LuciusSulla

So is there a definitive answer on whether it is better for Tennessee or Georgia to win tonight? I hate both teams, so I'm only in this for what is good for Ole Miss,

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Definitely could've folded up shop and gave up early. but Simmons comes in cold and spins it right down their cramhole for an answer. That may get overshadowed but man.. big balls from him there.

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I loved it.

If Florida fires Billy, they almost have to make a run at Lane. There’s no one else with the same success or better who has a reasonable buyout, and they’re looking at paying Napier a boatload from the jump.

I think if Napier finds three more wins, they will keep him though. The UAA at UF gets nervous about money, and I think they will lean back to their conservative nature if he doesn’t have a losing record at the end of the year.

I’d prefer that scenario. Another year might mean more options for UF, and I like Lane here in Oxford. It’s definitely more fun around here when the football team is good, and I don’t know who could come in and keep doing what Lane has done here.

Last night was brutal. Watching Ole Miss and Florida piss away a win in such similar fashion to teams I can’t stand sucked.

Christ, I research political communication, and I'm less online about it than some of y'all.

Do any of y'all ever get exhausted having every last inch of public life being politicized? I have pretty strong opinions about the election this year, yet I still don't want to see Biden, Harris, or Trump shilling for votes on field before a game. I'm generally watching football to get away from all that shite for a few hours.

Perfectly happy to keep Trump off the field, and also think the banner was cringe as frick. But goddamn, these parties are good at keeping y'all thinking everything from a beer can to football game is the latest Thermopylae to defend.

Turns out that the defense we saw against UGA was legit.

It sucks to lose to Kentucky - god, trust me I know on that. But they aren't bums, and we didn't play all that well today. UGA and LSU look beatable this year. Hopefully the team bounces back and doesn't overlook SCar. It's all still in front of them.

If you want to be just a little more pissed off, look at how a lot of the guys we ran off are doing at other teams this season.

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Kiffin will not take the job if offered. Ole Miss is the perfect fit for him.

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It's definitely going to be a lot harder than people think. His mother and brother live here. His father passed away in Oxford over the summer after being a fixture around the practice building and was honored at the game Saturday by the team. The community really poured out for him too while that was going on over the summer.

I posted somewhere around here that his son is moving to play at Oxford High next fall.

The guy is quite dug in around here and credits Ole Miss and Oxford with helping him quit drinking, getting his head together, and getting back into a shape other than a potato.

He hasn't had a Tuscaloosa tornado experience like Saban had that pretty much locked him into the community, but he's been on some kind of road to Damascus since getting here.

People on Florida football boards are such chauvinists for the State of Florida that I don't think they really think this stuff through. It's all just, "Florida is fricking awesome man! Anyone we want would come here!"

I've lived a lot of places. Florida is one of them. I've never been a multimillionaire anywhere, so I'm pretty sure everywhere I've lived is a lot different when you have that kind of money.

Ole Miss also has, at this time, a far, far better NIL operation than UF has. That's just objective fact. Too many of our fans think of those national championships and that era of football and go no further in considering where Florida is at the moment vs. other traditionally less important programs. There is also a lack of understanding just how much talent there is in Mississippi and how much easier it is for an athlete to get eligible at Ole Miss versus UF. Mississippi is ahead of Florida in number of NFL players per capita. Admittedly, that is a very simplistic way to look at those numbers, but if you can keep the in-state talent, expand to more regional recruiting into LA, TN, AR, and AL, and work the portal well, you can field a good team in Oxford. It's hard but doable with the right coach.

Is Florida overall more ripe for recruiting? Yes, this is a case where raw number matter more than weighing. Could Florida have a better NIL program? Probably. The raw materials are there, but at the moment it does not. The University has likewise so far not shown that it really knows how to put all of the pieces together.

I've also noticed fans are quick to spend other people's money. I'm sure Lane has a price. We all do. It's the old Winston Churchill joke about the lady, the punchline being, "We know what you are. Now we're just haggling over the price."

There is a figure that would get Lane to come to UF. I think my real difference of opinion, living in Oxford, working at Ole Miss, and being more familiar with the situation here, is that I think it is likely higher than a lot of the face painters think it is.

Florida has money, but they don't have Texas A&M money, nor are our boosters the same level of blowhards that Aggie boosters are. I'd guess the low side of getting Kiffin is, all told when considering all the buyouts for coaching staff, Kiffin, and paying for the staff Kiffin will want in Gainesville, $50 million, and could end up closer to $60 or $70.

I guess all of this is to say that there is a path to hiring Kiffin, but iI don't believe it's the layup a lot of folks think it is. He's got good reasons to stay, and buying out Napier and staff means the boosters at UF would have to step up in a way financially that they never really have. I think A&M is the only school that has gone this far to dump a coach. Our folks probably could, but I think it's reasonable to ask if they would.

Yeah.

Florida, Miss. State, Alabama, and Auburn for.

Tennessee, Ole Miss, LSU, Vandy, Tennessee, and Kentucky against.

Vandy and Tennessee lobbied for the vote in the first place.

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I'm shocked that a Bama fan who still counts their vacated wins doesn't recognize our vacated SEC title.

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And Alabama, along with Auburn and Miss. State voted with us that we should keep it.

Y'all should try having to schedule classes. They keep letting them in, but we aren't getting any more classrooms. And then there is hiring faculty to keep up.

Due to concerns over enrolment decline, a lot of SEC universities are going all gas and no breaks on enrollment. Alabama is also bursting at the seems. Next year should be another record freshman class.