re: Ole Miss, Auburn or Arkansas?

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Cam Newton Tigers 2010

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FIFY

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Maybe you should buy yourself one...

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That wasn't Gus' typical offense. That was a once in a generation player taking over. Gus' offense was mediocre without Cam at Aubie.

Uptempo/high school offenses = Cotton Bowls at best

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An LSU fan discussing good offense = contradiction

I'd consider yours a pretty big expansion and ours a huge expansion. Either way, both should be awesome stadiums when all is said and done. If only Vandy and State would catch up, the entire conference will be top 25 in stadium capacity.

We're no more "the Black Bears" than Bama is "the Elephants." Since you asked, though, here is my original post:

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The Black Bear is a reference to Old Ben from Faulkner's, "Go Down, Moses." Unfortunately, the university has done a terrible job of explaining this to anyone who hasn't really dug for it or doesn't know someone who was on the mascot committee.

If you read the book, it really is just the perfect mascot for us. The Old Ben character is symbolic of everything we're pushing as our modern conception of what it is to be a Rebel. It's the idea of rebelling against the status quo to make the world better. Old Ben, partly through his connection with Isaac, was a symbol of the rebellion of the human spirit against human nature (a notion exemplified in Faulkner's Nobel acceptance speech).

And while we're at it, don't believe the bullshite lie about why we're called Ole Miss that is perpetuated by dumbass State fans and, unfortunately, a few of our own. The only "reputable" source anyone ever has is David Sansing's book, but he throws it out with zero justification or citation. It's an urban myth that he bought into. The truth is that at the time we first became known as "Ole Miss," LSU was known as "Old Lou," which a google search will quickly confirm: LINK . There's also a Missouri cheer in which they refer to "Ole Mizzou," and southern cal's fight song includes the line "fight on for Ol' SC." "Ole Miss" is very obviously in the same vein as these terms of endearment for other universities that popped up at the same time, even taking the exact same construction as "Old Lou." "Ole Miss" survived as a nickname and the others didn't. If LSU were still known as "Old Lou," would anyone ever have thought twice about the origins of "Ole Miss" and made up the ridiculous story about slaves? It seems doubtful.

The theory that Ole Miss is simply the result of a formerly popular construction for a term of endearment seems just a wee bit more plausible than the idea that at some point we randomly decided to name our yearbook after a slave owner's wife.

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And you can take that "Ole Miss is racist" bullshite elsewhere. There is not a university in the nation that has done more to right the wrongs of the past than Ole Miss has. Sure, we still have some frickheads at our university, but ironically, that is the result of a federal judiciary that insultingly determined that the best way to get more black students into Ole Miss was to force us to lower our standards. Unfortunately, we don't get to determine who gets in at Ole Miss, as long as they meet some very minimal requirements set by the federal courts. This wasn't necessary for us to become the SEC university with the highest minority enrollment, but it did force us to accept a few white morons.

I am proud to share an alma mater with James Merideth, and he says frick you.

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And you can take that "Ole Miss is racist" bullshite elsewhere. There is not a university in the nation that has done more to right the wrongs of the past than Ole Miss has.

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Meh. You sound a bit self righteous with this line.