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THEMISSISSIPPIAN STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI • SERVING OLE MISS AND OXFORD SINCE 1911 ‘It’s not a football story’ Safe Ride Teammate chronicles life and legacy of Chucky Mullins begins CLARA TURNAGE [email protected] There was a sudden hush. What shuttle had been a riotous clamor only moments before was suddenly severed and left little more than service a whisper amongst the 40,000 watching. It was the moment no LOGAN KIRKLAND [email protected] one wants to witness, the moment the fans realized one player wasn’t New student transportation getting up. service Safe Ride launched “There is a quiet sound in that last night. The service runs stadium that is eerie,” said former a shuttle to and from the head football coach Billy Brewer. Square Thursdays through “People are watching; people are Saturdays. looking. You can hear very little Safe Ride stops include the conversation. I’m sure there’s a lot areas at Martin/Stockard, of prayers being said.” Kincannon/Ridges intersec- The fifth defensive back, Chucky tion, Brown/Crosby intersec- Mullins, would not be standing up, tion, Sorority Row by Phi Mu, wiping the turf off his pants and Fraternity Row behind Sigma walking away. On Oct. 28, 1989 Chi, the parking lot behind Mullins destroyed four vertebrae Kappa Alpha Order and Phi in his back and was instantly para- Kappa Tau and University lyzed from the neck down. Trails. Brewer and his team didn’t The buses will run on know that. All they knew was one Thursdays and Fridays from File Photo of their own was being carried THOMAS GRANING 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. and on Sat- Members of the football team touch the Chucky Mullins bust while taking the field before a game last season. away. urdays from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Safe Ride will not run during “To have to, at halftime, tell a befriended you. He reached out to sorority recruitment week- football team what I was told, that you. He had that personality that end, Thanksgiving and final these are the circumstances: Right just reached out and wanted to be- exam week. now Chucky has been airlifted friend whomever he met. I really Gabriella Gonzaba, the to Memphis, and they’ll go from mean it when I say he was every- president of Students for there,” Brewer said. “They were one’s friend.” a Safe Ride, said students just stunned, heartbroken.” To Hill, Mullins was the friend- should be very involved with Though the game was won, ly, warm player who just loved to the organization. something was lost on the field. smile. “We want to promote safety Twenty-five years later, team- “Those are the things I remem- on our campus and in the Ox- mate and friend Jody Hill decided ber: the laughter, the fun, that ford community,” Gonzaba the story must be told, and today he was a friend,” Hill said. “He said at 5 p.m., Hill will be at Square reached out across all kinds of Gonzaba said the Safe Ride Books to sign and release his novel lines. He was that kind of person.” buses will also help cut down “38: The Chucky Mullins Effect.” It would not occur to him until on the amount of vehicles on Hill was in the same freshman far later that perhaps this smiling the Square. class as Mullins and recalled what young man didn’t have the happy, Safe Ride has two 45-pas- it was like to be around him. privileged childhood they had all senger-seat buses, one handi- “We were freshmen together, so assumed. cap-accessible van and a driv- we came in together in the sum- “All of us greenhorn freshmen, er who is authorized to drive mer of ’88,” Hill said. “This isn’t we didn’t know of any of the chal- the buses. a trite statement when I say this: lenges he faced in life. We thought File Photo OLE MISS ATHLETICS “We have a driver that’s Everyone that knew Chucky was he must be a guy for which every- his friend. That was because he Chucky Mullins prepares to lead Ole Miss onto the field. Standing next to him is head SEE MULLINS PAGE 16 coach Billy Brewer. SEE SAFE RIDE PAGE 4

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CADY HERRING photography editor [email protected] No pay for those who play crazy process. Offers of money, student-athletes to be paid. If creates an environment of un- ELLEN WHITAKER clothing, food, cars and many left up to me, student-athletes fair treatment towards some ALLI MOORE other luxuries have been offered under no circumstances would students over others. MADDIE THEOBALD to young adults coming out of ever be paid for playing a sport An argument for paying stu- design editors high school, but the NCAA has for their university. dent-athletes is an argument strict rules and regulations on The most important reason for the augmentation of their ADVERTISING STAFF: what a prospect can and cannot why an NCAA student-athlete privileges. Student-athletes accept and has handed down should not be paid for playing a do get paid: they get scholar- MATT ZELENIK harsh sanctions against those sport lies in their title. An indi- ships. People often forget that advertising sales manager BRIAN SCOTT RIPPEE who violate these rules, the vidual playing a sport at a uni- the young men and women they most significant coming against versity is labeled as a student- watch on the field are going to [email protected] [email protected] the SMU football program in athlete, and the order of words school on a discount, especially As the perception of the 1982. After a thorough investi- in their title should match the for sports like baseball, bas- EMILY FORSYTHE NCAA student-athlete has be- DAVID JONES gation, the NCAA handed down order of their priorities at a ketball and football, and most gun to change in the eyes of what became known as the “The university. The reason a person of these athletes are going to JAMIE KENDRICK sports fans, the number of Death Penalty,” and, true to its goes to college is to get an edu- school for free. The average EVAN MILLER NCAA violations against them account executives name, it marks the complete cation. The job of the university college four-year tuition in this for accepting improper ben- suspension