Just wait until recruiting season... I'm already dreading that **** throwing contest.
The way another writer explained it to me was Talty is a nice but young and naive guy who had NO connections with Mississippi. The only thing he knew when he moved here was Ole Miss, so he figured that was the head honcho.
Can't be too mad about that. The general population of the US thinks we have one team and it's either a maroon Ole Miss team or a blue and red Ole Miss team. Everyone knows their name because it's easy to remember a school from Mississippi named "Ole Miss" and they're constantly in the news for something negative and they'll always be famous for denying a black guy admission into their university and JFK and RFK having to ship the military to occupy their campus. MSU has kept a low profile since the dawn of time. Our greatest social victory, sneaking out of the state to play a basketball game against black players, was even low key (by design).
I guess you could get mad at Talty for not educating himself when he showed up and you could get mad at CL for hiring a guy who had no clue about Mississippi, but apparently Talty has figured out how to report without pissing off either side. The same thing happened with Marcello.
Bonner is great because he's done this at a different level before. I think he was a sports journalist for high school or whatever in Iowa. He has experience. CL was Marcello's and Talty's first real job.
