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Protesters: First Charlottesville, now Oxford GRACE MARION
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Two groups that participated in the 2016 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, have organized a protest in Oxford on February 23. The rally in Charlottesville left three dead, 35 injured and the nation in a state of racial, social and political turbulence.
Members of the Confederate 901 and the Hiwaymen, a self proclaimed patriot group, are protesting removal of the Confederate flag and Colonel Reb from football games, the removal of the state flag on campus and the creation of historical contextualization plaques on campus among other things. “We’re taking a stand for Ole Miss values such as the Confederate monument and
the Mississippi state flag,” said Billy Sessions, who founded Confederate 901 and attended the Charlottesville rally. He is not an Ole Miss alumnus or a parent of an Ole Miss student. In January, the city of Oxford approved the groups’ permit to have the protest, according to Sessions. The Oxford mayor and the aldermen who represent districts through which protesters
plan to march have not yet responded to inquiries regarding the permit approval. It is unclear whether they were aware of the groups’ presence in Charlottesville. Despite the violence that occurred during the event in Charlottesville, the organizers of the protest don’t think students should be worried about their presence. “There’s not going be any violence,” Sessions
said. “If (counter-protesters) don’t bring any violence, there won’t be any.” Although Confederate 901 has made several Facebook posts discouraging attendees from violence, some students think that their presence on campus is still a threat. “It is kind of scary to see something that close to you,
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Sports, memes and disappointment
Meet the Ole Miss Twitter community
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Twitter is like the open mic night at the comedy club, except nobody can actually take the mic away from you.” David Case University of Mississippi School of Law professor and distinguished lecturer
David Case has a base of 2,314 Twitter followers.
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Once pasted across the student union’s walls and forever etched into Ole Miss history, 1932 Ole Miss graduate Frank Everett’s words, “The university is respected, but Ole Miss is loved. The university gives a diploma and regretfully terminates tenure, but one never graduates from Ole Miss,” are timeless. You truly don’t ever graduate from Ole Miss, especially if you live long enough to tweet about it. The Ole Miss Twitter community is an enigmatic, self-deprecating coterie of alumni who fire off tweets — mostly about Ole
Miss sports — at an immeasurably high rate. But don’t think of Ole Miss Twitter like Facebook or Instagram. Family pictures or recollections of college events aren’t used as currency in this particular atmosphere. And as for the rules of Ole Miss Twitter, they’re unwritten. This online community is a decentralized web of alumni, varying in age, profession and level of Ole Miss interest. It’s defined solely by those who shoulder the burden of professing digital adulation for their alma mater. David Case is a professor in the University of Mississippi School of Law. He graduated from Ole Miss in 1985 and holds
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degrees from the the University of Mississippi School of Law, Columbia University and Vanderbilt University. He’s also the consummate Ole Miss sports fan and one of many Ole Miss Twitter celebrities. “Twitter is like the open mic night at the comedy club, except nobody can actually take the mic away from you,” Case said. He tweets about whatever Ole Miss sport is in season, Ariana Grande and his affinity for the much-chagrined former mascot Rebel the Black Bear. His tweets are inspired by William Faulkner, who would have been a must-follow had Twitter existed in his prime. “I’ve always been a fan of
Faulkner’s stream of consciousness approach to telling stories,” Case said. “The 280 character limit gives you some room to kind of tell a story in an indirect way.” For Case, Twitter has served a far greater purpose than memes and riffs about Ole Miss sports. He’s amassed a considerable following on the site and has forged relationships with his online friends along the way. “I’ve become friends with people that I’ve met because of Ole Miss Twitter that I would have never had any reason to interact with,” Case said. “You don’t have to wait for alumni meetings