of all activities for is to give the person the best country is $18,391 per year, and efits has also changed over the MARA BENSING one calendar year. This is the education possible. The NCAA the average out-of-state tuition last thirty years — skyrocketed, only time the NCAA has hand- sanctions amateur athletic is $31,701 per year. That can CONNOR HEGWOOD even. Televising college athlet- ed down such a penalty, and events. The NCAA is not a pro- reach over six figures taken in KIM SANNER ics has bolstered its popular- creative designers SMU’s football program has not fessional organization — there a four-year span. The people ity and, naturally, has yielded fully recovered to this day. are no agents permitted and no who argue that student-athletes a higher degree of competitive- This ordeal brought the is- contracts given out. Students should be paid for performance S. GALE DENLEY ness amongst those who stand sue of paying student-athletes who attend universities do not seem to be completely blind to STUDENT MEDIA CENTER to benefit from participating. into national limelight, and, in get paid to get good grades, so the fact that athletes are tak- College programs and boosters PATRICIA THOMPSON the past decade, there has been why should athletes be paid to ing thousands of dollars over a Director of Student Media and have caused the recruitment much discussion about allowing play a sport? Paying athletes Daily Mississippian Faculty of prospects to become quite a SEE PAY PAGE 3 Adviser ROY FROSTENSON THE DAILY The Daily Mississippian is The Daily Mississippian welcomes all comments. Assistant Director/Radio and MISSISSIPPIAN published daily Monday Please send a letter to the editor addressed to The Daily Advertising through Friday during the Mississippian, 201 Bishop Hall, University, MS, 38677 MELANIE WADKINS The University of academic year. or send an e-mail to [email protected]. Advertising Manager Mississippi DEBRA NOVAK S. Gale Denley Student Contents do not represent Letters should be typed, double-spaced and no lon- Creative Services Manager Media Center the official opinions of The ger than 300 words. Third party letters and those bear- University of Mississippi or ing pseudonyms, pen names or “name withheld” will MARSHALL LOVE 201 Bishop Hall not be published. Publication is limited to one letter per Daily Mississippian The Daily Mississippian un- individual per calendar month. Distribution Manager Main Number: less specifically indicated.

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performance is certainly not the on-field performance, that dominate football every year. sports system. PAY answer. Most of the additional would bring up the issue of hav- They would keep bringing in In short, my reservations continued from page 2 money these athletes receive ing an agent. If one turns on the most revenue and have the eventually lead back to the fact comes from either the NCAA SportsCenter during any sport’s most money to spend for new that college sports is amateur four-year period to play a sport or the athletic conference to offseason and follows contract recruits. athletics. Professional sports in addition to getting an educa- which that school resides in. If talks of an athlete, they will see On the other end of the spec- organizations are the place for tion. The athletes at Vanderbilt the allowance money the ath- how ugly these arguments can trum would be a school like athletes to be paid to perform. are a perfect example. Most letes receive is not enough, get. There are over 300,000 Kentucky. Kentucky is a fine College is a place where a young players on the football team the university should chip in a NCAA student-athletes. Having institution, but Kentucky has person can learn and play ath- are going to school for free and small additional sum of money contract negotiations with that had little success in their foot- letics to represent the school enjoying one of the finest edu- to give these student-athletes many athletes would be com- ball program. If paying athletes they are so proud to attend. If cations offered in the country a sufficient allowance. I also pletely disastrous. Paying for was legal, Kentucky would have an athlete excels in his or her (not to mention that the tuition understand the complaints of performance would also greatly a hard time being competitive sport, then they can move on to at Vanderbilt is outrageously critics about athletes not being alter the recruiting process. The with the athletes they would the professional level and reap expensive). These athletes are allowed to sell autographs and NCAA recently altered football be able to get. This imbalance the benefits of their athletic taking hundreds of thousands memorabilia. Athletes most recruiting rules to set a maxi- would lead to less competitive ability. Paying college athletes of dollars in tuition and getting definitely should be able to sell mum number of scholarships a football, and, ultimately, con- would ultimately ruin what a degree, and yet people still ar- their own property without program can give out per year. ference officials would probably people love most about col- gue they should be paid for on- having to answer to the NCAA. This rule was instituted to imi- look to conference re-alignment lege athletics, which is playing field performance. The people who argue for tate professional football and to try to fix the lack of competi- for the pride of their school. A People argue that the major- paying for performance should not let the larger schools domi- tiveness. student-athlete’s ultimate goal ity of these athletes come from look more in the direction of nate recruiting. Paying athletes This concept is not solely tied should be to get a degree and underprivileged backgrounds raising the allowance of an ath- would completely ruin the ef- to football. There would be im- become ready for the outside and are helpless when they ar- lete or allowing them to sell fect of imitation in college foot- balance in every sport in every world. rive on campus, but these peo- memorabilia rather than being ball. One can look to the South- conference in America. This ple do not realize the NCAA al- paid to play a game. eastern Conference for a small would also lead to discussion Brian Scott Rippee is a soph- lows student-athletes to receive The term “pay for play” has example of this. of spending caps and would omore business major from a weekly allowance that basical- been a popular term for refer- Alabama’s success over the basically create a professional Jackson. ly amounts to spending money ring to on-field performance. last five years has obviously for the athlete. I do understand A lot of advocates for “pay for brought in more revenue for the argument that the allow- play” do not understand the their university. If Alabama was ance given to athletes is not other controversies that would allowed to pay athletes to come sufficient, but paying them for cause. If athletes are paid for play there, Alabama would

