I admit ignorance on the Pete Boone discussion as I have been a member on the various boards for less than a year. Plus, as I live outside the state of
Mississippi, I don't have every day interaction with Ole Miss alums. So, could someone please explain where Pete Boone got in the bad graces with the Rebel
nation? Listed bullet points would be fine. I'm sure many of you are scholars on the matter.....
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 Virgil Caine
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Explain Pete Boone's Shortcomings To Me.... |
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Posts: 186 Jun 28, 2009 1:15 PM |
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maniakE |
My take | #1 | ||
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Posts: 63 Jun 28, 2009 1:38 PM Registered Member |
The main complaint about boone is his miserly ways. He's a penny pincher at least thats what he is known publicly for doing. Also the handling of the
attempted Colonel Reb mascot change was a joke. I'm sure there are more reasons but those are 2 of his biggest flaws that are discussed.
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Skink |
I'm pretty much his only defender on here so I'll get it out of the way now: | #2 | ||
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Posts: 677 Jun 28, 2009 2:05 PM |
As of right now, Summer 2009, Ole Miss athletics are in better shape than they have been in during most of our lifetimes.
Baseball: Some of the best facilities in the nation and one game away from Omaha. SEC champs. Basketball: Probably have the best coach we could get considering our pathetic support. Warren, White, and EP will be the best perimeter in Ole Miss history next year. Football: Coming off a Cotton Bowl win, we are a consensus Top 10 team in the pre-season. And we never sold out a game last year. Boone's budget is pitifully small compared to the rest of the conference, but he gets hammered for penny-pinching. The important part of the mascot debacle was that he DID get rid of Colonel Reb, which needed to be done. Nobody in outside of Mississippi remembers the pathetic mascot search but the national perception will only get better without the plantation owner on the sideline. |
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JohnnyYuma |
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Posts: 77 Jun 28, 2009 2:06 PM |
from what I've heard, he pinches pennies on stuff like rental cars on recruiting trips, cell phones for GAs, etc, in footbal; he let the basketball team
practice before the media with buckets on the court of the Sad Pad catching rainwater pouring in through leaks; and he took the blame for scaling down the
baseball stadium renovation and the delay of same.
but most hate him for the bungle job on canning Colonel Reb. I, for one, agreed the symbol needed to go, but he sure complicated it with the ridiculous proposed replacements. for a while, I heard he and his wife didn't dare eat out in public in Oxford to avoid the berating fans. other than that, he's a prince of a guy. |
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juha luhtanen |
Uniform debacle the past ten years | #4 | ||
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Posts: 591 Jun 28, 2009 2:23 PM Registered Member |
Grass to turf and general no backbone. Painting everything red and blue is not ole miss.
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Virgil Caine |
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Posts: 187 Jun 28, 2009 2:31 PM |
I've obviously heard the numerous issues of Pete being cheap. For instance, the bus to LSU breaking down, etc. However, many people (on the Spirit)
consistently talk about disagreements between Boone and the head coaches. I've never heard of any such disagreements from reliable sources. Mainly just
sounds like hearsay, to me. Enlighten me.
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SourReb |
He's our own Captain Sobel from Easy Company | #6 | ||
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Posts: 2654 Jun 28, 2009 2:32 PM Registered Member |
He's just chickenshit.
He's great at counting beans. If running an athletic department was about counting beans, he'd be great at it. Unfortunately for him and for us, there is a lot more to running an athletic department than counting beans. He has pissed Nutt off repeatedly. He fired an intern who came to Ole Miss from Arkansas with Nutt. Boone bitched to Nutt when Nutt sent him a bill for some dry erase boards he bought for the practice fields (less than $200.00). He said we had plenty of dry erase boards in the IPF. Unfortunately, they are attached to the wall and the coaches wanted some on the field. Boone bitched to Kennedy when a staffer bought business cards and they sent Boone the bill. We already had a printing contract. Okay, that may be true, but pick your fucking battles. Couple all the chickenshit with his generally unpleasant demeanor, and you have what we have. An AD, and then an assistant AD in charge of the big three sports. There is a reason we have that now. |
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HamilReb |
One thing. | #7 | ||
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Posts: 2350 Jun 28, 2009 2:47 PM |
"The important part of the mascot debacle was that he DID get rid of Colonel Reb, which needed to be done."
Is Colonel Reb really gone? Yeah, he's not in the stadium anymore, but I still see a lot of OM apparel with him still on it. And of course the dude in the suit walking around on campus. So, did he REALLY get rid of him? edit: I don't care one way or the other on the mascot.