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shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that the site behind the revelation of the Northam scandal has GOP operatives.” The fact that the revelations came from a right-wing news outlet doesn’t make them any less true, and the fact that the GOP benefitted from them should be irrelevant. It would be entirely different if the allegations were unfounded, but they were supported with proof. Suggesting otherwise amounts to nothing more than conspiracy. After all, liberal media outlets have no problem reporting on various gaffes and missteps made by conservative politicians. Nobody in power is above criticism, regardless of what they believe. Are we only supposed to care about vile actions if they were
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“Between two parties, we must choose the lesser evil” isn’t a promising start to a piece condemning divisive action. My issue with the article lies neither with the writer’s condemnation of the Smollett assault nor with her condemnation of racism exhibited by prominent politicians. It is with the conclusion that she presents. She claims that readers (voters) must choose the “lesser evil,” which happens to be the party that she identifies with. She insinuates that the GOP is the greater evil but doesn’t offer much evidence to back this up. Patton-Bey states, “It
committed by somebody we disagree with politically? Patton-Bey goes on to accuse Big League Politics, and thus the GOP, of using “divide and conquer” tactics. It is baffling to me how the left hasn’t realized that labeling political opponents “evil” is exactly the type of thing that got Trump elected. She states, “Between now and November 2020, we will probably be seeing a lot more scandals like the one in Virginia, in addition to the surfacing of sexual assault allegations against Democratic lawmakers. The right’s plan is to cast the Democrats as an equally racist and sexist bunch.” Unless she is suggesting that Democrats are totally incapable of sexual assault and racism, I question why
this is even remotely a bad thing. The beauty of the #MeToo movement is that it is all about uncovering the truth in politics and not pushing an agenda. Vile behavior is reprehensible whether or not you are wearing a red or blue hat, and being a member of the party of social justice doesn’t exempt you from that same justice. I understand the message the writer was going for, but unfortunately, the article comes off as nothing more than damage control after the loss of the moral high ground that is so essential to liberal politics. Benton Dodd is a junior political science major from Nashville.
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Josh Baker asks an important question: “Who does removing the statue even help?” On Oct. 1, 2013, audience members jeered, mocked, and shouted homophobic slurs at actors during a campus performance of “The Laramie Project” — a play about the murder of a young gay student named Matthew Shepard at the University of Wyoming. In February 2014, two Ole Miss students named Austin Reed Edenfield and Graeme Phillip Harris draped a noose and the former state flag of
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Georgia around the statue of James Meredith. The flag they used featured the Confederate battle emblem, much like our current state flag, which led to its eventually being abandoned by Georgians in a 2003 referendum. On Oct. 16, 2015, students staged a peaceful protest to request the removal of the state flag of Mississippi from campus. They were met with counter-protesters from the Ku Klux Klan and the League of the South, two of whom came armed with guns. Gay students, black students and frankly any student who wants to live free from bigotry: these are the people who are helped
by removing symbols of hatred and racism like the Confederate statue. These events, as well as the everyday harassment that students on campus suffer through slurs and insults, are fostered by an atmosphere that says these things are okay. Symbols have power. When bigots look around this campus, they see things that confirm to them that what they are doing is acceptable, or at least not that bad. There are buildings named after white supremacists like L.Q.C. Lamar, battle flags of the Confederate army billowing in the Grove on game days and a monument “To Our Confederate Dead” memorializing their sacrifice
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in defending the inhumane and evil institution of slavery. In order to build a university that is respected by all, that is worthy of its motto “pro scientia et sapientia” and that improves the lives of its members and the people of Mississippi, we must build a campus free from intolerance. In order to build a campus that is free from intolerance, there are many things we must do. One of the things we must do is remove the Confederate statue. James Slaughter is a senior economics and mathematics major from Biloxi.
