DirtyDovaTiger

Elisha, where did you go to school?

The agent is Jimmy Sexton.

I thought that Oher had played at Westwood High School if I'm not mistaken. Tuohy through his connections had directed many athletes to Briarcrest. The administration there was in a tough spot dealing w/ big money parents and the pressure to have great programs. Their programs suffered when a new president tried to implement tougher admission standards, and he was run off eventually and now they are back at it again. Of course they have to compete against other schools (especially in Nashville) that are doing the same thing w/ more money. The whole mentality is really out of hand.

I don't believe they adopted him for that reason either. They have no need of any possible benefits he might receive from playing football. However, there are hundreds of kids in Memphis experiencing the same things and worse as Oher did. Where is the compassion for them? The Tuohys were rather selective, and the mindset involved is somewhat out of whack.

:cheers: to getting Sandra Bullock to play the part, but if they wanted to be realistic at all they should have gotten Joan Rivers and Jason Alexander to play the leads.

Had a good friend who was a manager for the baseball team around '80 to '82, so I'd go to a few games. Remember seeing Ole Miss, I think on a Friday afternoon, and there were just a few girlfriends, relatives, and a couple of old timers. Jake Gibbs was the OM coach at the time, and I remember one of the old timers heckling him on a trip to the mound, telling him to just go ahead and punt the ball :lol: The Box was a better place to study than the library in those days.

It's a great "story", but in some cases too good to be true. The author did a hack job of research, or just decided to create the best fairytale-type story possible to sell books. Don't just believe everything you read.

Coached high school basketball for 20+ years. A teaching degree is a must if you plan on coaching for any amount of time. Principals w/ any kind of credibility want coaches who also are good teachers no matter the subject.

ditto to John Bond, Archie Manning, and Willie Gault.

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I didn't say it was the ONLY reason, but until some coach manages to establish a dominant recruiting position in the state like Vaught did, nothing will change.

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It was a different time when Vaught was around. No scholarship limits, segregation, etc... Ole Miss' heyday ended when Archie Manning left. In the time since, schools in other states w/ 2 major programs have moved forward (ie. Florida, Alabama). When college football in the south became integrated Ole Miss remained stuck in neutral and has never caught up. Just an opinion.