This is the guy!

[Rebel Chuck]

This is who we need to hire. Talking about Nutt or Francione makes me sick. Here is a proven winner with plenty of expierence. The following is from Rebelsports.net




Rick Neuheisel

Record at current institution: 5-9 in first season as the Baltimore Ravens offensive coordinator running head coach Brian Billick's offense

Coaching background: Baltimore Ravens offensive coordinator (2007 - present), Quarterbacks coach, Baltimore Ravens (2004-2006), Head coach Colorado (1994-1998), Head coach Washington (1999-2002), Assistant coach (quarterbacks) UCLA, 1988-1993

Bio: Neuheisel was promoted to offensive coordinator/quarterbacks in January of 2007… Launched his NFL career when he joined the Ravens as QBs coach in 2005…Has 8 years of head-coaching experience at the collegiate Division IA level (Colorado and Washington), posting a 66-30 record, including a Rose Bowl victory in 2000 at Washington…He secured winning records of 33-16 at Washington and 33-14 at Colorado…In 4 years at Washington, Neuheisel led the Huskies to 4 bowl appearances…Posted a 33-14 (.702) record at Colorado and was 3-0 in postseason bowl games, all against Pac-10 Conference opponents…The Buffalo had 20 wins in his first 2 seasons, which tied for the 4th-most by a 1st-time college coach in the Division IA modern era…Both of those teams finished in the Top 10 of the national polls…

Why Neuheisel: Neuheisel was once considered one of the hottest head coach prospects in the country. He became head coach at Colorado at age 32 and found success, then moved on to Washington where he again had solid success. He has a 66-30 record in eight seasons. Since leaving Washington after a run in with the NCAA, Neuheisel has worked the last three seasons in the NFL and is in his first year as an offensive coordinator. Has the experience and background to run a major college program and is an innovative offensive mind.

Why not Neuheisel: Neuheisel came under investigation by the NCAA in 2003 for betting on basketball games and was less than honest during the NCAA's initial inquiry. He also left some baggage at Colorado where he was penalized by not being permitted to recruit off campus. He was fired by Washington and sued for a contract settlement and won. He's been cleared by the NCAA but his background may not be acceptable to an Ole Miss team that was on probation in the 1980s and 1990s - but has since been clean.

[Hawginitall]

Good info, an interesting possibility. I'm betting he's through with the college game.

[Rebel Chuck]

Good info, an interesting possibility. I'm betting he's through with the college game.
He was intrested in 2004, maybe the college bug still has him

[jthomas666]

Go ahead and hire him, but if you do, the NCAA will open a branch office in Oxford.

[Cianne]

Do they validate parking there? I know the one in Tuscaloosa does.

[MSUBULLY]

If you hire someone the NCAA already doesn't care for, then it wouldn't take them very long to put Ole Miss on Probation.

[TDArkansasOhmy]

I often wondered if the heat will ever be lifted from this poor guy. he can coach his a** off, and kids love playing for him. I really think he has never loss his passion of the college game. And if the right situation comes up. I believe we will once again see him in the college ranks. He would be a breath of fresh air in the SEC with his style of play.

http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:j7m-ys9Xm25kSM:http://img.slate.com/media/1/123125/123037/2076357/2083841/030616_RickNeuheisal.jpg

[AUChamps]

Go ahead and hire him, but if you do, the NCAA will open a branch office in Oxford.
Before Tubs came to Ole Miss, the program there was on the worst NCAA sanctions in place for a program not named SMU.

The NCAA has a long memory and do you really want to try your luck of the draw? The only reason you should want Neuheisel to come to the Magnolia State is as a tourist only and to visit Tunica, the Gulf Coast, or Pearl River Resort.

[bigsexxxy]

Do they validate parking there? I know the one in Tuscaloosa does.

Oh please, like they have parking spaces in Oxford. :glare:

[Rebel Chuck]

Before Tubs came to Ole Miss, the program there was on the worst NCAA sanctions in place for a program not named SMU.