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THE LOVE ISSUE What does it mean for two people to get engaged at a time when most of their peers feel like their “real lives” haven’t begun? Is it more valuable to be single or dating on a Southern campus like Ole Miss’s? Read on to find some possible answers to these questions in our cover story by Kassidy Desnoyer and Bella St. Amant’s column on page 5. On page 4, Zach Hollingsworth suggests romantic movies you’ve probably not seen yet. Liam Nieman Arts & Culture Editor
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While some college students feel like their lives haven’t even started, others find themselves taking huge steps toward their futures, including getting engaged. With many college engagements happening over winter break, social media seems to be buzzing with proposal pictures and announcements. Being engaged or married in college makes for a different lifestyle, bringing both highs and lows. It can be difficult to balance the emotional and financial responsibilities of commitment with classes, but having a spouse around can mean there is someone to help and support you. Both in the midst of their senior year, Joey McPherson proposed to Taylor Metz in the fall. McPherson, a managerial finance major, and Metz, a marketing and corporate relations major, both knew that they wanted to get married young if they found that special someone. The two were old friends from Southaven, but after they ran into each other at Walmart while buying dorm decorations, Metz said, they became inseparable. McPherson and Metz are set to wed this August, on a significant day in their relationship. “We booked our wedding date (for) the same day we both started classes together at Ole Miss freshman year, which makes it even more special,” Metz said. Metz also explained that there are many benefits to getting engaged while still in college. “I wouldn’t have made it through college without (Joey),” Metz said. “Having someone with you who understands everything you’ve been through and everything you hope to accomplish makes that process less stressful.” Peyton Billington, who went to school in Indiana to be a physical therapy assistant and now works in Oxford, also recently proposed to his girlfriend of six years, senior biology major Addie Keller. Billington acknowledged that, though he sees benefits for his relationship, there are different
pros and cons for every couple. “In some ways, there are benefits to getting married young, but I believe every situation is very different,” Billington said. “For us, this felt like the right step in furthering our relationship after six years.” Billington and Keller met during her freshman year of high school and have been together since then. Keller said that taking the next steps just seemed right. “Once I left for college, our time apart made it even more clear that I wanted to take the next steps with him by my side,” Keller said. Keller admitted she didn’t expect to be engaged so young, but that was all before she met Billington. She said her family and friends have been supportive and have said they can’t wait to see her bright future. “I want to go to medical school, and I always knew that it would take a lot of years of hard focus, so, truthfully, I thought I wouldn’t get married until after that,” Keller said. “Once we started dating, I knew I wanted to marry him, and I definitely didn’t want to wait until after medical school.” Knowing that Ole Miss was an important part of Keller’s life ever since he introduced her to the school while attending a baseball camp, Billington proposed to Keller in Oxford in December. Keller said the Ole Miss community has always been a special aspect of their relationship. “He proposed to me on Dec. 8 on the Square, overlooking the Christmas lights. I was so shocked, and it could not have been more perfect,” Keller said. “He had an engagement party planned with my friends at The Graduate after we had an awesome dinner together. The surprises kept coming, and it was truly the best day of my life.” The impact of getting married while in college can be financial, emotional and social, but it’s possible to be happy and fulfilled, even with the stresses that come with being married while trying to attend classes and meet responsibilities.
Peyton Billington and Addie Keller.
Taylor Metz and Joey McPherson.
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Mix up your Valentine’s Day with these diverse romantic movies Valentine’s Day is upon us, and whether you’re alone, with friends or with that special someone, you can rest assured that there’s always going to be one soul mate waiting for you at home: Netflix. Yes, Netflix, the streaming giant that somehow still finds the time to cuddle up with you and you alone through the best of times and the worst of times. This Valentine’s Day, why not spice up your regular binge of Jim and Pam kissing in the rain and try out some romantic hits that you hopefully haven’t seen before?
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“Her” A man falls in love with Siri. No, really. Well, it’s a bit more complicated than that. And a bit more dramatic. And, honestly, far more touching than you could ever imagine. Essentially, in the near future, smartphone AIs have become so advanced that they sound, talk and act human. Throw in a lonely, recently divorced man played by a very mustachioed Joaquin Phoenix, warm-looking cinematography and a soundtrack featuring songs by Arcade Fire, and you’ve got a romance that will continue to surprise you.
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“Punch-Drunk Love” Okay, I know I’m cheating by putting two of my personal favorites on here, but I promise that this one is fantastic as well. “Punch-Drunk Love” features Adam Sandler as a serious dramatic actor. No, really. Of course that doesn’t mean the movie isn’t funny. It’s the oddly hilarious story of a man who exploits a loophole with pudding cups to earn millions of frequent flyer miles, gets involved with the mafia after calling a phone sex line and manages to fall in love in spite of his crippling social anxiety.
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“Blue is the Warmest Color”
Hailed as one of the best LGBTQ romance films of the 21st century, “Blue” is noted for its raw, unflinching portrayal of two women, Emma (Léa Seydoux) and Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos), as they explore their relationships with each other and the society around them. Although deemed controversial by some for its occasionally graphic content, the film deserves a watch.