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Linda Spargo, faculty advi- SAFE RIDE sor of Students for a Safe Ride, Gameday parking and traffic continued from page 1 said the organization is some- thing she holds close to her heart. She said it’s important secure to drive those kinds of that students think about their vehicles; that was our main behavior in Oxford and where problem in the past,” Gonzaba in the city they are traveling. said. “As the year goes on, we “I think this is a way to pro- will see if we need to add some mote safety in an alternative more.” choice from getting in your Gonzaba said even though own car,” Spargo said. “The the orga- kids who are nization is on the bus new, they are not out are hoping there being to make all in danger of of the neces- being hit by sary changes somebody and plans to who is under make Safe the influ- Ride as effi- ence.” cient as pos- Spargo sible. said that the “We are university working with has been be- other orga- hind Safe nizations on campus in the Ride but emphasized that future for fundraising that in- this is an organization that is volves keeping students safe,” student-led. Spargo said she Gonzaba said. knows these students want Corbin Smith, a member of Photo By: THOMAS GRANING Safe Ride to be successful and Safe Ride, said their key goal is impressed with their pas- xford parking and traffic of- sissippi, said O.U.T. buses will begin and should help provide an alternative right now is to keep students sion. ficials have planned for -Satur running from the Jackson Avenue Cen- to parking on campus. After the game safe and give them a safe way “It’s one of the most mean- day’s football game. ter and Northwest Community College there will be one-way traffic off cam- to get to and from campus. O ingful things I’ve ever been “We don’t promote drinking Shuttles will leave from Oxford Activity at 6 a.m. and will run until two hours pus only for one hour which also is a involved with,” Spargo said. “I at all; it’s just a way we want Center, Oxford Middle School and Ox- after the game. change from past years. really do put my head on the you to be safe,” Smith said. ford High School. The Jackson Avenue Center location There will also be an added presence of pillow at night and think lives “Walking back from the Square Mike Harris, director of parking and provides a free service, but the shuttles Oxford Police Department to patrol and are being saved.” even when you’re sober is dan- transportation at The University Of Mis- at the other locations will cost $5 to ride direct traffic. gerous.” GRADUATE & PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS FAIR Meet with representatives from medical schools, law schools, MBA programs, seminaries, and other masters programs from across the country. 2-4:30 pm • Monday, September 15 The Inn at Ole Miss Schools that will be in attendance:

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Answers Tough Sudoku by KrazyDad, Volume 1, Book 9 Book 1, Volume KrazyDad, by Sudoku Tough LIFESTYLES LIFESTYLES | 12 SEPTEMBER 2014 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | PAGE 7 Growing up Groving: continuing a family tradition MAGGIE MCDANIEL said. “She sat there right by her [email protected] daddy and did exactly what he did. I remember I looked at her On Oct. 11, 1975, the Ole Miss and said, ‘Mary Phillips, don’t football team was 1-4. It was you want to go downstairs?’ a less-than-impressive start to and she said, ‘No.’” the season, but that didn’t mat- After that first Ole Miss game, ter at all to two-year-old Mary Neymnan’s Saturdays con- Phillips Neyman. That day was sisted of red and navy smock the beginning of what would dresses, college football, eating grow into a life-long tradition fried chicken out of the back of – her first experience tailgating a tailgate and “Groving” with in the Grove and attending an family and some of her closest Ole Miss football game. family friends. On that particular game day, Once Neyman’s little brother her parents, Robert and Sara Bo came along two years after Margaret Johnson, were un- her first game, he joined the able to find someone to watch family on game days. Bo was a their daughter while they went little more eager to run around to the game. This left them no and throw a football than to sit choice; they had to take young and watch the game. She didn’t Neyman with them. mind because she loved having As they journeyed north from her brother there to run around Jackson, Mississippi, the John- with and look after. sons worried about taking their Neyman knew from day one toddler to a football game. Peo- that she was going to one day Courtesy MARY PHILLIPS NEYMAN ple could then drive their cars attend college at The Univer- dren, Sara Frances, 10, and Jo- in the Grove and tailgate right sity of Mississippi. Once she seph, 5. Neyman and her hus- out of the trunk. Neyman’s became a student, gamedays band are raising their children parents figured she would run were no longer filled with look- as Ole Miss fans and couldn’t off during tailgating or not be ing after her little brother. see them doing anything else. able to sit still during the fen- They were now filled with new The children are always antici- tire game. Once they got to excitements, like attending as pating gamedays and always Hemingway