Houston Nutt does not believe rules and ethics apply to him. He has an amazing way of convincing people to buy into him and look past his mistakes and intentional misdeeds.

This is similar to his blatant breaking of NCAA rules when he took Tom Dienhart of Rivals with him on the recruiting trip to see Cotton and he and Markuson made comments about Cotton, his family and other recruits. Nutt first tried to say that he didn't break any rules, as did the Ole Miss mouthpieces, when it was blatantly obvious he did. Nutt didn't care. It was a secondary violation and he knew was breaking recruiting rules just a week before signing day.

Nutt didn't care that the SEC office repeatedly told him his brother Danny could no longer be on the sidelines. Yet there Danny was in the sidelines huddles talking to players when he was no longer an assistant coach.

Look at the number of grayshirts Nutt has had over the years where he told kids and their parents the kid had a scholarship only to go back and ask them to wait a semester to enroll or in a couple of cases he asked the family to pay the kids college expenses because he had grossly oversigned.

I posted the other day some of the drug issues his Arkansas players had.

This is the type of ethics you get Ole Miss when you hire a coach with the baggage Nutt brings. Your chancellor and AD had better be careful as Nutt got them removed from their jobs at his last stop. To get a legend like Broyles removed with his connections and power took some pretty bad ethical behavior. And you still hired him anyway because he could take Orgeron's players and get you mediocre seasons.

This Masoli thing is the latest in a long list. The Ole Miss administration is telling Houston that once again, he can ignore rules and decency.

Is that his mug shot?

Ole Miss War Cry: THUG IT UUUUPPPPPPP!!!!!!!

You guys are becoming a popular destination for other teams' castoff Quarterbacks. Maybe the you all should be called the Ole Miss Recyclers. It WAY more PC than Rebels. But I guess rebels, criminals, convicts, etc. work as well.

Mikefromms: For years in local high schools it's win at any cost. Sports has always been ahead of education and a good ballplayer can get away with anything. Those who excell academically are ignored or made fun of until they get out in the "real world" and then the ballplayers who had it handed to them work for the ones who studied and made something of themselves.

I've been told that there's lots of money spent on gambling on high school and college ball games where the gamblers can pay off a player who is good enough to control the score. I don't know this, but was told that. Anybody else out there heard this? It'd be interesting to find out.

I have worked places that one dui would keep you from being hired. How in the world does Ole Miss justify bringing in a guy who was just released from another major university for breaking and entering, stealing (call it what you want) and caught with drugs just last year? Isn't this like rewarding bad behavior? What message does this send to kids? It seems that if you are good enough at sports, you can get away with crime. Maybe I will feel differently if they have another 9 win season. I don't know.

ha, Jackie was good at it! I'm a State fan too. We also had some winning seasons, then look what happened. We were put on probation, sucked for 10 years now....you UM'ers better hope you arent taking this path.

Hey Houston Nutt,

If you want to recruit criminals, give ole Jackie Sherrill a call. He was the absolute best at it!

Daily Journal,

For the love of God, hire a online editor/proofreader. "Hosuton Nutt"???

Did Jerry Jones take over the Ole Miss football program in the past few days?

This sounds like a classless, let's win at all costs, move that he would make. But then HE is the owner of a FOR PROFIT PROFESSIONAL football team and not an institute of higher learning.

This coupled with the idiotic handling of the mascot issue makes Ole Miss look "REAL" good!!

Stay classy Ole Miss.

Did you expect anything different?