If Ole Miss had Urban Meyer as their head football coach, and he wanted to be MSU's head football coach, are you saying that we shouldn't hire him because the Ole Miss radio guys would talk about how our coach has ties to them?
If the guy is a good coach, we should take him. It worked for us with Bob Tyler, Joe Lee Dunn, and Melvin Smith among others. Heck, I think Dudy Noble coached a year at Ole Miss.
By all means, let them flatter themselves while we're beating the crap out of them with their old coaches.