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Lecture Branch vies for title series BRIAN BARISA [email protected] begins with ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.–Asya Branch, 2018, is in Atlantic City ‘Protests in competing to become Miss America. The goal of her platform is helping children Football’ with incarcerated parents — something that is close to SLADE RAND home for her. [email protected] “My platform could have been anything under the sun. Regular season NFL football It is more beneficial when returned this week and so did it is something that you can the widespread controversy relate to, and my platform surrounding players’ right to — empowering children of protest. incarcerated parents — I A Nike promo released chose because my father has Monday for the 30th been incarcerated for half of anniversary of the “Just my life,” Branch said. Do It” campaign featured Her father, Anthony Branch, former San Francisco 49ers plead guilty to burglary, Colin Kaepernick larceny of a dwelling, one calling on viewers to “Believe count of armed robbery and in something. Even if it means two counts of kidnapping in sacrificing everything.” This 2012. Ever since the age of has reignited the national ten, has grown conversation about players up with only her mother and kneeling or otherwise older brothers. She said living PHOTO: BRIAN BARISA protesting during the pre- without her father was a Miss Mississippi 2018 Asya Branch prepares for her day’s interviews at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey. game national anthem. challenge. me,” she said. him in person until a month supporter. When he gets out, However, before Kaepernick “It was different. I was Branch has kept in touch ago, when she saw him for the we are going to watch the tweeted an image of Nike’s definitely a daddy’s girl, and with her father through letters first time in three years. video of me winning Miss new ad on Monday afternoon, all the time, I was glued to his and pictures, but she has rarely “My dad is my biggest professor Charles Ross was hip. It was a huge change for gotten the chance to talk to fan. My dad is my biggest SEE BRANCH PAGE 15 already preparing to lead a lunchtime talk on campus about race, society and professional football. ASSOCIATED PRESS Ross, director of African American studies and a professor of history, began the Court says group can’t stop contextualization Center for the Study of Southern Culture’s weekly Brown Bag Lunch and Lecture series on JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A chancery court, weeks after plaques to provide historical Appeals on Tuesday upheld Wednesday with a discussion Confederate heritage group has Ole Miss administrators background, including on a the dismissal, saying Sons of titled “Protests in Football.” no special status to try block announced the university was Confederate soldier statue that Confederate Veterans has “no “One of the reasons I study the University of Mississippi taking steps to distance itself has stood for generations in a interest separate from or in sports is that sports illustrate from adding historical context from plantation-era images on prominent spot on campus. excess of that of the general a lot of aspects of human to Old South symbols, a state the Oxford campus. A chancery judge moved the public” in the university’s behavior,” Ross said. appeals court said Tuesday. In an effort to promote racial lawsuit to state circuit court, actions. Ross originally planned to Sons of Confederate diversity, the school renamed and a circuit judge dismissed it “This matter affects the Veterans sued the university a street that had been called in March 2017. in September 2014 in Confederate Drive and installed The Mississippi Court of SEE SPORTS PROTESTS PAGE 14 SEE CONTEXT PAGE 15 PAGE 2 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 7 SEPTEMBER 2018

THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN EDITORIAL STAFF: COLUMN SLADE RAND editor-in-chief On Nike’s new campaign: ‘Just Don’t Do It’ [email protected]

