Man I wish we'd start playing them again.
SEC Network USM vs Miss St.
USM
-
- Green Wave
- Posts: 9299
- Joined: Wed Dec 01, 2010 5:54 pm
- Status: Offline
Sad but perhaps true.sader24 wrote:Their fans are ready to give up over on their board. Talking about moving down to FCS and how it's all over.
USM alway loved to put down our Superdome attendance. They were very upset when they did not get invited to the AAC with Tulane and East Carolina. They have won one game in the last two seasons and started their third season with a loss. Would have liked to play them this year for an automatic Tulane win.
Truth is with CJ at Tulane and a South Alabama program on the uptick they have really been squeezed recruiting wise in addition to all of their other troubles. They are no longer coming down here and getting the Patrick Surtain's. They made a living getting a few 2nd level guys from New Orleans, a few 2nd level guys from Mobile, and getting some decent kids from South Mississippi. They have really been squeezed.
-
- Swell
- Posts: 1313
- Joined: Wed Jul 16, 2014 10:10 am
- Status: Offline
This is an interesting read re the Southern Miss program:
How the SEC Destroyed Southern Miss — and Could Kill Football
Ask the old-timers, and they’ll tell you about the wins over top ten TCU and Houston teams, or about the long-ago 58-14 mollywhopping of Florida State, but their faces really light up when they start talking about beating Alabama, or Ole Miss, or Mississippi State, or LSU, or Auburn. So then you know what matters to old Southern Miss fans, and you understand why a university so used to winning in the shadow of the Southeastern Conference could think it was a good idea to hire a twice-failed aging dinosaur of an assistant: SEC people said it was a good idea.
The Ellis Johnson post-mortem is stunning not just because he inherited a 12-2, top 20 program and immediately went 0-12 with it, but also because that winless 2012 result was the program’s first losing season of any sort in two decades, and only its sixth in the seventy-five years since the arrival of Reed Green, its first great head coach. When Southern Miss went 1-11 in 2013, after firing Johnson and replacing him with Todd Monken, it completed its first back to back losing seasons since 1933 and 1934; the one win was its lowest two-season victory total in all 101 of its years. To open this year, Southern Miss lost, 49-0, to Mississippi State, against whom the Golden Eagles have an all-time winning record; it was the first time State had pitched a shutout in the rivalry since the first edition of the game in 1935, when Southern Miss was called State Teachers College.
The football program at the University of Southern Mississippi is at death’s door for the only time in its history, with only faint signs of potential resuscitation visible to people like me, who care enough to look. The story of how it got to this point is a cautionary tale not just for those who love the historically resource-strapped yet successful program, but also for those who love American football, despite all its flaws. Football’s greatest threat is the existential crisis posed by sub-concussive brain injuries, but the kind of thinking that pushed my alma mater into a bizarre dystopia is hastening the onset of a concurrent apocalypse that nobody sees coming.
Basically, the SEC is going to kill football.
Continued.............
http://www.blackandgoldreview.com/2014/ ... y-football
ajcalhoun: Nobody here gives a flying fuck about UL-L and the Sunbelt Conference.
Reminds me so much of Scott Cowen's "brilliant" moves when he first arrived on Tulane's campus.cajunfanatico wrote:This is an interesting read re the Southern Miss program:
How the SEC Destroyed Southern Miss — and Could Kill Football
Ask the old-timers, and they’ll tell you about the wins over top ten TCU and Houston teams, or about the long-ago 58-14 mollywhopping of Florida State, but their faces really light up when they start talking about beating Alabama, or Ole Miss, or Mississippi State, or LSU, or Auburn. So then you know what matters to old Southern Miss fans, and you understand why a university so used to winning in the shadow of the Southeastern Conference could think it was a good idea to hire a twice-failed aging dinosaur of an assistant: SEC people said it was a good idea.
The Ellis Johnson post-mortem is stunning not just because he inherited a 12-2, top 20 program and immediately went 0-12 with it, but also because that winless 2012 result was the program’s first losing season of any sort in two decades, and only its sixth in the seventy-five years since the arrival of Reed Green, its first great head coach. When Southern Miss went 1-11 in 2013, after firing Johnson and replacing him with Todd Monken, it completed its first back to back losing seasons since 1933 and 1934; the one win was its lowest two-season victory total in all 101 of its years. To open this year, Southern Miss lost, 49-0, to Mississippi State, against whom the Golden Eagles have an all-time winning record; it was the first time State had pitched a shutout in the rivalry since the first edition of the game in 1935, when Southern Miss was called State Teachers College.
The football program at the University of Southern Mississippi is at death’s door for the only time in its history, with only faint signs of potential resuscitation visible to people like me, who care enough to look. The story of how it got to this point is a cautionary tale not just for those who love the historically resource-strapped yet successful program, but also for those who love American football, despite all its flaws. Football’s greatest threat is the existential crisis posed by sub-concussive brain injuries, but the kind of thinking that pushed my alma mater into a bizarre dystopia is hastening the onset of a concurrent apocalypse that nobody sees coming.
Basically, the SEC is going to kill football.
Continued.............
http://www.blackandgoldreview.com/2014/ ... y-football
Be proactive, being reactive is for losers..
Tulane Class of 1981
Tulane Class of 1981