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Ole Miss’s pressure to date is a Southern thing BELLA ST. AMANT
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I’ve spent my whole young adult life single. It’s something I lamented in high school but didn’t feel really uncomfortable or insecure about until college. The external pressure doesn’t come from my parents — they met in their midtwenties and didn’t end up married until more than a decade later. I know there are other matters that should demand my attention and assure me that finding a boyfriend doesn’t need to be a priority right now. I can barely finish all my work, spend time with my friends, eat three square meals and get a reasonable night’s sleep, let alone search for a boyfriend. Although I haven’t felt a creeping pressure to exit my four years at Ole Miss with an engagement ring, I’ve felt a sense of inadequacy for going through my college experiences without a boyfriend. I’ve also discovered I’m not the only one. The average age to get married in the American South in this decade is much closer to thirty than our parents or grandparents could have imagined, but why is it that Ole Miss students still feel the pressure to couple up? Are only heterosexual girls feeling this way? Do personal experiences or role models play a role in thwarting it? In a world where young people eschew labels for the sake of keeping things noncommittal and casual sex is accessible from the screen of your smartphone, does the pressure to be coupled up say more about a fear of being alone than a hunt to
find a husband or a wife? I don’t have all the answers to these questions, but I do have some anecdotes from friends’ and acquaintances’ personal dating experiences at Ole Miss. When I polled my Instagram followers, asking if they felt a pressure to be coupled up, 147 people responded. Of these responses, 65 percent of people voted “Yes” while 35 percent voted “No.” It seems that I may have accidentally alluded exclusively to dating that ends in marriage, but my question did manage to give me insight into the greater trends of who was voting “No” and who was voting “Yes.” What surprised me was that roughly half of the naysayers were people in relationships. Sophomore international studies major Madeline Cook cites her concern that “two people change so much in this time in our lives. We shouldn’t put this pressure on a soul mate fitting a ‘you’ that’s constantly in flux.” In a similar vein, junior integrated marketing communications major Parker Blaylock said that, to him, college is only the starting place for the rest of his life. Even with their refusal to be affected by it, most of those who voted “No” acknowledged that a social pressure to have a significant other exists. When speaking to a few of the 95 people who voted “Yes,” I got varied responses for why finding someone in college was something that feels integral to an Ole Miss experience. Most of these people said they felt a desire to be seen as well-rounded and not be left out of Greek
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life’s slew of date parties. “Most of the societal pressure to be in a relationship comes from Greek life at Ole Miss, in my opinion,” said junior international studies major Rachel Culp, who is currently in a relationship. “At nearly every single social function you attend, you are expected to come and have a good time with a date. I have seen girls spend entire days brainstorming who to ask or who not to ask.” Some idolize the idea of finding a soul mate here at Ole Miss, but others refer to the lack of something in the middle. In a culture that normalizes irregular hookups and serious long-term relationships, there is a disappearance of the casual dating that exists between the two. The revelations from these conversations have pointed me toward rethinking dating culture at Ole Miss.
There is much more going on here than the quest for a ring by spring of senior year. But the pressure to date, for reasons that vary from finding a future spouse to getting extended family members off your back at holiday gatherings, is not unique to Ole Miss. Growing up in another Southern college town showed me that, in circles of Greek life across the South, the pressure to find the perfect formal date transforms into something bigger. The pressure to be in a relationship harkens back to the past of Ole Miss, a time when many more young women came to Ole Miss in search of graduating with a bachelor’s degree and a husband. Southern college towns have always served as social centers — the places to go to meet lifelong friends, business partners and a spouse before moving back home.
