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Pete Boone (and son) kick Jerrell Powe out of Ole Miss facilities

Forward Rebels - Friday, March 09, 2012


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“Hey, Powe!  You still making fun of my dad!”

NFL player and Ole Miss favorite Jerrell Powe heard those words screamed at him in the Ole Miss football weight room recently.  As Mr. Powe stood with other NFL stars, he was stunned to turn and see that Ole Miss Athletic Director Pete Boone’s son, who never played football at Ole Miss and who works for Regions Bank, not Ole Miss, was yelling at him angrily.

Not to mention the fact that Jerrell Powe is 6’2”, 335 pounds, the audacity of a non-Ole Miss employee simultaneously treating our team facilities like his personal weight room and accosting one of our most beloved players is astounding!

The next day, NFL player and Ole Miss legend Jerrell Powe was kicked out of Ole Miss practice facilities by Pete Boone.

Boone called out at Mr. Powe disparagingly, “Hey Powe!  You make sure you come see me before you ever work out here again!”  It is widely known that Mr. Powe has been an outspoken proponent of change at Ole Miss, and he went public last year regarding Pete Boone’s efforts to keep him from playing football at Ole Miss.

As retaliation, Pete Boone has now personally banished one of Ole Miss’s current NFL players, a guy who dedicated almost seven years of his life to Ole Miss football.  Beyond that, he allows his own son to work out in that very gym and allows that son to mock our NFL heroes!  You want to talk about “uncivil”?

Pete Boone’s rationalization for forcing Mr. Powe to leave the Indoor Practice Facility (IPF) was a claim that NFL players who did not graduate are not allowed to exercise at Ole Miss facilities.  This is simply false, and we can report with 100% certainty that Boone picks and chooses which non-graduating former players are allowed to use Boone’s IPF.

Boone continues to treat Ole Miss like his own personal country club, kicking people out at will, yet, at the same time, letting his own family, who never played sports here, use the IPF at no charge.

We believe that all NFL players should be allowed to use the IPF, so we are not going to list those players who did not graduate but are allowed to use the IPF.  However, we have obtained personal confirmation that Boone’s policy is selectively applied to suit his preference.

Boone personally choosing which players to allow in the IPF is not new, and he treated Iraq veteranTony Fein (RIP) and Linebacker Ashlee Palmer the same way.  Prior to Fein and Palmer signing with NFL, they were kicked out of the IPF by Boone for not having graduated.  Fein and Palmer had to literally sneak onto the field at Vaught Hemingway to train for NFL Pro Day, but, after they got on an NFL roster, Boone suddenly dropped his policy and allowed them back in the IPF.  Palmer, a Compton native, simply never returned to Ole Miss.

Fein and Palmer asked Pete Boone and other athletic staff for the policy that was used to kick them out of the IPF, but Boone could never produce this on-again/off-again policy.

That is unadulterated exploitation.  All the while, other more prominent players, players who did not graduate, were granted unfettered access to the IPF.

Today, if you speak out against a University official at Ole Miss, that public official will then use his authority to ban you from Ole Miss.  It’s a common refrain… “You either support Pete Boone, or we don’t need you at Ole Miss!”

No one desires to be forced to reveal such pathetic facts, but, in the case of Ole Miss, the public must stand up for our school and defend it against such a discriminatory despot.  If no one else will make a stand, we will!

It is a sad state of affairs when a lame duck failed athletic director is allowed to arbitrarily wield power – over publicly owned property – just to bolster his ego and to serve his son.

Voice your support for Jerrell.  He gave his all for us, and he does not deserve to be treated by a failed AD, much less his child.

This must change, and it is the duty of our Chancellor and governing Board to eliminate such discrimination once and for all.



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All of the above facts were reported first-hand and verbatim from the parties involved.

[1dawgfan09]

GoldenRebel, on 09 March 2012 - 11:19 PM, said:

Pete Boone (and son) kick Jerrell Powe out of Ole Miss facilities

Forward Rebels - Friday, March 09, 2012


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“Hey, Powe!  You still making fun of my dad!”

NFL player and Ole Miss favorite Jerrell Powe heard those words screamed at him in the Ole Miss football weight room recently.  As Mr. Powe stood with other NFL stars, he was stunned to turn and see that Ole Miss Athletic Director Pete Boone’s son, who never played football at Ole Miss and who works for Regions Bank, not Ole Miss, was yelling at him angrily.

Not to mention the fact that Jerrell Powe is 6’2”, 335 pounds, the audacity of a non-Ole Miss employee simultaneously treating our team facilities like his personal weight room and accosting one of our most beloved players is astounding!

The next day, NFL player and Ole Miss legend Jerrell Powe was kicked out of Ole Miss practice facilities by Pete Boone.

Boone called out at Mr. Powe disparagingly, “Hey Powe!  You make sure you come see me before you ever work out here again!”  It is widely known that Mr. Powe has been an outspoken proponent of change at Ole Miss, and he went public last year regarding Pete Boone’s efforts to keep him from playing football at Ole Miss.

