If you think integration had something to do with the decline of the Ole Miss football program you have been smoking the wrong kind of cigarettes.
It's true. Ole Miss has had trouble attracting black athletes with all of the rebel business. Ole Miss an LSU were big rivals from about 1956 to about 1976 when Ole Miss began to fall on hard times in football and interest waned. At the time they were the two westernmost schools in the SEC. It was a cheap train ticket up the Illinois Central when the passenger trains still ran.
Here is a good video on the LSU-Ole Miss rivalry. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dydubTsNcg :geauxtige
It will become a rivalry again when Ole Miss becomes decent. And by decent, I mean their coach not eating live animals while ripping off his shirt and selling cars at the same time.
Haha, thats not gonna happen anytime soon but Ole Miss has always played us tough, last 3 home games we had to come back against them in the 4th quarter.
Then tell why Ole Miss was good before integration and were terrible the first few years after? BC the black athletes did not want to go to Ole Miss and Ole Miss did not want them.
