MeridianOMRebel wrote:

pomouth wrote:

Hey guys I am going to make a suggestion and hope most of you will go along with it.  Just like many of you,  Coach Luke was not my first choice.  However, he is our head coach now and is getting my 100% support and I am not going to be second guessing him all season and discussing who should be his successor.  It was already getting ugly on the old board and I wish we would hold off until November to jump ship or call for his head on a platter.  Now feel free to go ahead and lay the blame for our current woes where it should be.

I can understand and respect your view on that, but keep in mind - Luke is someone that quit once because he didn't want to work really hard, and then we have seen how horrible the OL has performed under him for a very long time now. I think we do not need someone "learning on the job" at this point where our program is at - and that is what we would be facing if Luke remained the HC. Most of us wanting him fired years ago for how the OL has performed, but he has managed to keep his job (while being vastly overpaid based on the results on the field). 

Long term, what is best for Ole Miss? Someone that was a poor position coach that would have to learn on the job, or someone with experience in running a program?

I'm gonna be pulling for the Rebels this season, but it would be unfair to Ole Miss to not discuss what is best for the program. Not discussing what is best would only be self serving to Luke and the GOB network, which has held Ole Miss back for such a very long period of time already. 

Hotty Toddy!

LIKE!!!  ^

If you give someone 4-5 years to prove their worth, you are flushing 6-8 years down the toilet when they don't. I'm not willing to take that risk. I will support him all season but he won't be able to recruit like we need him to. It'll be a slow drain or a fast one but it will be a drain.

Luke needs to be a head high school football coach first.

I wouldn't wish this crap shoot on a seasoned division 1 coach much less one who has never been a HC anywhere.... Realistically speaking the odds are not good that no matter how much koolaid flows this experiment won't turn out well.....  At least a seasoned coach would have a clue how to perform as a HC.....the other would be enough of a challenge without being an OJT HC......  It would be interesting to see how the odds makers would handicap this....  1 in 10 or even worse.....

catfishboy wrote:

Well, at least Ole Miss will give another inexperienced non-head coach the ability to get trained as a head coach while the trainee becomes a millionaire getting trained.

And the beat goes on.....the bourbon will flow freely in the grove and the dorky frat boys will show up in the second quarter in their white shirt and neckties.....and then leave at halftime....the GOBs will pat each other on the back and relive old glories now that they're regained control....all will be right with the world of Ole Miss...and I can hear the Lyceum flying monkeys proclaim after another moral victory....."But we're COMPETITIVE".....