Enough hair of the dog
to make myself an entire rug. The Good times are kill'n me. Have one, have twenty one "one mores" Oh and it does not relent. The good times are kill'n me .- MM 
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Virgil Caine |
He wasn't gone until Auburn game this year. | #8 | ||
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Posts: 188 Jun 28, 2009 2:52 PM |
HamilReb wrote:The unofficial Colonel Reb was allowed in the stadium up until an unannounced "rule" at the Auburn game that "no masked costumes" were allowed in VHS. As far as I could tell, Colonel Reb was at every home basketball game, as well.
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Head of the Turtle |
there is no printing contact for business cards | #9 | ||
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Posts: 560 Jun 28, 2009 3:08 PM Registered Member |
And I have to agree with him on that one...why in the world do managers (that is what they were) need business cards? The Coaches have business cards, the
Coordinator of Ops has business cards, the Trainer and SID have business cards...why in the world would a manager or a even a GA need business cards?
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NYC10001 |
When you can spend a paltry $50 | #10 | ||
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Posts: 1206 Jun 28, 2009 5:52 PM Registered Member |
to make an employee puff out his chest a little and feel good about his job, it is a no brainer. That is the difference between a leader and a bean counter.
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rebelrouseri |
Well, I for one am very disappointed. The amount of bitching you hear about... | #11 | ||
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Posts: 5639 Jun 28, 2009 6:58 PM
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the man is excessive when you look at specific complaints. Sounds like "he's a cheapskate" is the chief complaint but as someone pointed out we
are probably about third to last in athletic budgets in the sec.
She can't talk!
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Roscoe |
Seriously? Uniforms? | #12 | ||
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Posts: 589 Jun 28, 2009 7:01 PM |
Boone doesn't pick out uniforms. Boone may have a lot of faults but that was a weak ass argument.
"Whenever I was a child I wondered what if my name had changed Into something more productive like Roscoe" |
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rebmus |
I have a non "cheapskate" complaint | #13 | ||
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Posts: 1471 Jun 28, 2009 7:14 PM |
Scheduling.
Last fucking minute schedule finish and we end up playing TWO Div1AA teams (or, whatever they call themselves these days). This, alone, should end all discussion. Home and home with Wyoming... Wyoming, really? I understand, and agree, with the money from 1 crap game yearly for the revenue. There's no excuse for playing two 1AA teams in a year and little reason to play home and homes with Wyoming. Boone should have balled up and givin a home and home deal to Colorado or TCU since he'd already fucked the schedule this year. Playing Colorado home and home would have been MUCH better than playing two fucking 1AA teams in the same year. a chest like that is much more important than tennis. Nobody cares about tennis. Everyone cares about boobs. ~Beatdown
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juha luhtanen |
He doesn't pick them out | #14 | ||
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Posts: 592 Jun 28, 2009 7:49 PM Registered Member |
but he can prevent these temporary coaches from fucking with them. An a.d. shouldn't just make changes, he needs to prevent them as well. If he can't
even save the uniform, then he can save shit.
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Horatio Caine |
Pete Boone didn't fire an intern. | #15 | ||
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Posts: 273 Jun 28, 2009 9:56 PM
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Karen Schiferl did.
There are plenty of things to bitch about Pete without falsifying events. I don't know about the erase boards, it could be, but Orgeron and his staff had on-the-field dry erase boards. I assume those were still there...but knowing that staff, they could have been taking the ones from the wall and carrying them to the field. 
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msbelle96 |
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Posts: 992 Jun 28, 2009 10:10 PM |
You are correct. The schedule debacle leaves no doubt that Pete Boone is a dumbass. Not to mention that when you have a coach who has done for our program what
Nutt and crew have, in one year no less, you motherfucking get along with them instead of waving your dick around trying to prove what a big man you are.
Period.
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Horatio Caine |
Didn't TCU want it at their place this year? | #17 | ||
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Posts: 275 Jun 28, 2009 10:54 PM
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We had already sold tickets for 7 home games, I think. TCU away would have been 6 home.
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olemissbydamn |
I'm just embarrassed that he is not a ninja** | #18 | ||
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Posts: 2834 Jun 29, 2009 6:20 AM Registered Member |
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Horatio Caine |
At least he can spell. | #19 | ||
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Posts: 279 Jun 29, 2009 6:25 AM
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Skink |
Point taken. It was just a student with a political axe to grind dressing up | #20 | ||
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Posts: 678 Jun 29, 2009 7:05 AM |
as Col. Reb, but you are right. Actions could have been taken sooner by Boone to get the student to stop dressing like Col. Reb.
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