DEVNA BOSE managing editor developed that mythical entity, Nike is trying to convince the dilutes his message, as well. [email protected] a corporate conscience. very people most likely to have As Fannie Lou Hamer For years, Nike’s image has boycotted its products in the famously said, intersectionality DAVID NOWICKI been tainted by its history of past to go out and buy new means that “nobody’s free until copy chief human rights abuses. In fact, ones, instead. everybody’s free.” [email protected] groups such as United Students Corporate co-optation of The cause Kaepernick is most Against Sweatshops and the progressive movements is closely identified with — the BLAKE ALSUP Worker Rights Consortium nothing new. When Mississippi protest of police shootings and news editor have spent decades exposing workers tried to organize a support for the Black Lives TAYLOR VANCE the company’s poverty wages, union at the Nissan factory in Matter movement — cannot BRITTANY BROWN long hours, unsafe conditions, Canton, the company cracked be divorced from supporting assistant news editors use of child labor and other down and was eventually found workers’ right to unionize or [email protected] JAZ BRISACK unfair and dangerous practices. guilty of violating the workers’ opposing sweatshop working [email protected] When Nike factory workers civil right to form a union. But conditions. All forms of JUSTIN DIAL around the world have tried instead of respecting workers’ oppression are intimately and sports editor Corporations care about one to unionize, the company rights, Nissan began showering inseparably linked together and BEN MILLER thing: profit. They do not want has responded by closing up money on organizations must be fought collectively. assistant sports editor to be your friend. They are shop and relocating to other including the NAACP, the There is no ethical [email protected] not trying to make the world countries with even weaker Veterans of the Mississippi consumption under a better place. They are not labor protection laws. Civil Rights Movement, capitalism. Companies will CHRISTIAN JOHNSON dedicated to justice or freedom. The Kaepernick the Mississippi Center for ruthlessly seek to improve photography editor They are only interested in announcement successfully Justice, the Medgar and their own bottom lines at the [email protected] making money. diverted attention away from Myrlie Evers Foundation and cost of human rights. But we From that point of view, anti-sweatshop protests and the Mississippi Civil Rights should at least stop patting LIAM NIEMAN Nike’s new advertising refocused it on protests of a Museum. In exchange for the them on the back when they lifestyles editor campaign featuring Colin very different kind, as racists cash, these groups stayed silent try to hide their shame behind [email protected] Kaepernick is a smart move. burn shoes and take scissors about their benefactor’s union- a mask of social justice. However, Nike’s sponsorship to socks. By adding the face of busting behavior. . HAYDEN BENGE of Kaepernick doesn’t mean an internationally respected Unfortunately, Nike’s Jaz Brisack is a senior general design editor that the company has suddenly activist to its advertisements, sponsorship of Kaepernick studies major from Oxford. [email protected]

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COLUMN Nike’s campaign with Kaepernick is genius marketing

Instagram have taken their planned move on Nike’s part of communications and public This multi-year deal also places ALYSSA MONCRIEF political discourse as far as to create buzz and discussion affairs, even praised Kaepernick Kaepernick in an elite bracket of [email protected] destroying Nike gear and of the brand and its political and his comrades for all of the athletes that includes Beckham cutting the famous “swoosh” opinions. Financially, the social justice issues they had Jr. and Williams. Although “Girls from Compton don’t symbols off of their clothes. The company has found a new taken a stance on. Kaepernick’s #JustDoIt play tennis. They own it.” #JustBurnIt challenge, a social audience in supporters of Nike is clearly not losing campaign may not seem like “Don’t wait until you’ve won a media challenge to burn all Kaepernick’s political movement money any time soon. much more than a political ring to play like it.” Nike apparel, was even created who previously were not Nike Kaepernick has much to proclamation against President “Believing in something, in defiance of the #JustDoIt customers. Although its stock gain from this deal as well, Trump and conservatives, it even if it means sacrificing campaign. Others, however, dropped temporarily, Nike as portions from the profit is clearly a well-thought-out, everything.” such as Chicago Tribune recently completed a deal with of his apparel line with Nike economically cunning marketing These are just a few of the columnist Kevin Williams, the NFL, a multi-billion dollar will benefit his charity, Know plan. campaign slogans that Nike believe Nike’s choice to use such industry, to add the “swoosh” Your Rights Camp, which is released Tuesday as part of a controversial spokesperson logo to all NFL players’ gameday dedicated to promoting youths’ Alyssa Moncrief is a freshman its new ad campaign that was bold yet genius. attire. Jocelyn Moore, the self-awareness of rights and political science and journalism features elite athletes such The saying goes, “Even bad NFL’s executive vice president knowledge of civil liberties. major from Jackson. as Serena Williams, Odell publicity is good publicity,” Beckham Jr. and, infamously, right? By using Kaepernick, Colin Kaepernick. The choice historically one of Nike’s best- to use Kaepernick, the sellers in the jersey industry former San Francisco 49ers (even after he remained player who knelt during the unsigned for the 2017 NFL national anthem in 2016, in season), Nike is clearly making a the campaign is receiving political statement that will pay both support and backlash off. The company is emotionally from consumers, particularly appealing to human rights through social media. As of activists, liberals and Democrats Tuesday afternoon, Nike stock by rekindling the fire that NFL had dropped approximately players created in the civil 3.2 percent because of rights world when they decided Kaepernick’s involvement, to protest police brutality by according to CNBC. kneeling during the national PROUD PARTNER Protesters on social media anthem. with OLE MISS DINING sites such as Twitter and This seems to be a carefully Sun.-Wed. 10:30am-1:00am, Thurs.-Sat. 10:30am-2:00am 29560

