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Pictured on the cover of this month’s Game Time Rebels is wide receiver Melvin Harris. A sophomore from Buford, Georgia. is pictured doing his traditional victory flip following the win over Kentucky. The photograph was taken by photographer Matthew Sharpe.

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Ole Miss

The Ole Miss Rebels left their fans some-

thing to cling to before tak-ing a deep breath and head-ing into the murky waters of the 2010 football season. Hope. Two impressive victories over two pretty good football teams and an offensive at-tack that has of late seemed capable of blowing bulbs out of stadium scoreboards is resurrecting that warm, fuzzy feeling we all had at halftime back on September 4 (remember 31-10 lead). Hope is a virtue, and so, too, is patience. Rebel fans would be wise to employ both as the remaining seven games of this season play out. Coaches will tell you, it’s not where you start, it’s where you finish. And while

the road up the mountain is sure to be full of potholes, this team can still get to the finish line with most of its goals intact. Obviously, the next three games will be against three teams better than any squad the Rebels have played thus far. The team that Ole Miss is now, though, is so much better than the team it was a few weeks ago. And the ar-row is trending upward. As I write this column, I have just finished watching Alabama dismantle the 7th-ranked Florida Gators. Pull-ing out a victory at Tusca-loosa on October 16 will be a difficult assignment, though not impossible. Ole Miss has taken down heavily-favored teams on the road before, and Houston Nutt is among the best when it comes to

playing David against Goli-ath. But remember to be pa-tient. The season is a mara-thon; not a sprint. A trip to Fayetteville fol-lows. If there is any one game the Right Reverend Nutt will have the Rebels ready to roll, I have to be-lieve, for multiple reasons, it’s this one. Again, remember to be patient. The season is a mar-athon; not a sprint. Auburn in Oxford closes out the month of Octo-ber. As in the previous two games, the odds-makers won’t give the Rebels much of a chance. They didn’t at Florida back in 2008, either. Hope. I like the Rebels’ chances. Why? Ole Miss has a head coach

with a track record of tak-ing his team and making magic happen at the least likely moment. The offense has also improved drasti-cally over the last few weeks. The Rebels get a little more dangerous with the passing of each and every week, as Jeremiah Masoli increases his confidence and level of comfortableness. There still seems to be some concern on the defen-sive side of the ball, but that unit is improving, too. Mark Ingram, Ryan Mallette and Cam Newton are ahead. The water is about to get deep, but sharks are most at home in the deep water. A marathon, it is. The Rebels have given us hope. Let’s give them patience. It’s where you finish that counts.

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KEEP THE FAITH

It’s where you finish that counts

DAVID JOHNSON

by DaviD Johnson, Game Time Rebels Photograph by Matthew sharpe

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Football is an important part of Jerell Powe and Markeith Summers’ lives.They each know the game can be a

compass for the spirit, a road map for success and a proving ground for life. That’s why, on a recent day following their own practice, the Ole Miss duo spent time mentoring some of Oxford’s future gridiron stars. “Man, just look out here. This is just great,” grinned Jerrell Powe, watching through the fence as the Oxford Buccaneers peewee football team busied itself with drills. “I never had an opportunity to play football when I was this age. We didn’t have a program like this back home. This is so great for these kids. This is important.” Powe and Summers were guests of the Buccaneers, a youth football organization for children ages 7-12.

“It’s important for them to know how important it is to keep those grades up,” said Summers, a native of Olive Branch. “They need to hear that the streets are no place for football players. That’s why I’m here. These guys need to know that the decisions they’re making today are more important than they realize.” The young players listened intently as the gentle giant Powe spoke. “Listen to the people around you that want to help you. Work hard. Take your school work seriously. There’s nothing for you on the streets. Respect your coaches. Respect your teachers. Respect yourselves. Don’t get caught up in things that aren’t any good,” Powe related. Powe and Summers, both seniors with NFL potential, welcomed the opportunity to speak to the team. “It all starts right here,” said Powe, pointing to the practice field. “The decisions these kids make today will determine their tomorrows. If we can come out here and give them any advice that could possibly help keep them on the right track, then it’s our obligation to do it. We’ve all had people to help us along the way.”

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To Game Time Rebels, Your magazine is awesome! It has

quickly become my new favorite thing to read. Game Time Rebels has such a great presence. It not only reminds me of that “game time” atmosphere, but also the excitement and tradition sur-rounding the entire community.

My favorite piece so far was the team of the decade because it really showed how much class and talent that has come from this school in just this last decade. Also it was good to see what happened to some of them and how far their careers have carried them. I also really liked the piece on Kialo Moore. I like the fact that it doesn’t only focus on the past, but also shows the Rebel fans what to expect in the near future. To know that we will have an amazing running back in two years really was cool to know.

I personally hope there are more ar-ticles and stories to come in later issues surrounding prospective recruits. I am a big fan of Game Time Rebels and hope to see it for a long time. I can’t wait for the next issue!

Thanks,Andrew GallagherPass Christian, Mississippi

To Game Time Rebels:Hello fellow Rebel fans! Greetings

from Houston, Texas. My name is Mike Rowsey. I grew up in Cleveland, Mis-sissippi but later migrated to Houston, Texas. I was born a Rebel and will die a Rebel! Even though I live hundreds of miles away, I still follow the Rebels religiously. Not only football, but base-ball, basketball, and everywhere they participate.

I have friends in Mississippi who keep me up on what’s going on at Ole Miss. I try to go back to Oxford at least once a year to attend a game. Even if I weren't a Rebel fan I would recom-

mend The Grove to anyone who loves college football. It is the best atmo-sphere in the world! There are very many Rebel fans in Texas. Whenever we run into each other we are instantly best friends! We have a common bond that can never be broken. We are all brothers for life no matter where we live.

There are also a number of fans of other SEC schools in Texas. Unfortu-nately, most of them are LSU fans. Boo! It's all good, though, the rivalry exists out here just like it does back home. Some things never change. There are fans from all SEC schools in Texas who moved out here from different places, but we all share one common bond. We hate each other on Saturday, but we support each other come bowl time!

The SEC is the best conference by far! To go undefeated is a monumen-tal task. From top to bottom, you face an opponent each week that if you take lightly can beat you. Surprisingly enough, we get to see most of Ole Miss' games in Texas. I ordered ESPN Game Plan just to be sure I see them all!

Just remember you are not alone in

Mississippi, you have Rebels in Texas and all around the country I'm sure. We wear our Rebel gear proudly and yell Hotty Toddy when we see each other!

I like our chances with Masoli this year once he gets the hang of the of-fense and coach Nutt turns him loose. We have a good future with Stanley also. I think it will do him good to learn under Masoli. Jacksonville State was a stunner but also a wake up call. We know what we have to do. Keep the foot on the pedal and don't let up!

Hotty Toddy from Houston! Let's go Rebels! Beat LSU! Mike RowseyHouston, Texas

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RECRUITING

by David JohnsonGame Time Rebels

Kailo Moore probably gets more mail than any other resi-

dent in the sleepy Mis-sissippi Delta town of Rosedale. He’s almost famous, though the full realiza-tion of that fame will likely have to wait a few years for the 16-year-old running back. The mail comes in droves. It’s fan mail of sorts, postmarked from Los Angeles, Tuscalo-osa, Ala., and Colum-bus, Ohio; places far, far away from a football field nestled in the shad-ow of the Mississippi River levee. “I do get a lot of mail,” he’ll tell you. “Some-times it takes me a while to get through it all.” That’s what happens when a recruiting ser-vice such as Rivals.com labels you the “best true running back prospect to come out of the Mag-nolia State in years.” And he’s only a sopho-more. Now, everyone wants the attention of Kailo Moore. Alabama, UCLA, Ohio State, Texas, Southern Cal; they all have Kailo’s address. With a 40 time of 4.29 (yes, it is accurate), and a 5-foot-11-inch, 185-pound frame, he is the poster child for a potentially great col-lege running back. He’s also hard to tackle, owns great vision and is a serious competitor, according to his high school coach. “He’s very special,” said West Bolivar High School head coach Hen-ry Johnson. “He’s the one...the one that you dream of coaching...the one that you dream

of having in your back-field. He works like no one else in the weight room. He’s fanatical in his preparation. I feel blessed to have this op-portunity to coach him.”

