Nutt doing what he must to win
Rick Cleveland, The Clarion-Ledger
So, I leave for vacation on the day Ole Miss is picked to finish last this fall in the Southeastern Conference Western Division, primarily because of a lack of offensive firepower.
I return on the day it is announced that Jeremiah Masoli, the multi-talented quarterback who led Oregon to the Rose Bowl last season, is walking on at Ole Miss and will play his last season of college eligibility in Oxford.
All that would be just fine and dandy if not for the fact that Masoli has a past more checkered than the end zone at Tennessee's Neyland Stadium.
Thus coach Houston Nutt's decision to take Masoli has become a national story, a national controversy. Stewart Mandel, who writes for Sports Illustrated and SI.com, went so far as to call Nutt "a certifiably dirty coach."
If that's the case then I would wager that 80 percent of Division I-A coaches need a soapy bath, because, given the same situation, they'd do the same.
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