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29569 29570 THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 7 SEPTEMBER 2018 | PAGE 5 BROTHERHOOD. Ole Miss is about family. This team is about brotherhood. PAGE 6 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 7 SEPTEMBER 2018 FOOTBALL PREVIEW SIu comes to town Ole Miss will face Southern Illinois in Vaught-Hemingway for this season’s home opener on Saturday.

defensive back Jaylon Jones. Jones JOSH GOLLIHAR left during the third quarter against [email protected] Texas Tech with what would be later The Vaught will be locked for the first diagnosed as a torn ACL. Surgery later time this season on Saturday as Ole Miss this week will have the talented corner hosts the Southern Illinois Salukis in a sidelined for the remainder of the non-conference matchup. Both teams season. McGriff understands just how are coming off convincing wins and will much of a loss Jones is. look to gain momentum early in the “I am going to be clear: That is a season. The balanced attack of the Ole tremendous loss for us in more ways Miss offense will clash with the Salukis’ than one,” McGriff stated. “He is dependence on the run game. a tremendous asset in terms of his SIU scored 49 points a week ago with leadership, football intelligence and 295 rushing yards. Junior running back confidence. I always tell (Jaylon), ‘You D.J. Davis tallied the bulk of the yards, are a pro. You possess the skill set … (to) with 127. Nine different players recorded play at a high level.’” at least four rushing attempts in the Jones will be missed in the return 49-10 victory over Murray State. Of the game, as well. He recorded his second 83 offensive snaps, 65 were rushing career kickoff return versus attempts. With the Alabama Crimson Texas Tech, when he went 94 yards to Tide coming to Oxford next week, this score. Jones now has a kickoff return gives defensive coordinator Wesley touchdown in the each of the Rebels’ PHOTO: AARON M. SPRECHER | AP McGriff a chance to evaluate his defense last two season openers. These are Ole Ole Miss running back Scottie Phillips (22) carries the ball during the game against Texas Tech on against the run. Miss’ only return since the Saturday, Sept. 1 in Houston. Ole Miss won 47-27. “Offensively they do a good job of 2012 season. mixing personnels,” head coach Matt In addition to the well-known passing Luke said. “They’re a smash mouth team, threat of the Ole Miss offense, the team’s to work with in his receiving corps, the Ole Miss sideline will need to stay but they’ll take their deep shots. They running game has flashed onto the scene quarterback and offensive line. The one focused to improve to 2-0. Stopping the have a really big senior quarterback, they as potentially special. Junior college question mark for the offense was the run is never guaranteed by the Ole Miss got a scat back. They did a nice job in the transfer Scottie Phillips gashed the Texas running back position. It appears the defense, and the Salukis can move the one game they have on tape.” Tech defense for 204 yards in his debut question has been answered, a week into ball if the Rebels are not prepared. The priority for the Ole Miss for the Rebels. the season. “I think what we’ve really focused on is secondary this week will be to make Phillips was the first player to eclipse This weekend’s matchup could be a us getting better and having a standard,” tackles in the run game over dropping the 200-yard mark for the Rebels since potential trap game for the Rebels. A win Luke said. “We didn’t play our best back into coverage. This will be the first Brandon Bolden in 2010. Phil Longo against a Power Five opponent sits in the football in week one. There’s plenty for week of adjusting to life without starting already has an embarrassment of riches rearview mirror and No. 1 Alabama lurks us to get better at and that’s what we’re in the shadows. The many new faces on focused on.” On deck for the season Sports editor Justin Dial previews this season’s game predictions

