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Chancellor announces plan for official mascot switch

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Ole Miss fans will have a new mascot to cheer with along the sidelines when the 2018 football season kicks off.

Rebel the Black Bear is headed for retirement, Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter announced Friday, giving credence and closure to a nearly decade-old student movement.

“I’m excited to announce that we will move forward

with the Landshark as the official mascot and retire Rebel the Bear,” Vitter said in a statement Friday. Vitter said Friday’s announcement served to officially retire Rebel the Black Bear. The Landshark will make its on-field debut Sept. 1, 2018, when the Rebels kick off the 2018 season with a game against Texas Tech in Houston.

Vitter sent the official letter to all faculty, staff, students and alumni a week

after more than 4,100 students voted in an Associated Student Body-sponsored poll gauging student support for the Landshark. Less than 20 percent of all students enrolled across each University of Mississippi campus voted in the poll, which showed that 81 percent of responding students supported the change to the Landshark as the school’s official mascot.

In addition to this student input, administrators met

with executive committees of alumni, faculty, staff and graduate student groups to help finalize their decision.

“After we received positive support and endorsements from these stakeholder groups, which was completed this past Thursday, we were excited to share this tremendous news with the entire Ole Miss family,” Vitter told The Daily Mississippian. “We made this decision in the same way we make all of our

decisions — in the interest of what is best for the future of our university and our students. We are focused upon moving forward with a mascot that unifies and inspires, and it is clear that over the past seven years, the Ole Miss family has chosen the Landshark and ‘Fins Up.’” Vitter wrote in his letter that Ole Miss Athletics will be responsible for “designing,

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Great 38 race benefits local charity Provost Wilkin

talks new role, teaching, service

Noel Wilkin was announced as provost of the university the end of last month. The DM recently sat down with Provost Wilkin to discuss goals for his new role, how he began his career in academia and his favorite Ole Miss memories.

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The DM: How would you describe the interview process to become provost? What emotions did you experience during the process?

Noel Wilkin: First, I am glad our institution did a national search. I think that’s the right process for an institution like ours, and our community deserves the kind of opportunity to provide input into who their provost is. As an internal candidate, it made it a little unusual that people were coming to campus, and I wanted to get away from campus so they could freely operate and I could ensure that the search was not jeopardized by me being around.

On those days, I scheduled meetings in remote locations off-campus so I wouldn’t interfere with the process. I’m happy to have the process completed, and I’m thrilled to be chosen.

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Runners competed in a 3-miler, 8-miler or half marathon during the 2017 Great 38 Race Weekend. The races started and finished on campus, with the finish line on the 38-yard line of the field in Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. The event was inspired by Chucky Mullins, the Ole Miss football player who wore No. 38. He was paralyzed during a game and later died from complications from his injuries. The event’s proceeds benefit the Roy Lee “Chucky” Mullins Memorial Scholarship Endowment, which assists Ole Miss students who have a physical disability or demonstrate exceptional financial need.

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DM: What are some of your goals as provost?

NW: I have a number of different goals, and they probably would be best categorized in the areas of teach-

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ing, research and service. The first, in the area of teaching, is to innovate and enhance our teaching strategies to remain on the cutting edge with regard to teaching innovation and innovative programs that we’re offering to students to help position them for lifelong careers. The next area is research and working with our vice chancellor for research and special programs to help him to energize our research activity.

In service, we are going to be adding energy to how we are reaching out to communities to enhance the prosperity of our state. We want to pour our collective energy and creativity and talents into the community in ways that are beneficial to them. The goals centered around that area include lots of little initiatives.

DM: Did you always envision yourself having a career in academia?

NW: I started out as a pharmacist, and in that profession, I learned a lot about interacting with people and helping people accomplish their objectives. Pharmacists

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The Landshark hand gesture is a charismatic sign that, when thrown up, brings unity and acknowledgment of our school pride to all of us. It is not covered in “legendary controversy” but is a prideful symbol that symbolizes unity and doesn’t offend anyone.

Nevertheless, some have an issue with the new mascot, saying it is “unrealis-

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I want to start by saying I am not opposed to the idea of the Landshark as SALES ACCOUNT the Ole Miss mascot. The EXECUTIVES Landshark is something Cameron Collins that is now ingrained in our Sam Dethrow football culture. It’s only Ethan Gray appropriate that this is the Kathryn Hathorne next mascot for our school.

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“Fins Up,” and it caught on across demographics.

You can continue to wear your “tradition,” because at the end of the day, that’s your freedom of expression and none of my business, but students decided by an 81 percent margin in a student government poll that the Landshark just makes sense as our mascot. With lots of conversation and a multi-day window open to vote, our campus was effectively clear on what we, as a student body, wanted.

