Ole Miss has more NCAAT wins since Friday

[Ranchdawg]

This ain’t 2000 man.

Who cares about “tradition”? Coaches want to go where the $ is. Ole Miss is more than willing to pay for basketball talent.

Look at Auburn. They were a nobody in basketball until they built a new arena and hired a great coach with a checkered past.

what did ole Miss do ? Oh yeah. They built a new arena and then hired a great coach with a checkered past.

Yep. Tradition has always meant crap. $$$ meant big name programs got the talent they needed. NIL just made it obvious where the money was going. Anyone that wants to dominate in a sport simply has to throw a lot of money at it. If Missy wants to be significant in basketball then they just need to mimic Alabama. If I coached at State I would let the boosters know margin of victory/loss so they could place bets and use the money for recruiting like the Alabama baseball coach (he just got caught doing what others were doing because he was stupid). Cheating is the best way to win going forward because money is all that matters. BTW, Missy has done a much better marketing themselves to ESPN. The Season and other shorts they feed ESPN has gotten them on the radar. Meanwhile, we have trouble keeping our fans interested.

 

[Ranchdawg]

Missy has adjusted. We have not.

 

[QuadrupleOption]

It's a sad testimony to the state of our athletics program that our greatest hope is that other schools will hire away their successful coaches instead of us just doing what we need to do to compete.

Shockingly, we seem to be the only SEC school that loses our successful coaches to other SEC schools on the regular, and it's a pattern that goes back to the 90s.

 

[DoggieDaddy13]

I talked to a guy that knows a guy who says:

Beard is locked into OM for the next two years for certain. OM is ready, willing, and able to pay.

Beard has given them the very short list of schools he'd jump for - none of them need a coach now.

He's got a great set up and is enjoying his rehabilitation and revival in Oxford. He's not Kiffin-level King in Oxford, but he's close.

 

[pseudonym]

Beard has given them the very short list of schools he'd jump for - none of them need a coach now.

I've never heard of this practice. In fact, I don't believe it happens.

Why would a coach tell their employer what other jobs they would take?

Of course, even if they did, they could always leave for a job not on the list.

 

[85Bears]

I've never heard of this practice. In fact, I don't believe it happens.

Why would a coach tell their employer what other jobs they would take?

Of course, even if they did, they could always leave for a job not on the list.

Not how it works, if St Johns, UCLA, UNC, IU, or several others called he’d be gone. ole Miss is a basketball wasteland. He’s only there while he rehabs his reputation.

 

[HuntDawg]

Not how it works, if St Johns, UCLA, UNC, IU, or several others called he’d be gone. ole Miss is a basketball wasteland. He’s only there while he rehabs his reputation.

HE wouldnt leave ole miss for St Johns or IU... UNC for sure, there a blue blood... UCLA maybe... No other team on that list is at the level of ole miss nor have they been there in years.

The SEC is only going to be get bigger and stronger due ot NIL. Beard isnt looking to jump ship unless its to about 5 schools that have the SEC power in basketball.. Duke, UNC,, and schools onthat tier... and none of those are going to come calling for Beard at the moment.... and good coaches in all sports and trying to get into the sec, not leave it.

 

[85Bears]

If you don’t think Beard would have left Ole Miss for the Indiana job, you really have no idea what you are talking about.

 

[GloryDawg]

They probably also have more pricks on their team than we have had the past 100 seasons.

 

[HuntDawg]

If you don’t think Beard would have left Ole Miss for the Indiana job, you really have no idea what you are talking about.

He wouldnt. Wouldnt even entertain it most likely. Ole Miss over the last 10-15 years has been equal too or better than the Indiana program has been. Its trended up, in the SEC which is stock full of TV power and money.

Indiana basketball is much like Nebraska football.... use to be a great place to be... it'll never be that again and other schools have passed them by. They havent even been to a sweet 16 in 10 years...theyve only made the tournament 2 times in the last 9 years.... Be a big step down for Beard to go there.

again all the major players in college sports are trying to get into the SEC... not out...

 

[HailStateMuse]

Yep. Tradition has always meant crap. $$$ meant big name programs got the talent they needed. NIL just made it obvious where the money was going. Anyone that wants to dominate in a sport simply has to throw a lot of money at it. If Missy wants to be significant in basketball then they just need to mimic Alabama. If I coached at State I would let the boosters know margin of victory/loss so they could place bets and use the money for recruiting like the Alabama baseball coach (he just got caught doing what others were doing because he was stupid). Cheating is the best way to win going forward because money is all that matters. BTW, Missy has done a much better marketing themselves to ESPN. The Season and other shorts they feed ESPN has gotten them on the radar. Meanwhile, we have trouble keeping our fans interested.

Some people cling to their bias as a form of emotional therapeutics. Sadly, our university has always lead with a “keep the faith” mentality, instead of forging one’s own good destiny.

As the great John Cohen once said “what they’re doing is not sustainable”. Sums up 100 years of MSST athletics quite well. I do think that is a mentality that is changing for the better

 

[Taz_Man]

They’ve left us behind in every sport because they are trying to compete with the SEC not us. Meanwhile the special ed folks at our school only care if we beat them.

 

[Taz_Man]

im not comparing ole miss just to us, I’m comparing them to big ten and big east schools, ACC schools. One sweet 16 in their entire history is embarrassing. basketball is an after thought compared to football. Good basketball coaches will want to coach at a basketball school with real fan support and tradition.

Some coaches want to build a program and start a tradition.