Hi.
This will be my last week covering
#OleMiss
for the Clarion Ledger. Starting Sunday, I'll be taking over the beat covering the Tennessee Titans for
@Tennessean
.
So, to recap the three-team trade:
USC gets:
HC Lincoln Riley
QB Caleb Williams
Oklahoma gets:
OC Jeff Lebby
Ole Miss gets:
QB Jaxson Dart
TE Michael Trigg
I asked Lane Kiffin what all he got hit with other than the golf ball.
"Bottles filled with some brown stuff. Probably wasn't moonshine. I don't think they'd waste moonshine on me."
Anyone else thinking what I'm thinking?
Tua and John Rhys need to start a band. They can call it Quarterback, which logically would make them five times better than Nickelback
Goodbye CoMo.
I like your town. I like your stadium. I like your weird parking lot tunnel that goes under the highway. I love the big M made of rocks. Congrats on being in first place in the East.
I guess what I'm saying is I wish there were a lot more SEC crossover trips.
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Hello from the 2022 NFL Draft.
Teams in attendance for
#OleMiss
vs. Liberty:
DEN (five scouts), WFT, PHI, DAL, IND, ATL, HOU, PIT, ARI, NE, CAR, TAM, TEN, SEA, BUF, NO (three scouts)
Five Fun Facts,
#OleMiss
beat Kentucky edition:
1. RB Quinshon Judkins already has the most rushing touchdowns in a season by any SEC freshman since 2019.
He has played five games.
Five Fun Facts,
#OleMiss
baseball won a national championship edition:
1. Tim Elko was the Rebels' rock when times were good or bad. When Ole Miss was 7-11 in April, he batted .380 with 7 HRs and 19 RBIs. 10-1 in the NCAA Tourney? He batted .378 with 5 HRs and 14 RBIs.
A full list of SEC football players who have led college football in total offense per game for a full season since 1950:
Auburn QB Pat Sullivan (1970)
Florida QB Rex Grossman (2001)
Texas A&M QB Johnny Manziel (2012)
#OleMiss
QB Matt Corral (2020)
Doug Nikhazy has pitched in 40 games in his college career.
Ole Miss has won 31 of those games.
The Rebels are 14-2 when Nikhazy pitched this season.
Hard to ask for much more from this dude. He's delivered the Rebels to this point.
Ole Miss football or England?
- fans are accustomed to soul-crushing defeats
- haven't won a major championship since the 60s
- fans are stereotypically very posh but realistically just enjoy a good drink
- lots of press coverage about a famous grandson named Archie
I asked
#OleMiss
DE Sam Williams about his position coach Randall Joyner today.
What followed is maybe the most thorough answer any athlete has ever given me about the importance of technique, film study and good coaching.
If you're a football nerd like me, please read this.
Jake Bentley from South Carolina (who apparently hasn't graduated yet) just won the Air It Out competition at the Manning Passing Academy. Beat about 40 other top college QBs, including in-state rival Trevor Lawrence.
hello iowa please don't make me look like a dummy for falling in love with an offense that scores lots and lots and lots and lots of points ok thanks bye
Five Fun Facts,
#OleMiss
vs. Liberty edition:
1. Ole Miss' offense has had 10 different players run or catch for 100+ yards in a game this season. No other SEC team has more than five players who have done either.
Just an absurd thought:
1. Plays Ole Miss 5/14-16
2. Plays Ole Miss 4/9-11
3. Plays Ole Miss 4/16-18
4. Is Ole Miss
5. Plays Ole Miss 4/1-3
6. Lost to Ole Miss 2/21
7. Lost to Ole Miss last year
8. Lost to Ole Miss last year
9. Lost to Ole Miss 2/22
10. Is very far away
Pretty sure I just heard a kid say "Hail State" as he was leaving Vaught-Hemingway Stadium and then heard his mom say "Don't you say that again I ain't playing"
Matt Corral just detailed everything he remembered from the last drive of last year's Egg Bowl. Turns out he was just flat out ignoring/changing the play calls because he knew what was going to work. He was right. Every time. Just an incredible story.
Apparently when Tommy Stevens entered the transfer portal, he personally called Archie Manning to ask if he was still allowed to come to Manning Camp. Archie said yes.
Few weeks later, Tommy called and he was going to Mississippi State. Archie joked "Well, now I don't know..."
