- MeridianOMRebel
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Re: THis was a serious post a few min ago on The Spirit
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At a time when no good HC wanted our job
I absolutely refuse to believe this. It was a lazy hire by Bjork because he had 1 foot out the door and was too busy bumbling-up an NCAA investigation to bother looking for anyone that wasn't already in house. He was a step up from Boone in day to day operations but when the wash settled, he was still VERY bad for our program.
Are you (in the general sense) seriously telling me that no good coach wanted to come to Ole Miss when we showed we could pay nearly $5 million per year plus incentives with little to no pressure of winning immediately? It was a golden parachute job that just about any decent coach would have considered.
yes, people were lined up to apply for the job.
Look, Vandy and it sewer of a program just got the DC from Notre Dame to take the job, before that they got the DC from a top 5 team in Stanford to take the job.
We could have very easily hired Bill Clark instead of Luke's lazy ass. Les also wanted the job. Bjork went full on retard by giving Luke the HC job.
We need to do everything we can to keep Lane happy here. He's going to build a championship program - he just needs the backing and support to do so.
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Re: THis was a serious post a few min ago on The Spirit
I’m not trying to come across as a Bjork apologist by any means, but several people in tune with Ole Miss have repeatedly said that Bjork was all prepared to hire Dave Doeren from NC State but Vitter stepped in and override him and told him Luke was the next coach. I’ll have to go look but I seem to remember even some National writers got wind that Bjork was going to hire Doeren.
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Supposedly, after Luke was hire as interim coach, he felt he should be given the position of head coach at Ole Miss. Just before Ole Miss went onto the field at Auburn in 2017, Luke found out Bjork had posted the open head coach job for anyone to apply. Luke got angry and went off on Bjork in the tunnel leading to the field. After that Luke circled the wagons in attempt to get the Ole Miss GOBs on his side.
Bjork had settled on Dave Doeren as the next head football coach at Ole Miss, but the influence of the Luke supporters was too strong. They demanded to Vitter that Luke be the next head football coach at Ole Miss. As a result of the pressure, Luke was anointed as head football coach at Ole Miss.
It is true that Les Miles did drive to Oxford to ask for the HC position. Miles would have been a short term solution and probably could have done better than Luke. Having Luke as head coach was like adding years of probation to the NCAA sanctions that were endured by Ole Miss.
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Re: THis was a serious post a few min ago on The Spirit
I was 100% fine with giving g Matt the interim job that first year. We were a dumpster fire and I am not sure who we would have been able to snag right before a season with all the mess we were dealing with
We got to .500 with a win against state. That was a huge effort and glad for him. Then he got greedy and blinded by his “love” for ole miss. His good intentions could not hide is inability to run a program
Bjork was not horrible, but he screwed the university with the dealings of the ncaa. He further twisted the knife by allowing luke to becomes the coach. Both are only my crap list for life.
Luke was a heck of a player but through his many stents under many coaches, his ability to underwhelm is legendary.
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We should have hired Les Miles for 1 year as the interim and then hired a HC. Luke had no business being HC, even interim. That’s what Baylor did with Grobe when Briles got fired and what Arkansas did when Petrino got fired. We just can’t ever seem to make a “big boy” move and end up squandering any momentum we ever gain.
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But look on the bright side, we made Luke a multimillionaire. 
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You got it catfish. Pressure was being applied from a lot of different directions. Luke was incompetent as a head coach, maybe one day he won’t be but he wasn’t then and he isn’t now, just my opinion. But Luke got his retirement ticket punched and Ole Miss paid the price. As for Bjork, he had LOTS of skeletons and don’t forget that he wormed his way in as “Vice Chancellor of Athletics” so he could be paid an insane amount of money. He couldn’t of cared less who was named as coach in the end, he knew he was getting the hell out of dodge anyway. The whole thing makes me puke.
Supposedly, after Luke was hire as interim coach, he felt he should be given the position of head coach at Ole Miss. Just before Ole Miss went onto the field at Auburn in 2017, Luke found out Bjork had posted the open head coach job for anyone to apply. Luke got angry and went off on Bjork in the tunnel leading to the field. After that Luke circled the wagons in attempt to get the Ole Miss GOBs on his side.
Bjork had settled on Dave Doeren as the next head football coach at Ole Miss, but the influence of the Luke supporters was too strong. They demanded to Vitter that Luke be the next head football coach at Ole Miss. As a result of the pressure, Luke was anointed as head football coach at Ole Miss.
It is true that Les Miles did drive to Oxford to ask for the HC position. Miles would have been a short term solution and probably could have done better than Luke. Having Luke as head coach was like adding years of probation to the NCAA sanctions that were endured by Ole Miss.