OT - Will Ole Miss Disturbance Affect Football Recruiting?

He just did commit. Its all over twitter. Im on my phone so no link.

Is not confined to Mississippi or Ole Miss or red states as confirmed by various comments outlined here.   Let us not confuse what happened in the 1950's and 1960's with how life is today in the south in the second decade of the 21st century, unless you have actual first hand knowledge.  As someone with that first hand knowledge, it is obvious that most of you do not possess it.

Ole Miss is a very beautiful campus and a growing school with a ton of very pretty young women and ambitious and intelligent young men of all races.  If you had ever visited the campus, gone to a football game, spent a little time in the grove, discussed Chuckie Mullins with an alumnus, or attended the Texas-Ole Miss football game where they cheered James Meredith at half-time, you might have a clue as to how things are these days as opposed to those days.  I suggest you check out the ESPN 30-30 film on Ghosts of Mississippi to educate yourselves a bit more.

 It is a place that some young men find to be a good fit for their academic and athletic careers, and we should leave it to them to decide for themselves. 

in Michigan!

He decommited from Clemson that's all so far.

Yeah, I remember that too.  Several of the players, including Howard, said that they could never play for Ole Miss after seeing all those rebel flags.  The flag was very prevelant back then at Ole Miss games. 

Nice straw man....Its Treadwell that is the issue when it comes to Ole Miss

Va Tech has never been listed in his top 5.  Even Miami is being mentioned before Va Tech right now.

indeed

Liberal amounts of alcohol.... I see what you did there...

If some students at Wazzu or Nebraska or Maryland did that, people would be downright shocked. At Ole Miss, I feel more like "Well this continues to be embarassing"

It is remarkable to read through this thread, and watch the collective freakout, not to mention some of the ignorant arrogance from Michigan, about what happened in Oxford on election night.

Just above, I questioned whether the story was complete bullshit.  Judging by the original post linking to a true freakout of a "sports" story by Paul Myerberg* of USAToday, it would be easy to say that yes indeed the story that the nation, and prospective scholarship athletic recruits ought to think twice about Ole Miss, was complete bullshit.  Personally, I still like Twitchy's approach to the story.  Pretty much "complete bullshit."

But narrowing the story down as much as possible from afar, it may be possible to say that the story is only "near-complete bullshit."  A reasonably thoughtful report from an Atlanta Journal-Constitution blogger boils the whole thing down to perhaps someone (unidentified) hearing some (unspecified, in terms of nature and number) racial epithets used, in a crowd of a couple of hundred alcohol-fueled undergraduates.

http://blogs.ajc.com/get-schooled-blog/2012/11/07/ole-miss-chancellor-on-obama-protest-very-immature-and-uncivil-approach-to-election-results/ 

So is that the glimmer, the single grain, of truth that allows this story to avoid categorization as wholly made-up bullshit?

I love the comment, somwhere in this thread, feaking out about the Ole Miss band playing Variations on Dixie by classical composer (and member of the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra) Frank Proto.  Proto is a composer who specializes in American folk thems.  His works include a spoken-word composition much like Aaron Copland's A Lincoln Portrait -- which was also debuted by the Cincinnati Symphony -- called Casey at the Bat, as well as a tribute to George Gershwin called A Portrait of George.

*Paul Myerberg was, I gather, the originating force behind "Pre-Snap Read."  Would somebody care to get ahold of Paul by Twitter or email or otherwise, and ask him if he thinks that his original sotry, questioning the future of Ole Miss recruting, and perhaps the future of its football program, was a worthy national inquiry, based on the real facts coming out of Oxford?

There's Moorehouse... just saying.

FWIW, Ole Miss has one of the highest percentages of African-American students of any flagship state university (in the neighborhood of 15-20%).   Tarnishing the entire school because of what sounds like the actions of a few bad apples is not fair.  

There's an entire league of racist universities but since they aren't all white it's ok.  And no, I'm not kidding...

I don't think Bob Jones U would be willing to concede the title, but I'd pay good money to see both underground campus chapters of KKK fight to the death for the honor.

BYU?

Now that is surely a statement of a well reasoned and intelligent and tolerant person who loves humankind!

/S

They have a black student population below the national average?  I can't imagine that's true. I would be very surprised if they didn't have a significantly larger proportion of black students than we do.

I have lived in Michigan, Ohio, and Mississippi.  I attended public schools in all 3 states, and northeast Ohio was the most racist area I lived in.  When I lived in Mississippi, I attended a racial integrated middle school.  When I lived in Michigan and Ohio, I attended public schools that had almost no minorities in terms of blacks or hispanics or Jews or asians or whatever.

You are living in the far past if you think that Mississippi is the most racial backward state.  I suggest you try and learn something before voicing your own prejudices in a public forum.

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See my update post above, regarding "Variations on Dixie," by American composer Frank Proto.

I would venture a guess that a kid who has grown up in the south isn't going to find a confederate flag quite as remarkable as we yankees do.  

I'm not saying it's not offensive, but remember that this kid sees the same flag sold on bumper stickers & keychains every time he goes into a convenience store to buy a Slurpee.  So you can see why he might not be so riled up to see them hanging out a dorm window or whatever.