From the Mother Ship this morning, Ole Miss athletics director Ross Bjork didn’t give his baseball coach, Mike Bianco, a “mandate” that he host a regional nex season, but the importance Bjork places on playing NCAA tournament baseball games at…
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Managing Expectations
More from the Rebel Road Trip stop in Tupelo. One of the themes for Ross Bjork and Hugh Freeze has been to manage expectations for all of athletics but primarily football. Not their own expectations but fan expectations. The Rebels…
Tupelo stop on Rebel Road Trip
Some notes from Hugh Freeze and Ross Bjork from today’s Tupelo stop on the Rebel Road Trip. The group was in Philadelphia before Tupelo, and weather conditions had them late in arriving. It was roughly noon when the RV pulled…
Tagged with: Hugh Freeze, ole miss, Rebel Road Trip, Ross Bjork, SEC
Posted in Baseball, Basketball, Football
Posted in Baseball, Basketball, Football
Wednesday Morning Update
A few thoughts on an 11-1 win for Ole Miss baseball at Arkansas State last night. … It’s the most runs the Rebels have scored since getting 11 in an 11-9 win at Florida International on March 1. Auston Bousfield,…
Tagged with: Glbert Pena, Hugh Freeze, Murphy Holloway, NFL Draft, ole miss, Rebel Road Trip, Ross Bjork, SEC
Posted in Baseball, Football
Posted in Baseball, Football
Kennedy’s new contact
Earlier today Ole Miss athletics director Ross Bjork told us he was close to an agreement with basketball coach Andy Kennedy. Just minutes ago the school made it official. The new deal raises Kennedy’s salary half a million to $1.8…
Insell Introduced
New women’s basketball coach Matt Insell was introduced this morning at the Gillom Center. He’s 30 years old and says age is just a number, not a big deal. He has grown up around women’s basketball, the son of Middle…
Is it a game or a business? It’s both
From the mother ship, today’s column on the decision Ole Miss athletics director Ross Bjork faces with his men’s basketball coach, Andy Kennedy. There’s really only one thing Andy Kennedy hasn’t accomplished at Ole Miss, and that’s making the NCAA…
Day After Observations
This is the space in which I usually write a long and rambling account of the previous day’s game. I’ll get to some of that here, but that’s really not what people want to read right now. People want to…
Players would have big say in an NIT bid
There’s a lot of basketball left on the table, and Ole Miss could very well play its way into the NCAA tournament. As Andy Kennedy says, the Rebels have shown themselves capable. They haven’t played to that capability at times…
Tuesday Morning Update
Spanning the globe on a Tuesday morning … From Birmingham, Nick Saban tells a Miami radio station that he’s “very, very happy” at Alabama and hopes he can stay “for a long, long time.” When a guy doubles up on…
Tagged with: Bret Bielema, Butch Jones, Hugh Freeze, Nick Saban, ole miss, Ross Bjork, SEC, Tommy Tuberville
Posted in Football
Posted in Football
Investing in people
From the mother ship, my column from Tuesday on Ross Bjork’s approach to the Hugh Freeze contract. I don’t believe Ole Miss is in danger of losing Hugh Freeze in this round of the coaching carousel, but I’m not convinced…
Bright future for defense if pieces fall into place
Hey, it’s never too soon to start talking about next year, is it? The Ole Miss defense has developed into a pretty solid unit against the run. The Rebels’ defense could look a lot different — in a good sort…
Tagged with: defense, Hugh Freeze, Music City Bowl, Nkemdiche, ole miss, Rebels, Ross Bjork, SEC
Posted in Football
Posted in Football
More from Bjork
Finishing up the Ross Bjork interview with comments on the bowl situation — He’s not ruling out the Music City Bowl — and a possible raise for Hugh Freeze … (How are bowl discussions going? Is it pretty solid that…
