Head to MC’s new website to see how the videos are used (yeah, I’m not happy that they removed the Clock Tower logo either… it’s at the bottom) and surf around the revamped site.
It’s pretty snazzy, y’all.
Entering as a freshman in 1999, I barely missed being on campus with West Virginia’s current head coach Dana Holgorsen. I parked next to the stadium every day while I was an employee from 2003-2005, and would give a pretty penny to spot Dana pulling weeds next to my Pontiac Grand Am.
Holgorsen had worked at Valdosta State for three years when Mississippi College called Mumme in 1996 and wanted to hire someone from his staff to help implement his Air Raid offense. Mumme recommended Holgorsen and told him to take the job, which was to coach quarterbacks, wide receivers and special teams.
When Mumme became coach at Kentucky a year later, he again took Leach with him and wanted to hire Holgorsen but never did. When Leach left the Wildcats in 1999 to become offensive coordinator at Oklahoma, he too wanted Holgorsen to go with him but couldn’t work it out.
While Mumme and Leach had hit the big time of college football, Holgorsen continued to toil in obscurity at Mississippi College and then at Wingate University, where he coached quarterbacks and wide receivers in 1999, another job for which Mumme had recommended him. At times, he wondered about his future, especially when he and the other football coaches at Mississippi College had to plant shrubs and flowers around campus during the summers.
“That was bulls**t,” Holgorsen says. “I was pissed.”
[story via FSN]
[image via GIFUMILIATION]
MC Table Tennis Team Earns 5th Place at Nationals
Mississippi College’s table tennis team wrapped up their third season on a high note with a 5th place finish in the national tournament in Wisconsin.
During the three-day tournament near Milwaukee, MC defeated schools like the University of Southern California, Virginia Tech, Minnesota, Baruch College (N.Y.) and Wisconsin.
A round up of articles from Steve Forbes’ visit to Mississippi College this week.
How many of you alumni would actually be able to pick this out of a lineup?
Listen here: MP3 | Real Audio
The businessman and one time Presidential candidate will be speaking at the Mississippi College Spring Scholarship Banquet on March 29.
You can buy tickets here.
Yeah. This just happened:
Mississippi College is looking into the arrests last week of three football players on felony drug charges, a school official said this afternoon.
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Autry is charged with possession with intent to deliver cocaine and possession with intent to deliver marijuana. Evans is charged with possession with intent to deliver cocaine, possession with intent to deliver marijuana and possession of paraphernalia. And Willis is charged with possession with intent to deliver cocaine, possession with intent to deliver marijuana and possession of less than an ounce of marijuana.
MC street cred? Up.
Photog Robby Followell has some free computer wallpapers featuring two shots from snow-covered Mississippi College last week.
Attention Jasper natives: If you get bored at work this week, take some time to contribute to the Jasper, AL and Walker High School pages on Wikipedia.
It’s amazing how much fun (and oddly, how relaxing) editing Wikipedia can be. I haven’t had time to contribute in quite some time, but it’s one of my more favorite hobbies. Yes, I’m a nerd.
Mississippi College Alumni Association will be hosting an event in Atlanta on January 30. Click here for more details.
The Mississippi College men’s basketball team moved to 10-0 after a win over Belhaven (10-2). The Choctaws are now #10 in the D3Hoops.com Top 25 poll.
Mississippi College School of Law Professor Michael McCann has a great read on the legal fallout yet to come.
A whopping 2,086 in attendance. Way to represent, Montgomery. Game photos here.
MC will play next week at Wesley College.
The Division III brackets have been set. The Choctaws will play the first round of the playoffs in Montgomery, AL. The Choctaws’ last appearance in the postseason was a 35-7 loss to Jacksonville State University in the 1991 NCAA Division II playoffs.
This should be an easy trip for those alumni in Birmingham, and a day trip for folks from the Jackson metro area.
What are we up against?
Huntingdon College does not belong to a Division III conference but received one of the nine at-large bids to the tournament as an independent. Huntingdon features an offense that leads all of Division III averaging 525.8 yards of total offense per game.
What do we have?
The Choctaws have been led this season by senior quarterback Adam Shaffer who has thrown 29 touchdowns with just eight interceptions. Shaffer has completed 200-332 passes for 2,577 yards and holds MC career records for passing yards (8,987 yards), touchdown passes (87) and pass completions (668). Shaffer is two touchdown passes shy of his own single season school record of 31 touchdown tosses set in 2007.
On the ground the Choctaws feature the ASC’s leading rusher in Steven Knight. The former Northwest Rankin High School standout has rushed for 1,181 yards this year with nine touchdowns.
Awesome. Awesome. Awesome.
When Coach Joseph came to campus he promised a championship and a run at the playoffs. It only took him 4 years to completely rebuild this program to win the most difficult conference in D-III football.
The Choctaws will find out tomorrow who they will face next weekend in the first round of the Division III playoffs. The NCAA Division III Playoff selection show will be at 2:00 p.m. on ESPNews. Their is a possibility the Choctaws could be playing at home.
After rising to #13 the D-III polls, MC fell at Homecoming, dropping to #22, only to rebound this week
The Choctaws are 7-2 overall, leading to the following sentence, which is past due:
The win puts the Choctaws one win away from the NCAA playoffs and their first ASC Championship since 1998.
Who are we playing this week? Texas Lutheran… who’s 0-9 record makes us smile.