*inside the
#LSU
locker room at halftime*
Coach O: what are we gonna do without any of our DBs?
*mysterious voice from around the corner*
"Re-re-remembah dat time Greedy Williams showed up at halftime and dah Tigahs won dah Bourbon Bowl?"
*raucous applause*
#OleMiss
coach Lane Kiffin wasn't trying to a handstand after the onside kick. He wasn't even watching the play. He thought if he looked too intent on the kickoff Auburn might be tipped off, so he was watching the play on the scoreboard while pretending to talk to the defense.
If you want context on how good Matt Corral has been through the first three games, here's how his first three games stack up against how the last five Heisman Trophy winning QBs have started their seasons.
MY MOST USELESS FUN FACT YET!!!!!!!!!!
When
#OleMiss
plays Tulane this weekend, Lane Kiffin will be the first SEC coach to face a team with his first name completely contained within the opponent's name since Lou Holtz faced LSU and Louisiana-Lafayette in 2003 at South Carolina.
Grae Kessinger was just announced to throw out the first pitch before today's Ole Miss game and received a warm reception, marking the first and only time this week a Houston Astros shortstop wasn't booed.
Five Fun Facts,
#OleMiss
vs. Tulane edition:
1. Matt Corral has accounted for 14 touchdowns in his first three games. Among the last 10 Heisman Trophy winning quarterbacks, only Lamar Jackson accounted for more TDs in their first three starts.
Kevin Graham's home run last inning was
#OleMiss
' 100th of the season.
This is the Rebels' first ever 100 HR season. The previous school record was 98 in 1998.
Five Fun Facts,
#OleMiss
football beat Auburn 48-34 edition:
1. Ole Miss rushed for 448 yards. It's just the 4th time an SEC West team has rushed for that many yards vs an SEC West team this century.
The Rebs' 69 rushes are the most for a team in an SEC vs SEC game since 2010.
#OleMiss
senior LB Lakia Henry just told media that he plans on taking advantage of the extra year of eligibility and coming back for a second senior season in 2021.
So, the opposite of an opt-out there.
No irony. No jokes.
This is one of the coolest sports things I've ever seen.
Tim Elko tore his ACL 33 days ago. Barely a month. He just hit a home run in an SEC game. Just look at his face as he's rounding third and heading home. Warms the heart.
I don't believe what I just saw!
@TimElko
, ladies and gentlemen:
• April 5: Tore his ACL
• May 8: First hit since then, a three-run home run to right field!
💻
A bonus fun fact for the fun of stirring the pot:
The officiating crew that assessed 111 penalty yards to
#OleMiss
yesterday is the same crew that called Alabama for 130 yards of penalties last week.
Five Fun Facts,
#OleMiss
beat Vanderbilt edition:
1. Jonathan Mingo's 247 receiving yards were the most by any FBS player in a single game this season. He's only the sixth SEC player since 2000 to have 9+ catches, 240+ yards and 2+ TDs in a game.
Five Fun Facts: 2021
#OleMiss
football edition
1. The Ole Miss defense ends the season having allowed 21 or fewer points in five straight games. That is the longest active streak of any Power 5 team and the second longest in the FBS behind Louisiana-Lafayette.
My unofficial passing stats from today's
#OleMiss
scrimmage:
Jaxson Dart: 14/17, 207 yards, 2 TD
Luke Altmyer: 13/20, 126 yards, INT
Lane Kiffin says Kinkead Dent was MVP of the day. Led two impressive TD drives with the 3s.
Good morning.
Ole Miss will play baseball in a few hours. While we wait, here's a nice, wholesome, nice fact:
Wes Burton has faced 69 batters this season and has a 4.20 ERA.
Before today, the last time
#OleMiss
ran for 300+ yards and six touchdowns against a Power 5 team was in 2009 against Tennessee.
The opposing coach?
@Lane_Kiffin
.
Lane Kiffin just took credit for
#OleMiss
winning the College World Series because he thinks him throwing the golf ball first pitch led to Tennessee sweeping the Rebs, humbling the team and allowing for a turnaround, so, in this logic, a few angry Tennessee fans decided the CWS?
Five Fun Facts,
#OleMiss
vs. Mississippi State edition:
1. Matt Corral is the third SEC quarterback in the last 10 years to account for 3,800+ combined rushing and passing yards in back-to-back seasons, joining Dak Prescott and Johnny Manziel.
