- Wear the Black and Gold with pride.
- Support our 360 student-athletes by attending our athletics events.
- Buy season tickets to our events and encourage your friends/neighbors to join you;
- Become a member of the Eagle Club; and
- Speak optimistically about this great university - we have a very bright future.
We have a men’s and women’s basketball doubleheader on Tuesday, December 11, and a marquee women’s basketball game next Friday, December 14, against MSUX. I look forward to seeing at Reed Green Coliseum!
Can't argue with this.
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Self absorption in their little encounter group, along with elements of condescension, sanctimony, trite paperback management jargon and myopia - Gilbert, Jr.
All the things that drove me away... I'd probably still be running if it weren't for front license plate requirements and gun restrictions.
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Come on......you already violated like three of his requests outlined in paragraph number 4........and probably some of paragraph 5..........
]]>Golden Eagle Fans,
My family and I are thrilled to be home in the great state of Mississippi! The Southern Miss community has warmly welcomed us, and we are excited to contribute to the University and to Hattiesburg.
Today, the University celebrated Fall commencement. Over the course of two ceremonies, twenty-one student-athletes received their degrees while five enjoyed their walk across the stage after completing their course work last semester. As a reminder, we are in the education business, and all of our new graduates exemplify the spirit of Southern Miss. We are proud, indeed!
I look forward to working with you to establish a way forward for Southern Miss athletics. We have a significant opportunity to clearly define who we are as a department and to prepare and execute a roadmap for future success. Our student-athletes and staff ask for your unwavering support during this time of introspection and opportunity. Throughout, we will be diligent in our efforts to educate our student-athletes, to enhance the competitiveness of our sports programs, and to engage our community. We are in this together!
As we create a better Southern Miss athletics department, I have provided our staff with four expectations by which to abide, and I ask that you honor them, too.
- Be positive. (This is a behavior we can control.)
- Communicate. (It is remarkable what we can accomplish when we talk to each other.)
- Help each other. (There is strength in numbers.)
- Possess a growth mindset. (We will be open to change and development).
We cannot become a better version of Southern Miss athletics without our fans. Here are several ways you can support us:
- Wear the Black and Gold with pride.
- Support our 360 student-athletes by attending our athletics events.
- Buy season tickets to our events and encourage your friends/neighbors to join you;
- Become a member of the Eagle Club; and
- Speak optimistically about this great university - we have a very bright future.
We have a men’s and women’s basketball doubleheader on Tuesday, December 11, and a marquee women’s basketball game next Friday, December 14, against Mississippi State. I look forward to seeing at Reed Green Coliseum!
To The Top,
Jeff Mitchell
Interim Director of Athletics
Mao Tse-gore wrote:AndreWhere wrote:There was a path forward for USM. It was called the AAC, and the opening was something like 5 or 6 years ago. "We" decided we'd rather keep shooting marbles with the kiddos because growing up is scary.
Would love to know the truth. What I recall was that only large population centers/TV markets were sought.
Ockham's razor.
They kicked the poorest school out of their peer group? I can buy that. That's a pretty simple explanation.
]]>AndreWhere wrote:There was a path forward for USM. It was called the AAC, and the opening was something like 5 or 6 years ago. "We" decided we'd rather keep shooting marbles with the kiddos because growing up is scary.
Would love to know the truth. What I recall was that only large population centers/TV markets were sought.
Ockham's razor.
]]>AndreWhere wrote:There was a path forward for USM. It was called the AAC, and the opening was something like 5 or 6 years ago. "We" decided we'd rather keep shooting marbles with the kiddos because growing up is scary.
Would love to know the truth. What I recall was that only large population centers/TV markets were sought.
There are many gradations to the truth between "they didn't want us" and "we didn't want them." A real athletic conference has things like exit fees and revenue sharing. It's a business contract to be negotiated. All we know is that the AAC and USM never signed one.
We can speculate about how and why. But there was never any hope of USM sports remaining what they were in 2011-2012 after USM got left behind in CUSA. I said it then, and over time others have come to realize it.
The other thing that should be obvious in retrospect is the importance of investing in your coaches. On 12/1/2011, USM's head coaches were Larry Fedora and Larry Eustachy. A year later, they were Donnie Tyndall and you-know-who, and suddenly no one wanted to touch USM with a 10' pole.
Not exactly pouring a strong foundation there, poor-mouthing be damned.
]]>There was a path forward for USM. It was called the AAC, and the opening was something like 5 or 6 years ago. "We" decided we'd rather keep shooting marbles with the kiddos because growing up is scary.
Would love to know the truth. What I recall was that only large population centers/TV markets were sought.
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