(Ole Miss) Hugh Freeze seems to be claiming BCS titles now
Now, I've searched all over Wikipedia to find out when Ole Miss won its three BCS national championships, but darn it if I just can't find them. However, what I did find was that Ole Miss claims three national championships from the 1959, 1960 and 1962 seasons.
And while those national title claims may be a bit dubious -- there are five teams that claim a national title in 1960 -- I'm not going to hold Ole Miss accountable for claiming these titles. Those days were pretty much the wild west of college football, and it's hard to find any schools that haven't claimed some questionable national titles.
However, putting three BCS trophies in that graphic about Ole Miss' three national championships is a bit disingenuous. Especially considering the photo touts Ole Miss' three claimed national titles, yet doesn't tell you in which years they came.http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/blog/eye-on-college-football/22278272/hugh-freeze-seems-to-be-claiming-bcs-titles-now
"Technically" he isn't saying they won 3 BCS titles...although he heavily implies as much...just plain sad IMO
Are you besmirching the good name of Hugh Freeze?! A pox on thee!
would be kind to a small SEC school that is absolutely no threat to us and that is taking away talent from places like Alabama and LSU and not us for the 99% part. Maybe the guy is just a pretty damn good recruiter and is trying to place his school in the best light. Not like he is Nick (the Devil) Saban or Brian (Insert yelling at player here) Kelly. Here is hoping they beat Alabama in 2013! Go Rebs!
Pull up a chair and I'll tell you the story of a lad named Treadwell and his tweeted pictures of piles of cash, my friend...
There are hot women everywhere. And we all know we'll be fine without him. None of that changes the fallacious reasoning of your original post. Painting Ole Miss as some kind of valiant underdog who seems to be doing things on the up and up is incredulous at best. So sure. They have hot women. I'm sure that reasonably overrides the pictures of money he tweeted. Nothing to see here, move along.
Also utterly unconvincing: your hypothesis that we won't recruit against them regularly. The better they do, the more we'll bump heads. Auburn had one good year and suddenly we were engaged in, and losing, multiple recruiting battles with them. Why should Ole Miss and their head coach be any different, except, apparently, because you say so?
Also ALSO I don't need to know they are dirty to dislike them. The Rebels they named themselves after aren't the Rebel Alliance. I'm offended every time they score a touchdown and Dixie starts playing, so no, even if you WERE right, I still have every reason not to root for them over LSU and Alabama.
According to Wikipedia, "Dixie" was most likely written by Ohioans. I had no idea.
I have to say, that does not in any way endear the tune to me more.
I mean, it does make sense though. The first line is 'I wish I was in the land of cotton," which I guess implies that you aren't at the time.
It's just interesting that it wasn't actually written by southerners. But I guess minstrel shows weren't restricted to the South.
Depends where you want to draw the line, I guess...
Again, per Wikipedia:
I think what we're all trying to say here is that Ohio is south of Michigan and therefore that makes them less, and we're justified to conclude that.
If you've been to Ohio, the South pretty much starts south of Toledo.
And they're missing whole parts of Illinois and Indiana there are a lot closer....
Actually, I would think the most famous writer of minstrel show tunes was Stephen Foster, who was from Pittsburgh and only went to the south once, for his honeymoon in Louisiana. That means the writer of "My Old Kentucky Home" never spent any real time in Kentucky.
Foster is so controversil for his happy slave songs Greenfield Village in Dearborn, contrary to their normal practice, doesn't use his name to label his house.
Actually, if you are ever on the University of Pittsburgh's campus, just nect to the Carnegie Museum you will see an utterly shameful statue of Foster composing, or something, sitting in an elevated position over a bald, smiling, and, I kid you not, shoeless african american playing the banjo.
Although Ohio as a whole benefitted from the economic relationship, Cincinnati as a whole had the most Southern sympathy, NOT Cleveland and NOT Columbus.
Come and listen to a story about a kid named Tread
A poor Warrior, barely kept his family fed,
Then one day he was pickin' at some food,
And up through the ground came a cash-bearin' dude.
Well the first thing you know ol Tread's a millionaire,
Kinfolk said "Tread better go down there"
Said "Oxford is the place you ought to be"
So they loaded up the truck and moved to Mississippi.
Swimmin pools, football stars.
Well now its time to say good by to Tread and all his kin.
And they would like to thank you folks fer kindly droppin in.
You're all invited back again to this locality
To have a heapin helpin of their hospitality
Hillybilly that is. Set a spell, Take your shoes off.
Y'all come back now, y'hear?.
Anybody younger than that catch the reference here? I've never actually seen the show.
We are still sore about the whole Treadwell thing.
ah, yes kinda. And you had to go there before sunday...bad mojo! If I see $10,000 on Peppers's twitter I am coming to find you.
In those three years, Ole Miss was ranked either 2nd or 3rd in both the AP and Coaches' poll, so it is based on some combination of these and/or other polls. I am shocked that they don't claim 1955 because, using Massey's algorithm, they would have been the best team that year based on historic statistics. Surely Freeze is aware of these things, right?
Incidentally, the major polls of the day would have put Syracuse on top in 1959, Minnesota in 1960 and USC in 1962.
It's very rare that I find a Miss America desirable, especially those of the Southern Belle variety.
There are plenty of hot women everywhere. Your apparent homerism is more silly than offensive, fortunately.
They appeared to have updated it. I saw this posted somewhere on Twitter earlier (probably EDSBS or something), and the quote was attributed to "Unknown." Looks like someone got their hands on the Google.
I dunno, unknown might be better.
Coolidge was a racist motherfucker. Seriously, in the south, his name on voting ballots would be spelled "Kal Koolidge". Kloset Klansman if you ask me...
Yeah, this fall I think I might turn down the volume on Ole Miss games and play a recording of the 30-for-30 theme music just so I can feel like I'm watching it happen live. Then I'll turn the volume back on but smoothly slip in a "What if I told you..." right before everything the announcers say. "What if I told you... three yard gain up the middle?" "What if I told you... first down Rebels?"
Copying the entire wording of the article?
That would be as dumb as someone putting Michigan with 11 crystal footballs. They should have one, but it was mistakenly sent to Lincoln, NE for some reason. Ole Miss does and has done things that really make me wonder what the hell are they thinking.
In fact, the entire SEC makes me wonder what are they thinking. I see schools like Alabama and Ole Miss where students are getting dressed up fancy to go to games. And I'm talking both guys and girls. Strange.
Ole Miss and MSU can keep each other company
Sparty claims six national championships when they really only should be able to claim one. Of course exposing Sparty as a pack of liars isn't really much of a revelation.
A lot of programs claim NCAA Football titles them dont have.
http://deadspin.com/5941380/texas-am-picked-up-two-national-championshi…
http://deadspin.com/5975168/the-definitive-list-of-actual-no+bullshit-c…
Here is two lists of how schools just do whatever the hell they want as far as claiming to have won national titles.
and their first year of integration on the gridiron, 1962, and the only year they enjoyed an undefeated season. It was an honest portrayal of the bigotry that still existed, with both players exempted from white restrooms, restaurants, etc., even though they were traveling with the entire football team. Once the Bear began recruiting blacks, after the drubbing they took from USC, lead by SamBam, it was pretty much all over for the rest of that league until his retirement and then in later years the league evening out. ^It is interesting, however, that even with "whites only" that they always managed to place half their teams in the nation's top 20 right on through the 70s.
Still lives there to this day. They have a black student body president and when she was elected there were students and alums not too happy.
Wait the BCS existed in 1959? Well I never...
Let's be real, we'd all be happy if this was the shadiest thing going on in the SEC.