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"Southern Miss now boasts the nation’s longest losing streak at 18 games. It’s been 670 days since the Golden Eagles have tasted victory. It takes more than one or two bad seasons under a new coach to get that bad. It takes a few years of bad recruiting. It takes an incompetent president and an ill equipped, uninformed and incompetent athletic director, and a host of other factors.
The Golden Eagles are now stuck in a conference with UAB, Rice, UTSA, FAU, FIU, MTSU and the like — and still losing.
Meanwhile, former conference foes Tulane, East Carolina, Tulsa, SMU and others are playing in the AAC while former rival Louisville is headed to the ACC. Southern Miss bypassed purgatory and went straight to hell — and the Golden Eagles may be there for quite some time."
This all sounded just a bit too close to home for my liking. Ineptitude caused Southern Miss to become marginalized in its region. With the better conference affiliations of our regional competitors, Syracuse, Rutgers, BC, Pitt, etc. we're staring at that same possibility. Those "what it takes to get that bad" factors responsible for S. Miss's current fate are the same ones that got us where we are. Happily, our miscreant Pres and AD are long gone but we're now all standing anxiously teetering over a precipice waiting for our next hire. Our saving grace is that Susan and Warde are smarter and committed to spending for success. They know the stakes. But we've only got one shot at getting it right. I'm confident but still nervous.
The Golden Eagles are now stuck in a conference with UAB, Rice, UTSA, FAU, FIU, MTSU and the like — and still losing.
Meanwhile, former conference foes Tulane, East Carolina, Tulsa, SMU and others are playing in the AAC while former rival Louisville is headed to the ACC. Southern Miss bypassed purgatory and went straight to hell — and the Golden Eagles may be there for quite some time."
This all sounded just a bit too close to home for my liking. Ineptitude caused Southern Miss to become marginalized in its region. With the better conference affiliations of our regional competitors, Syracuse, Rutgers, BC, Pitt, etc. we're staring at that same possibility. Those "what it takes to get that bad" factors responsible for S. Miss's current fate are the same ones that got us where we are. Happily, our miscreant Pres and AD are long gone but we're now all standing anxiously teetering over a precipice waiting for our next hire. Our saving grace is that Susan and Warde are smarter and committed to spending for success. They know the stakes. But we've only got one shot at getting it right. I'm confident but still nervous.