Stadium, the real- someone’s date. make sure before heading to ity wasn’t what they expected. There was one game date she the Grove that they are wearing “I would not leave the game specifically remembered. In the right color. and wanted to sit right by my 1991 Ole Miss played Vander- “They don’t know any differ- daddy,” Neyman recalled. bilt for Homecoming. Ney- ent. When they hear we are go- “When he cheered, I cheered, man, a sophomore at the time, ing to the Grove, they say, ‘Oh and when he sat down, I sat was asked to go to the game as great,’” Neyman said. “It is a down. I enjoyed it so much a junior boy’s date. The Rebels natural part of their life. I think they kept taking me back.” ended up losing 27-30 to Van- they think everybody goes to Neyman’s father remembers dy that day, and her date was the Grove.” his daughter’s first game just furious. To Neyman it didn’t Neyman always looks for- as vividly as when Ole Miss matter, because she had a lot ward to the first game of the defeated Georgia with a come- of fun with him and knew there season. For this Saturday, she’s back in the fourth quarter. was something different about prepared to walk around with He reminisced about how his him than her other dates. her children as they look at all daughter was just as happy as “We instantly connected, had the elaborate tent decorations, he was at that game, because a lot to talk about and we both mingle with family and friends they were staying at the same loved Ole Miss football,” she and support the Ole Miss foot- motel as the Georgia team, and said. “I told my best friend I ball team. they were sick of hearing them had met the man I was going to “The first game feels like we talk. marry.” are going back home,” she said. As for Neyman’s mother, she Six years after watching Ole “Even though there have been was astonished that her daugh- Miss lose to Vandy on Home- so many changes, it just feels ter was so well-behaved during coming, she married the young like the right thing to do. It just the football game. man who took her as his date, feels like I am going to some- “When she went to the game Jody Neyman. thing that is so familiar.” she would never leave for any Today, she lives in Hernando reason,” Neyman’s mother with her husband and two chil-

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COLUMN I wanted to believe in you. I really did. Now I just want a commuter tag. MALLORY SIMERVILLE time. Lots of park, little ride. moting public transportation. [email protected] The bus pulls in front of my Oxford is perfect for it. It’s house on Jackson Ave. near small, the buses can easily get I returned to campus this the new Starbucks, but every through town and people want year in pursuit of a new degree morning, it’s already full. So I to ride them. And maybe all and a new outlook. I decided wait. A bus pulls up; I cannot the issues are simply kinks of to ditch my car and take the board because the driver is on the new school year - at least bus. I was sick of searching for her break. Two buses show up I hope so. But if you are going parking spots. I wanted to sit at the same spot at the same to limit commuter passes, and on a bus, in the air condition- time, and if you miss the bus- push “park and ride” pass- ing, and be dropped off right es on the loop, I wait another es, make it worth our while. in front of my class. I wanted 20 minutes. Prove to the students that it IS to believe in the bus. I wanted Every day, I am late for class easier to jump on the bus from to ride the bus. and work and sweaty, frustrat- the South lot or Jackson Ave- Photo by CADY HERRING But this is what I experi- ed more by the bus than when nue Center. I am discouraged Designers Toyosi Sanni, Laolu Sanni and Bryan Nkemdiche pose for a photo Saturday. enced. The buses are supposed I tried to Commuter Park. from taking the bus because I to loop every five minutes, but This is not meant to be a list can’t even fit on it by the time I sit at a “park and ride” bus of complaints. This is instead it reaches my house on the stop for 25 minutes most af- a call to action. I truly want to yellow line in the morning. ternoons when I leave cam- ride the bus. I agree with what Promoting a public trans- pus, especially right at lunch the University is doing - pro- portation culture isn’t easy to begin with, but the pro- motion was successful. I be- lieved in the buses. I wanted to park and then ride. And then I parked and I waited. And I jumped on the bus and I couldn’t bend my elbows. The transportation system is all talk and no action – so now I am buying a bike. Stay tuned for my next piece on how Ox- ford needs more bike lanes.

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t starts with a breath. The breath, The 115 men who make up the Ole Miss followed by a snap. The snap, fol- football team know this. This is their I lowed by a rush. sport. This is their house. Day in and day On Saturday the sleepy pulse of Vaught- out they’ve sacrificed. They’ve prepared so Hemingway Stadium will surge back to no one can take what is theirs. No one can life. Members of Rebel Nation young and replace their heart. old, near and far will congregate in seas of The Rebels are all in. red and navy at the state’s flagship univer- Only those who are willing to risk going sity. They all come for the same reason. too far will find out how far they are able To watch the first home game of the 2014 to go. You have to want it as bad as you season. want to breathe. But for many fans, Ole Miss football “Never quit.” To be average is not an op- isn’t just a game. It’s a tradition with roots tion. To be mediocre is not an option. Be deeper than the gridiron grass. It’s an ex- fearless. Be phenomenal. These are the perience unlike any other, and yet it’s all keys to victory. Great moments are born too familiar. from great opportunity. It’s like coming home. Rebel Nation, this is your time. Are you ready? SPORTS PAGE 10 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 12 SEPTEMBER 2014 | GAMEDAY PREVIEW Four Downs: Louisiana-Lafayette Featuring DM sports editor Dylan Rubino (@drubino11) and sports writer Cody Thomason (@thecodythomason).

