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(November 22, 2011) USM Swarmed by Scandals Events of the Last 10 Days Have Rocked 100 Year Old Institution Late on 21-Nov-2011 The Hattiesburg American reported that USM Lady Eagles basketball star Rachel Vigers has been dismissed from the women’s basketball team. The dismissal stems from Vigers’ 19-Nov-2011 arrest by Pearl River County Sheriff’s officials on an intent to distribute marijuana charge that was based on possession by Vigers of about 2 pounds of the illegal drug.
(November 22, 2011) 31st & Pearl A $20 Million Mistake? Last week’s inexplicable loss by USM to lowly Alabama-Birmingham sent the Eagles’ record to 9-2 on the season. It also cost USM its spot in all of the national top 25 polls. More than all this, however, is the likelihood that USM’s choke-job in Birmingham may end up costing C-USA at least $20 million.
(November 24, 2011) The EuStachy Code Another Look at Larry Eustachy's Destruction of USM Basketball Now in season #8, Eustachy is adding a number of new players to his Golden Eagles basketball team. These are listed in green in the table above. The table above adds seven new Golden Eagles to Larry Eustachy’s cumulative roster at USM.
(November 29, 2011) Learning from Larry? Another Look at Joye Lee-McNelis’ Destruction of USM Women’s Basketball After seven complete seasons at the helm of the University of Southern Mississippi women’s basketball program, Joye Lee-McNelis’ career USM record is a troubling 98-116 (0.458). If contests against William Carey are thrown out, that record falls to an even worse 96-116 (0.453).
(December 5, 2011) . . . breaking news . . . USM Fans Furious Over Bowl Situation HATTIESBURG – At the end of the 2011 C-USA Championship Game on 3-Dec-2011, the scoreboard read USM 49, Houston 28. With that result, USM had defeated 6th-ranked Houston, who was 12-0 on the season, and shut down UH’s Heisman Trophy candidate Case Keenum in the process.
(December 6, 2011) . . . breaking news . . . USM Sports HATTIESBURG - Following initial reports from CBS Sports, that USM Coach Larry Fedora had been offered the head coaching position at the University of North Carolina, NBC Sports has now confirmed that Fedora has accepted an offer to take the reins at North Carolina.
(December 7, 2011) . . . breaking news . . . Insiders Say Fedora Now a Tar Heel HATTIESBURG – Citing three sources close to the search for a head football coach at the University of North Carolina, the Winston-Salem Journal’s Bill Cole is reporting that USM football coach Larry Fedora has agreed to become UNC’s next head football coach. That same evening report on 6-Dec-2011 from Cole was followed up by reporters at The Hattiesburg American. Though it is not now known whether Fedora will coach the Golden Eagles in the Sheraton Hawai’i Bowl against Nevada on 24-Dec-2011, sources tell USMNEWS.net that it is likely that he will do so. They also say that it is likely that UNC’s interim head coach Everett Withers will lead the Tar Heels on 26-Dec-2011 against Missouri in the Independence Bowl.
(December 8, 2011) 31st & Pearl Notorious D.H.D. The storm of allegations of administrative cover-up swirling around the Penn State University campus regarding acts of child molestation perpetrated by former PSU football coach Jerry Sandusky provides an extreme example of just how polluted higher education administration has become in recent years. Former PSU president Graham Spanier and other high-ranking administrators in his administration appear to have covered up, for more than a decade, the dastardly acts of one of their own. Of course, this was all done to protect their reputations and their places at the public trough, key elements in their desire for a cushy lifestyle.