Regardless of this evidence, tradition continues to come up in debate to justify stances on previous mascots, but I concur that our institution and its demographics were entirely different when those mascots represented us. I’m a

firm believer of “to each his own,” but we need a mascot that will unify us instead of continue to divide us.

Through it all, the Landshark continues to captivate our school and its plethora of fans. Nothing makes more sense than having something unique, not something created out of legend or a misjudged attempt to undermine the status quo, as our mascot.

Our mascot should stand for all of us so that when we travel the country (and the world), we can shout “Hotty Toddy” to one another and throw up the hand sign with it.

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tic,” but so was the Black Bear, considering there are only about 150 of those bears in existence in our state.

As a university, we must acknowledge the turbulent history of our institution and understand that any previous mascots do not and will not ever reflect our university’s path to creating a more diverse environment and upholding our standard of academic achievement.

The tradition of “Fins Up” is not something just recently thought of out of nowhere: It all goes back to the 2008 football season.

After a plethora of losses year after year, a winning season captivated fans and players alike. Linebacker Tony Fein threw up the first

to do with Ole Miss’ administration and the Associated Student Body.

Colonel Reb was taken off the sidelines of Ole Miss football games in 2003.

This was just a precursor to the change in 2010, when Ole Miss adopted the Black Bear as the official mascot.

Now, here we are, seven years later, and the administration is changing mascots yet again.

The administration just seems wishy-washy. When Ole Miss adopted the Black Bear, we still said, “I am an Ole Miss Rebel.” The field still says “Rebels” in the end zones. The Ole Miss administration didn’t back up its mascot then, and it isn’t going to do it now.

Since the Black Bear didn’t take, the administration was searching for some saving grace to make it look good after the backlash it received from students and alumni. Enter the Landshark referendum.

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I am not trying to suggest that the referendum was inspired by the administration and given to the ASB. I think it was just an idea that the ASB executives had, and the administration saw it as its chance to correct its mistake.

That being said, the Ole Miss ASB does not accurately represent the opinions of students. If you read The Daily Mississippian, you may have seen the article reporting that 81 percent of students voted “yes” for the Landshark. However, another number that many looked over was that only around 4,100 students voted.

That’s a lot of students, but it’s nowhere near a majority or even a third of students enrolled across the university’s campuses, which is 24,250 students, according to the Ole Miss website. That’s a lot more than 4,100. Now, whether this low turnout was be-

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cause of the ease of student voting or political apathy, who’s to say?

The more pressing issue is that the Ole Miss student government is more concerned with pushing its own agenda than accurately representing the wants of the student body as a whole. Yes, many had their voices heard in the referendum, but many did not.

So, will the Landshark stand the test of time as the new Ole Miss mascot?

Probably not. Will we see a new mascot in the next 10 years? I’d say we will see another mascot change in five years after this one doesn’t take.

What is it that we will continue to say to represent pride in our school? “I am an Ole Miss Rebel.”

Andrew Wildman is a sophomore integrated marketing communications from Laurel.

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NOEL WILKIN

continued from page 1 are the connection between the physician and the patient and work to ensure that the patient gets the maximum benefit. That really started my career in the direction of navigating a space where I recognized what different roles play in accomplishing various objectives. I went back and earned my Ph.D at the University of Maryland, Baltimore and was able to start my career here as a faculty member in the School of Pharmacy. Once I got into graduate school, I realized I wanted to have a career in academia, mainly because of the incredibly meaningful work that we do as an institution of higher learning. I didn’t set out in my career in academia to achieve leadership positions. My goal was to be the best faculty member I could possibly be and be the best citizen I could to the university.

DM: You’re not originally from Mississippi or the South.

Did you experience any culture shocks when you came to Ole Miss?

NW: I didn’t experience any cultural shocks in moving to Oxford. I lived in a small town just outside of Washington, D.C., in a community where we knew all of our neighbors and interacted with all of our neighbors regularly.

We volunteered, we helped the neighbors and all of the community would come together. Living in a community that really worked well together exposed me to the small-town community feel, where you get to know and interact with people.

we get students from all 50 states and, on this campus, 82 countries. What they say they love about this place is that when they come here, there are people who care about them and their success.

ed a passport where students would get an entry into the drawing for every event that they attended. Those events culminated in a festival that we hosted in the Grove on the day of the debate.

DM: What is your favorite Ole Miss memory you have from your time here?

