re: Fun Fact about Hugh Freeze and Ole Miss

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LSU posters on here always seem to be on the cutting edge when it comes to making funnies... Good stuff.

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My post wasn't meant to be humorous...

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Choke you say? Where did he choke or make a bad call that cost us a game?

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Not getting the field goal team on the field in time and getting a delay of game was all on the coach. That was crucial and very well could have cost ole muss a shot to tie the game

So somewhat unofficial ranking of Ole Miss Coaches:

Cutcliffe (somehow got another Manning to come)
Nutt (made Hugh Freeze)
Freeze (downgraded only slightly because still coaching and came after a legend/top 2 coach)
Vaught (had the original Manning, different game back then, didn't embrace the evolution of the game)

Only because you fired your best coach ever would you say that.

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Only a dumbass who knows nothing about the situation or Cutcliffe would say he's Ole Miss' best coach ever.

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I'm not sure how those ideas even go together.

Why would the situation OR knowledge about Cutcliffe personally make a difference on how good a coach he was?

You're going to need a ton of clarifying to get to a cogent thought there. I'm willing to hear you out, you're just going to have to try to actually make sense.

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You're going to need a ton of clarifying to get to a cogent thought there. I'm willing to hear you out, you're just going to have to try to actually make sense.

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He won with Tuberville's players and then he had Eli Manning. After he ran out of those he had a 4 win season when he had something like 19-20 starters back from a team that won 10 games the year before. He also stopped recruiting and flat out refused to make coaching staff changes that needed to be made.

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Well first off, it is Tuberville, and secondly, every objective measurement shows that Cutcliffe had a better career at Ole Miss between those two.

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Only because he had Eli Manning. That was the only good thing he ever did for the university. Tuberville was a better coach than Cutcliffe at Ole Miss given the circumstances. If you go back and watch Eli's three years playing at Ole Miss, you'll notice that he was the real playcaller because 90% of the time, he would get to the line and call a different play than Cutcliffe had called from the sideline.

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Also as to Freeze's bowl accomplishment, you have to acknowledge at Cutcliffe would have done the same thing if there were the same amount of bowls in 2001 that there are now. He won 7 games in an 11 game season and missed a bowl.

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IIRC a 5 win Alabama team went to a bowl over us that season.

And we actually beat Alabama that season too.

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he would get to the line and call a different play than Cutcliffe had called from the sideline

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Since Cutcliffe has since proved that he's an incompetent coach thats unable to make the correct calls.

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Agree with this. But it didn't cost us the game.

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You guys have a strange definition of what costs a team a game. It sure as hell didn't help the Rebels win the game. Also, if I'm not mistaken, the throw to Treadwell--had it been utilized--would have gotten Ole Miss near the original spot.