Ole Miss has struggled against the run Which wide receiver will have the What area would you like to see With Alabama coming to Oxford just so far this season. Louisiana-Lafayette best day for Ole Miss? improve this week? three weeks from Saturday, how will averages 213 rushing yards per game. the team stay motivated and not look How can the Rebels contain ULL’s rush- ahead three weeks from now? ing attack? Dylan- The current trend has been in the Dylan- I would like to see more success favor of junior Cody Core, and I don’t see it in the running game. It has been running stopping this week. Core, not back by committee so far for the offense. Dylan- It’s hard not to look ahead at Ala- Dylan- It all starts up front with the front sophomore Laquon Treadwell, leads the You saw flashes of success in the run game bama. Hugh Freeze needs to make it clear seven. The defense needs to get consistent team in receiving 195 receiving yards and last week against Vanderbilt. Juniors to his team that if you look ahead to an pressure in the backfield, and the defensive three twouchdowns so far in the first two Jaylen Walton and I’Tavius Mathers started opponent early, you will stumble along in line needs to stuff the running lanes and force games. Teams are so honed in on stop- off as the leaders on the depth chart, but the process. When Alabama comes to town, the Ragin’ Cajuns to beat Ole Miss passing the ping Treadwell that it opens up others for guys like freshman Jordan Wilkins, sopho- it will arguably be the biggest game of the ball, where the defense leads the country in catches, and Core has made the most of it. more Mark Dodson and freshman Eugene season, yes, but the excitement and jitters passes defended. Ole Miss has struggled so Core has the size, speed and athletic abil- Brazley have made big runs as well. More can wait. You have to take it one week at a far against two good running backs in their ity to make big plays in the passing game, consistent yards at running back is key for time and focus on who’s on your schedule first two games and now faces a quarterback and that will continue for the rest of the the Rebels success and hopefully we will and not look ahead. It may be hard, but it in senior Terrance Broadway who is a dual season. see that Saturday. must be done. threat. Both of ULL’s top running backs have rushed for over 100 yards so far this season, Cody- I think we could see a big day Cody-The offensive line play. There’s Cody- When Ole Miss plays Alabama in so the Rebel defense will have their hands full. from sophomore Quincy Adeboyejo. Ade- definitely talent in the group playing, their fifth game of the season, there’s a boyejo is a guy that will see time with but they’ve had plenty of struggles with good chance both teams could be unde- Cody- The defensive line has to do a better the starters and, should the game get false starts and missed assignments. If feated and with that comes the possibility job against the run. The Rebels have plenty lopsided, would still see time with the the offensive line can improve, then all of College GameDay making its first trip of quick defensive linemen that can rush the reserves. He’s a big target in the slot and other facets of the offense will improve as to Oxford. This would surely be one of the passer, but they need their larger lineman, should get some favorable match-ups well. The running game would certainly biggest moments of the season, but that such as junior Woody Hamilton, sophomore during this week’s game. He’s been good improve if the line blocked better in front can’t happen if Ole Miss doesn’t take care Robert Nkemdiche, senior Bryon Bennett and so far this season, so I think he’ll continue of them, and more time for Bo Wallace of business against Louisiana-Lafayette sophomore Fadol Brown to step up in run to post better numbers as the coaches’ would certainly not hurt. and Memphis. Looking too far ahead on support for the smaller players. In addition, confidence in him grows. your schedule can make a team very sus- the linebackers have played well so far but can ceptible to an upset loss; you have to keep still do a better job of stopping the running the team prepared for each opponent and back from getting past the second level. ensure they are as prepared as they can be.

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SEP 13 SEP 27 OCT 04 OCT 11 OCT 18 Louisiana- MEMPHIS ALABAMA at TEXAS A&M TENNESSEE (HC) Layfayette WEAR RED WEAR NAVY WEAR NAVY WEAR NAVY WEAR NAVY OCT 25 NOV 01 NOV 08 NOV 22 NOV 29 at LSU AUBURN PRESBYTERIAN at ARKANSAS MSU WEAR RED WEAR RED WEAR RED WEAR NAVY WEAR NAVY appa K our s Rebs 30614 SPORTS PAGE 12 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 12 SEPTEMBER 2014 | GAMEDAY PREVIEW Shackelford ready and healthy in his final season DYLAN RUBINO After the devastating injury, [email protected] he came back stronger than ever in 2013, where he played A lot has happened to De- in every game at linebacker tarrian Shackelford in his six- and defensive end and had 44 year career at Ole Miss. total tackles for the season. A strong freshman cam- There seem to be no set- paign in 2009, where he backs for Shackelford this played in 11 games and had a season, as he said that this is total of 20 tackles, two tackles the healthiest he has felt in a for a loss and one intercep- while. tion returned for a touchdown “I feel good,” he said. “All earned him a spot on the SEC the ups and the downs, where All-Freshman team. I’ve been at in this league, I’m Shackelford took a big leap very blessed to be in the posi- Photo By: CADY HERRING in 2010, where he played in tion I’m in now. My body feels Deterrian Shackelford celebrates during a trophy presentation after the Chick-fil-A Kickoff game in Atlanta Aug, 28.. all 12 games and recorded 48 about as good as a sixth-year total tackles. senior body could feel.” see one person making all guy,” Shackelford said about tential, but potential hasn’t His career took a drastic Shackelford has seen a lot turn in 2011, however, when the plays, but you see other Hilton. “He’s a baller. You been done yet,” Shackelford of defenses over his six years people making plays as well. can’t measure his size. He’s said. “You have to remember