Mutt the Hoople
08-23-2014, 09:59 AM
If you take away the Vaught Aberration and Gillard Eligibility Lynching, we dominate the all-time series against Ole Miss 44-41-2, and USM 14-12-2. Now before delusional Rebel and Gelded Buzzard fans, and low-self-esteem Bulldogs attack me, look at who Johnny Vaught was:
John Vaught was a tough, hard-nosed Texan who was also an Honors Graduate of TCU, where he was an All-American playing under the likes of Dutch Meyer and Francis Schmidt. He later was an assistant under a fellow TCU grad, Ray "The Original Bear" Wolf at North Carolina. During World War II, he coached at North Carolina pre-flight school. While there, he managed to recruit Harper Davis to his team.
When he went to coach at Ole Miss after the war, he realized he needed players like Harper Davis- tough, hard-nosed kids who weren't afraid to work and didn't shy away from hard hits...in other words, Mississippi State Men. When he took over as Head Coach at Ole Miss in 1947, he realized he wasn't going to get those kind of guys from what normally went to Ole Miss (some 4-F Diddy-Got-Them-Out-Of-The-Draft Fauntleroy Prissypants IV). He then went on to bring glory to Ole Miss by these innovations:
-The Wing-T spread offense, which opened up the passing game he learned at TCU.
-Hiring a full-time Recruiting coach to foster relationships with High School Coaches and scout for the best players.
-Not playing Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, or Georgia Tech on an annual basis. This helped keep his win total up
-Getting UT-Chattanooga as a Conference Game.
-Using Wobble Davidson, former hardassed Marine War Veteran, to weed out and toughen the players their Freshman and Redshirt Year so they were ready to play by the time Vaught got a hold of them.
Texas-tough Vaught knew that the players and students not only revered him (after all, he was smarter than them- he went to TCU), but he absolutely terrified them. No other coach over there since then inspired such awe and fear. If Vaught had coached at State, he'd have won as many games but the players and students would've been as tough and less easy to intimidate, and a whole lot smarter than the Mama's Boys Vaught hung around.
The other way Ole Miss (and USM) managed to steal some wins from their all-time rivalry against The Mississippi State University was the Eligibility Lynching of Larry Gillard. Gillard was a terror on defense, wreaking havoc everywhere he went. However, he made the mistake of getting a coat at the same student discount that every other Mississippi State student got one. He was declared ineligible. However, Head Coach Bob Tyler (a loyal Johnny Vaught disciple) figured out a way to screw State without actually ruining his own coaching reputation- he kept playing Gillard instead of sitting him until his eligibility cleared or letting him move on to the pros.
PLaying an ineligible player caused State to have an "official" 27 game losing streak. Ole Miss Rebel and Mississippi Southern Gelded Buzzard fans latch onto that technicality like an Emotionally Needy Psycho Girlfriend latches onto you when you're in a room full of cheerleaders.
But in the end, it doesn't really matter- In the 21st Century The Mississippi State University owns Ole Miss (a little Plantation lingo there) and has never lost to Southern Miss.
John Vaught was a tough, hard-nosed Texan who was also an Honors Graduate of TCU, where he was an All-American playing under the likes of Dutch Meyer and Francis Schmidt. He later was an assistant under a fellow TCU grad, Ray "The Original Bear" Wolf at North Carolina. During World War II, he coached at North Carolina pre-flight school. While there, he managed to recruit Harper Davis to his team.
When he went to coach at Ole Miss after the war, he realized he needed players like Harper Davis- tough, hard-nosed kids who weren't afraid to work and didn't shy away from hard hits...in other words, Mississippi State Men. When he took over as Head Coach at Ole Miss in 1947, he realized he wasn't going to get those kind of guys from what normally went to Ole Miss (some 4-F Diddy-Got-Them-Out-Of-The-Draft Fauntleroy Prissypants IV). He then went on to bring glory to Ole Miss by these innovations:
-The Wing-T spread offense, which opened up the passing game he learned at TCU.
-Hiring a full-time Recruiting coach to foster relationships with High School Coaches and scout for the best players.
-Not playing Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, or Georgia Tech on an annual basis. This helped keep his win total up
-Getting UT-Chattanooga as a Conference Game.
-Using Wobble Davidson, former hardassed Marine War Veteran, to weed out and toughen the players their Freshman and Redshirt Year so they were ready to play by the time Vaught got a hold of them.
Texas-tough Vaught knew that the players and students not only revered him (after all, he was smarter than them- he went to TCU), but he absolutely terrified them. No other coach over there since then inspired such awe and fear. If Vaught had coached at State, he'd have won as many games but the players and students would've been as tough and less easy to intimidate, and a whole lot smarter than the Mama's Boys Vaught hung around.
The other way Ole Miss (and USM) managed to steal some wins from their all-time rivalry against The Mississippi State University was the Eligibility Lynching of Larry Gillard. Gillard was a terror on defense, wreaking havoc everywhere he went. However, he made the mistake of getting a coat at the same student discount that every other Mississippi State student got one. He was declared ineligible. However, Head Coach Bob Tyler (a loyal Johnny Vaught disciple) figured out a way to screw State without actually ruining his own coaching reputation- he kept playing Gillard instead of sitting him until his eligibility cleared or letting him move on to the pros.
PLaying an ineligible player caused State to have an "official" 27 game losing streak. Ole Miss Rebel and Mississippi Southern Gelded Buzzard fans latch onto that technicality like an Emotionally Needy Psycho Girlfriend latches onto you when you're in a room full of cheerleaders.
But in the end, it doesn't really matter- In the 21st Century The Mississippi State University owns Ole Miss (a little Plantation lingo there) and has never lost to Southern Miss.