Kailo put himself on the radar of college football recruiters as a freshman when he ran for more than 600 yards in less than half a season. A broken col-lar bone was the only thing that tackled him in

2009. “When you watch him on film, you can see he’s special,” Johnson of-fered. The recruiting of Kae-lo Moore, while coming

from afar, may end up being much more of a local affair. Kailo will tell you quickly that he wants to be an Ole Miss Rebel. Albeit a little known fact, Kailo would be a legacy player for the

Rebels. He is the grand-son of former Ole Miss running back Freddie Williams, who played for the Rebels for four seasons in the late 1970s. That connection has put Ole Miss leaps and bounds ahead of the pack, according to Kae-lo. “Since my grandad played at Ole Miss, that’s where I want to go,” he deadpanned. “Ole Miss means a whole lot to me and my family.” Like his grandson, Williams was a high school football star in Rosedale, playing for the late Leland Young, whose Rosedale teams won three state champi-onships. Kailo’s current head coach also played for Young at Rosedale. “Football is family in this community,” John-son, who led the team to its fourth state title in 2008, offered. “It all started with Coach Young. We’ve been able to keep that going here. The stands are full of former players who are now dads and grandads of our current players. Our players recognize what those guys accom-plished, and they want to perpetuate it.” Kailo said he’s been an Ole Miss Rebel his en-tire life. “I’ve always pulled for Ole Miss,” he related. “I’ve always watched them play on TV on Sat-urdays. I’ve had a lot of family members go to school there. It’s kind of been our family school. I feel real good about Ole Miss. I think it would be a great place to go to school.” And, as Kailo will tell you, “Grandaddy wants me to go there.”

Kailo Moore is considered by many to be the top true running back talent out of Mississippi in years.

Photos by Troy Catchings

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Houston Nutt

REBEL COACH TALKS ABOUT THE SEASON, THE SEC, THE FANS AND LIFE

Photo by Nick Toce

Ronnie Heard fell in love with Ole Miss the first time he ever visited Mississippi. “It felt like

home. It felt like a place I could be myself,” said Heard, a native of Lake Jackson, Texas. Heard enjoyed a stellar career as a safety for the Rebels from 1995-1999 before heading to the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers. Having retired from the professional ranks follow-ing the 2005 season, Heard turned to coaching. He was serving as de-fensive coordinator at Division II Western New Mexico when Ole Miss called him home earlier this year.

“I am so glad to be back,” said Heard from inside his office at the UMAA Foundation. “This is so spe-cial. Ole Miss is where I want to be.” Heard is on the customer-service end of Ole Miss athletics. On this particular day, he’s fielding phone calls and filling ticket requests be-fore a key SEC game against Ken-tucky. It also happens to be deadline day for basketball season tickets. “I deal with the priority seating side for Vaught-Hemingway, the Tad Pad and baseball. I deal with donors a great deal. I’m in charge of the donor car program and donor gifts. It keeps me busy,” he laughs.

“I deal with a lot of lost ticket is-sues and lost parking passes. Es-sentially, it is customer service. We want to make sure that we go far and beyond the call of duty to take care of our people. They are all ex-tremely important and valuable to Ole Miss.” Heard’s house is full of Rebels. He and his wife, the former Latoya Or-ange, have been married nine years. The couple has three children; Cait-lin (6), Parker (3) and Reid (1).“We’re so glad to be back here,” he said. “We love Ole Miss so much.”

Assistant Director of Development for the

UMAA Foundation

HUDDLEUP with Ronnie Heard

by DaviD Johnson, Game Time Rebels

Photograph by PAUL GANDY

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Dear Dr. Boyd,During the Kentucky

game three players received concussions. When are players with concussions allowed to return to play?

Chris, Olive Branch MS

On all levels of football competition there is increasing emphasis on concussion prevention. The college football rulebook has only one rule change this season. To diminish the likelihood of head trauma, the rule now makes it illegal for teams receiving a kickoff to form a three man wedge where players align shoulder to shoulder in front of a returner.

Sports related concussions are perhaps the most common mismanaged injury in sports and usually results from a blow to the head. Recent studies in retired NFL players link multiple concussions with dementia, depression, and even the possible development of ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease). When a concussion occurs the brain is violently accelerated or decelerated inside the skull. When a player’s brain impacts the inside of the skull neurons inside the brain are stretched and twisted. Typical symptoms include headache, nausea, dizziness, sensitivity to light, and poor cognitive function as well as possible loss of consciousness. Unfortunately it has been termed getting “dinged”

or “getting your bell rung” which trivializes the serious condition. Players often do not report having the injury and continue to play placing themselves at great risk of permanent damage or even death.

Assessing whether players are fit to return to play after sustaining a concussion is complex and sometimes difficult. Ole Miss Athletes undergo preseason computerized testing which can be compared to tests taken after a concussion to determine if an athlete’s cognitive function has returned to baseline. When examining players

on the sideline, the athlete’s ability to perform mental tasks is tested. Also their postural stability (a type of balance test) is checked as research indicates the area of the brain most affected with head injury maintains balance. Players are also asked to exert themselves with running, jumping, etc… to see if symptoms return.

Disqualifying an athlete from competition remains controversial, however the following are general guidelines.* Age and concussion history must be taken into account.

Ask Dr. Boyd

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• When symptoms resolve in the first 15-20 minutes and the player is above age 18 return to play on the same day is allowed.• Symptoms lasting longer than 20 minutes and age 18 years or younger disqualify the player from participation the same day.• Athletes experiencing loss of consciousness or amnesia should not return to play until experiencing seven days of symptom free activity or computerized testing shows the athlete has returned to baseline cognitive function. • Although not based on highly scrutinized studies, most clinicians believe that three mild concussions in one season is reason to terminate the athlete’s participation the rest of the season. • If the season is terminated the athlete should have 3 months symptom free prior to returning to play. • Retirement from contact sports should be considered when neurologic exams remain abnormal or when the time to return to baseline increases after each concussion.

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*American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery OKU 4 Sports Medicine Update

Rebels help feed hungryOle Miss student-

athletes collected a p p r o x i m a t e l y

6,000 pounds of canned goods in September as part of their successful efforts in the Southeastern Con-ference canned food drive. All items were donated to the local Oxford Pantry. The Ole Miss Student-Athlete Advisory Council wishes to thank all those that supported the “Togeth-er We Can Drive” program, which saw all 12 SEC schools gather canned food in their respective communities. “It was great to see our student-athletes, staff and community come togeth-er to support this project. Our department would like to thank all parties involved to help support the Oxford Food Pantry,” said Assistant Athletics Director Jamil Northcutt. Rebel student-athletes collected canned goods in Oxford at Larson’s Big Star, Kroger and Wal-Mart. Donations were also accepted from fans at-tending “RebTalk with Houston Nutt” and home vol-leyball and soccer matches. Led by student-athletes, the SEC “Together We Can Drive” is designed to sup-port food banks and shelters throughout the southeast. And since the project began in 2007, more than 236,000 pounds of food and money have been donated by SEC fans to the community.

Rebel Readers

Ole Miss quarter-back Jeremiah Masoli and vol-leyball middle

blocker Regina Thomas re-cently spent time reading to local school children as part of the “Reading With The Rebels” program. Masoli read to third graders at Oxford Elementary before answering questions, sign-ing autographs and posing for pictures with the school children, while Thomas read “It’s Ok To Be Differ-ent” to the children at Wil-lie Price University Nursery School this past week. The pair is just two of the many Rebel student-athletes who visit local schools on a reg-ular basis. Through CHAMPS Life Skills - Rebel Ready, Ole Miss student-athletes stay actively involved in both the Oxford and Univer-sity communities. In addi-tion to “Reading With The Rebels,” student-athletes regularly participate in activities such as visiting patients in area hospitals, being mentors to elemen-tary school students, visit-ing senior adults for at local retirement centers, holding several “Meet The Rebels” days throughout the year, and giving numerous talks on subjects such as drug awareness and staying in school to area students.

GOOdWorks

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Team PlayerUNDERSIzED HELOW FINDS NICHE ON SPECIAL TEAMS


by Brent PhilliPs, Game Time Rebels

george helow tackles Kentucky’s

Randall Cobb on a kickoff.

George Helow has had to be a team player his entire life.

