Ole Miss Flopping Explained

As you know from my previous post, I was pretty irritated about all the flopping performed by Ole Miss during the Wake Forest game. Not anymore.

Here’s what happened:

Some time before the beatdown last Saturday, Ole Miss learned that Wake Forest had decided to buy out next year’s game of the home-and-home series for about 1 million bucks, which is pretty strange. Why would it do that? Your guess is as good as mine. Yes, it would probably be a defeat for the chicken deacons, but so what? Is a defeat worth the 1 million dollar payout to Ole Miss? I suppose so, but I don’t understand it at all. Not even in the slightest.

When I caught coach Kiffin’s press conference yesterday, suddenly the flopping all made sense, because Kiffin was clearly irritated about the buy-out. Kiffin doesn’t show emotion at all during his conferences, so you have to know how to read him a little. He elaborated about how the buy-out was unheard of, an unspoken rule, he called it. He talked about how it throws a huge monkey wrench in the works because all the schedules have been made, some for several years, and it is pretty much impossible for Ole Miss to schedule a power-5 conference game for next year, and the SEC requires that every school play at least one power-5 non-conference game. Now it will have to get a waiver of some kind and pick up a no-name school just to fill out the twelve games, and that hurts the strength of schedule.

All because Wake Forest is scared to come to Oxford. Like my dad said, they ought to come and enjoy the Grove. It would have been fun.

Long story short: No doubt in my mind all the flopping was retaliation for the buy-out.

So, I’m cool with it now.

Hotty Toddy!