That night, everyone sat on lawn chairs, and you could hear people cheering for different candidates. I watched the debate sitting in the Grove with 15,000 people, experiencing the culmination of all of this energy and activity around the debate, which brought our community together.

NW: I would probably say the presidential debate that I had the opportunity to work on the steering committee for in 2008. My role in that was to help think through the issues and to handle the academic debate-related activities for our campus. We knew that we would only have access to about 100 tickets to get into the debate, so the only value would be to host events that made the debate real for the rest of our community.

DM: What are some of your favorite things about Ole Miss?

NW: I would say that one of the things that I enjoy about this community of scholars is the passion that people have for our mission and what we do. People are passionate about their research and about making a difference and working with others to accomplish those goals. Part of that is the deep caring for the success of students and helping students in various objectives. We are predominantly a resident school, yet

We came up with 90 activities and events, and the issues they covered were so diverse.

Chancellor Robert Khayat announced that all of the tickets would go to students, so we had to figure out how we were going to select the 100 students who were going to get to go to the debate. We creat-

Miss sporting events for the community, emotion, people and talent they bring to our campus. I also enjoy home improvement. While I have little time to do big projects, I love getting to engage in a project that’s relatively small, but getting to see it completed from start to finish is rewarding.

DM: When you’re not here on campus, what are some of your hobbies or things you like to do around Oxford?

NW: It’s apparent to me that this job is pretty much 24/7 in that there’s always something that needs attention. It requires considerable time-management skills to carve out time to do other things that aren’t a part of this role. I love to watch soccer with my family. My daughter is a soccer player for Oxford High, and I love to watch their games. I enjoy going to Ole

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continued from page 1 developing, and launching the Landshark mascot” and reiterated the Landshark’s 2018 football season debut.

Michael Thompson, senior associate athletics director for communications and marketing, said Athletics will complete the mascot development sometime next year.

“It’s part of Spirit Squads, which is a part of our cheer program, so that’s kind of the standard spot for (the mascot) across the country,” Thompson said.

The Landshark movement began brewing during the 2008 football season, when former Rebel linebacker and U.S. Army veteran Tony Fein threw up the now-iconic hand symbol after big defensive plays. For that same year, Fein received the Pat Tillman Award from the Military Order of the Purple Heart. The Rebel defense that season led the team to a Cotton Bowl victory against then-No. 7 Texas Tech. Nowadays, both Ole Miss students and their beloved on-field counter-

parts use a hand to the head to celebrate Fein’s life and show school spirit.

Campus leaders cited Fein’s story and students’ passion for it as one of a slew of reasons Ole Miss was ready for the Landshark. Kevin referenced Fein and the 2008 season in his Sept. 18 letter

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letes,” Vitter said.

Vitter had shared the administration’s decision to retire Rebel the Black Bear and adopt the Landshark with Associated Student Body executives before releasing the statement Friday.

“I communicated our decision to the ASB president

Panhellenic Sen. Julia Grant authored the resolution, titled “A Resolution of the Associated Student Body Senate to change the official on-field mascot of the Ole Miss Rebels to the Landshark.” Grant said she will still bring the resolution to the floor Tuesday despite

Although this change was an institutional decision, it was important to communicate with ASB leadership, since they had initially pursued the change.’

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announcing the student poll, and Vitter repeatedly and publicly echoed support for Fein’s Landshark symbol.

In his statement, Vitter said for years, he and Athletics Director Ross Bjork heard from campus groups that it was time to replace Rebel the Black Bear with a more fitting symbol.

“During this same time, the Landshark has been embraced by the Ole Miss family and has come to depict the spirit and strength of our athletic teams and student-ath-

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and expressed our appreciation for all their work and effort in leading the university conversation,” Vitter said.

“Although this change was an institutional decision, it was important to communicate with ASB leadership, since they had initially pursued the change.”

The announcement came after the ASB revealed its agenda for Tuesday’s formal Senate meeting, which included a referendum to support the student body’s decision in the mascot poll.

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the administration’s official announcement. She said although ASB executives were already keen on changing the mascot, it was her duty as an ASB senator to represent students’ voices.

“Of course, it was disappointing to see Chancellor Vitter circumvent a student-elected organization by issuing the Landshark decision before we had the opportunity to vote on it,” Grant said. “However, although the process could have been improved to better consider stu-

dent input, the chancellor’s decision was a victory for the university.”

Savannah Day, ASB Senate public relations chair, said the resolution has been in the works since the student poll was complete, and Tuesday’s vote will continue as scheduled.

She said the ASB Senate’s goal was initially to have the mascot change referendum come through the legislation for approval before reaching the administration. However, since September’s mascot referendum was sponsored and funded by the ASB executive branch as opposed to the Senate body, Day said it was hard to re-route the process.