The second born to a Cath-olic family of 10 children, the concept of doing what’s best for the team comes, well, naturally for Helow. Helow, a senior, can be seen on Saturday afternoons in the fall gunning down the field on kickoffs for the Ole Miss Rebels in his No. 23 jersey. Usually the smallest player on the field in physi-cal stature, the 5-foot-9, 175-pounder from Jack-sonville, Fla., is a favorite among Rebel fans and his teammates. But he may just have the biggest heart on the field. “Helow is the kind of guy that really helps with team chemistry. He takes great pride in what he does, giv-ing effort on every play. He has earned the respect of his teammates and coaches. That’s what you want in a special teams player” said

Ole Miss assistant coach Kim Dameron. Helow’s journey to Ole Miss was an interesting one. He had to sit out his senior year of football at Bishop Kenny High School due to a broken arm. This injury delayed Helow in achieving his ultimate goal of playing college football. But he knew he had to find a way. “I didn’t know how to go about playing on the next level since I missed my se-nior season,” he explained. But he soon found hope when Coach Bryan Van Gorder, an assistant coach with the Jacksonville Jag-uars at the time, told He-low he should go to a prep school. Van Gorder’s advice led Helow to Hargrave Military Academy in Virginia. At Hargrave, Helow made friends. He became very close with future Ole Miss teammates Peria Jerry and Jerrell Powe. And after con-

stantly hearing their discus-sions of Ole Miss football and how great it was, Helow decided he wanted to look at the school in Oxford. Helow ultimately decided that Ole Miss was the place for him, so he joined the Rebel football team as a walk-on. He soon realized that the talent pool at Ole Miss was deep, but he was determined to find some way to get on the field. “You ask yourself, what role is there for me? I soon realized I had aspirations of helping the team in any way, and I knew that would be on special teams, “ Helow re-lated. It wasn’t until 2008, in Houston Nutt’s first season as the Rebels’ coach, that Helow would finally find his way onto the field. Nutt’s staff put an emphasis on special teams play and soon realized Helow’s drive and desire to be on the field was special, too.

Soon Helow found himself starting on all special teams except the field goal unit. “I just felt it was my duty to the team to give my all ev-ery day, and eventually it got me on the field. I never did it for me, but for the cause, and my love for football” said Helow. Helow lettered in both the ’08 and ’09 seasons. His ef-forts led to him being award-ed a scholarship this season. Helow’s love and desire for Ole Miss football contin-ues to increase. It is evident when he speaks of his favor-ite special team…kickoff. “Kickoff is like a drug. It gives you a high, and as soon as it’s over you want more,” Helow explains. “When you take that line down the field, every worry and fear vanish-es from your mind. For five seconds you are completely free, to just give it your all and find a way to the ball carrier.”

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The perfect gift for the new addition to any Ole Miss family, the Lil’ Fans Baby Bib keeps baby Rebels clean from drool after Ole Miss victories. Available at Belles and Beaus, Oxford, $10.00.

Be the envy of the Hotty Toddy nation with these Ole Miss ping pong balls. Six come to a box. Available at Rebel Rags, Oxford, $6.99.

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Up, Up and Away

rebel offense finDs its striDe

OFFENSE

Up, Up and Awayby DaviD Johnson, Game Time Rebels

rebel offense finDs its striDe

Photograph by MATTHEW SHARPE

The Rebels ap-pear to have handled an ad-verse start to the season like

champions. “I have asked them to hang in there and never let go of the rope,” said head coach Houston Nutt. “With adversity and things that happen that you don’t count on, like having people on the And they may have turned a corner. Perhaps in more ways than one. With the likes of Jack-sonville State, Tulane, Van-derbilt, Fresno State and

Kentucky in the rearview mirror, the Rebels have definitely turned a corner in their schedule. Ahead lies the thick of a daunting trip through the SEC. But with two consecu-tive victories over a pair of teams that appear destined for postseason bowl consid-eration, the Ole Miss offense looks to have turned a cor-ner, as well. The 42-35 victory over the Kentucky Wildcats wasn’t nearly as close as the final score might have indicated. “It was a great feeling,” said Ole Miss running back Brandon Bolden. “It was

something that we needed to do. As a team, we all dis-cussed it last week after the game, and said need this win and Sunday we came in and had a game plan for it. We just had to be ready and needed this win.” The Ole Miss offense is averaging 37.5 points per game, the highest mark for an Ole Miss team in 75 years. That 37.5-points av-erage trails on Alabama in scoring offense inside the SEC. Bolden and his offensive counterparts have been a large part of the Rebels’ turnaround. Against Ken-

tucky, he rushed for 108 yards on 23 careers. That effort came just a week af-ter Bolden ran for 228 yards against Fresno State. Bolden, following the UK game, ranked third in the SEC in rushing yards, aver-aging 103.6 per game. He had carried the ball 76 times for 518 yards and five touch-downs. As a team, the Rebels rank second in the SEC in rush-ing, averaging 232 yards per outing. Part of that success must also be attributed to the play of quarterback Jeremiah Masoli. The senior quarter-

brandon bolden flashes around the corner in the Rebels victory over Tulane. bolden currently ranks third in the seC in rushing yardage.


Jeremiah Masoli

accounted for four

touchdowns in the Rebels

win over Kentucky.

back is growing more com-fortable under center each and every week. “I’m feeling a lot better, knowing where people are at off the top of my head,” explained Masoli, following a four-touchdown perfor-mance against Kentucky. Three of Masoli’s TDs came through the air against the Wildcats. Masoli’s other score came on a beautiful bootleg around the left end that paralyzed the Kentucky defense.

”It’s just coming slowly to me,” related Masoli. Masoli, who despite his comment has proven to be a quick study, ranked fifth in the SEC in total offense af-ter the Kentucky game with a 217-yard-per –game aver-age. I’m proud of them. Those guys are fighting hard,” Nutt related. “ The backs are run-ning hard. We have to keep our passing game going, and work hard on that this week. You have to have both. Peo-

ple in this league are going to try to make you play left-handed and over populate the line of scrimmage.” The offensive line has also enjoyed a resurgence. With the departure of Rishaw Johnson and the benching of Alex Wash-ington, walk-on freshman Patrick Junen and junior college transfer Logan Clair have made a tremendous difference at the guard spots. Freshman Evan Swindall

could see more action in the immediate future, as A.J. Hawkins battles through in-jury. “You’re going to see Evan Swindall play,” said Nutt. “ If A.J. [Hawkins] can’t go, you’re going to see a brand new freshman at center. We expect all hands on deck and everyone getting better and working hard to improve. They know that this is a dif-ferent world from Friday night football.”

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JSU 49 REBELS 48No one saw this one coming. Not even at halftime, with Ole Miss sitting on a comfortable 31-10 cushion. In what was suppose to be the dress rehearsal for the Ole Miss football team, FCS-member Jacksonville State shocked the college football world when the Gamecocks handed the Rebels a bitter 49-48 defeat in double overtime on the opening weekend of the season inside Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. Unfortunately, the lingering effects of this one can’t be quantified until season’s end. Houston Nutt called it the most disappointing loss he has ever experienced as a head coach. It was certainly one of the worse losses in the storied history of Ole Miss football. “It was a disappointing locker room, as it should be. Just sad,” lamented Nutt moments after Jacksonville State quarterback Coty Blanchard found teammate Calvin Middleton on a two-point conversion play to send the Rebels to 0-1. Said Blanchard after the game, “We’ve been waiting for a win like this forever.” Besides blowing the 31-10 halftime lead, the Rebels also let loose of a 14-0 advantage a little over five minutes into the first quarter. It appeared that Ole Miss would still win the day when the Rebs surged to a 48-41 lead in the second overtime. The Ole Miss defense put Jacksonville State in a fourth and forever hole, needing just a stop to end the game. Instead, Blanchard found teammate Kevyn Cooper in the back of the end zone for an improbable score. Jacksonville State head coach Jack Crowe then rolled the dice for the win, keeping his offense on the field for the try-for-two. Brandon Bolden rushed for 104 yards, while Nathan Stanley threw for 133 yards and three TDs to pace the Rebels.

Ole Miss earned its first win of the 2010 season in a game played in the “Big Easy” that was anything but, well, easy.

The Rebels jumped out to a comfortable halftime lead for the second consecutive game only to find themselves in a spirited fight late in the game. This time, however, Ole Miss would hold on to prevail 27-13 over the Tulane Green Wave.

Trailing 24-3 at the half, Tulane cut its deficit to 24-13 early in the fourth quarter. A sluggish offensive performance that saw the Rebels net zero yards in the third quarter allowed for Tulane to close the gap.