he tore his right ACL in spring in Oxford. How the defense practice, which caused him That’s always a great sign. We got the heart of a lion. I really that it is only potential, and has played so far in the first can take a step into being one love the way he plays from me you have to go out there every to redshirt and miss the en- two games of this season has tire season. He may have not of the best. We have to con- seeing him grow from where day during practice and work encouraged him, but he also tinue to work every day.” he’s at to now being a junior on it. Every Saturday you have been on the field in 2011, but knows there is room for im- he was still a vocal leader for One player who has really and playing lights out like he to prove yourself. I feel like provement. grabbed Shackelford’s atten- does.” that’s an important thing for the team and was awarded “We play hard, play to the the Chucky Mullins Courage tion on defense is junior de- Shackelford believes that this team because complacen- snap,” Shackelford said. “We fensive back Mike Hilton. the 2014 defense has the po- cy is everywhere. At the end of Award in 2011. still have things that we can Shackelford would also miss “When I first came in, I used tential to be the best since the day, I feel like we can have correct, but I feel like we’re to call him rookie all the time. he’s been here. a very good defense.” the 2012 season due to offsea- playing as a unit. You don’t son surgery to his right ACL. I came in, and he was a little “I feel like we have the po- Hugh Freeze faces familiar opponent in UL-Lafayette DYLAN RUBINO On November 12th, 2011, [email protected] Louisiana-Lafayette traveled to Jonesboro and Freeze’s team In his only season as head picked up the win 30-21. coach at Arkansas State in 2011, That season, Louisiana-La- Hugh Freeze led the Red Wolves fayette finished with a 9-4 over- to a 10-3 overall record, go- all record, going 6-2 in Sun Belt ing 8-0 in Sun Belt conference play. play. His success in one season In his weekly press confer- as head coach in Jonesboro led ence Monday, Freeze talked him to take the Ole Miss head about the Ragin’ Cajuns and Photo By: THOMAS GRANING coaching job before Arkansas Hugh Freeze readies the football team before the game against Vanderbilt in Nashville, Tenn., Saturday. State’s bowl game. SEE FREEZE PAGE 14

No tent? Saturday, Oct. 13 No problem! Louisiana-Lafayette All members of the Ole Miss family Kickoff: 3:00 pm are welcome at the 2nd annual Hors d’oeuvres and refreshments will be served four hours before kickoff. Tent will be set up in the grass along the Union Plaza. #EverybodysTent Hotty Toddy!

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30819 SPORTS PAGE 14 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 12 SEPTEMBER 2014 | GAMEDAY PREVIEW Cody Core: the core of the wide receivers DYLAN RUBINO [email protected] FREEZE If you had to take one guess on continued from page 12 who leads the Rebels in receiving their program from his experi- yards, who would you think it is? ence at Arkansas State. It’s not sophomore Laquon “I’m very familiar with what Treadwell, the number one re- they do having played in that ceiver on the depth chart. He’s conference with them. Their third on the team with 136 receiv- quarterback is very talented, ing yards on 11 catches with one and they have talent around touchdown. him with receivers and run- It’s not sophomore tight end ning backs and offensive line,” Evan Engram, who is second with Freeze said. “They are very bal- 11 catches for 153 yards. anced, and they do a lot of the Give up? same stuff we do. We should be The receiving core revolves able to give our defense a good around junior Cody Core, who look. They are a good football leads the team with eight catches team, no question. for 195 yards and three touch- Louisiana-Lafayette owns a downs so far this season. 1-1 overall record. Their most One of the questions heading recent game resulted in a loss into the season was the depth at to Louisiana Tech 48-20. Even wide receiver, but the 6-foot-3, with the recent loss, Freeze be- 196-pound receiver out of Au- Photo By: THOMAS GRANING lieves Louisiana-Lafayette will burn, Alabama, has been the top be motivated and ready come deep threat for the Rebels, averag- Wide receiver Cody Core scores a touchdown past Vanderbilt safety Andrew Williamson during the first half of the game in Nash- Saturday. ing 24.4 yards per reception. ville, Tenn., Saturday. “They didn’t play their best The emergence of Core is not the other night,” Freeze said. something his coaches are sur- Logan ahead of him, adding a vet- defenses has given Core and other on playing the slot this year,” Core eran presence at the wide receiver receivers the opportunity to blos- said. “I just kept on working hard. “They turned it over and put prised about. Head coach Hugh them in bad spots, but I know Freeze said Core has been a great position. Core learned a lot from som. I really didn’t focus on the slot. I playing with them. “We just have to be alert at all was looking at the outside where we’ll get their best, and just a player since he came to Oxford in couple a years ago they either 2012 but was always stuck behind “Beginning as a true fresh- times. We never know when they Donte played a lot. That was it.” man, I learned to watch Donte put the shell on him,” Core said. Core’s strong performances in beat Florida or had them to the the depth chart against veteran re- wire. From being in that con- ceivers. The 2014 season has pro- (Moncrief), and I watched film on “When they put the shell on him, these first two games may also be Donte a lot,” Core said. “I listened and they play man. We just got to a product of the chemistry he and ference, I know how it is for vided a chance for Core to break this kids to get a chance to play out, and teams have now taken to him as a leader and took steps compete and take over.” starting senior quarterback Bo after him. He’s told me to look at Now that Treadwell is the num- Wallace have had since the offsea- in these arenas and games. I notice. know Marl (Hudspeth) will “It’s his first chance and first the film and find something you ber one receiver and has moved son. can do to