Rebel Mole says.....
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I have heard he was approached and was not interested. I do think it would be a great way to try and unite the fan base with Archie as interim while they search for a new AD.
I do think Archie will be very involved, maybe even head the search committee for the new AD.
I do think Archie will be very involved, maybe even head the search committee for the new AD.
Archie has been named Interim AD since Warner Alford and Billy Brewer got shitcanned in 1994. <div>
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How will you handle the Col. Reb....issue? Archie?
That seems to be an important underlining issue for them.
This deal about Boone seems not to be all about justathletics.
That seems to be an important underlining issue for them.
This deal about Boone seems not to be all about justathletics.
Have they looked at that? Seriously, their best case scenario is about 4-8. And that is with about 3 50/50 games all going their way... A new coach needs to win immediately to get a hold of the fan base. Hell, look at us. Mullen did about as well as you can do in year one with a 5-7 record...
From what I heard, there was a chance of that occurring, along with a midseason firing of Nutt this week if we had lost to UGA in a big way. Since the scoreboard was relatively close (and yes saying 14 points is relatively close depresses the **** out of me), they survive another week.
I don't think it'll be this week because of that, but if we go to Fresno this weekend and get beat by 20 as I expect us to, then I think Nutt will get his pink slip, and we may see an announcement not long after that Boone has set a retirement date and he will stick on until the end of the athletic year to work on the fundraiser and help with the transition to a new guy.
It's depressing to be at the point where I feel like losing in a bad way is good for the long term good of the program, but that's where I am. It's a first for me. Brewer was fired for the violations. Tuberville left. Cutcliffe was fired abruptly, a year too soon. Orgeron was fired after only 3 years, but I guess that's the closest I've been to this.
My hope is that we go ahead and get crushed by Fresno (not really a hope, because I know it'll happen), then we can Nutt on Sunday night. Boone announces his retirement plan either on Sunday or Monday. We spend a month working on an AD search and have the hire complete by the La. Tech game. Then the new AD immediately starts his first job, a football coaching search. Boone can stick around to work in an interim capacity alongside the new guy. It may be wishful thinking, but I think there is a chance we see it.
I don't think it'll be this week because of that, but if we go to Fresno this weekend and get beat by 20 as I expect us to, then I think Nutt will get his pink slip, and we may see an announcement not long after that Boone has set a retirement date and he will stick on until the end of the athletic year to work on the fundraiser and help with the transition to a new guy.
It's depressing to be at the point where I feel like losing in a bad way is good for the long term good of the program, but that's where I am. It's a first for me. Brewer was fired for the violations. Tuberville left. Cutcliffe was fired abruptly, a year too soon. Orgeron was fired after only 3 years, but I guess that's the closest I've been to this.
My hope is that we go ahead and get crushed by Fresno (not really a hope, because I know it'll happen), then we can Nutt on Sunday night. Boone announces his retirement plan either on Sunday or Monday. We spend a month working on an AD search and have the hire complete by the La. Tech game. Then the new AD immediately starts his first job, a football coaching search. Boone can stick around to work in an interim capacity alongside the new guy. It may be wishful thinking, but I think there is a chance we see it.
I have a father who is somewhat of an Ole Miss fan, but truly he just goes because his best friend is die hard and dad likes the grove and the "scenery". I can vividly remember 2 years ago after the 2nd Cotton Bowl win him telling me that word was Nutt had written his book at Ole Miss and would easily retire there. Boone would be long gone before Nutt was ever considered to be let go. He told me his Rebel friend stated that "Nutt had so much power at Ole Miss now that he would probably have final say in who would be the new AD." It really is amazing how the winds change in college football in general. I mean hell, we have fans who were ready to erect a statue of Mullen after last year that right now think he is the dumbest coach in America because we lost to #1 LSU and then had a trap game that we survived, thank god. Ultimately though, for whateverreason, Nutt really haslet the wheels fall off up at Oxford.