"The truth is that your past always precedes you, and Ole Miss is an elite-level program that has not advanced to a Super Regional since 2009 (also the last time it hosted in the postseason) and is led by a coach who was given the not-so-ringing endorsement of a one-year contract extension (through 2015) after a disappointing end to 2013."

From today's CL article here: http://www.clarionledger.com/article...nclick_check=1

THAT is the big difference in beat writers for Ole Miss and MSU.

Nothing about Ole Miss baseball is elite. They called themselves elite during the 2000s because, well, that's what they do. And depressed MSU fans believed it namely because our program was floundering. They had an elite team in 2005 and an above average team in 2009. They might would have been elite had Scott Bittle not gotten hurt. That's far from an elite program. A stadium does not make you elite, ask UCLA and the countless other programs that have big success without big facilities.

Ole Hugh needs a good lesson on what the definition of elite is.