re: What was Ole Miss's best recruiting class before this year?

I'm pretty old and can't remember the year (and couldn't find it with a google search), but I seem to recall Sports Ilustrated reporting back in the pre-interent days something along the lines of "the last time the Rebels recruited this well, Gen. Lee was sitting on the veranda."

As an LSU fan who grew up with Ole Miss being our most significant rival, I welcome the Black Bears revitalization (particularly if, please please please, it can come at the expense of our other Western division rivals).