Do you play cuse home or away? its been my experience that Anderson doesn't win neutral court or away preseason games seriously not hating just how i see it. But he does schedule tougher teams that help rpi at selection time so that is good
All we know about Ole Miss' schedule is: Dec. 1- Rutgers Dec. 22-25- Diamond Head Classic (Arizona, East Tennessee State, Hawaii (host), Indiana State, Miami, San Diego State, San Francisco) Rutgers will be solid. Maybe a fringe tourney team out of the Big East this season. They return all but one player off a team that had 7 freshmen and they add Wally Judge. Arizona, Miami and San Diego State are all potential tourney teams. Here's hoping Ole Miss can another ~2 quality non-conference opponents.
Cuonzo is JUST a little late to the party: 2014 Evansville Bosse guard JaQuan Lyle picked up an offer from Tennessee today. That's his fourteenth scholarship offer
so we lost King Rice after the 2010/2011 season to Monmouth and now lost Dan Muller to IL St we replaced Rice with David Cason from Tulsa and have yet to replace Muller with anyone there's people on our board that think we might just promote some volunteer assistant (who has not had any experience recruiting) to replace Muller or we could also promote an assistant that has been in a "non-coaching" position the past few years and hasn't been recruiting either so we've lost the two best recruiters we've had under Stallings and replace them with............................... sigh...following Vandy basketball recruiting right now (especially compared to IU basketball recruiting) is just painful
Really excited to see Bama next year. Grant's finally turning it up on recruiting too. Hopefully we'll show some serious improvement on offense.
Based on what? Alabama added one player (Devonta Pollard). That's an Alabama team that couldn't score to save their lives last season and they graduated the only player on the roster (JaMychal Green) that could actually score. Don't get me wrong, Alabama has nice young talent. Raw, but nice. On paper, I'd put Kentucky, Florida, Mizzou, Tennessee, Ole Miss, and probably Arkansas ahead of them at this point. A lot can change though.
I guess based on that joke I expected Alabama to have a winning record against Kennedy in his six years at Ole Miss. Nope.
Congrats on beating Alabama and not making the tournament for six years in a row, quite the accomplishment.
But he's finished ahead of Ole Miss every year but his first (when he went 0-2), and team standings was what was being discussed.
they've only made the tournament like 6 times ever so Kennedy is doing work by their standards. But I actually think Ole Miss will be a good team next year and will be on the bubble. I think if you are unbiased about it Alabama at the moment would have to be slightly above that but not much more based on last season also at grant for making us go to fucking VCU
virgil wasn't Henry a junior? why the fuck did he go pro? with him i thought y'all could have possibly won the west
True, but Kennedy's predecessor got them there 3 times. No choice but to go to VCU Leonard. They put that in all of their coach's contracts, that if they leave, the new school owes a home and home with VCU. Oklahoma had to go to Richmond when Capel was there as well.
Henry was a senior. Only player of substance Ole Miss lost. And frankly, b/c of his penchant for turnovers, his impact will be negated by Marshall Henderson and the newcomers. Doesn't mean much when he goes to the NCAAT then follows that up by going 4-12, 5-11, 4-12, and 4-12 in his final four seasons at Ole Miss. By that logic, Houston Nutt did a good job at Ole Miss. Rod Barnes, on the other hand, has left not one, but two programs in shambles upon his departure. Kennedy's playing with the deck stacked against him and, frankly, just being in the NCAAT conversation in five of his six seasons is borderline amazing.
By the way, here's Marshall Henderson. He played his freshman season (09-10) at Utah and averaged double figures. Following the season he decided to transfer to Texas Tech. As you know, Pat Knight got fired, so he then chose to leave Texas Tech, as well. Last season he played at South Plains (TX) JC where his team went undefeated, won the JUCO national title, and he was named the JUCO Player of the Year. If there was one element Ole Miss sorely lacked last season, it was perimeter shooting. That's exactly what this guy does. Here's a highlight tape of his lone season at Utah: There was one out there from his season at South Plains but I can't find it.
