Ball St vs Ark St on ESPN Now

[Cerebus]

Southern Miss will eventually be back. They are name brand with fantastic facilities. It's only a matter of time. GMG

I don't know. They'll win more, but don't think they will be the old "consistent top 25 contender Southern Miss." They used to be the second pic of almost every recruit that didn't go SEC in that region, but now with a ton of new startups over the last twenty years it has really hurt recruiting.

[greenminer]

I never thought of SMiss as name brand. I must have missed that era. I thought they were just a solid team that made stupid fire.

[ColoradoEagle]

The play, for those that missed it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXnOMRKKjsI

[Arkstfan]

Thompson wasn't kept because Anderson had someone he wanted to hire as DC. Love John Thompson but Gus didn't take him to Auburn and Harsin didn't take him to Boise. They both thought they could do better.

The AD is of a mind that AState has hired three hot offensive coordinators and gotten two great and one good season from them, why tinker with the settings. There was a recent article in the Washington Post that opened with AState's hire of Anderson and went on about the trend of hiring offensive minded guys and Al Groh complained that the reason there were so few defensive hires was because there were so few people with a football background working as AD's. Well our AD was an ass't football coach at Kansas, he not only played football at Arkansas State, he played defense.

Sorta neat story, if you watched the GoDaddy after the block you see the state trooper (Robert Speer) come over and hug John Thompson. The trooper was three time all-Southland Conference on defense at AState and was telling this weekend of the first time he saw Thompson at AState. Speer walked in and introduced himself and Thompson said, "1971 Forrest City vs. Jonesboro. You bloodied my nose on the first play of the game."