THE DAILY
MISSISSIPPIAN
Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Volume 105, No. 56
T H E S T U D E N T N E W S PA P E R O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I S S I S S I P P I S E R V I N G O L E M I S S A N D OX F O R D S I N C E 1 9 1 1
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WHERE TO WATCH THE ELECTION: Pre-election social 4-5:30 p.m. Deupree Hall conference room
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AS OF 6 P.M. MONDAY
Pajamas and Politics 7:30 p.m. – Courtyard of Residence Hall 2 & 3
Election Night Watch Party
8 p.m. - Individual Floors/Lounges in Residential College South
Introducing POTUS 45 8 p.m. - Second Floor Lounge, Pittman Hall
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DONALD TRUMP
GARY JOHNSON
Lafayette County Democrats watch party
5% JILL STEIN
6 p.m. - The Lyric Oxford Theater
The Results Are In … Post-Election Forum
Nov. 9, 5 p.m. - Student Union Ballroom
Kelly’s competitive drive made him one of the best BRIAN SCOTT RIPPEE thedmsports@gmail.com
Ten months ago, Chad Kelly stood on a makeshift stage in New Orleans on the field at the Superdome. As a red and blue mist of confetti rained down on the then-junior quarterback and the greatest Ole Miss team in nearly a half century, the booming voice of ESPN’s Joe Tessitore echoed off of the building’s walls. “I tell you one guy that made the most of his opportunity,” Tessitore said. “As for the most outstanding player, Jay Batt you have the honors, Allstate Sugar Bowl executive committee. The most outstanding player of the
Allstate Sugar Bowl is Ole Miss quarterback Chad Kelly.” The remaining Ole Miss crowd of more than 20,000 roared as Kelly raised the trophy with the red and blue celebratory scraps of paper showering down around him. His 302 yards and 4 touchdowns had landed him on this stage. But in the grand scheme of things, Tessitore summed it up perfectly: Kelly had made the most of his opportunity. He arrived Ole Miss a year prior to that moment lugging a set of baggage behind him and stared at questions in front of him. Who was this kid? A gunslinger with a fiercely competitive drive that often times spurned anger, and had done him more trouble than
good to this point. With stops at Clemson, East Mississippi Community College and most recently a hiccup outside of a bar in his hometown of Buffalo that nearly derailed his college career one final time, Kelly was a guy working with his last chance. He arrived in Oxford skating on thin ice. He said repeatedly that he wanted to rewrite his story. Tack on the fact that he was poised to enter into a three-way quarterback battle with two guys who had been in the program for two years already, Kelly had a full plate. Ole Miss had built a solid ship with one of the nation’s top
FILE PHOTO
Chad Kelly celebrates with Laquon Treadwell after winning the Allstate Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, Louisiana. Kelly led the Ole Miss team to a Sugar Bowl victory and SEE KELLY PAGE8 received the most outstanding player award for his performance in the game.