improve each day.” from the slot to outside, Core has Wallace has been in high praise have them ready and it’ll be a opportunity. He didn’t all of the good game.” sudden become talented,” Freeze When teams game plan for Ole replaced him as the slot receiver. of Core since fall camp, and Core Miss and the passing game, most Having the size of Core at slot re- noticed the connection between Freeze had high praise for said. “It’s time for a kid in the pro- the Ragin’ Cajuns starting gram to step up now and have his teams try to shut down Laquon ceiver provides favorable match- the two has improved. Treadwell. When that happens, ups for the offense. Core didn’t “We’ve worked very hard all quarterback Terrance Broad- chance, and he’s used that.” way. Freeze added Core didn’t see players like Core receive man-to- plan on playing in the slot, but he’s summer,” Core said. “Now, we’re man coverage or one-on-one cov- making the most of his opportuni- connecting. I’ve got my timing “Offensively, they are very much playing time early in his similar to us,” Freeze said. career because of former receiv- erage from safeties. The attention ties there. with him much better, so we’ll Treadwell draws from opposing “I wouldn’t say I was planning see. “Their quarterback is very ath- ers Donte Moncrief and Ja-Mes letic, he gets rid of the ball on time and he’s dangerous in the zone-read game. He’s a senior, he’s been in all of the battles. He certainly has had great suc- cess. He’ll be all about coming here to play and he’s a really solid player.” Broadway has 387 passing yards for the season with four touchdowns and three inter- ceptions in his first two games. Broadway has also rushed for 120 yards, picking up one touchdown. Freeze would go on to talk about no matter who the Reb- els play on their schedule, each week is a tough matchup and winning games in college foot- ball is no easy task. “I tell people this all the time. It’s very difficult to win

30620 a football game at this level,” Freeze said. “I don’t care who you’re playing. Most of the time its very difficult. The plan has to be good, your kids have to execute it and you have to take care of the ball and do the little things right. It’s in 30616 very few games that all of that is done. Last week was one of those weeks where• REduce it was pretty good. We have• REuseenough talent to where some of those Read the DM. games can maybe be •like REcycle that. Share the DM.Recycle the DM. It won’t happen many times.” SPORTS GAMEDAY PREVIEW | 12 SEPTEMBER 2014 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | PAGE 15 Matt Luke sees improvement in his offensive line DYLAN RUBINO Robert Conyers and junior [email protected] Aaron Morris at the center position and has instilled The Ole Miss offensive line faith in them. looked shaky in their season “The snaps that fall under opener against Boise State. Ben Still, Robert Conyers and False starts, holding penalties even Aaron Morris coming and communication issues from injury, the reps they are were the many problems the getting are invaluable because line faced against the strong you can’t teach experience,” Boise front. Luke said. “The more they get Against Vanderbilt, the of- of that the better they are go- fensive line played much ing to get. Our goal is to keep better. The penalties were playing better every week.” cut down, the quarterbacks Short yard situations and who played had more time to red zone play has also been throw and there were more inconsistent not only on the holes in the running game. offensive line but also in the Offensive line coach Matt offense overall. Luke saw Luke looks for improvement improvement there, which on a weekly basis, and that’s helped the offense produce 41 what he saw against Vander- points against Vanderbilt. bilt as compared to Boise “I think we did a nice job State. on short yardage and got “There was some improve- the short yards,” Luke said. ment from week one to week “Obviously Jeremy (Liggins) Photo By: THOMAS GRANING two, and I want to continue helps out with that; he fits it Matt Luke calls in the offensive line during the first half of the game in Nashville, Tenn., Saturday. to see improvement as we go up there and pounds it. You forward,” Luke said. “I think always have to be better be- When you think of a great istry from his offensive line ing in that direction. As long that’s the key. Any teams that cause in the red-zone some- offensive line, you think of against Vanderbilt, and he as we can keep on showing are good are the teams that times you have to be hard- power, strength, toughness saw changes there also. the improvement that we’ve keep on improving, especially nosed and run it in, and if and things of that nature. “I think it was better. I think shown from game one to game up front.” they load it up in the box, we What truly makes an offen- we took a big step in that di- two to game three, and just The first game against Boise feel good about throwing it sive line great is the continu- rection,” he said. “We’re not continue to have the mindset State showed inconsistencies up to Laquon (Treadwell). It’s ity and chemistry of the unit where we want to be yet, and of getting better every week, I at the center position, but going to be one of those two and how they work together. we probably will never get think that’s the way we have Luke sees improvement in things.” Luke wanted more chem- there, but we’ll keep work- to approach it.” junior Ben Still, sophomore

