Nutt Bolts For Mission Mississippi

Respect is not assumed. Respect is earned. Achievement, effort, strength, and success inspire respect. Sadly, these elements are fleeting. They are predatory. They are temporary. Despite the aforesaid, people crave respect. They crave the admiration. They crave the aura. Thus, they subject their dignity.

On November 24, Mississippi fired Coach Ed Orgeron. On November 26, Arkansas Coach Houston Nutt resigned. On November 27, Nutt supplanted Orgeron. “It's human nature not to like change, but I think in this case, change is going to be a good thing,” Mississippi fullback Jason Cook said. “Especially as a player, you get excited when a guy gets hired like coach Nutt. He's more than proven in the SEC and proven as a coach that he can take talent and work with it. We're very excited.”

During his Arkansas tenure, Nutt logged a 75-48 ledger. He garnered two SEC Western Division championships (0-2). He secured eight bowl appearances (2-5). Within the Southeastern Conference, Nutt amassed a 45-38 record.

During his Mississippi tenure, Orgeron chalked a 10-25 record. Within the Southeastern Conference, he was an apocryphal 3-21. “I told him that the chasm had grown too deep to go forward into next year,” Ole Miss Athletic Director Pete Boone said. “He understood that, accepted it and was as strong a man as you can imagine Coach O being. It was a very gentlemanly conversation that we had.”

From 1951-1963, Mississippi recorded thirteen consecutive winning seasons. Currently, they are broken. They are amateur. Nutt’s mission is simple. Restore the Rebels. Transform Arkansas into Mississippi.