Bryson Rose’s field goal made for the final margin of victory, as Ole Miss improved to 1-1.

Quarterback Jeremiah Masoli began to show signs of getting comfortable with his new team, as he totaled 308 yards and two touchdowns. Wide receiver Markeith Summers caught five passes for 165 yards. Linebacker Jonathan Cornell paced the Ole Miss defense, finishing with three sacks.

“This is one to build on,” said Houston Nutt after the game. “It’s much

easier to teach things when we win.”

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T he Rebels needed a victory and got one against a very good

Fresno State team on the last weekend of September.

Fresno State opened the 2010 season by ending Cin-cinnati’s 18-game, regu-lar-season win streak. The Bulldogs came into Vaught-Hemingway Stadium hover-ing just outside the Top 25.

The task ahead appeared daunting for an Ole Miss of-fense that managed just 14 points the week prior and to a Rebel defense that had been shredded by the run.

The end result, however, was a potentially season-saving, 55-38 rout of the Bulldogs.

Ole Miss led Fresno State 41-10 at one point in the second half on the strength of two electric plays in the span of minutes. Brandon Bolden took the first hand-off of the third quarter and galloped 71 yards to paydirt. Moments later Jesse Gran-dy returned a punt 51 yards through Fresno defenders and the whipping was on.

The atmosphere at Vaught-Hemingway Stadi-um was as plugged in as the Rebels’ attack.

“I realize it is hard to go back-to-back-to-back at home,” said head coach Houston Nutt. ”I really ap-preciated how many fans showed up. It is a great feel-ing to see so many fans in the stands. Our players re-ally appreciated it. I know it’s not easy for families to make it here three weekends almost in a row, but we are really grateful for the sup-port. Our students were very good, got there early, and were loud.”

Bolden spearheaded a Rebel rushing attack for the ages. The junior running back finished with a whop-ping 228 yards and two TDs on 19 carries. Ole Miss finished the game with 425 rushing yards, the highest amount since 1977.

“He (Bolden) has been running hard, and Enrique [Davis] was running hard,” said Nutt. “ When he found out Enrique [Davis] was hurt, he stepped it up. I think Rodney Scott and Jeff Scott stepped it up. I was proud of all the back on how they ran.”

Freshman Patrick Junen and junior college transfer Logan Clair performed well

What is it with Vanderbilt?

A s was the case in three of the previous four seasons (2008,

2007, 2005,); the Commo-dores found a way to befud-dle Ole Miss and send the Rebels to an 0-1 start inside the SEC on the third week-end of September. The 28-14 setback was the seventh straight loss in an SEC sea-son opener for the Rebels. "It was a very disappoint-ing loss,” said Rebel head coach Houston Nutt. “I feel like we wasted away so many opportunities in this game and we just can't do that.” Vanderbilt jumped out to a 14-0 lead over Ole Miss, only to see the Rebels storm back to tie the game on the first drive of the second half. Only seconds later, Van-derbilt’s Warren Norman took a handoff and raced 80 yards untouched through the guts of the Ole Miss de-fense to break the tie and the spirit of those inside Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. Nor-man would finish the game with 15 rushes for 111 yards and the back-breaking touchdown. “It just opened up,” Nor-man said after the game. “I almost hesitated because it opened up so big.” Vanderbilt would add an-other TD in the fourth quar-ter to put the Rebels away. The Rebels won the statis-tical battle, outgaining Van-derbilt 385 yards to 300.

Korvic Neat scored the Rebels first touchdown of the day on a 4-yard run, cut-ting the score to 14-7. Quarterback Jeremiah Masoli tied the game early in the third quarter on a spec-tacular 28-yard run. Masoli finished the game with 104 rushing yards and 190 yards through the air, completing 19-of-35 pass attempts. Vandy damaged the Ole Miss defense to the tune of 227 rushing yards on the day. "We've seen hard times before,” lamented senior special teams player George Helow. “ At this point, se-niors have to come together, we need to step up on our team, bounce back, and not let go of our goal. We've come too far in the past few years to just start losing ball games like this when we know we're better than the other team."

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Ole Miss started Octo-ber with a victory as an explosive offense

and a capitalizing defense sent the Rebels to a 42-35 triumph over the Kentucky Wildcats.

The win pushed the Reb-els’ mark to 3-2 overall and evened their SEC ledger at 1-1. Kentucky fell to 3-2 overall and to 0-2 in SEC play.

“With adversity and things that happen that you don't count on, like having people on the sidelines and having to go into the depth chart, it's not easy,” said Houston Nutt of the victory. “ I'm

proud of them. I'm proud of our offensive line.

“Every time our defense got turnovers, we capitalized on it. If we don't do that, it could cause problems. That's what turnovers and working together do.

“Our punt returns were a back-breaker for them.

“We planned on throwing the ball a little more, but as the game went on we played a little conservative. Bran-don Bolden had a huge first down at the end. I'm really proud of Evan Swindall who came in there at the end when A.J. [Hawkins] went down. That is nerve racking.

He had to snap the ball in a critical situation for the last four or five plays. Having no turnovers was huge. Jer-emiah [Masoli] handled the offense and the clock well. That was really good."

Ole Miss used a strong third quarter, in which the Rebels outscored the Wild-cats 14-3, to build a a 35-20 advantage. A four-yard pass from Jeremiah Masoli to Ferbia Allen just seven sec-onds into the fourth quarter gave the Rebels an insur-mountable 42-20 lead.

Brandon Bolden led all rushers with 108 yards on 23 carries.

REBELS 42 KENTUCKY 35at the guard spots for the Rebels. It was the offensive line’s best effort to date.

“The new guys we weren’t sure about, like Patrick Junen and Logan Clair, both who have never played, stepped up. Logan [Clair] showed some real strength,” Nutt related.

Unfortunately, defensive end Kentrell Lockett may have seen his Ole Miss ca-reer come to an end in this game. Lockett tore the ante-rior cruciate ligament in his left knee.

“I haven’t talked to him specifically about a medical redshirt,” said Nutt. “Just guessing, I think he would like to come back. We will see, but you don’t petition for it until after the season. We will see how that goes.”

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T he Ole Miss athletic depart-ment’s Rebel Ready program

recently hosted its annual “Backpack to Briefcase” E t i q u e t t e / N e t w o r k i n g Dinner for more than 60 student-athletes.

This program is an in-teractive five-course meal designed to provide junior and senior student-athletes with the first steps toward their desired careers. Through networking with M-Club Alumni members and business leaders, stu-dent-athletes have an op-portunity to learn about the job search process and the world of work from those who understand it most.

Toni Avant, Career Center Director, served as the facilitator for the event. Approximately 12 former athletes and local business leaders served as table mentors, offering career

advice and sharing life lessons regarding pursuing successful careers.

Mike Robbins, former M-Club Alumni President, shared closing remarks.

He encouraged student-athletes to continue devel-oping relationships with their peers and others that will benefit them after their playing careers end. He also

stressed the importance of networking and how Ole Miss will benefit them well beyond their collegiate careers.

Jamil Northcutt, Ole Miss Assistant Athletics Director for Internal Operations, said the event was a huge success.

“Events such as this are paramount for our student-athletes’ success,” Northcutt said.

“The skills learned from the etiquette dinner will help prepare our student-athletes for life now and after their athletic careers. Most importantly, it will give them confidence as future business profession-als.”

The athletics department would like to thank the Ole Miss Alumni Association and M-Club Alumni Chapter for their generous support of this event.

Backpacks To BriefcasesRebel athletes prep for real world

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cory Peterson was a standout wide receiver for Ole Miss from 1996-1999,

helping the Rebels to three bowl victories in that span. No Rebel fan can forget his heroic two-point conversion catch in the 1997 Egg Bowl, lifting Ole Miss to a brilliant 15-14 come-from-behind victory and a berth in the Motor City Bowl. Cory recently sat down for a quick catch-up with Game Time Rebels.

Game Time: Cory, where are you now and what have you been doing lately?

Peterson: I currently live in Olive Branch with my wife, Georgette, and our 3-year-old little boy, Cole. Ironically we have a baby girl that is due on November 28, which is the day of the Egg Bowl. We’re having an Egg Bowl baby.

