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Tough gig.....

to utsa. Interested to see on turner.

My boss (USM alum & supposed fan) claims that there's only a certain age range of people who are excited about Jay Hopson as our head coach. I've already partially proven him wrong, since I'm 37 and don't fall in the age range that he claims is the only age group that's excited about the hire. LOL

If you will, please take my poll, so I can show him that we have people of all ages excited about this hire!

Help me prove my boss wrong! SMTTT!

allow him or expect him to bring in his own folks. It's a tough business. All of them know it. And when they get a chance to move up they do. But I hate it for our staff, watching them twist in the wind, losing their jobs and knowing that except for High School teams jobs will be scarce at this late date.
I sure hope Hopson knows what he is doing. I hope he doesn't cut off OUR nose to spite OUR face. We'll see.
Monken gave his staff a real screwing bailing like he did. The staff did yeoman's work maintaining our signing class while the vultures surrounded attempting to pick our class clean. Then BAM! Your fired! one day later.
Yes sir, it's a tough business.

of some of the negatives I've seen on this board concerning BM. I blame myself for not posting and staying in my own world when I thought he really hadn't been given a fair shot. I think he's proven that he can do the job, and I think we may have one the best AD's in the nation.

and I may make up a few things to keep it interesting.
All from one on one conversations with various USM folks.

The McNair rumor was true. Parting of ways due to his not graduating plus a few other issues (not sure he was working real hard in class but that could be a bad interpretation.

The running back going to Marshall will be a prop 48 which Marshall continues to take.
All those late signees today that we never heard of are kids with great athletic skills but who are unlikely to qualify.
We will help them find a good juco which will develop their talent and hopefully sign them in two years, if we want them. The kid from Canton probably has a chance, huge upside, strong, and we will have room for him if he qualifies. All schools do this kind of thing to build relationships with HS programs.
Woodfin is a rock star, loves Southern Miss, gets great support from BM and is excited about working with JH.
Locker room rumors: false, nothing has stopped but as we tear out we find unexpected things and have to adjust. Order of work= weight room first, lockers second, nutrition 3rd. All is well. We are enhancing a few things in the plans but fund raising for that is on track.

Crowd of 40 or so, lots of young folks which is great to see.

Am sure I forgot something and am sure did not hear 10% of the actual presentation but know that Rock Solid or someone will fill in the blanks
Well done Mobile.
I posted a few pictures on Twitter for those who use it.

In many ways this will be more interesting than signing Day . I think Hopson keeps at least half the staff. (Uninformed guess) I am sure this process is not going to move as fast we hope.

It is his Ass on the line, so will support him either way.

Woz. , oline coach , Pollard and Dline coach is my wish list. With Hop being a D coach, it may not be a fit with Duggan.

I am hearing that South Carolina decommitment JaCorey Morris may end up at Southern Miss today. He's a 3 star LB out of Grove Hill AL.

Will there be any official word on which of these guys may be blue or grey shirts? Or do we have to wait until summer and see who isn't there? I can't remember how this works.

From Alcorn State also happens to be a running backs coach. Wonder if Jay Hop would make him Co- Offensive Coordinator with Coach Woz and together implement some of the stuff that worked well at Alcorn with the things we do here,

Great news - Zac Woodfin extended for 3 years!!!

Members of 2016 Southern Miss signing class had offers from ACC, Big 12, SEC, & Big 10 programs.

The most common Power 5 team: Louisville.

They picked Southern Miss.

I'm sure it's been discussed before but a couple of questions on sign/place:

If a commit is a sign/place, does he have any say in what juco he goes to or is it decided by the coaching staff?

Does a sign/place commit have to have any loyalty to who placed him when he leaves juco or can he go anywhere with no restrictions?

Guys

I want to formally apologize for what happened with our messages boards for the past hour or so, it was a total, unmittigated failure on the part of Rivals/Yahoo!.

Thank you for staying with me and following on Twitter as we continued to break news as we could. Thank you again and I will do whatever I can to insure that next NSD we will not have this same experience.

I have a feeling this guy may end up on a Bball Scholly and play football also

Just started posting, and I'm an old f**t, so tell me what the symbol "watched" means after a post. I'll catch on some day!

Does anyone know about our kicker/punter situation? I didn't see Luke Logan from PCS on our list, but I know most schools bring K/P in as walkons.

I know there is good with the bad, but 3 of his assistants are now HCs somewhere.

Frank Wilson - UTSA.
Tony Hughes - JSU
Blake Anderson -

Now two of them also are of Ed O's tree, along with Freeze.

SMTTT

ESPN
1. UAB
2. MARSHALL
3. LA TECH

Overflow crowd

Someone needs to learn the secrets of his magic.
Just making sure his wisdom is passed along to future generations.

Altonae Alford of Bastrop, LA video of him signing to Southern Miss on Twitter! Classic sleeper at 6'4 200 and was Alcorn State commit over ULM that Hopson offered! I like it! Can't get enough good Louisiana talent! We've had good success in this area on the past! Alford looks very athletic!

Delicious.