University of Mississippi - Ole Miss Yearbook (Oxford, MS)

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f ommr With a less than perfect season behind them, the Rebels saw a change in command AS David Cutcliffe was fired and Ed Orgeron was hired as the Rebel ' s new head coach The OLE Miss 200,.

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SENIOR KAREM HARBOE is from Vill.) Ali mana, Chile. She won i LeiliTs while pLiylni) Ji Ole Misi. Athletics I 367

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00 ♦ ' A LINING UP FOR THE HUDOLEf ;ii itic liofni ' tortilfKj yiitne af).)in ' l Arkanvi ' , Sirfi ' -, pidyers pprfotmed to j packed stodium, winning 28-21. er « ,7 , ,) BEN BEITZEL ' i lf cl III ihc next ii|)pcirtunily. fnuiin til rlican i nKi-sUT. From Rebel ii-cl aiic , That is hnw lai ' li ■Miss HracI liintbal Davicl CaiuliHr Irll in 1 aiciular year. Inllnwing a Cotton Bowl win hat sparked a recruiting drive, a ire iii under the administration (I (Mend his ef)ntract and ignited the Rehel to do was lose. He lost his stai ' tin Heisman-trophy- winning C|uarterl)a( k to the first pii k in the f XFL. ailing with tliree others. He lost pla ers til suspensions. He lost faith in his r|uarterl)aek. He lost the most names e er as a head loaih. And then he lost his jub Dei. 1. 2IHI4. si. yrars alter his hire. I apiireeiaie the opportunity Dr. Robert Khayat ga e me six years ago, a teary-eyed Cutclifie saic piiblie address in Oxlinxl. . lot of ' Sf l? happened, and I ha -e a lot of great m( to relixe as a result of that, lough lime last tough people do. For the administration, the task of finding a rephu ement for 2003 ' s SEC Coach of the ' S ' ear nroxed touiih. I ' he da - Athletic Director Fete Boone handed Cutelilfc his wallving papers, he said he hoped to find a coach by the weekend. I ' hat idealism turned into a twTj-wcek-lrjng search that sent Boone and Khayat Iking across the L ' niied States in a pri ate jet and meetint! with loordinators and head coaches in both the colleeiate and NFL ranics. They met Athiftics I 369