I’ve been in pharmaceutical sales for about nine years, working for a bio-tech company called Novo Nordisk. My territory is northeast Mississippi. Romaro Miller is my neighbor. He lives right around the corner from me in Olive Branch.

Game Time: How often do you get back to Ole Miss?

Peterson: All the time. We’ve been going to all the games for as long as I can remember. We’ve had season tickets for nine years. We set our tent up in the Grove. We’re just huge Ole Miss fans. My wife graduated from Ole Miss, as well.

Game Time: OK. We have to talk about the ’97 Egg Bowl. Can you set the stage of what was going on inside the huddle before the two-point conversion that sent Ole Miss to a 15-14 victory and a trip to the Motor City Bowl?

Peterson: It was a big time game. It was out first year off probation. I think it was remarkable that we got to a bowl

our first year off probation, and this was the game that decided whether or not we would go to a bowl. We over-achieved that year.

I remember being very exhausted at the end of the drive that cut Mississippi State’s lead to 14-13. It was a long game that had pretty much been a defensive battle. Coach Tuberville just had the confidence in the offense to get the

Catching up with cORy PETERSON

Right, Cory with wife georgette and son Cole. The petersons are expecting the birth of a little girl on egg bowl weekend this year. below, Cory celebrates

after catching a pass from stewart patridge on the 2-point conversion play that lifted the Rebels to a 15-14 victory over Mississippi state in 1997. The win

earned ole Miss a berth in the Motor City bowl.

Photograph by PAUL GANDYPhoto courtesy of UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI

conversion. We called a timeout after the touchdown, and I remember being in the huddle. We all knew what we wanted to do. I remember Matt Luke tore his ACL and he was out there basically playing on one leg. Stewart (Patridge) threw the most unbelievable pass. You know, it was an inch or two from being swatted down. He hit me and it stuck. I really didn’t even have to catch it.

The play was called Z-Drive. I ran a crossing route over the middle,

stopped and he threw it in on me. It was great coverage by Mississippi State. I was in the slot at the time. I was lined up on the right side of the field, crossing to the left. They put a lot of pressure on Stewart, but there was great blocking from the offensive line.

Game Time: Cory, the ’99 Rebels had a great year, posting an 8-4

record and defeating Oklahoma in the Independence Bowl (Oklahoma went on to win a national championship the next season). A closer examination of that season shows that the Rebels were oh-so-close to perfection. Ole Miss had four losses that season (Vanderbilt, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi State) by a combined 15 points. You were a senior on that team. Do you ever think back to what might have been had you guys caught a few more breaks?

Peterson: It’s hard to look back and say what if. With Alabama, we were right there until the end. Vanderbilt was overtime. Mississippi State and Georgia, we were there. I remember a great season and to end it by beating Oklahoma and to finish in the Top 25 (No. 22) was such a great way to go out.

Looking back at that team, it’s amazing to see how many guys played in the NFL and how long they played. That offensive line…all of those guys had long careers in the pros. There was just so much talent on that team. One of the things I have enjoyed is watching those guys continue to play and follow their careers. A lot of them are just now finishing up and retiring from football. I’ve been in sales for nine years, and my back is hurting. Those guys are amazing.

I was very blessed to have played with such good players. I realized I wasn’t the fastest guy on the field, but I guess everyone needs a possession receiver (laughs).

Game Time: You mention that you’re still very much a part of Ole Miss football and its traditions. That seems to be a common theme with former players, more so than what you find at other universities.

Peterson: All the hours that you put in as a football player while you are there…it’s a full-time job in itself. The fans, the Grove, the great progress we have made as a program…I think we feel like we have been and still are a part of it.

Oxford is a unique place. You want to raise a family there. I would move back. My wife would move back, too, if her job wasn’t in Memphis.

Game Time: You still come to the Grove on football Saturdays. As a player, define the experience of the Grove.

Peterson: Your last time to walk through the Grove as a player is special. It’s a memory that you will always keep. The fans are 40-50 deep on both sides of the Walk of Champions. That last time walking through is something that you never forget.

Game Time: Any closing thoughts?

Peterson: To the recruits: Stay at home. There are such good people in Mississippi. It’s a great place to live, and Ole Miss is a great place to play football. These fans always remember you. They never forget.

Game Time: Thanks, Cory.

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Right, Cory with wife georgette and son Cole. The petersons are expecting the birth of a little girl on egg bowl weekend this year. below, Cory celebrates

after catching a pass from stewart patridge on the 2-point conversion play that lifted the Rebels to a 15-14 victory over Mississippi state in 1997. The win

earned ole Miss a berth in the Motor City bowl.

Photograph by PAUL GANDY

Rebels search for consistency

DEFENSE

Rebels search for consistency

Ole Miss defensive cOOrdinatOr tyrOne nix discusses the state

Of the Ole Miss defense

fOllOwing the rebels’

3-2 start tO the 2010 seasOn.


by DaviD Johnson, Game Time Rebels

Game Time: Outside of injuries, what is your biggest concern on the defen-sive side of the football right now?

Nix: Consistency. Doing the little things right. We have to get the guys to continue to put forth outstanding efforts. We saw that in the Kentucky game, and you just hope that you can continue to grow and become a more physical defense from the beginning of the game to the end.

Game Time: There’s a daunting task ahead in trying to stop Alabama. What do you do to try and stop an offensive team that is leading the SEC in scor-ing?

Nix: You don’t emphasize trying to stop them. You play within your scheme. You play fundamentally sound. You play with good technique. We must tackle well. They have such outstanding backs and receivers. The most impres-sive thing about them is their yardage after contact. That’s the thing that we’ll stress to our guys. We want to minimize the yardage on each play and to play violently, so that we have a chance to create more turnovers.

Game Time: You have a lot of young guys stepping up.

Nix: I’ll have to start with the second-ary, because the guy that’s playing the best out of the young guys is Tony Grimes. He’s beginning to get more and more playing time week-in and week-out. He’s getting better.

On the defensive line, Delvin Jones

is playing a lot. Cameron Whigham is getting more time in the rotation, and I think Carlos Thompson will be back some this week. Then you have guys like Wayne Dorsey and Damien Jack-son. Both are junior college players, and they are experienced, but they are not experienced in this league.

We feel like our team is going to get better and that our defense is going to get better every time we go out to play. Hopefully our best performance of the year, so far, will be against Alabama.

Game Time: Rate your linebackers’ play at this point of the season.

Nix: Jonathan Cornell has been the most consistent. He’s leading our team in tackles right now. He makes a lot of our checks. He’s a leader by example, and I’m really happy with him.

I think Joel Kight played the best football game he’s played since getting here last week against Kentucky. Hope-fully, he’ll catch fire from there and con-tinue to improve.

Allen Walker has been a mainstay. He’s on the field on every play. He’s played the most snaps of all the line-backers, and we expect more big plays out of him.

I feel real good about Mike Marry and D.T. Shackelford mixing in more at linebacker. As a group, I feel real strong about them. I think they’ll get better and better every week.

Game Time: The defense used turn-overs to really create momentum, es-pecially in the first half, against Ken-tucky. Three different turnovers led to

offensive touchdowns. How important is it for the defense to continue to create opportunities?

Nix: When we win the turnover margin, it increases our chances of winning the game. Our offense turned those three turnovers into 21 points. That’s huge in that ball game. We feel like we can win the turnover margin in every game we play. At plus-3, you’ve got an 80 or 90 percent chance to win the game.



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W hen Ole Miss plays LSU in Baton Rouge on November 20, it

will mark some 51 years since Billy Cannon made his famous punt return to defeat the Reb-els 7-3 in what became a leg-endary football game.

Without going into much detail, as most know, the two teams met on an October Hal-loween night in 1959 in Tiger Stadium, both undefeated with LSU ranked number 1 and Ole Miss ranked number 3.

And before the game this year, Cannon’s run will be shown again and again on TV, just as it has been every year since that memorable night in Tiger Town.

The game had been hyped even before the season started and when that Saturday night came, both teams and their fans were ready.

As Ole Miss supporters ar-rived at Tiger Stadium for the game, the LSU folks were their usual, wonderful, obnoxious selves.

“Tiger Bait! Tiger Bait!” they screamed at the Ole Miss fol-lowers. The atmosphere was electric, super charged.

And when the game finally started, everybody stood up for the kickoff and the noise and buzz from the crowd contin-ued. I really don’t remember anyone sitting down during the entire game.

