civilengineerdog
11-02-2014, 03:27 PM
He is technically correct, they are in year 3, but instead of a recap, he pens a pep talk for the faithful
http://www.clarionledger.com/story/sports/college/ole-miss/2014/11/01/kellenberger-auburn-loss-egg-bowl-now-biggest-game-left-ole-miss/18359099/
Kellenberger: Egg Bowl now biggest game left for Ole Miss
OXFORD ? There's only one game that matters anymore.
It's on Nov. 29, and it's the Egg Bowl. You may have heard of it.
Should No. 7 Ole Miss, 35-31 losers to No. 4 Auburn on Saturday, beat Mississippi State on that day, everything is forgiven. The time when Ole Miss was in the first four-team College Football Playoff bracket will be a fond memory, and Rebel fans will gleefully make their bowl trip (The Chick-fil-A Bowl? Why not. Somewhere in Florida? That sounds fine too.).
And then there's Mississippi State, and the sweet solace to this season would be a win in Oxford that could dowse the Bulldogs' own championship hopes.
The way Ole Miss lost on Saturday was particularly cruel, the kind of gut-wrenching that churns even the most hardened stomachs. There Ole Miss was, driving for a game-winning touchdown with 90 seconds remaining, and quarterback Bo Wallace found wide receiver Laquon Treadwell open at the 20 on a short screen pass. Treadwell, the No. 1 wide receiver, was breaking through tackles, determined to score on that play. And there he was, with his body in the endzone and the ball at the 1, when disaster happened. Two Auburn players collided to make the hit, trapping Treadwell. His face instantly told the story of agony and injury (a leg fracture), and what is not at all relevant in the big picture but mattered on the scoreboard was that Treadwell had fumbled the ball.
Auburn recovered it, and won the game. That's it: in a wild game with multiple lead changes. Ole Miss fumbled the ball twice inside the 5-yard line in the final seven minutes. The first one, by Wallace when he reached back to try to get one more yard, hurt. The second was a killer.
Turning point: Injury to Treadwell changed game
"When you see your young men put so much into preparing for games like tonight, and he hurt they go through ? You feel like you played well enough to win it," Freeze said.
There's a very reasonable argument to be made that Ole Miss is only in year 3 of a total (repeat, total) rebuild, and to even be anywhere is a gift and a testament to the work Freeze and his staff is putting in. But college football was not made for reasonable arguments, it was made for unreasonable people who want it all right now. They thought they had it to, when this team was 7-0 and No. 3 in the country. LSU and Auburn? Who cares. How about Florida State in the Sugar Bowl?, they said.
http://www.clarionledger.com/story/sports/college/ole-miss/2014/11/01/kellenberger-auburn-loss-egg-bowl-now-biggest-game-left-ole-miss/18359099/
Kellenberger: Egg Bowl now biggest game left for Ole Miss
OXFORD ? There's only one game that matters anymore.
It's on Nov. 29, and it's the Egg Bowl. You may have heard of it.
Should No. 7 Ole Miss, 35-31 losers to No. 4 Auburn on Saturday, beat Mississippi State on that day, everything is forgiven. The time when Ole Miss was in the first four-team College Football Playoff bracket will be a fond memory, and Rebel fans will gleefully make their bowl trip (The Chick-fil-A Bowl? Why not. Somewhere in Florida? That sounds fine too.).
And then there's Mississippi State, and the sweet solace to this season would be a win in Oxford that could dowse the Bulldogs' own championship hopes.
The way Ole Miss lost on Saturday was particularly cruel, the kind of gut-wrenching that churns even the most hardened stomachs. There Ole Miss was, driving for a game-winning touchdown with 90 seconds remaining, and quarterback Bo Wallace found wide receiver Laquon Treadwell open at the 20 on a short screen pass. Treadwell, the No. 1 wide receiver, was breaking through tackles, determined to score on that play. And there he was, with his body in the endzone and the ball at the 1, when disaster happened. Two Auburn players collided to make the hit, trapping Treadwell. His face instantly told the story of agony and injury (a leg fracture), and what is not at all relevant in the big picture but mattered on the scoreboard was that Treadwell had fumbled the ball.
Auburn recovered it, and won the game. That's it: in a wild game with multiple lead changes. Ole Miss fumbled the ball twice inside the 5-yard line in the final seven minutes. The first one, by Wallace when he reached back to try to get one more yard, hurt. The second was a killer.
Turning point: Injury to Treadwell changed game
"When you see your young men put so much into preparing for games like tonight, and he hurt they go through ? You feel like you played well enough to win it," Freeze said.
There's a very reasonable argument to be made that Ole Miss is only in year 3 of a total (repeat, total) rebuild, and to even be anywhere is a gift and a testament to the work Freeze and his staff is putting in. But college football was not made for reasonable arguments, it was made for unreasonable people who want it all right now. They thought they had it to, when this team was 7-0 and No. 3 in the country. LSU and Auburn? Who cares. How about Florida State in the Sugar Bowl?, they said.