my initial reaction and this may not go well but GO TO HELL PETE BOONE , YOU MORON i swear ive never been so pissed in my life at one person , we have our best season in years last year , and now we fire our coach for one bad year I had the chance to meet Mr. Cutcliffe multiple times and he cared about our college , the people , and that team , and its basically a public outcry up here
lol We as LSU fans are agreed in that Cutcliffe should not have been fired. Listen to any radio show down here and you'll find that out. He was two close games (LSU / Tenn) from being 6-5....
That does suck, alot of LSU fans I've heard feel bad for Cutcliffe and you guys. Seems like you may have another Jeremy Foley. Ass-a-nine
Pete Boone makes his presence light around campus now, in between getting rid of the Col. Reb , and now this , he is more hated than sherril
I have to agree, I feel for you Andrew. Yet another example of a program feeling "entitled" to win more than they should. No offense to Ole Miss fans, but, Oxford is a very difficult place to build a winner. Has been since Archie left. Could only be done these last few years when Archie's son came to be quarterback. And yet, Cutcliffe won at Ole Miss. He not only won, he won a lot (44-29, only one losing season, 10-3 and a Cotton Bowl win last year, not bad for what was basically a one-man team). I think Cutcliffe hurt himself with his bizarre quarterback rotation this year. He should've picked one guy and hung with him all the way. At the very least, he should have only substituted a drive at a time, using two QBs, instead of playing all three on the same drive. What the fudge? Other than that, I thought he was a great coach. He needed a real defensive coordinator though; pass defense has been the Rebels' "Achilles Heel" the last few years; with any sort of pass defense these last two seasons, Ole Miss goes 12-1 (maybe 14-0 and national champions, instead of LSU) in 2003 and at least 7-4 this season. Maybe he was told he had to fire his DC or his defensive backs coach, and refused to do it, and got the ax himself, who knows? I could buy that explanation, because I simply can't buy any other.
Supposedly that was a big part of it. From what I hear they asked him to do it a couple of years ago but he refused and said if they fired him Eli would transfer. For the past few years their secondary play was awful; the players showed no comprehension of even the basic fundamentals that are necessary to play the game at the SEC level. Add that to his inability to recruit a quality running back since he has been there and six signees, including their star recruit WR Tony Burks and a couple of Juco guys who were expected to be immediate contributors were declared academically ineligble right before the season started. The felony arrest of Razzano (sp) and the gun incident with Pittman and Bournes, and the story that broke before the LSU game about the two players who had been waiting for trial for almost two years for sexual assault charges and playing the whole time (word I hear is the allegations are false, but it does add fuel to the fire, regardless). Finally he didn't seem to have the ability or willingness to relate to the big time alumni, which is one of the primary functions of a D-1 head coach. The case against him had been building for some time. I feel no pity for Cutcliffe, he received a nice severance package in the deal. Such is life as a major college football coach.
While I agree with most of what you say, he did recruit Deuce Mcallister. His "mistake" (if you want to call it that) was his loyalty to his staff. While that is an admirable quality, it ultimately cost them all their jobs.