ASB President Dion Kevin III said the university takes student opinion seriously and administrators matched the initial ASB poll with input from other groups. He said the Senate vote on Tuesday will affirm student opinion on the mascot change.

“No official document from ASB was presented to the university,” Kevin said. “Official ASB input on a mascot change is expected to come from our Senate on Tuesday, Oct. 10.”

Senior exercise science major Madison McMinn said she thought the university announced the official mascot change relatively quickly following the ASB-led vote.

“I was surprised. To my knowledge, it was a student-led initiative, so I didn’t think the university would actually take action based off of a student vote,” McMinn said.

McMinn said she thought the university handled the mascot decision well, though.

“It’s a step in the right direction, one away from Colonel Reb and the past that surrounds that. This is something that is unique to our university, with a good story behind it that will hopefully encourage unity,” McMinn said.

Lana Ferguson and Rachel Ishee contributed reporting to this story.

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hunting accident. “(Walking Out) is a thriller,” Brunson Green, president of Harbinger Pictures and producer of “Walking Out,” said.

“It’s an intense emotional experience, but in the end, it’s very satisfying. After leaving the theater, the film sticks with you — it’s not a disposable film.”

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ing Out,” Green and executive director of Oxford Film Festival Melanie Addington will answer questions from the audience regarding the film’s production.

“I will help lead the questions in asking Brunson about the making of the movie and then open it up to the audience to ask him anything related to the making of the film,” Adding-

ton said. “It is one of the great benefits to festival screenings that you get to interact with the filmmaker.”

Green said the Q&A session serves as a great opportunity for a moviegoer to gain insight into what the movie making process is really like.

“What’s on the screen is a completely different situation than the chaos and the drama and the hard work that is behind the scenes. Case and point for ‘Walking Out’ — even though the film takes place over four days, we had to film over three months,” Green said.

“There are fun tidbits and trivia about the film that the audience will enjoy hearing about after they have seen the film.”

The Oxford Film Festival’s description says the film serves “to bring exciting, new and unusual films (and the people who create them) to north Mississippi.” Tonight’s screening of “Walking Out” is one of the opportunities the film festival brings to Oxford.

“Many studios don’t release independent films on their theatrical schedule, so this is a special opportunity to see some-

thing that has a national release along with the rest of the country and not just at the February festival,” Addington said.

A Jackson native, Green has a deep connection to Mississippi. Green said his love for the Magnolia State only grew after he earned an Academy Award nomination for his production of “The Help,” which was filmed in both Jackson and Greenville. Because of his Mississippi roots, Green is keen on bringing films that he is involved in back to his home state.

“I love the Oxford Film Festival and have been able to attend in the past, so I have always wanted to do some sort of programming with the film festival, ” Green said.

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Kizer said. “It’s always great scoring goals and being successful, but having the team be successful is the most important thing to me.”

Kizer’s two-goal performance boosted her straight to the top of the SEC individual goals leaderboard.

Her teammate Foster checks in at No. 2, and Tennessee’s Khadija Shaw sits at fourth.

Foster and Kizer, it seems, comprise the deadliest attacking duo in the SEC. “We click really well together,” Foster said about her on-field chemistry with Kizer. “We’ve gotten to where we know what to expect from each other.”

Ole Miss will hit the road again, headed to College Station for a weekend matchup with Texas A&M. The No.

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self on the board, courtesy of a goal from Alex Thomas. Her goal kept the Tigers within striking distance, but the comeback effort ultimately fizzled out. LSU managed just two shots on goal after Thomas’ strike, both of which Rebel goalkeeper Marnie Merritt handled easily.

The Ole Miss offense soon took over again. Junior CeCe Kizer, who entered Sunday’s match tied with Foster for most goals among SEC players, found the net twice in the remaining minutes of the match, elevating her goal total to 13. Gabby Little and Mary Kate Smith supplied this assists this time around.

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Channing Foster moves past a defender during the 4-1 win against LSU on Sunday.

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Amidst all the heat and humidity Mississippi had to offer, Ole Miss, now No. 24, defeated the LSU Tigers on Sunday afternoon by a score of 4-1.

After a tough SEC loss against No. 21 Tennessee on Thursday night, Ole Miss hoped to regain some momentum with a win against its interstate rivals, the Tigers. The Rebels got just that.

“I was happy to get another four goals this weekend,” head coach Matt Mott said.

“I thought that was a really big key to the game, which is encouraging as we continue on against this tough SEC league.”