Five Fun Facts!
#OleMiss
vs. Louisville edition:
1. Matt Corral's 436 yards of total offense led all Power 5 players this weekend. By 72 yards. Only seven Power 5 QBs (counting Notre Dame) produced within 100 yards of what Corral did.
"There's no program without players."
#OleMiss
players are mad about Matt Luke's firing. Players young and old (some starters) stormed out. Others called out fake fans. One said half the team might transfer.
How players reacted to today's surprising news:
Tim Elko is the best story in college baseball. Here's my attempt to tell it.
On why the
@OleMissBSB
slugger held off on ACL surgery, what an ACL even does, how his story compares to College World Series legend Warren Morris and how Elko keeps raking.
The Mississippi State coaching search appears to have had serious ill effects on my health. Maybe the Bulldogs will have a new head coach by the time I’m released from my appendectomy? (Probably not, though, right?)
Some
#OleMiss
Sugar Bowl fun facts as we wait for announcement:
- Rebs will become 4th team to play in 10+ Sugar Bowls (Bama, LSU, UGA)
- Only Bama has won more Sugar Bowls (9) than Ole Miss (6)
- 21 teams played in 3+ Sugar Bowls; only 2 (GT, NEB) have better win% than Ole Miss
Five Fun Facts,
#OleMiss
demolishes Georgia Tech edition:
1. Ole Miss has allowed 13 points in three games. The only FBS team that has allowed fewer points this season is Georgia. Yes, that Georgia.
Swayze Field is getting better attendance than Yankee Stadium. Dudy Noble Field is packed fuller than Fenway Park.
Mississippi is already outpacing MLB attendance just about everywhere. Now
#OleMiss
and
#MississippiState
are about to play.
READ:
5.
#OleMiss
is poised to join this short list of teams to play in 3+ New Year's Six games since the format began:
Bama
UGA
UF
Ohio St.
Penn St.
Wisconsin
Clemson
FSU
Oklahoma
Oregon
Washington
(Michigan, Michigan St., Baylor and Notre Dame can also join the 3+ club this year.)
#OleMiss
has the No. 1 ranked rifle program in the country for the first time ever, which is impressive. But then you look at where Army, Navy and Air Force rank and it's, uh, weird that they aren't the best riflers, right?
5. Matt Corral is the only FBS player with more than 2,500 pass yards and more than 500 rush yards.
Complete list of SEC players to do that in a season since 2010:
- Corral (x2)
- Kellen Mond
- Jalen Hurts
- Dak Prescott (x2)
- Chad Kelly
- Johnny Manziel (x2)
- Cam Newton
Fun fact!
Ole Miss baseball has hit 37 home runs in just under 17 games. Last year, the Rebels hit 74 home runs in 68 games.
In other words, the Rebs have hit 50% of the number of HRs they hit last year in 25% of the games.
Hi.
I'm leaving Baton Rouge today and this makes me sad. But it comes with a happy announcement.
I'm leaving because I'm thrilled to announce beginning next Friday I'll be starting as the Southern Miss beat writer in Hattiesburg for the
@hburgamerican
and
@clarionledger
.
TJ Houshmandzadeh's daughter signed to play softball with
#LSU
this year. Someone get Rudi Johnson on the phone. The next generation of the 2006 Cincinnati Bengals is being built in Baton Rouge.
cc
@BrandonSaho
A guy named "Taylor" and "Groves" coming to Oxford is a little too on the nose. It's like if his name was Manning Faulkner or Thesquare Chickenonastick
Breaking:
@iamtaylorgroves
will be headed to
@OleMissFB
next year to play for
@Lane_Kiffin
.
When I talked to Taylor a few weeks ago, it sounded like he really enjoyed his visit to Oxford in early June. Big get here for the Rebels.
Kevin Graham has been on base 46 games in a row. 51 out of 53 games this year.
I feel like it's pretty safe to call him one of the SEC's underrated stars this year.
This wasn't about the national anthem. It wasn't about America. It was about players not wanting people to think
#OleMiss
stands for bigotry and hate.
My story with quotes on why Ole Miss players knelt during the national anthem today.
#Oxford
4. Peyton Chatagnier didn't make a fielding error in his last 56 games for
#OleMiss
this season.
That means he made 85 putouts and 98 assists since his last error on Feb. 27 against VCU.