The NCAA has a long memory and do you really want to try your luck of the draw? The only reason you should want Neuheisel to come to the Magnolia State is as a tourist only and to visit Tunica, the Gulf Coast, or Pearl River Resort.
This is all a bunch of nit picking BS. Forget the past, if we want some instant success here it is. The only question is if we have the balls to go for it.

[Cianne]

Oh please, like they have parking spaces in Oxford. :glare:

True. It's hard getting to the Square right now.

[Rebel Chuck]

I just heard that Neuheisel is intrested but has turned down the first offer and his agent is going to negotiate with us. Anyone hear this too? It's word of mouth so it might be false.

[GeauxTo]

What about Larry Blakeney from Troy?

[oxfordreb]

This is the link to Parrish Alford's blog, he's the writer for the Northeast MS Daily Journal. He is really good at keeping us up to date about what's going on. He's posted some stuff about Neuheisal today. Check it out:

Parrish Alford on Ole Miss Sports (http://djrebel.wordpress.com/)

[jthomas666]

Do they validate parking there? I know the one in Tuscaloosa does.They'll offer it, but it's just a trick to get you to accept illegal gifts. ;)

[oxfordreb]

I just saw on rivals that Gary Patterson of TCU is being tossed around as a candidate. I know nothing about the guy, do y'all?

[Cianne]

Patterson has done some pretty good things at TCU. He usually has a top ranked defense and that was when Louisville was still flying high in C-USA. He ran a power option offense if I recall.

All that matters right now is that Coach Freeze gets retained.

[Rebel Chuck]

Patterson has done some pretty good things at TCU. He usually has a top ranked defense and that was when Louisville was still flying high in C-USA. He ran a power option offense if I recall.

All that matters right now is that Coach Freeze gets retained. I agree, I would also like to see Frank Wilson stick around

[OleMissPike]

I feel like if Neuheisel goes back to the college game, he will go to UCLA. I like Mark Hudspeth from North Alabama. He has been hugely successful, has ties to Mississippi, and he's only like 35 years old. He also runs the spread.

[BAMAPERRY]

What about Larry Blakeney from Troy?

He was the bagman when Auburn was paying players during the Dye era. The NCAA would be on him like white on Rice. Troy took a chance on him when they were a lower division school. Neuheisel WANTS the OM job. It will be either him, Nutt, or Franchione.

[gudog]

Is anyone talking Norm Chow?

I think he would make a great college head coach.

[bigsexxxy]

I'd like to see Ole Miss give Paul Johnson a shot. I don't know if he can recruit(anybody help me out on this?), but you've got to like the success the guy has had throughout his coaching career. He won two I-AA titles at Georgia Southern and he's got Navy playing pretty well right now. I really wanted the guy to come to Alabama when Shula was fired, he's a hell of a coach.

[carwwest]

i like paul johnson, in fact before croom learned how to coach, he was my preference to replace croom(not any more) but people knock johnson because of the offense he runs(option option option)...he has been wanting to get into an upper tier school for a while now and has said numerous times we would throw the ball if he had a QB....i dont know if he can recruit but being a winning coach at navy has to say something since your pool of recruits are limited.....TCU's patterson i think is also a good coach....has a winning program usually and has to give up most of the best in state recruits to texas and texas tech but still competes....i think that would help him be able to recruit in mississippi but then again we are talking about ole miss so they'll probably hire a high school football coach or something....

[bigsexxxy]

i like paul johnson, in fact before croom learned how to coach, he was my preference to replace croom(not any more) but people knock johnson because of the offense he runs(option option option)...he has been wanting to get into an upper tier school for a while now and has said numerous times we would throw the ball if he had a QB....i dont know if he can recruit but being a winning coach at navy has to say something since your pool of recruits are limited.....TCU's patterson i think is also a good coach....has a winning program usually and has to give up most of the best in state recruits to texas and texas tech but still competes....i think that would help him be able to recruit in mississippi but then again we are talking about ole miss so they'll probably hire a high school football coach or something....