(The makers of the movie “Ben Hur”, starring Charlton Heston, used the sound track from this football game for the roar of the crowd for the chari-ot race, since it was the longest and loudest continual crowd roar they could find.)

I won’t bore you with the de-tails of the game, which turned out to be a titanic defensive struggle between two splendid teams led by legendary coach-es, John Vaught of Ole miss and Paul Dietzel of LSU.

Any football fan knows about Cannon’s run and him winning the Heisman Trophy for his super human effort to return the punt 89 yards for what turned out to be the win-ning score.

It’s what happened at the end of the game which most folks don’t remember, when a yard of football turf stood be-tween an Ole miss victory and a Rebel quarterback named Doug Elmore (now deceased) from emerging the hero of the game instead of Billy Cannon.

After the punt return, with approximately 9 minutes re-maining in the fourth quarter, Ole Miss got the ball on their own 34 yard line. The score-board read 7-3, LSU.

Coach Vaught sent in Elmore to run the offense because of the player substitution rules at that time. There was no free substitution, therefore, Vaught was forced to use Elmore, leav-ing the other quarterbacks, starter Bobby Ray Franklin, Jake Gibbs and Billy Brewer watching the game from the sidelines, unable to enter the game.

With only 9 minutes remain-ing in the game, the crowd knew this drive would be the last hope for Ole Miss to win

the game. And it had to be a touchdown. There would be no punting by the Rebs on this drive; it was four down terri-tory all the way.

It was do or die time in Tiger Stadium.

Unfazed, Elmore began slowly but surely moving the Rebs down the field. A roll out pass for 6 or 7 yards, a run good for two or three more; it was grunt, groan and grit, el-bows and appetite.

Also, because of the substi-tution rule, Dietzel was forced to play his first team offense on defense, while the fabled LSU defensive squad, called the Chinese Bandits, watched from the sidelines.

The offensive stars for LSU, Cannon, Warren Rabb, Johnny Robinson and their teammates were on the field fighting like cornered tigers trying to stop the Rebel drive.

It was pure bedlam in the stadium during that final drive. The Ole Miss fans were screaming “Go Rebels!”. The LSU fans, feet pounding metal as they screamed “hold ‘em Ti-gers!”.

Every now and then, an LSU cheerleader would take a pole and poke LSU’s mascot, Mike the Tiger, in the rear. He would let out a roar as he stalked around his cage on the sidelines.

Even the sportswriters in the press box got emotionally involved during that last drive. Nobody was sitting down.

When Ole Miss would make a play, the writers from Missis-sippi would cheer. The writers from Louisiana would do the same when LSU made a play.

It was no place for the faint of heart.

With the crowd roaring on every play, the Rebs finally reached the LSU one yard line.

With time running out, four plays to make one yard, a mere 36 inches. Four plays to win

the game. Four plays...one yard. Three times Ole Miss run-

ners rammed the LSU defense. Three times they were denied. Facing fourth down, Ole Miss called time out. Coach Vaught called the play. It would be El-more over left tackle. The roar from the crowd reached a cre-scendo as the two teams lined up for what everyone knew would be the deciding play of the game.

The ball was snapped. El-more dove into a mass of bod-ies. For one split second there was a collective gasp of silence from everyone in the stadium since it was not possible to de-termine if Elmore had scored. The referee frantically jumped into the pile looking for the ball. Suddenly he stood up and signaled LSU’s ball, just inches from the goal line. It was a yard too far.

The roar from the LSU sup-porters shook the stadium. Ole Miss fans were in a state of shock and disbelief. LSU ran a couple of plays to end the game.

“Had we scored, Cannon’s run would probably have been reported as just another punt return and he probably would not have won the Heisman Trophy,” Brewer said.

The brutally physical and mentally draining affect the game had on the LSU team must have been tremendous because they lost to Tennessee the next week.

And as any Ole Miss foot-ball fan knows, the Rebels beat LSU 21-0 in a Sugar Bowl re-match, a game the LSU players did not want to play.

“It was a game for the ages,” Brewer said as he recalled that Halloween night.

And it was, or is. We are still talking about it some 50 years later.

As Paul Harvey would say: “Now you know the rest of the story.”

A Yard Too FarEditor’s Note: Wallace Dabbs is a former newspaper reporter and editor. He was a classmate and teammate of former Ole Miss head football

coach Billy Brewer at Lee High School in Columbus and a classmate at Ole Miss. He was in the press box at Tiger Stadium the night Billy Can-non returned a punt to beat the Rebels. He is now a general contractor living in Canton.

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AS a high school senior in Mobile, Ala., Nick Wil-liams made the decision

early on that Tom Crean was going to be his college basketball coach. Williams originally signed with Marquette in 2008 after being ranked as a top-150 recruit in the nation by Rivals.com. After Kelvin Sampson resigned at Indiana University amidst a recruit-ing scandal, Crean left Marquette to take over the storied Hoosiers pro-gram. Williams followed Crean. He arrived in the Hoosier state to find it really was the Mecca of bas-ketball. It is a place where basketball hoops hang on barn doors all across the state. The Indiana basketball program, however, was in such a state of dis-array following the attrition of the Sampson era, it hardly resembled the program that rose to national prominence under Bobby Knight. Crean was forced to dress student managers for games, and fought through his first season with one senior, five true freshmen and six walk-ons. The Hoosiers finished with a re-cord of 6-25. Williams was one of the few bright spots that season, averaging nine points and 4.5 rebounds per game in 28 starts. The losing…and the distance from home…took its toll. Williams made the difficult decision to look for op-portunities to play closer to his Ala-bama home. “It was tough losing all of those games, but other than that, the fans were great, and it was fun playing in a great conference,” Williams said of his Big 10 days. Williams found a home quickly. Ole Miss head coach Andy Ken-nedy made sure of that. Kennedy emphasized to Williams the low-scoring style of play of the Big Ten to the full-court style em-phasized in the SEC where the Reb-els led the conference in shot at-tempts. “When I got my papers and my re-lease, Coach Kennedy was the first person to call me,” Williams said. ”I just took that and ran with it. I knew if he was the first person to call me then he wanted me really bad. “I came down here and took a vis-it, and I liked everything.” Williams was familiar with Ken-nedy and assistant Torrey Ward,

who both played and coached in Ala-bama at UAB. “(Kennedy and Ward) recruited me early in high school, so I knew them then. But I got familiar with them all over again, and it felt like the place to be,” Williams said. “It was close to home, and my people can come see me now so it’s a great fit.” Kennedy offered Williams per-sonal advice about how to handle the transition of a transfer and the year he would have to sit out under NCAA rules. Kennedy transferred from North Carolina State to UAB after his freshman season. “He told me what he went through,” Williams said. “He told me to not take a year off, and to work harder than everyone else, because I’ll be well prepared for this year.” He admitted to letting his weight get away from him during the last year, but says he is down to his playing weight at 6-foot-4 and 210 pounds. Kennedy has been known for let-ting his players know how he feels, from telling David Huertas to “jus-tify his existence” or his sideline intense sideline “motivational” ses-sions with Kenny Williams. Kennedy’s players know where they stand good or bad. “Coach Kennedy really gets to know his players, and he really knows everyone individually,” Wil-liams said. “He is very hands on, and really lets his players know how he feels. He tells us every day it will be another tough one, but it’s only to get better.” After the loss of Eniel Polynice (graduate student transfer to Seton Hall) and Terrico White (Detroit Pistons) on the perimeter, Williams has the size and toughness to play multiple positions in the backcourt. “He is a guy that is going to fill a lot of statistical categories,” Ken-nedy said. “He is a winner and a competitor, and he has an edge. He is a big, strong guard with a 6-foot-11 wingspan. Having to sit out after being the high school player of the year in Alabama, and starting as a true freshman at Indiana was an eye-opening experience for him. He saw things from a different perspec-tive.” Williams got to experience a win-ning program last season after so much defeat as a freshman, but Ole Miss still finished just short of its goal of returning to the NCAA tour-