The game started off slowly until Ole Miss found its groove. Freshman Molly Martin found the net for the Rebels with 1 minute left in the first half. Lofting the ball

19 Aggies defeated SEC opponents Florida, Missouri, Arkansas and Alabama but dropped their match against Auburn. It will not be easy for the Rebels to walk away with a win.

“We know it’s so tough playing in Aggieland,” Kizer said. “Coming together in practice and putting our minds to team defense is a huge thing because they have a really fast offense.”

Kickoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. Friday night.

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right over LSU’s goalie and into the net, Martin’s goal was her third of the season.

Senior Bella Fiorenzo supplied the accompanying assist.

“That was a huge goal for us,” Mott said. “To go into the locker room with a goal and know that we worked hard to get that was important.”

With momentum on its side heading into the half, Ole Miss grabbed the game early on in the second and, aside from a brief hiccup, never let go. Freshman Channing Foster scored minutes into the half to double the Rebels’ lead against the Tigers. The tally marked her 12th goal of the season.

“We kept the ball really central, and second half, we used the whole field, which really opened things up for us and made a difference,” Foster said.

Midway through the second half, LSU finally put it-

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continued from page 8 continued, Rebel defenders were missing fewer tackles and forcing Auburn into long-yardage third downs.

Between the stops on defense and the ease for Patterson and the offense, it was apparent two different Ole Miss teams had shown up in Auburn.

“There were no schematic changes (in the second half),” Luke said. “I told them I wanted the second half. I want to see a difference. I want this to be the turning point of our season.”

Right when the Rebels were on the verge of duplicating last week’s performance, the players and coaches shut it down. A change in attitude led to the

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Defensive back Zedrick Woods credited the turnaround to mental adjustments.

“We came out unfocused,”

Woods said. “(The problems) were not X’s and O’s.”

The Rebels return home for the first time in more than a month to take on Vanderbilt in next Saturday’s homecoming game.

Coach Matt Luke views the game against the Commodores, coupled with Saturday’s second half, as an opportunity to get the season back on track.

“It is big,” Luke said, regarding playing at home.

“Playing at Vaught-Hemingway is one of the best homefield advantages in the country. Rebel nation needs to come together.”

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Rebels dropped by Auburn after dismal first half JOSH GOLLIHAR STAFF WRITER

The Rebels cannot catch a break in the state of Alabama. Following its 66-3 loss to the Crimson Tide, Ole Miss traveled back to the Yellowhammer State for a Saturday morning matchup with Auburn. In a game that ultimately finished 44-23 in favor of the Tigers, Auburn’s strengths and Ole Miss’ weaknesses were on full display for the 86,700 fans inside Jordan-Hare Stadium.

The Rebels’ inability to finish drives in the red zone dominated much of the opening action. The offense moved the ball efficiently until it was deep in Auburn territory, forced to settle for field goal attempts, one of which was missed. The run game continued to struggle, but the passing game was working. Patterson completed 10 of 15 passes in the first quarter for 110 yards. With no help from the run game, the Rebels could not convert yards into points.

While the Rebels were struggling to put points on the board, the Tigers were converting possessions into touchdowns. Kerryon Johnson and the Auburn offen-

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Jordan Wilkins carries the ball downfield during the game Saturday. Wilkins rushed 65 yards on 13 carries and scored one touchdown during the 44-23 defeat against Auburn. sive line had their way with the Ole Miss defense. The running backs for the Tigers were getting through the front seven of the Rebels with ease, leaving it to the secondary to make tackles

(which it did not do). Head coach Gus Malzahn’s offense flourished and gained 391 yards of Auburn offense in the first half alone. Defensive coordinator Wesley McGriff said he thinks the ear-

ly struggles were the same things that have plagued the Rebel defense all year.

“We were inconsistent,” McGriff said. “Guys were missing (assignments) and making mental errors. It

was our mistakes, (and) they capitalized.”

In the second half, the Rebels ended a touchdown drought that started in the second quarter of the game against Cal. D.K. Metcalf scored on a 9-yard catch, finally converting a good drive. Metcalf added a second score, and Jordan Wilkins added a 1-yard touchdown run. All three of the touchdowns happened inside the 10-yard line. The passing game produced 346 yards, with the backs gaining 83 yards on the ground.

Offensive coordinator Phil Longo noted the red zone performance as the big difference between the first and second half.

“We were moving the ball and had our tempo going,” Longo said. “The goal when you get inside the 25-yard line is to get seven. Coach challenged them to fight at halftime, and they did. The second half (today) could be the turning point of our season.”

The defense also showed life in the second half, forcing three-and-outs in the Tigers’ first two offensive possessions. As the game

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