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continued from page 1 especially on a college campus where everything could break loose because you don’t know who’s really supporting them and who’s against them,” freshman accounting major Sha’Cori Ruffin said. Students Against Social Injustice (SASI), which held a protest calling for the removal of the confederate statue on campus in November 2018, has also expressed concerns about safety at the event. “The Mississippi Stands Rally poses an imminent threat to students on campus, as both planners for this event have encouraged their followers to bring weapons to other events in the past, and have stated that they will ‘be vigilant’ and do ‘what the law will not do for them,’ and that our existence as a student organization is a threat that protectors of Confederate ideals will ‘no longer tolerate,’” read an official SASI statement released on January 16. The university released a
statement yesterday saying it has engaged with the appropriate authorities to maintain a safe environment for the community. Organizers of the protest said they are also working with law enforcement in the area. “These are not university-sponsored events,” the university statement read. “Our institutional commitment to free speech and the legal requirement to protect and allow expressions of free speech require us to allow these events to take place, even when expressions of free speech are offensive.” The protest will occur at the same time as SASI’s national convention is being held on campus, but officers of SASI said they do not have plans to organize a counterprotest. The convention was planned last semester and the Confederate groups organized the protest in response to SASI’s convention, according to SASI president Quay Williams. Williams and other SASI officers said they don’t think the protest will disrupt the
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or events or to come back to campus to connect. I mean, you just open your phone, open Twitter and you’re connected with the community.” One of Case’s Twitter comrades is Alex McDaniel, former editor-in-chief of The Daily Mississippian and The Ole Miss yearbook. McDaniel is a journalist turned digital strategist and a 2010 Ole Miss graduate. Like Case, McDaniel is an Ole Miss Twitter stronghold. She’s accumulated nearly 12,000 followers, largely because of her irreverent and self-deprecating takes on the state of Ole Miss athletics. “We all try to be logical, and we all try to be funny. We’re just trying to out-funny each other,” McDaniel said. “The whole Ole Miss persona, and why I think it’s so unique, is this idea of self-deprecating humor that when good things happen we’re happy, but we make the joke K that ‘here comes the bad.’ That’s why I think (Twitter is) such a powerful thing.” Being an Ole Miss sports fan is a tortured existence, and understanding that is a prerequisite to joining this community. It’s the on-field and subsequently online personification of “one step forward, two (million) steps back.” But the anguish felt by Ole Miss fandom has built this online brand, and it has connected its members in the process. “That community of people … it’s like a friendship,” McDaniel said. “But it’s not about connecting with people you went to school with. It’s about connecting with people who understand where you come from, and that’s a powerful connection. People like that, and they like to connect with anybody who understands what they’ve gone through. What better way to do that than when screaming about Ole Miss sports on Twitter?” Aside from running a digital consulting firm, McDaniel is a also a contributing editor at Red Cup Rebellion. Known in the Twitter-verse simply as Red Cup, Red Cup Rebellion is SB Nation’s Ole Miss sports blog. They blog about Ole Miss sports, food and booze, and they do so with unapologetic wit. Formed online in 2008 but birthed on Twitter in 2009, Red Cup Rebellion is the unquestioned president of Ole Miss Twitter. Their brand is simple.
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“We’re not hard news. We like to keep it light. We cover recruiting. We’ll cover changes and coaching searches. … But we’re totally fine with taking one for the team in terms of like, ‘Yeah we suck,’ but we can turn it around and make it a joke and make it hilarious,” Red Cup podcast host and writer Zach Berry said. Berry graduated from Ole Miss in 2010. He occasionally runs the Red Cup Twitter account, which has more than 27,00 followers, and regularly interacts with some of the most notable names in college sports media. “If you were new to Twitter and wanted to follow good Ole Miss people, I’d follow Red Cup and then branch out from there,” Red Cup contributor Bunkie Perkins said. Perkins graduated from the university in 2000. Red Cup has captured fans and ostensibly built a brand by connecting with them through mutually agreed-upon terms that are focused on finding humor in the sadness of their favorite amateur college athletics teams not having success. “I use Twitter to commiserate with other Ole Miss folks and sports people in general in the ridiculousness that can be Ole Miss Athletics,” Perkins said. “My disappointment with Ole Miss Athletics manifests into stupid jokes most times. And I think that there are a lot of really funny, depressed Ole Miss fans that are on Twitter.” Ultimately, Ole Miss Twitter, bound together by perpetual despair, has fostered a community of individuals who have parlayed their online friendships and mutual alma maters into genuine camaraderie. “Twitter helps really foster a sense of community,” Red Cup Rebellion founder Bob Lynch said. “It allows us to more freely express our sort of identity with other like-minded people. … We have proven that it’s completely fine and acceptable to not take Ole Miss stuff all that seriously. It’s not life or death. In fact, it’s kind of silly.”