nament for the first time since 2002. “With the talent we had last year, I knew we could’ve been a lot bet-ter,” Williams said. “Sitting out was tough because I really felt like I could’ve helped the team. I feel like if I had played we could’ve made the tournament. Now I know what it takes to win, and it was only a step-ping stone for this year.” Besides knocking down jump shots and playing tough defense, Williams will add a dimension of vocal leadership to a squad that has struggled establishing a true team leader the past few seasons. “(Coaches) have told me to come in and to be a leader and the energy guy,” Williams said. “I always play hard and lead by example. We have a lot of new young players, and if I lead, they will follow. “I’m always talking and jumping around…getting guys ready even during practice. Chris (Warren) is not really that vocal guy, so what-ever he mumbles to me I just try to carry it out for the rest of team.” Vocal leadership is the only thing Warren hasn’t provided the Rebels throughout his career. The Ole Miss point guard is the leading return-ing scorer in the SEC, and one of the most prolific shooting threats in the country, finishing fourth in the na-tion in 3-pointers made last season. Williams said the trait he has picked up from Warren to be suc-cessful is his blue-collar work ethic. “Chris never makes excuses, and he always goes hard no matter what,” Williams said. “It doesn’t matter what obstacle he has to overcome, he tore his ACL, but he came back. He had nagging injuries last year, but he always fought through it. He is a warrior so I try to take a little bit from him. I know he will lay it out and die for us any day of the week. Whatever Chris says goes, and I try to help him out a bit.” In his first season as a Rebel, Wil-liams has dedicated the year to help Warren and fellow senior zach Gra-ham finish what they have started. “My goal is to get to the tourna-ment for Chris,” Williams said. “He has been here awhile, and he hasn’t made it in yet. I just want him to send him out with something to hold onto and a lasting legacy. We’ll get to the tournament and see what goes from there.”



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Season tickets for base-ball will go on sale begin-ning in November. Season ticket packages remain, and fans are encouraged to place their orders to secure their spot in what has become one of the best college baseball atmospheres in America.

More than 1 million fans have packed into Oxford-University Stadium over the

past five seasons to cheer on the Rebels. Ole Miss has ranked in the top three na-tionally in attendance in back-to-back seasons and the Rebels have been in the top five nationally four straight years.

“We’re excited about our schedule this upcoming sea-son and think it is one that will be of interest to our fans as well,” Bianco said. “We have a good mix of teams in the non-conference that we hope will challenge us as we prepare for the rigors of the Southeastern Conference.”

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Ole Miss will welcome five SEC teams to Oxford this season, including defending National Champion South Carolina, as a part of the 33-game schedule. Also taking the field at Oxford-Univer-sity Stadium/Swayze Field will be conference rivals Al-abama, Georgia, Kentucky and Mississippi State.

The Rebels will take to the road to face Tennessee, LSU, Auburn, Florida and Arkansas in conference play.

In non-conference play, the Rebels will take to the road to face Houston in a

three-game series while Tulane will make a week-end trip to Oxford. Ole Miss opens the season on Feb. 18, against Wright State.

Ole Miss opens the season with 20 of its first 23 games at home in the friendly con-fines of O-U Stadium. The Rebels host Wright State be-fore a pair of midweek con-tests against Arkansas State and Memphis then hit the road to take on Houston in a three-game series.

It’s then back home to Oxford for a 15-game home stand that will feature con-

tests against Austin Peay, Tulane, Western Kentucky, Lipscomb and Jackson State, before opening SEC play with Alabama.

The Rebels will then host Samford before kicking off a stretch of eight road games that includes contests at Tennessee, Southern Miss, LSU and Memphis at Au-toZone Park.

Ole Miss will then play back-to-back weekends at home against Georgia and Kentucky with the annual mid-week game against Southern Miss at Trustmark

Park. The Rebels then go back to Trustmark Park for the Governor’s Cup game against Mississippi State, before hitting the road for consecutive weekends at Auburn and Florida.

The South Carolina Gamecocks and Mississippi State Bulldogs close out the home season for the Rebels in the following weekends before Ole Miss closes the regular season on the road at Arkansas.

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AS Ole Miss head women’s bas-ketball coach

Renee Ladner prepares for her third season, she’s faced with a roster featuring six newcomers and only two returning players with ex-tended playing time. “Every time I’m in my office I can hear the ball bouncing,” Ladner said. “Last year we had a senior laden team where you could put on some drills and just roll out a basketball. This year it’s all about teaching. I think this returning group is hungry. I love hearing that rim rattle my wall.” The Rebels returned to the postseason last year (WNIT) for the first time since their run to the Elite Eight as a No. 7 seed in the 2007 NCAA tournament. Ladner was the top assistant to Carol Ross then. Ole Miss upset national powers Maryland and Okla-homa during its 2007 tour-nament run thanks in part to a full court match-up zone that used traps to pressure the opponent into turnovers, creating instant offense. Finally featuring a roster entirely comprised of her own recruits, Ladner will use speed on both sides of the floor to generate the production lost from the SEC’s leading scorer, Bianca Thomas. She must also re-place starters Shantell Black, and Elizabeth Robertson. “You don’t really replace those players so we’re going to have to score by commit-tee,” Ladner said. “I believe we are going to have to score off of a fast break setting, and with our defense.” Many of the hopes of the Rebels season rest on the shoulders of the team’s shortest player, freshman point guard Valencia McFar-land. Standing at 5-foot-4-inches tall, McFarland was voted the Mississippi player of the year twice while lead-

ing her Raymond team to back-to-to-back state titles and her AAU team to a na-tional championship. “She is a winner, and un-derstands angles,” Ladner said. “I believe she is one of the best open court guards in the conference. She is small, but what she can do you don’t actually teach.

She came from a good high school program, but she is instinctive, and I love that about her.” Senior Kayla Melson, who averaged 12.2 points per last season at point guard, will join McFarland in the back-court. “Having played the point is going to give us a one-two

punch, and give us the op-portunity to run, regardless of who has the ball,” Lad-ner said. “Kayla has become more offensive-minded in the past year. She averaged double figures for us last year, and has that quick first step and an innate ability to get to the basket.” Melson brings experi-


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ence to the backcourt while 6-4 junior Nikki Byrd is the leader of a young frontcourt. Byrd averaged 6.4 points and 4.7 rebounds per game last season. “Nikki Byrd is in the best shape she has been in,” Lad-ner said. “She has a good look in her eye, and she is hungry, which is something

I haven’t seen since I’ve been here.” Redshirt Tori Slusher will provide depth in the front-court after missing all of last season to an ACL injury. True freshmen Pa’Sonna Hope and Jasmine Trotter figure into the mix, but Lad-ner said both players need to add weight for the physical

play on the SEC. Sophomore Courtney Marbra only played in 21 games a season ago while searching for minutes be-hind Robertson at power forward. Although she only played sparingly as a fresh-man, the 6-foot-1 Jackson native has the natural ability to have a breakout season.

“She is a physical speci-men that is a very good re-bounder and can get us a lot of points off of put-backs,” Ladner said. Ole Miss’ non-conference schedule features home dates against Arizona and Miami. The Rebels will face Gonzaga in the opening game of a tournament in Hawaii with the possibility of playing North Carolina in a later round. The Rebels will also have the chance to avenge last season’s 66-65 loss to Samford in the first round of the WNIT as a part of the St. Peter’s College Classic. “In my opinion, with young kids, I really believe every game is going to be a big game for us. We are going to have to win small battles along the way to gain some confidence to come to-gether for conference play,” Ladner said. Ladner took advantage of a new NCAA rule, which al-lows the sanctioned 30 full team practices to begin 40 days before the first game. Ladner’s Rebels were on the court the first day possible, and they are going to need every day just to keep pace with their coach. “If I had a vision we would be a team that can platoon in and out and there not be a lot of difference, but that will take care of itself,” Lad-ner said. “The style of play I like to play… you cannot survive in a game with five or six players. We all know the conference and how physical and fast it is.” There is the team Ladner is working with in early Oc-tober, and there is the team that will be on the court in March. “I don’t think we are im-mediately going to be the team I want us to be, but if we can get a little bit better with each practice and each game that is what I am look-ing forward to,” Ladner said.

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Football adds SEMO, USAOle Miss announced a pair of future non-conference foot-

ball opponents last month in Southeast Missouri and South Alabama. The Rebels will face each school in a one-time, guarantee game in Oxford. It will mark the first meeting with each of the two programs. Ole Miss will host Southeast Missouri on Sept. 7, 2013, while the encounter with South

Alabama is set for Sept. 2, 2017. As previously announced, notable non-conference foes on the Rebels’ upcoming slates include Boise State (2011), Texas (2012 and 2013), Clemson (2015 and 2016) and Georgia Tech (2017 and 2018).

