Hotty Toddy It's Turn Back The Clock Week at Ole Miss.

Reminds me of that old SNL skit, the 1992 Presidential Debate with the late/great Phil Hartman as Bill Clinton.

"Arkansas has made great strides fighting illiteracy, and we've passed Mississippi, so look out Alabama, we're right up on your tail!"

 

Parts of it are. On most days, Oxford and Ole Miss' campus are glorious. On most days, I'm a proud alum — most.

 

Maker's Mark not Crown.

 

The coach walked the tightrope pretty well, but he did make one claim that bears checking. Did this sort of thing -- racial epithets directed at POTUS -- really occur on other campuses? I haven't seen that, but I may have missed it.

 

Hattiesburg in June are pretty fucking magical. Especially on top of the dorm buildings.

 

He's definintely wrong about that. We all know that every single racist college student in America attends Ole Miss...

 

I'm not claiming racism is the exclusive province of Ole Miss or whatever that place wants to call itself. I'm saying that I'd like to know if there are any known incidents of such public displays of contempt at any other school. Because that's what Freeze was saying: That the world knows of several others and that they haven't been publicized. It's pretty well established that you can't do that sort of thing (public protest, yelling epithets) for any longer than 30 seconds without somebody capturing the moment for posterity.

 

Pics or GTFO.

 

If only I had a cell phone with a camera in those days... Jeebus, life as a 15-year-old was fantastic.

 

Insert pickle in tuna sandwich joke here.

 

When I covered a game in Hattiesburg several years back the thing that struck me was every alum there had an insanely hot wife. The called the stadium the Rock. I think of it as Milf Island.

Mississippi is such an interesting state. It simultaneously represents the best and worst of this country.