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No. 10 Ole Miss ready to roll into opening weekend JUSTIN DIAL
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An exit in the Oxford Regional a season ago was not the way Ole Miss head coach Mike Bianco wanted it to end. The Rebels won more than 40 games in 2018 for just the seventh time in school history and capped it off with an SEC Tournament Championship victory. It was the first time since 2006 that Ole Miss brought the tournament trophy home. They followed that up with a comeback win against St. Louis in the Oxford Regional before being bounced out of the postseason after two straight losses by a high-powered Tennessee Tech team. Starting Friday, the Rebels will have the opportunity to start fresh — a clean slate. A new season to make it to the ultimate goal of the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska. Ole Miss head coach Mike Bianco spoke at Baseball Media Day on Tuesday, when he revealed what the starting pitching rotation and the batting lineup will be for the first series against Wright State. Bianco lost all three weekend starters from a season ago, which includes first-round MLB Draft pick Ryan Rolison, Brady Feigl and James McArthur. Rolison was selected by the
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Ole Miss infielder Jacob Adams throws to third base on Saturday, Feb. 9, during the final scrimmage before baseball season begins this Friday. Colorado Rockies with the No. 22 overall pick. “We lost the three starters from last year,” Bianco said. “So that’s probably the biggest question mark (for our team).” Junior Will Ethridge will get the start on Friday night, followed by junior lefty Zack Phillips and freshman Gunner Hoglund on Saturday and Sunday. “Will’s a junior right-hander that has pitched in the bullpen for most of his career,” Bianco said. “I don’t even want to say arguably — I don’t think left a doubt that he
pitched better than anybody on our staff from the first intrasquad to last weekend.” Hoglund, a Hudson, Florida native, will be the first freshman pitcher to start a game for Bianco since 2003. “(Hoglund) is a big power right-hander who turned down the (MLB) Draft by the Milwaukee Brewers after being drafted in the first round to show up on this campus,” Bianco said. “(He’s) probably the big, marquee name from that recruiting class that entered campus last fall.”
As expected, preseason All-American Parker Caracci will be the closer for the Rebels. It may come to a surprise to some that junior Houston Roth didn’t crack the weekend rotation to start the year. However, Bianco expects him to play a major role on the team as the first arm out of the bullpen. “(Roth) will probably be the first guy out of the bullpen on Friday,” Bianco said. “Probably log a couple of innings in that game and start on Tuesday.” Unlike the pitching staff, Ole Miss’ lineup features all returning faces. Cooper Johnson will start at catcher, although Thomas Dillard is expected to see time behind the plate. “Its a position I’m pretty familiar with. It’s what I grew up playing,” Dillard said. “It’s just been more reps, knocking the rust off, but the last few weeks have gotten me a lot more comfortable (at catcher). I’m just ready to do whatever coach Bianco wants me to do - whether that’s playing outfield or catching.” Cole Zabowski at first base, Anthony Servideo at second, Grae Kessinger at shortstop and Tyler Keenan at third round out the infield. Servideo gets the opening day start, but by a small margin over Jacob Adams. “Another huge competition is Jacob Adams and Anthony (Servideo),” Bianco said. “Both
have played very similar, and very good.” In the outfield, Dillard will be holding down left field again, Ryan Olenek in center and Tim Elko in right. Chase Cockrell may see some time in the outfield and infield this season, but was tabbed as the designated hitter to start the season. “Both Cockrell and Elko, both moved to the outfield,” Bianco said. “Really, a move they wanted as much as they did. They wanted to get on the field and when you look at how talented a team we return, they knew that maybe the best opportunity was to move to the outfield.” A year ago, pitching appeared to be the Rebels strong suit and the batting order was presumably the problem heading into the year. Now the tables have completely turned - the batting order is seemingly the least of Ole Miss’ problems as the returning players produced at a relatively high level on a fairly consistent basis. “Hopefully it gives (the pitchers) a little more confidence,” Bianco said. “It allows them to be more aggressive in the (strike) zone realizing that this team is going to score runs.” Ole Miss is ranked No. 10 by D1Baseball to start the season. It isn’t unrealistic to project them as a College World Series team. Ultimately, this is baseball, where anything can happen, and the unexpected often does.
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