re: How the SEC destroyed S.Miss and could Kill football

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This article is 100% right - from a smaller school perspective. The greed of the SEC and the other elite conferences will end up destroying college football as we have known it. It will be good for the SEC but bad for everyone else. From his view, I get what he is saying.

Plus, the writer did blame their horrible coach, Ellis Johnson. Everyone can't be Alabama and Saban's opposition to the HUNH is a joke.

The article is written from a smaller college perspective and there are valid concerns here. Of course, SEC fans won't like it because it messes with their dominance. But, in every other sport, mid-major programs can field competitive teams. Not in college football, however, where all of the power is being collected at the top schools.

That will ultimately be bad for the game. If you don't have schools like Southern Miss and Troy and Memphis able to be at least somewhat competitive, then interest is lost in those programs. There actually is more to college football than who wins the national championship.

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The writer blames the SEC for his problems. What has changed about the SEC for USM in the last 40 years? The SEC is on TV more. So is USM. USM is still competing against OM, MSU, LSU, Troy, etc for players. OM is on TV just the same amount as it was 5 years ago when USM was good.

This boils down to a shite coach who wants to run USM like Alabama. OM doesn't run their program like bama, and USm shouldn't either. This article is a long bitchfest that has no hold on reality or what is really happening.

This article is written from a smaller college perspective, if that perspective was whiny bitch university. USM's problems boil down to coaching, and that ain't Saban's fault.

Just a few years ago USM played and competed against USC on CFB opening Thursday night if I remember correctly. They were very competitive, won alot of games that year and are just being pisspants now.

That flash of success a few years ago is why they are starting this season with two SEC teams.

Those are pretty vague terms. I'm not trying to be obtuse, I would just like more specifics on how the South Eastern Conference is ruining the University of Southern Mississippi's football program. Of course there's greed, you can also call greed, competitiveness. Of course power is being collected at the top, isn't the point of every school in America, to collect "power"? I don't get your point, should we just redistribute this power? Should we stop recruiting so hard, so we can leave some players for schools like USM? I'm simply failing to see your reasoning, or your justification, to blame an entire conference for one team's failures over the past two years.


What is the South Eastern Conference and its members doing now, that they hadn't been doing when the University of Southern Mississippi was on a 10 straight bowl game appearance streak?

I got through about 1/2 of this and asked myself: Why am I reading this shite? I couldn't come up with a good answer to why I wasted 2 minutes of my day on it.

I want those minutes back . . .

What a lot of people don't know.

When Bower was fired, it created a divide between the alumni groups. The new school guys were pushing hard and got Bower out. They had convinced the old school group that with the right coach, USM could pull a Boise State.

Fedora comes in, promising BCS Games. The AD at the time was all behind Fedora. The AD was also using some creative accounting methods to fund what Fedora wanted. While Fedora had outstanding success over his 4 years at Southern, he never got to a BCS game.

That 2011 year happended and Fedora built a big enough year to get his name on the Big 5 radar. Everyone knew he was gone. For some reason, the old school alumni group became upset that Fedora was leaving, go figure, and combined that with a resentment from feeling swindled into firing Bower. The Old School guys were determined to regain control of the Athletic Dept. They forced the AD under Fedora to retire and said AD let out a big frick you, by accepting a lesser bowl in Hawaii over a higher paying and more affordable bowl in Dallas.

Now Old School guys got their new "Old School" AD Hammond in. Got their new "Old School" coach in Johnson in. And in one final frick You from the previous AD, Hammond uncovered a mountain of Debt (<1mil).

Then Ellis Johnson went 0-12.

I'm afraid Southern will never have the resources to recover from both a very bad football team and a mountain of debt. It was a combination of a lot of things but Ellis Johnson was hands down, the worst hire in college football history.

So....one guy, Ellis Johnson, COMPLETELY DESTROYED A FOOTBALL PROGRAM in less than 12 months?

Ok. Sounds legit.

Reading this thing, the writer really just seems to have a massive rage boner for Alabama.

Every time a coach goes from a new style offense to old school it is a disaster. Chizik switched, Bret B switched, Johnson switched.... All went winless in conference.. The players hated the new offense and saw no reason to change.

Can someone give a recent example of this working?

Jesus, at the bitterness. That was a pile of crap. Let's celebrate a few upsets over a half century and then propose to blame Nick Saban for "changes".

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Every time a coach goes from a new style offense to old school it is a disaster.

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We were a pro-style offense under Nutt and went 2-10 his last year. Freeze came in with a totally different system and went 7-6