is ole miss making the same error AU did?....couldn't beat their instate rival so load up the slush
Your greatest success came when you didn't give a crap about what The Mississippi State University did, and instead worked hard on your own. When Allyn McKeen was ruling the State in the 1940's, you went out and got Johnny Vaught, an assistant who never had been HC before. He turned out to be a smart and innovative HC who turned the MSU-OM rivalry upside down (passing game well ahead of its time, first team with a recruiting coordinator). By working hard on your own, you had some powerhouse teams.
Since the Bob Tyler era (whose major innovation was to be the first Mississippi college to fully integrate the team), all you Rebears have been doing is working your asses off trying to make sure State doesn't get too far ahead of you. As long as you're better than State, you don't care if you're 5-7 or 6-6. However, if State gets ahead then you start throwing thousands of dollars at PI's, spreading rumor and innuendo, and threatening peoples' jobs. C'mon, you can do better than that.
You got a nice campus. You got a big stadium. You got agood practice facility. You got hot women who'll do anything for a player on scholarship. Stick with your strengths, improve your weaknesses, and don't care as much about what the competition is doing (unless the competition does something worthy of emulating, like firing all the old farts in the Athletic Department and hiring intelligent young innovative minds that move the program light-years ahead of where it was, like what The Mississippi State University did).