Fred Smith Jr. is a 6'1 180 lb Rivals 2* DB out of Jones College. Fredrick was one of many JUCO recruits who took a visit to Southern Miss last weekend. With Southern Miss loosing starters on defense due to graduation, the DB position is one of need for the Golden Eagles. Fredrick did commit to ULM back in August, but has kept his recruitment open.

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Has it been confirmed whether he is still on the team.

Looks like Willie Taggart. Interesting hire, can recruit, but was a bad fit at FSU, did win at WKU and Oregon.

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Have we offered this kid? Just won player of the game in the National Championship game. Need a backup if Ragsdale bolts.

The Southern Miss basketball game at Texas Tech on December 16th will be a difficult one to say the least.

https://www.whas11.com/article/spor...0-57/417-3441cbdc-c52c-4644-aa55-44ccb51eb4f7

Looks like D. Nix is interviewing Tuesday to stay on at OM, but doesn't officially have a job and Paul Jackson is out of a job. Paul Jackson was one of the main reasons for the 2011 season. Would love to see those two on staff at USM. Sorry just wishful thinking.

we should have gotten a better bowl. Naw. We were lucky to get a bowl bid. We lost last two games. Teulanae lost their last 4 . . Fans dont like it but hey the players like it. I think Lets get behind them and go to texas. And if we lose, then get on the coaches ass.

Rivals have updated the list. Looks like we now have 3 three-star commits. We picked up a WR from Oak Grove yesterday.

$16.2 million/4 years, but more importantly, $5.3 million per for 10 assistants. Probably pay coordinators $1 million each and 8 assistants will split $3.3 or an average of a little over $400k each.

Merry CHRISTmas

Kevin Bickham is a Rivals 3* OLB out of Amite, La. Don't let the fact that he is a OLB fool you, this young man has the ability to play on both sides of the ball. With his size and speed he is Taylor made to come in and play that hybrid DB/LB position which in the past few seasons has been played by DQ Thomas and Picasso Nelson Jr. Big Gold Nation recently had the opportunity to sit and talk with Kevin about his recent visit to Southern Miss.

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The Bell needs to stay in Hattiesburg

http://www.bleacherbreaker.com/football/these-are-the-worst-college-football-coaches-of-all-time/7/

This just popped up as a top 40 losers...I had to look and see what I was sure would be there.

I am not 100% sure what the injury was and the bowl game is over 3 weeks from now.

I hate it even when the kid plays for an opponent.

https://www.wave3.com/2019/12/09/wkus-bassey-sidelined-remainder-season-by-knee-injury/

just finished the teleconference, took down a couple of notes for you guys....


Bowl Executive Director Brant Ringler:


USM AD Jeremy McClain


USM HC Jay Hopson


Tulane AD Troy Dannon


Tulane HC Willie Fritz




Tulane will be home, Eagles will be visitor


BR:


CUSA was going to be in

MWC was the bid, because of Hawaii getting another bowl, AAC Tulane became available

AFB: Full tribute to every branch of service.

2 regional opponents were really a key to putting this together.


JM:


This bowl checked a lot of boxes.

Geographic

Old Rival

Only college game on Sat Jan 4th

Really excited about bowl being involved heavily in the military

Not a big opportunity to make money,but more for exposure, match-up, TV, extra practice is a better value than the money we make from the bowl


JH:


Old CUSA Rivalry, upmost respect, local game.

Only game on will help recruiting

Late game date is not a big issue

Hattiesburg is a military town and this bowl is great for us.


Tulane AD Troy Dannon:


Everyone if fired up here, we have just signed a 4 year deal with Southern Miss

Tulane has only won 5 bowl games in 126 years, only 2nd time to go back to back, never won back to back bowls


WF:


Great opportunity, I feel like we are actually a better team than last year.

We ant to consistently improve and win back to back bowl games 1st time in history.

IT’s a compliment to out team that other schools are asking about my availabilty, but I have a great job at a great institution at the #1 destination city in the world.

Southern Miss has had success for a long time, don’t know much about them yet, but when I was head coach at Blinn CC, had a lot of kids go there.

Southern Miss and Tulane have a long, storied history of playing each other in all sports. For football the game turned into a rivalry that saw "The Battle For The Bell" become one of the more anticipated games of the season for both fan bases. Southern Miss leads the all time series 23-7 and the last meeting was on October 4, 2009 and saw the Golden Eagles come away with the victory, and the trophy, with a final score of 43-6.

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https://www.espn.com/college-football/scoreboard/_/group/12/year/2019/seasontype/3/week/1Not to sound like negative Nancy, but looking at the CUSA match ups..... If we can’t figure out how to beat Tulane (who was a tough out this year), I am not sure CUSA will win a bowl game this year... Maybe FIU can be Ark state. But we have a few games matched up against the AAC... Time for CUSA to show up.

Great win last night. Now let's get some revenge on N. Florida this coming Sat.

https://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/bowls/predictions


https://247sports.com/LongFormArtic...essee-Michigan-Clemson-139558803/#139558803_1


https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/28168924/college-football-bowl-projections

I see he is out for the season as per reports due to concussion/neck injury. Does anyone know how he is doing. Love that dude.

Prediction this morning...

Independence Bowl –
Projection: Miami vs. Southern Miss

One from Iowa Western JC and one from Hinds JC in the Graphic Edge Bowl.

http://www.goreivers.com/sports/fball/2019-20/releases/20191112q86bul