Before the season starts. ESPN has us in the Camellia Bowl against Liberty or Fresno St.

I can go for that…..

It was another light day with special teams and scout team work at Southern Miss.

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Pitched Columbus to a win over the Memphis Redbirds last night.

Kirk McCarty: (W, 7-3), 5 IP, 1 ER, 6 K

Southern Miss has started to scale back the practice load and announce starters in preparation for the season opener at South Alabama.

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Has there been any news regarding fan capacity limits like last year? Have they said anything about restrictions allowing only conference games? I surely don't want to miss the Bama payout.

Will this game be available on TV and, if so, what are details?

How many think the attendance at home games will increase tremendously if we start the season 2-0? I wonder if the folks that said they would not attend any more games because of the poor teams the past few years will return? I hope they do not do like last year and limit attendance to 25% of the stadium's capacity due to recent outbreaks of the Chinese virus. Have they said anything about that yet? Wouldn't it be nice to have about 28,000 for the UAB game?

On this week's episode of To The Top Talk presented by BETUS, we discuss the second scrimmage for Southern Miss Football and the release of Southern Prohibition's Gold Rush #SMTTT

Links to iTunes, Spotify and more on website: http://www.jamiearrington.net/tothetoptalk

All are welcome

I see that Lane Kiffin says the Ole Miss team and staff are 100 percent fully vaccinated. Are we? I certainly hope so! If not, perhaps this could be used as motivation. It would be foolish to have to forfeit a game because we had an outbreak.

Somehow I missed this on the day it was released.

Few position groups improved more in the last half of 2020 than the defensive line. However, new DC Austin Armstrong will be implementing a new defense. That means that some players who got better at their position towards the end of the season may be asked to fill a different role at that same position.

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Saturday morning was exactly what Will Hall wanted it to be. Good weather, physicality, and coming off largely healthy. Overall, a high note to end the first fall camp of the Hall era at Southern Miss.

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For starters, I LOVED the energy of the coaches, players, trainers and all else involved. It’s definitely something special. I arrived at 10am, so this is all I was able to observe in an hour.

Lowe was pressured many times by the DL and was force to run many times; however, when he had to throw, he threw some nice passes. There’s been plenty coverage on Trey Lowe, so I’ll focus more on the backup QB competition.

Trey Lowe was the only QB who wasn’t live.

Here’s my one observation regarding the 2nd team offense. In the case for Ty Keyes, for him to perform as well as her did behind the 2nd string Oline, Ty has some great pocket presence. A few times the pocket collapsed and he had to escape the pocket for space on the outside to throw or keep it himself and scramble.

Also, had he been working with the 1st team WRs, he would have had some of his passes caught. Keyes’ passes were hitting some of the WRs in the hands and we’re very much catchable; though they had to stretch out to catch them, they balls hit them in the hands but the. WRs could not secure the catch.

One one play, Keyes dropped back at threw a 40 yd deep ball to a WR who was running a deep post; the ball was high and perfectly thrown and hit the WR in the hands, but he couldn’t maintain control.

On a red zone play, the WRs were well covered so Keyes ran it in himself for a 10 yd TD run to the right.

On the following goal line play, Keyes was under center. He took the snap and turned to his left to handoff to the RB who wasn’t there because they ran to Keyes’ right. Keyes kept it himself up the middle for the TD. Coach Hall praised Ty when he got to the sideline for making a s

Overall, Ty Keyes show good poise and pocket awareness. He showed great command of the offense in signaling the WR to go in motion, reading the defense and throwing strong and accurate passes, both over the middle and deep.

The only criticisms I can offer is the C’s snaps were really low on some plays, causing Keyes to have to bend down to get the snap. Also, a couple of Keyes’ deep balls didn’t have as much zip because a defender was in his face when he threw. As I stated earlier, had Keyes played behind the 1st team OL and WRs, he would have had better protection and more of his passes caught.

My observations of Webb, he was in on two drives which didn’t go far. He threw two medium range passes (one to right flats and one over middle) which were incompletions. On the incompletion in the right flats, I’m not sure if the WR didn’t know the play and ran the wrong route or what. On the incompletion over the middle, Webb overthrew the WR, throwing to far ahead of him. This was all I saw from Webb.

Back to the energy of the scrimmage, I LOVE IT. Coach Hall definitely has his team just as excited about Golden Eagle football as he is. Everybody from the AD, to training staff, video crew, and assistant coaches share the same enthusiasm.

If this event in Hattiesburg is as remotely as motivating as the one I went to in Huntsville, AL a few weeks ago it will be well worth attending.

Please join us for the first 2021 Central Mississippi Eagle Club luncheon, Thursday, August 26th from 11:30 am-1:00 pm.

The featured speaker will be Jeremy McClain, Southern Miss Director of Athletics.



The luncheon and presentation will be held at the Hilton Jackson located at 1001 East County Line Road in the Diplomat Rooms. The meal will be $19 and consist of a full buffet (may be served by the Hilton staff depending on protocols).



Please note, you do not have to be an Eagle Club member to attend these luncheons. We welcome all alumni, fans and friends of the program.



Future Central Mississippi Eagle Club meetings are tentatively scheduled for September 9th and 23rd, October 7th and 21st plus November 4th and 18th.



For more information, please contact Benjie Barham (601-421-4060) or Steve Frazier (601-201-0919).

The second to last day of fall camp work was a light, helmet-only morning of practice for the Golden Eagles. The focus was largely special teams. And after a rough day yesterday, Will Hall liked the way his team responded in the non-physical aspect of the workout.

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Is Scott Berry the most successful HC in Southern Miss history?

Today was a bad day of fall camp practice for Southern Miss football. Will Hall was very explicit immediately following the end of the work out that he was not happy with the effort he saw at MM Roberts Stadium on Thursday morning. “Not a lot of energy today. Just not the energy level we want here and that’s on me as the leader of this program… Maybe we battled through defensively, on offense we gave no effort – that’s on me as the head coach.”

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