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team now as a coach, he worded his novel. MULLINS it well when we were talking. He “The book originally was titled continued from page 1 said, ‘If it wasn’t for that chair ’38: The Chucky Mullins Story’ when we saw him, you wouldn’t because that’s what I wanted to thing has worked out perfectly. know anything was wrong,’” Hill tell, Chucky Mullins’ story,” Hill He was just so happy,” Hill said. said. “He didn’t let the downtimes said. “What I wasn’t prepared for “Once you delve into the jour- dictate his life. He chose to re- was the far-reaching effect he had ney and all of the challenges that spond with life and joy, and I think on average, everyday people. It’s he faced, you understand. Life that’s the beauty of it. It’s not that not a football story; it transcends slammed a lot of doors in his face, he didn’t have down moments; he that. It’s not an Ole Miss story; it but he kept on knocking. Every chose not to let them rule him.” transcends that. time the world frowned upon him, In response to the tragedy, Ox- “What I wasn’t prepared for was he met it back with a smile.” ford and the university responded the effect on people just dealing Mullins was raised in a single- above and beyond what was ex- with the challenges of life, people parent home until the age of 13 pected of them. wrestling with grief and their own when his mother died and he “Kentucky Fried Chicken buck- disabilities. I continued to have went into foster care. After a short ets were gotten by the fraterni- people come into my life who were amount of time, the Phillips fam- ties, and they passed them up affected forever by this guy who ily took him in. and down the roads,” Brewer gave them hope and inspiration Even in sports, where Mullins said. “Children, teenagers, pen- and joy. It’s truly an inspirational was most passionate, he was not nies, dimes, nickels, quarters, five story.” uncommonly gifted. dollar bills, hundred dollar bills, The title transitioned from “The “He wasn’t the best athlete on checks, everything but their credit Chucky Mullins Story” to “The the team, he just fought for ev- cards in there.” Chucky Mullins Effect” because erything he had,” Hill said. “He that’s what Mullins did. He didn’t got the most out of what he did see people, he touched them. Jody have. Isn’t it inspiring to us? He Hill felt compelled to share that ef- Courtesy JODY HILL had every reason to just take those “He moved the fect and encouragement. Jody Hill setbacks and be frustrated. There “There was a hunger to share was just something in that guy.” world from his him more with the world because “It’s that infectious smile that I don’t think people fully realized you always see,” Brewer said. “No motionless state. what kind of person he was,” Hill matter what, he had it. I guess you said. “I wanted people to see him.” call it the ‘It.’ He had ‘It,’ and that Without lifting a Mullins influenced the lives of was his trademark.” countless people, but Hill wants to When the game was over, the finger,he sculpted help him reach even more. players didn’t go celebrate their “Chucky was an inspiration. A victory. beauty into peo- lot of people didn’t know that, peo- “Most all of the kids took off ple that didn’t get to meet him,” to Memphis, coaches, trainers, ple’s lives.” said Susan Vance, long time friend everyone,” Brewer said. “It was of the Hill family and owner of My some real difficult times, I’ll tell Jody Hill Favorite Shoes on the Square. you that, for everybody.” “Jody (Hill) said that all you had Brewer said the players all to do was get around Chucky, and had similar feelings the next few By the next weekend, at the he had a smile all the time, and weeks. “Everyone just wanted to LSU home game, the community he was just a big encouragement. know why. Why did it happen to had gathered an unreal amount of That’s what we all should be. Chucky?” money. “To see a man who was para- The only person who didn’t ask “It was something like a hun- lyzed and lived for 18 months but why was Mullins. dred and fifty or a hundred and had a positive attitude, I mean, “An easy question to ask with seventy five thousand dollars in do we have anything to complain all of these hardships is ‘why?’ If there,” Brewer said. about?” there has ever been a person who The support didn’t end there, Square Books is proud to host had earned the right to ask that however; over the course of the such novels, those which affect question it was Chucky Mullins,” next few weeks, the amount had and intrigue their sphere of influ- Hill said. “Instead of asking why, grown to more than $500,000. ence. he asked ‘What am I going to do? “It was unbelievable,” Brewer “A lot of people in this com- How am I going to respond?’ He said. “I’m really proud of my munity are interested, and a lot didn’t let the whys consume him.” school, The University of Missis- of people were affected by it,” The infectious smile he was fa- sippi.” said Richard Howorth, owner and mous for didn’t fade with the ad- Brewer told the story of a very proprietor of Square Books. “Our versity he faced. Though Mullins special visitor Mullins had. bookstore’s primary purpose is to was put through an unimaginable “I remember like it was today, serve the community, and we’re hardship, he didn’t lose his per- going and getting him just a little happy to help host it.” sonality, his love of joy. bit aware that he was going to In his own life, Hill said Mullins “It was like it never happened,” have a very special visitor. ‘Who is was a contributing factor to his de- Mullins is being honored with the renaming Brewer said. “That’s how he han- that, coach?’ he said. I said, ‘I can’t cision to become a minister. of Coliseum Drive. The new name of the dled it. I mean it’s unbelievable. tell you.’” “He moved the world from his road, which connects Highway 6 with cam- I never saw the kid cry. He never To Mullins’ surprise, George H. motionless state. Without lifting W. Bush entered his room in the a finger, he sculpted beauty into pus, is “Roy Lee ‘Chucky’ Mullins Drive.” looked at me and said, ‘Why me, Coach? Why would this happen to hospital. The story of a young man people’s lives,” Hill said. “He in- A dedication ceremony will take place at me?’” who wouldn’t quit had reached spired me not only to make a liv- 2:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 26 , at the Robert C. “My friend Tom Luke, he was far beyond the fanfare of football; ing in this world but to change the Khayat Law Center. the quarterback, and he’s on the the whole country was now look- world for the better. I think God ing to the young man who always was working through that.” smiled. What they found was an This is the change that Chucky inspiration. That inspiration is Mullins brings about in people. what Hill wanted to translate into This is the Chucky Mullins effect. Go Rebels! Great Beer Selection!! Come get your tailgating 2570 W. 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