Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Thanksgiving Pick

Rough season thus far. This weekend, we're pushing all our chips to the center of the table. One pick all in, 60 units on Ole Miss -16 vs Missisippi State. I like the Rebs ability to run the ball against a porous MSU run defense. I also think Nutt and Ole Miss see this as a very important game and really want to make a statement after the upset loss last year that cost Orgeron his job. Plus I like the Michael Lewis book, "Blind Side".

Off topic: I haven't heard Houston Nutt's name mentioned as a possible ND coaching candidate. I like his disciplined coaching approach and think it would be exactly what this team needs (if a change is actually made). What are people's thoughts?
  • In one year at Ole Miss, the Rebels have improved from 3-9 (including 10-29 over 3 years) to 7-4, with two games left to play.
  • In the 5 years before arriving at Arkansas, the Razorbacks were 26-30-1. In his 10 years at Arkansas, Nutt had a record of 75-48, including 3 SEC West Division Titles.
  • In one year at Boise State in 1997, their first in Division I-A, Nutt led Boise to a 4-7 record, improving from 2-10 the year before in I-AA.
  • At Murray State, Nutt posted a 22-3 combined record in his final two seasons, 1995 and 1996.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I don't think Nutt would be a good pick for Notre Dame. He's too much like Les Miles. They can recruit OK but they're a bit unscrupulous in doing so and makes waaaaaaaay too many dumb coaching decisions. He gets his team up for big games but they also drop games to much lesser opponents.

Bernie Blozar said...

We don't want Houston Nutt... The Real Starr nailed it -- wins big games, loses to inferior opponents

That could be better than now since we don't win big games and we do lose to inferior opponents

 
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