job but he didn't want to be the guy to follow Saban. The expectations would be too high. Plus he has Ole Miss on a path to the playoffs. I could see them in the title game this year. I think he wants to carve out something that is his, before moving on. But I definitely say Alabama is in his furture.

I always felt that Kiffin was waiting on the Alabama job which is why he wasn't interested in leaving Ole Miss. Now that the position is open, it is just a matter of time. I do hope he let's at least one coach buffer his tenure from Saban's. You never want to be the guy to follow greatness. The expectations are too high.

Sadly, it has always been about the money. In a perfect world, you would want all parts of the country to be represented. The dream is to have a West Coast team, a Northern Team, a South East team, and a Mid/South West team. The criteria will always change to get that.

Like Coach Prime said, a team needs to dominate if they really want to get to the top. Ole Miss is winning and that is good. But I am not going to believe we are ready until we start dominating opponents.

Alabama has lost a game plenty of times, on route to a championship. I don't know why the loss to Tennessee is getting so much attention. What makes it so different?

If he has hopes of being in the NFL, then two games last season and three games this season are not going to cut it. Maybe he isn't any good, but either way he needs to get on a team that will give him playing minutes.

I love Hugh Freeze. His ethics aside, he was a great recruiter and coach. He loved Ole Miss and had us beating Bama regularly. Although he is going to have a hell of a time recruiting in the SEC when every school points out his ethical issues.

I agree with you 100%. I said Dan Mullens would be stupid to leave Miss. State for Florida. Why would someone leave a low expectation job where he was over performing for a high pressure job where he is expected to win a championship every. Dan Mullens proved the theory. Kiffin will definitely leave the moment the Alabama job comes open. I have no doubt he will take that job and no doubt Alabama will want him. Until then, he is staying put.

While I am not under the illusion that academics matters anymore, these are still students. Very few of these players will ever get to the NFL. Their best shot at a good life is a degree. A 14 team playoff interferes with that. I wouldn't mind it if we played the entire season during the summer and let these students concentrate on their studies.

And a "hard" count has been a part of the game since forever. The QB will line up with the intention of drawing the defense offsides by saying hut several times real fast or saying it soft a few times then hard as if it was the actual signal to snap. It is the same principle if it is verbal, hand-clapping, knee-slapping, a cough, a fart, etc. McAulay is absolutely talking out his rear end.

All of these historic programs like Notre Dame, Florida State, Miami, etc. are misreading the situation. Programs can't go it alone, like they did in the old days. Programs like Texas and Nebraska used to be able to pull in the recruits year after year, because of their stand alone brands. Those days have long been over. We have entered the era of the Conferences. No one wants to go to a program like Miami where you might get one quality opponent a year. Every collegiate player is trying to make it to the pros. They want game film against quality athletes, so they can move up in the draft. Who cares if you go undefeated at Miami, miss the playoffs, and no scouts take an interest in you?

Even as a life long Rebel fan, I have no hope he stays. I was hoping we might get at least another year, but he is just too hot. Somone is going to poach him. I had hoped Freeze would be our long term solution and that ended poorly for Ole Miss.

I accept that Kiffin wont be at Ole Miss for the next five years. But there is no way he doesnt go to another SEC program. He has proven he can coach at the highest level. No way he takes a step back to a weaker conference. He either takes LSU or waits on Alabama.

I hate Georgia for the same reason I hate a lot of teams; everyone picks them every year to win a title. Notre Dame, USC, Ohio, and Georgia. After decades of hype, I am shocked to see that they actually seem to be a complete team this year. I keep waiting for them to be exposed, but they haven't been. I think Kirby Smart has to win it. How many coaches have tried to get Georgia to this point and failed?

I always say you have to give a new coach at least three years to get their program in place. Get the former coach's recruits graduated, get the new recruits and assistants in. Year four is generally when you know what you got. I think year five is your final chance. Either you say this is what we are going with or you go with a coaching change. In year four, Mullen isn't impressing. He may survive the year, but year five will be his now or never time. He doesn't have to win a national title or even an SEC title. He will have to show vast improvement and that the program is headed in the right direction or he could be let go mid-season.

When the rumors started circulating, I thought there was no way Mullen leaves Miss. State. He was outperforming at a school with low expectations. He had the opportunity to be there a decade or more and cement a respectable legacy. I think he is proving us all correct. He should have stayed. Florida will dump him either this year or next. He will either wind up the head coach at some third-tier program in the Mid West or as an assistant coach.