As retaliation, Pete Boone has now personally banished one of Ole Miss’s current NFL players, a guy who dedicated almost seven years of his life to Ole Miss football.  Beyond that, he allows his own son to work out in that very gym and allows that son to mock our NFL heroes!  You want to talk about “uncivil”?

Pete Boone’s rationalization for forcing Mr. Powe to leave the Indoor Practice Facility (IPF) was a claim that NFL players who did not graduate are not allowed to exercise at Ole Miss facilities.  This is simply false, and we can report with 100% certainty that Boone picks and chooses which non-graduating former players are allowed to use Boone’s IPF.

Boone continues to treat Ole Miss like his own personal country club, kicking people out at will, yet, at the same time, letting his own family, who never played sports here, use the IPF at no charge.

We believe that all NFL players should be allowed to use the IPF, so we are not going to list those players who did not graduate but are allowed to use the IPF.  However, we have obtained personal confirmation that Boone’s policy is selectively applied to suit his preference.

Boone personally choosing which players to allow in the IPF is not new, and he treated Iraq veteranTony Fein (RIP) and Linebacker Ashlee Palmer the same way.  Prior to Fein and Palmer signing with NFL, they were kicked out of the IPF by Boone for not having graduated.  Fein and Palmer had to literally sneak onto the field at Vaught Hemingway to train for NFL Pro Day, but, after they got on an NFL roster, Boone suddenly dropped his policy and allowed them back in the IPF.  Palmer, a Compton native, simply never returned to Ole Miss.

Fein and Palmer asked Pete Boone and other athletic staff for the policy that was used to kick them out of the IPF, but Boone could never produce this on-again/off-again policy.

That is unadulterated exploitation.  All the while, other more prominent players, players who did not graduate, were granted unfettered access to the IPF.

Today, if you speak out against a University official at Ole Miss, that public official will then use his authority to ban you from Ole Miss.  It’s a common refrain… “You either support Pete Boone, or we don’t need you at Ole Miss!”

No one desires to be forced to reveal such pathetic facts, but, in the case of Ole Miss, the public must stand up for our school and defend it against such a discriminatory despot.  If no one else will make a stand, we will!

It is a sad state of affairs when a lame duck failed athletic director is allowed to arbitrarily wield power – over publicly owned property – just to bolster his ego and to serve his son.

Voice your support for Jerrell.  He gave his all for us, and he does not deserve to be treated by a failed AD, much less his child.

This must change, and it is the duty of our Chancellor and governing Board to eliminate such discrimination once and for all.



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All of the above facts were reported first-hand and verbatim from the parties involved.

I thought he was supposed to quit or something. Retire after Nutt left.

[GoldenRebel]

He resigned but it doesn't become effective until August or something.

[1dawgfan09]

GoldenRebel, on 09 March 2012 - 11:26 PM, said:

He resigned but it doesn't become effective until August or something.

WTF? If you quit, leave. That's just as stupid as letting Nutt finish that abortion of a season for ya'll last year. You all should just go ahead and lest the admins bind and gag Freeze as much as possible.

Edited by 1dawgfan09, 09 March 2012 - 11:28 PM.

[GoldenRebel]

1dawgfan09, on 09 March 2012 - 11:27 PM, said:

WTF? If you quit, leave. That's just as stupid as letting Nutt finish that abortion of a season for ya'll last year. You all should just go ahead and lest the admins bind and gag Freeze as much as possible.

Trying to figure out what goes on in Oxford will just give you a migrane.  Its much easier to just grab a drink at Roosters and say feck it

[1dawgfan09]

GoldenRebel, on 09 March 2012 - 11:31 PM, said:

Trying to figure out what goes on in Oxford will just give you a migrane.  Its much easier to just grab a drink at Roosters and say feck it

And we all know how Powe should habe responded.

"Oh, yeah? We'll your daddy is a bitch, a b-i-e-c.....uh.......b-i-l.........fock you!!!!!"

[bbqit]

pete boone. ain't liked him for 30 years now. he will go away. it's just he won't go away without making even more of an ass out of himself. it's his style.

[1dawgfan09]

bbqit, on 10 March 2012 - 07:51 AM, said:

pete boone. ain't liked him for 30 years now. he will go away. it's just he won't go away without making even more of an ass out of himself. it's his style.

A graceful exist is just not in some people's makeup. If Boone had a problem with Powe, he had better avoid every OM fanI know. Nobody likes the dude.

[A10Rebel]

he's such a dick...

[ForwardRebels]

Ole Boone has earned $146,401 since he was "fired".
http://forwardrebels...er#.T1z80eV7X_M

[FloridaReb7]

This guy is a joke. I can't stand Pete Boone. He kicked us out of a volleyball game once...we were cheering loudly...that was not "appropriate" for that sport. We had "groved" for the vball game outside the Gillom center (TVs and everything) and were super hype for the game. We ended up going to Frank and Marlee's and I got on the piano playing some blues music (on a non-working night) and we literally drank our let down away. From there on, everything from management, to character, to just humanity escapes me from this guy. I don't get his false sense of empowerment. GTHPB.