Basketball adds TV datesTwo more television dates have been added to the 2010-11 Ole Miss men’s basketball schedule, bringing the total to at least 20 TV appearances this season. The Rebels’ Dec. 30 game against Alcorn State will be shown on Fox Sports Net at 7 p.m. CT, while the Jan. 2 Southeastern Louisiana contest will air on CSS at 6 p.m. CT. In addition, the game time for the Dec. 4 matchup with Southern Miss has been moved to 7 p.m. CT. It will be shown on ESPNU. Ole Miss could also receive more television coverage in the second and third rounds of the Cancun Governor’s Cup, Dec. 23 and 24. The winner’s bracket games will air on ESPNU for the second round and ESPN2 for the championship round. For the second straight year, all 16 Southeastern Conference tilts will be televised.

Six TV games for womenThe SEC announced its television schedule for the

2010-11 women’s basketball season and Ole Miss will be featured in televised games at least six times during the year. Ole Miss will have four home games televised. The Rebels game against Kentucky on Thursday, January 22 will be televised by FSN at 9 p.m. ET. On Sunday, February 6, Ole Miss’ game against LSU will be televised at 2 p.m. by the SEC Network. The Ole Miss/Georgia game on Sunday, February 13 will be televised by CSS at 3 p.m. The final home game to be televised is the Ole Miss/Tennessee game on Thurs-day, February 24 by FSN at 8p.m. The Rebels will also have two road games televised, a Sunday, January 9 game at Tennessee at Noon (CSS) and the Ole Miss/Vanderbilt game on Sunday, Jan-uary 30 at 3 p.m. (FSN).

M-Club Hall of Fame inducts

Ole Miss inducted an outstanding class for the 2010 M-Club Athletics Hall of Fame on Friday, Sept. 24. The class of 2010 is quite a collection of talent, including former MLB player David Dellucci, former NFL star Deuce McAl-lister, Yolanda Moore (women’s bas-ketball), Ansu Sesay (men’s basketball) and Jerry Montgomery (former wom-en’s tennis coach). Bobby Bailess, who lettered in football from 1971-73, is the recipient of the M-Club Service Award.

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C oming off of back-to-back NCAA tourna-ment appearances, Joe

Getzin continued his success as the Ole Miss volleyball coach by signing the first nationally ranked recruiting class in pro-gram history in 2009.

Allegra Wells, Courtney Cunningham, and Whitney Craven were all ranked in the top 100 recruits in the country.

Although the final campaign of the decade turned into a rebuilding year for the young Lady Rebels (4-16 Southeast-ern Conference record), the experienced gained by both the talented recruiting class and a select group of upperclassmen have put Ole Miss in conten-tion to return to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2007.

“After last year, I think that is a big part of why we are so successful,” Getzin said. “All of the upperclassmen did a great job of getting the younger kids

to buy into everything they needed to over the summer, and I thought that is where we made huge strides.”

Seniors Miranda Kitts and Emily Kvitle, along with ju-niors Regina Thomas and Morgan Springer, represent the only upperclassmen on a roster that has already perse-vered adversity to a 4-2 SEC record. The team’s only losses came to No. 3 Florida and No. 23 Tennessee.

Ole Miss is still to host Au-burn, Georgia, LSU and Ar-kansas at the Gillom Center, where the Rebels are 5-0 on the season.

The center was expanded during the offseason adding 350 seats.

“We had the biggest crowds for the Mississippi State and Alabama games, but we also have 350 more seats to fill,” Getzin said. “I know for a fact the Gillom Center is one the toughest places to come play

because the quaintness of the gym, and I think if people re-alize the kind of impact they have, we can really use their support.”

The season began in simi-lar fashion to the 2009 season with a 3-2 loss to Texas-San Antonio in the opening match of the Rice Nike Invitational.

“We let one get away the first match of the year,” Getzin said. “We were a point away from sweeping the team, and then lost a tough fifth game. I think that really woke the kids up to how hard it is to win.”

The Lady Rebels responded at the Invitational with wins over Texas Tech and Rice. After losses to Northwestern and Utah, Ole Miss won seven consecutive before adversity reared its ugly head again.

Sophomore setter Cunning-ham was lost for the season to an ACL injury days before a road match at South Carolina. Getzin was forced to change from a two-setter offense with Cunningham to a 5-1 set with sophomore Amanda Philpot “as our lone quarterback.”

“Freshman Kellie Goss at 6-foot-2 has come in and I think she is stepping up, and eventually will step right in for Courtney,” Getzin said.

Middle blockers Thomas and Kitts will be counted upon to lead the offense in the 5-1 set. Thomas leads the SEC in at-tack percentage, and is second in the conference in defensive blocks. Kitts has waited for her senior season to double her at-tack percentage, and is among the conference leaders in serve percentage.

“Regina does a great job in buying into the training aspect of things on the floor right now with the success she is having,” Getzin said. “Miranda is hav-ing a great senior year, playing at her highest level, which is how you draw it up.

“Emily Kvitle is our utility player having played every po-sition throughout career. She is a great team leader, very motivated, and is a detailed person who holds everyone ac-

countable. Morgan Springer is leading the league in digs and feels comfortable with her role as the Libero in running the defensive side of things.”

Craven has taken to her Top-100 recruit status in her sophomore season as she leads the team in kills per set and is second on the team in digs.

“Whitney Craven has been a two year starter as a sopho-more,” Getzin said. “She has been putting up some very solid numbers for us, and has been our best all around skill player on the team.”

The future is bright for Getzin and his squad with the development of players like Craven, but there is more tal-ent waiting in the wings.

Kara Morgan has come in as a true freshman to start at out-side hitter

“Allegrea Wells is probably physically one of the best in the SEC. Her volleyball skills are catching up with her ath-leticism, and she is making a big impact.

“Allegra touches 10 feet five inches, she can dunk the vol-leyball pretty easily, and we have a few more players who jump up and touch the rim. That kind of athleticism, when harnessed in the right way, is exciting to watch.

“True freshman Kara Mor-gan is starting on the outside. For any true freshman to come in and start takes moxie to be able to handle the pressure. She has done very well with that.

“It is a real fun sport to watch. It is fast moving, and (fans) can be amassed by the power these girls bring, and how athletic they really are.

“There is no doubt the name Ole Miss means a little more in the volleyball community. I think we are attracting better players. Last year we had a top 25 recruiting class. It is easier getting in people’s houses to expose them to Ole Miss. If we can get them on campus we have about a 98 percent suc-cess rate of getting the kid to commit.”

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It comes as no surprise Mississippi Blood Service’s most popular donation drive on college campuses comes at the root of con-tention between the Reb-els, Bulldogs and Golden Eagles.

The 31st annual Tran-sylvania Bowl Blood Drive started its first year between Ole Miss and Mississippi State, but Southern Miss has joined the competi-tion every year since. The winning school receives a trophy and a student from the victorious school will be selected to win a $1,500 scholarship sponsored by Regions Bank.

The drives are contained on the campuses in Oxford,

Starkville and Hattiesburg, Donations will be counted until the end of October. Ole Miss leads the all-time series with 16 wins includ-ing three in a row. Missis-sippi State has won 14 and Southern Miss has one victory.

“People that gradu-ated 20 years ago will remem-ber the Transyl-vania Bowl because we usually give out the trophy during the last home game of the year, and it is usually the Egg Bowl,” said Tony Bahou, communica-tions and public relations manager at Mississippi Blood Services.

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the game at Memorial Sta-dium on a neutral field they used to give a trophy to the school and a check to the student.”

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hours prior to donating, and drink plenty of water or juice before and after donating

All donors will receive a custom school T-shirt to rally the cause for their institution.

The University of Missis-sippi will be holding their Transylvania Bowl blood drive on Monday, October 25, from 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.; Tuesday, October 26, from 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.; Wednes-day, October 27, from 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.; Thursday, October 28, from 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.; and Friday, October 29, from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. The drive will be located in the Student Union Ball-room.

“Showing school spirit by saving lives is the tradi-tion of the Transylvania Bowl,” Bahou said. “We want to encourage all Rebel fans to become a part the tradition.”

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Robert khayat, one of the most prolific figures in Ole Miss history, gazes through the crowd at Vaught-Hemingway stadium. Ole Miss made tremendous strides in academia and in the arena of athletics during khayat’s tenure as Chancellor.

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