Don't white knight. Do you want equality? Then you have to suffer equal consequences. She got what any man would have gotten.

This young man is being led astray. All colleges over-commit to recruits just in case they have a last-minute flip-flopper to another program. It is quite likely that Georgia will pull their offer once they have all the 4 and 5 star commits they actually wanted. He runs the risk of schools like Ole Miss moving on from him and not having a spot for him later on. He might have to play his first or second year without a scholarship.

There are tons of three or four star recruits on defense, just wasting away as backups or starting at some small college in a GO5 conference. Kiffin should start recruiting them immediately. He can easily improve the defense year over year through recruiting. We dont have to go after the top tier recruits right off the bat. I think the biggest thing is finding a good to great defensive coordinator. As a life long Ole Miss fan, I have learned NOT to ever get my hopes up. Every year we start making some noise, we just flame out. And Kiffin is just as likely to use three years at Ole Miss as a stepping stone to his next coaching job. The rug has been pulled out from under us a million times. Young Ole Miss fans just dont understand the misery.

In order for it to be intentional grounding you have to first admit that it was a pass. By their own admission, the refs said it was a pass. Cant be intentional grounding without being a pass. The fact that it is a pass is not in question. So then you have to look if it was backwards pass. If the pass was backwards then it is the same as a toss or handoff. There is no way that pass was not backwards. The SEC came out with some lame technical B.S. excuse that made no sense, to cover the refs. I get it, the SEC is in damage control over this. You dont want to admit a mistake because it makes the league look bad. Better to act like it was the right call. But I guarantee there will be some serious meetings in the near furture. Arkansas got robbed. What no one is talking about is how improved Arkansas is. They are a pretty decent team. Not the bottom feeders some predicted.

Momentum. If Kiffin turns Ole Miss around, then big name coaches will feel much more at ease taking over the program. If we just get three great years out of Kiffin we are more than pleased. Programs like Ole Miss, Arkansas, Vandy, etc are going to find it near impossible to get a big name coach who wants to coach at a pitiful program. Memphis got very lucky that the coach who turned them around left and then they were able to hire another coach to keep the momentum going.

Kiffin is a very good coach and to say otherwise is just being contrarian. The Vols wanted to keep him desperately; he had success at Alabama and FAU. The only negative stuff you can mention are in his private life. I get that there tons of reasons not to like him personally, but out on that field we should all give him respect. College Football is all about momentum. Ole Miss lost it when Freeze left. Look at MSU replacing Mullen and now floundering. If you want to be a top program you have to make bold moves and not just hope that you will catch fire with middle-of-the-road coaches.

And now Auburn will be stuck with Gus for another season of mediocrity.

We screwed ourselves by running a terrible rushing play for just a couple yards. You don't run in that situation. We could have used those six seconds. And on the last play you either just spoke it or quickly get out of the pocket and throw it out the back of the endzone. Not really Plumlee's fault though, being a rookie.

Exactly. With Saban's pedigree, he can demand total and absolute control over the entire organization. I think there are plenty of bottom-dweller teams like the Browns who would be happy to give it to him. But I don't think he would be interested. I can see Saban taking over in New England if Belichick ever retires.

Bielma stated it when he went to Arkansas from Wisconsin. It just isn't about head coaches any more. You have to have the resources to hire strong coordinators. SEC schools get that. Bielma said at Wisconsin he could never get the administration to see past the head coach. I am sure something similar happened at FSU. You have invest in the facilities and ALL coaching staff if you want win titles. For a lot of coaches, coming to the SEC is a no-brainer because we understand that you need to pay all your coaching staff very well.

He may not be guilty of a crime, but he is guilty of being a terrible human being. If I saw some kid getting molested I would do way more than just report it. I would go the police, the media, whoever I had to go to. And then you get into the stories from his time in Tampa Bay. The guy is just an all around lousy human being and shouldn't be rewarded with the top spot at Tennessee.

This is a great hire for Florida. Mullen is a proven head coach. If he can take MSU to the top position, then he will have Florida in the playoffs most years.

Florida wasn't Florida until coaches came along and turned it into a power house. Same with LSU, Tennessee, Auburn, Georgia and Alabama. I am an Ole Miss fan myself, but Mullen's legacy is in creating a program from nothing. Why go to some other school with an established legacy that you are just feeding? Stay at State and create your own legacy.

Ole Miss is a publicly funded college. The state funds the college so I can see where the state would have a say-so in matters.