Johnson's knowledge of offensive systems is pretty damn good. He just runs that option at Navy because of the lack of talent. I believe that Johnson worked at Hawaii in the mid 90's so he knows a good deal about the passing game. I might be wrong, but I think Johnson's coaching career went something like this:

Early-mid 90's- Offensive coach at UK(under Mike Leach)
Offensive coordinator at Hawaii
Late 90's - Head coach at Ga. Southern, won back to back I-AA championships, one of only 4 coaches to win 50 games in their first 4 seasons at the Division I level, beat a Jim Tressel Youngstown State team to win one of those titles.

2002-present- head coach at Navy, you know the rest

The guy is a great coach, probably won't get hired at Ole Miss, but he'll make a great hire for whatever major school does eventually hire him.

[WDavE]

He was the bagman when Auburn was paying players during the Dye era. The NCAA would be on him like white on Rice. Troy took a chance on him when they were a lower division school. Neuheisel WANTS the OM job. It will be either him, Nutt, or Franchione.

I'm going to file this under the same file number as your Alabama record predictions and your right on prediction of CTT to Texas A&M.

Just for the record. File 13

If Blackney had a problem with the NCAA. He would not be coaching at any level of football. Go back and look at your former recruiting coordinators that got in trouble with the NCAA and look at what they now do for a living. I believe on of them sells cell phones. Both sued the NCAA to no avail to be able to coach.

[BAMAPERRY]

I'm going to file this under the same file number as your Alabama record predictions and your right on prediction of CTT to Texas A&M.

Just for the record. File 13

If Blackney had a problem with the NCAA. He would not be coaching at any level of football. Go back and look at your former recruiting coordinators that got in trouble with the NCAA and look at what they now do for a living. I believe on of them sells cell phones. Both sued the NCAA to no avail to be able to coach.

The NCAA says the Bama Assts. did no wrong. Just like they did with Blakeney, but they don't believe it in either case.

BACKING FOR TERRY BOWDEN: Three longtime Auburn professors and former athletic director Mike Lude say former coach Terry Bowden told them football players were being paid when he arrived in 1993, confirming taped comments by Bowden.

Auburn was on NCAA probation for improper payments to players at the time.

"He said that when he came to Auburn that there was a system in place for paying players," said Barry Burkhart, a psychology professor and former chairman of the university senate. "He said that he moved to put a stop to it, but it continued for some time and then ended."

The comments Wednesday by Burkhart and others followed reports that Bowden spoke of a widespread pay-for-play scheme involving Auburn boosters in taped comments to an Opelika-Auburn News columnist and former Auburn president William Muse.

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But even Blakeney has been less than a model of perfect behavior.

While an assistant under Pat Dye at Auburn in the late 1980s, Blakeney violated NCAA rules by relaying money from an alumnus to a player, which resulted in two years' probation for the university and permanent blemishes on Blakeney's record.

"I think it was my judgment clouded by the situation in (Auburn football player) Eric (Ramsey)'s life," Blakeney told the Atlanta Journal and Constitution. "So I did it, and it almost cost me my career."

By the time penalties were levied, Blakeney had left Auburn to become head coach at TSU. Sanctions against Blakeney included: no salary increase for two years, a one-year ban on off-campus recruiting and three-year prohibition from promotion to assistant athletics director or athletics director. Those sanctions expired about five years ago.

But Blakeney also was banned from further association with Auburn's program, for which he played in the 1960s. "That was like a kick in the gut," he said. "I was disassociated from my university and still am disassociated from my university, where I graduated and played for five years and coached for 14 years."



The Opelika-Auburn News reported Thursday it confirmed five separate meetings held by Bowden with individuals over a two-day period in April 2001 in which Bowden told of payments by boosters.

Lude, who became Auburn's athletic director in 1992 to help the university work with the NCAA in a probe of illegal payments to player Eric Ramsey, said he had no "concrete evidence" that players were paid as claimed by Bowden. But he said Bowden told him of such payments in 1999 and 2001.

Bowden did not immediately return a call Thursday from the Associated Press.

There is a four-year statute of limitations for NCAA violations, but there is an exception if the infraction is considered blatant. NCAA spokeswoman Kay Hawes said Tuesday she wouldn't comment on the specifics of the allegations concerning Bowden.