Barbee is having camp this weekend that drew some pretty good talent. Trayvon Reed is coming, and there has been some buzz that he likes Auburn. Would be a nice pickup for us.
isn't VCU in the A-10 now? nothing wrong with a return trip to those schools...especially if you want to recruit in that area
Alabama-Mississippi State tornado game to be featured in ESPN documentary Posted on June 26, 2012 by Brandon Marcello Mississippi State’s players, coaches and fans will likely never forget the night the Georgia Dome swayed. ESPN is producing a documentary on the SEC basketball tournament in 2008, during which a game between MSU and Alabama was interrupted by a tornado hitting downtown Atlanta. The news comes to us today from the Athens Banner-Herald. Because of the damage to the roof of the Georgia Dome, the tournament was moved to the Georgia Tech campus, where last-place Georgia won the tournament championship, advanced to the NCAA Tournament and saved the job of then-coach Dennis Felton. The F2 tornado hit the Georgia Dome during overtime of the Bulldogs’ quarterfinals win against Alabama. The game went to overtime thanks to Tide guard Mykal Riley, whose 3-pointer rattled in at the buzzer. The shot may have saved the lives of the fans watching the game, who likely would have been streaming out of the Georgia Dome when the tornado’s 130 mph winds were at full force. The tornado hit downtown Atlanta with 2 minutes, 11 seconds left in overtime, and MSU leading 64-61. Former Clarion-Ledger beat writer Kyle Veazey was there the night of March 14, 2008 and filed this report: There were no reported injuries to players or fans in the dome. Mississippi State coach Rick Stansbury said his immediate thought was about his family – his wife, Meo, and sons Luke, Isaac and Noah were in attendance. “It was very scary,” Stansbury said. “We didn’t have a tornado in the scouting report. I promise you that.” Play was delayed for an hour as players and coaches from both teams returned to their locker rooms. Fans milled inside the dome, many taking pictures of the damage with cell-phone cameras.The documentary will air during the upcoming school year and will be part of ESPN’s SEC “Storied” series, which involves the same content development group that produced the network’s popular and critically-acclaimed “30 for 30” films.
Have we talked about the SEC West's APR problems yet? Arkansas, LSU, and Auburn all in really bad shape. Not that it matters, but Auburn is almost assuredly going to face a postseason ban for 2014. LSU is in pretty bad shape too. Arkansas could pull it up next year, but they'll have to show improvement.
I don't know how it's calculated, but Ole Miss somehow had the highest in the SEC. I mean, I know coaches know how to get around rules such as filing transfers after a certain date so it doesn't ding your APR, but even still. Ole Miss is at least good at something I guess.
pretty sure ours is on the rise now. Pelphrey took over an absolute shitty situation from Stan Heath and only made it worse. We lost so many guys that left in poor academic standing... I mean we had Jason Henry on the team and he couldnt even read (literally) and had such a severe learning disability he had to have his tests read to him. We had a pretty good year this past season academically, so I'm thinking we are going to turn things around
Ooc schedule could be a lot better, but it's not awful. The home schedule, however, has to be one of the worst in program history. Baylor and a bunch of shit.
tis pretty bad, but it still will be sold out. and its no worse than the 2010 home non-conference. cal just loves his neutral sites
SEC coaches surprised when league schedule doesn't match what was previously discussed By Gary Parrish | College Basketball Insider July 24, 2012 11:50 am ET SEC basketball coaches met in Florida early last month to, among other things, determine how scheduling would be done for their new 14-team league, and everything was settled by the time the meetings concluded. The league decided each school would play every other school once per season, have a constant rival it would play twice per season, and four other schools it would also play twice per season to complete an 18-game schedule. Not everybody was happy. But everybody at least knew the score. And then last week happened, and now everybody is confused. "I got an email from the SEC office, and my four [home-and-home] opponents ... were changed," once SEC coach told CBSSports.com. "There was no discussion or phone call. I just got an email of our league schedule, and the league schedule wasn't the league schedule they told me I'd have last month. It's crazy." To help you better understand exactly what happened, consider that Vanderbilt was supposed to have Tennessee as its constant rival and Kentucky, Alabama, Missouri and Ole Miss as its home-and-home opponents, but sources told CBSSports.com that Vanderbilt now has Kentucky, South Carolina, Arkansas and Auburn as its home-and-home opponents. Meantime, Ole Miss was supposed to have Mississippi State as its constant rival and Auburn, Florida, Vanderbilt and Arkansas as its home-and-home opponents, but sources told CBSSports.com that Ole Miss now has Auburn, Tennessee, Missouri and Texas A&M as its home-and-home opponents. Sources said Georgia's schedule got harder. Sources said Alabama's schedule got easier. And if you're wondering why this is a big deal, it's because SEC coaches had already scheduled their non-league games based on whether they believed they had relatively easy or relatively hard league schedules assigned to them. Now everything is a mess. And though every coach who spoke to CBSSports.com said they'd deal with it if only because they have no choice, they made it clear they were bothered by the surprise email from the SEC office that came during this July evaluation period for recruiting. "We never discussed the changes or even that there were going to be changes," one coach said. "We just got emails with new schedules, and the only explanation we got for the changes was that they were doing it for 'competitive balance.' But my question is what changed between last month and this month? I still don't know the answer to that." The SEC is expected to publicly release all league schedules next month.