Report: Ole Miss in talks to trade Egg Bowl to Southern Miss
Editor’s note: Sometimes things aren’t equally obvious to all people. This article is a satire, meant to be fun and entertaining.
HOLLY BLUFF — In light of Mississippi State and Southern Miss recently agreeing to future games to renew the old in-state rivalry, it appears that there is now more to the story.
With Ole Miss still reeling from a less-than-ideal set of recent headlines, it appears the program is looking to shed more than its previous coaching staff in a rebrand and reboot attempt. Not only is Hugh Freeze gone, but it looks like the Egg Bowl might be gone as well if a new deal between the Mississippi schools materializes.
In a deal that is a first of its kind, it’s being reported that Ole Miss is attempting to trade its slot in the Egg Bowl rivalry game with Mississippi State to another Mississippi program: Southern Miss.
Why might Ole Miss be looking to get out of the historic Egg Bowl? It’s still not completely clear, but an anonymous Ole Miss official had the following to say: “Look we know fans like it, but we’ve honestly been looking for a way to get out of this for some time. I mean, seriously, the Egg Bowl? It’s a stupid name. The trophy is even worse. As some like to say: You never want to let a crisis go to waste. Well, we’re using our recent crisis to address a few other things that have been on the table for some time.”
Since this is being labeled as a trade, the logical next question is: What is Southern Miss giving up in exchange for the slot in the Egg Bowl?
Reports are mixed, but rumors have surfaced that Ole Miss is researching its ability to transfer NCAA sanctions over to the Southern Miss.
One source familiar with the matter mentioned it’s not dissimilar to when an NBA team sends a bad contract or “bad asset” to another team in exchange for something else. In essence, Ole Miss football is trying to package the bad asset of NCAA sanctions with Egg Bowl participation and send it over to Southern Miss.
NCAA sanctions, of course, can be quite bad for recruiting purposes, so it’s possible that Ole Miss views getting out of sanctions as a net gain even when the loss of the Egg Bowl is factored in.
SDS reached out to other SEC coaches and administrators to gauge reaction to such a potential deal. Interestingly, several prominent individuals and coaches seemed not intimately familiar with the Egg Bowl. One was quoted as saying, “Look, I find it difficult enough to keep up with the teams in my league, how do you expect me to watch Pac-12 football?”
Other coaches familiar with the Egg Bowl rivalry thought it a no-brainer to trade a slot in the game if it meant getting out from even some of the potential NCAA sanctions.
It’s too early to tell if such a move could become commonplace in college football. The reduction in the significance of rivalries has been a discussion point of critics who abhor the intense focus on postseason rankings such as the BCS rankings and the more recent College Football Playoff. Could the scrapping of rivalries altogether, or the strategic trading of them to smaller programs be the next evolution in today’s college football?
We’ll continue to monitor the trend.
In my opinion, it just looks like they are just looking for a name change in the rivalry and are possibly looking at making the Egg Bowl a Florida cup/Michigan MAC like trophy with Southern Miss & MSU(in which FSU, Florida, & Miami or WMU, EMU, & CMU play each other for a 3 way rivalry trophy.)
lets read the article next time, “Editor’s note: Sometimes things aren’t equally obvious to all people. This article is a satire, meant to be fun and entertaining.” they’re not changing the name
It’s great you’re name is ‘The People’ because what you said is what everyone is thinking. BigBlackNipple, read the article next time.
I hope you’re just trying to be funny and failing badly. The author even told you at the beginning of the article that it was satire.
The buzzards have nothing to gain. We haversion to lise
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Good God. It’s satire. It’s stated at the beginning of the article.
How could a team possibly be allowed to trade sanctions? Doesn’t the NCAA have the ability to shut this sort of thing down? I don’t think schools should get a “get out of jail free” card.
Ok, now I see that this is satire.
When did this site become the Onion?
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Dude. Read BEFORE you type. You could possibly save yourself from looking like an idiot.
SDS, if you want us to take you seriously, don’t publish this crap. After reading the comments, I saw the editors note and the location ” Holly Bluff”. Ha Ha I get it. When you have a reputation of weak, silly stories, especially in the off season, you should probably not even joke about such things.
Joke, or no joke, the Egg Bowl really is a stupid name. Mississippi Bowl, or something like that would be less embarrassing.
Joshua, if you knew how many billions of dollars are made annually in Mississippi by selling eggs it might be less stupid to you.
We could have used the Magnolia Bowl, since Mississippi is the Magnolia state but the Ole Miss rivalry with LSU already uses that name. Not exactly sure why but lol.
Because the Magnolia flower is Louisiana’s state flower too. And because the Ole Miss/LSU rivalry is older than the Ole Miss/MS State rivalry.
Ah. That makes sense now. Also I guess it’s that way because the Egg Bowl as always been the name of the rivalry since 1927 and I guess it wouldn’t make any sense changing it now.
Correct. That’s the main reason I wouldn’t vote to change it, because it’s so old.