SOUTHERN ILLINOIS ALABAMA KENT STATE LSU ULM SEPT. 8 SEPT. 15 SEPT. 22 SEPT. 29 OCT. 6

Southern Illinois is Now, the one that everyone’s been Ole Miss comes into this The Rebels’ first true road The University of simply outmatched in this waiting for: the Alabama game. Ole game having just upset test comes in its week five Louisiana-Monroe game. Although upsets Miss opens SEC play at home versus the the No. 1 team in the matchup versus LSU. At this comes to town for and scares happen all the Crimson Tide. Alabama isn’t going to nation with a trip to Baton point, the Rebs are ranked in homecoming on Oct. time in stop the Ole Miss offense, and Ole Miss Rouge on the horizon. The the top 15 nationally and are 6 and has a chance (looking at you Penn isn’t going to stop the Alabama offense Rebels stumble into this riding high. Unfortunately, to pile onto the Rebel State), that will not be — unless Jalen Hurts is in the game. The game with an unfocused it looks as if LSU may woes from a week the case this weekend. question becomes: Who will win the attitude in the first half but have found its guy with prior. However, they Vaught-Hemingway turnover battle? If Ole Miss plays a clean pick it up in the second quarterback Joe Burrow. don’t get the job done. Stadium will be rocking game with no turnovers and forces a and win convincingly to Burrow and the LSU defense Ole Miss destroys ULM on Saturday. I expect a turnover or two, the Rebels take it. I’m improve to 4-0. defend their home turf and from the opening snap. blowout in the home going with the upset at home. ruin Ole Miss’ undefeated bid. opener. SEE THEDMONLINE FOR THE FULL SEASON LINEUP

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thinking, ‘Man, A.J. is going to have was just a freshman during scoring a touchdown. The Rebels JOHN MACON GILLESPIE to play with his hand on the ground,’ Brown’s senior season, Brown won the game 31-28. [email protected] but when he started running I was was frequently found practicing and Last season, Brown accumulated A.J. Brown has always been a like, ‘Oh, man, he hasn’t lost a step.’” working by himself outside 1,252 receiving yards and 11 special talent. A.J. Brown’s talent in high of practice hours. touchdowns, which were enough to The Starkville native made school was quickly noticed by his “He put in work behind closed earn him All-SEC and All-American waves in his high school career, teammates, as well, including former doors,” Clark said. “I remember honors as well as to secure his win of accumulating 2,883 receiving Starkville quarterback Brady Davis. going out to the field thinking the C-Spire Conerly Trophy. Those yards and 35 touchdowns for his “From the very beginning, I I (was) the only one there, and numbers were also enough to give hometown Starkville Yellowjackets. knew he was different,” Davis said. just seeing him work by himself was him the school single-season record Brown’s road to Ole Miss did not “God blessed him with the physical so shocking.” for receiving yards. happen overnight, however, and it attributes and all the ability in the Clark and Brown have formed Brown’s 2018 campaign got off to took a lot of work on his part to join world.” a relationship since Brown’s a hot start, as well, as he hauled in a the conversation as one of the best Davis now plays quarterback graduation, and now that Clark touchdown pass and 93 yards against wide receivers in the nation. at Illinois State University but is a senior at Starkville, Brown Texas Tech in Houston. Brown was Although it has taken years for still works out with Brown on encourages him to keep working one of four Rebel wideouts to have Brown to reach his peak at Ole Miss, occasion, when he returns home to toward another state championship, more than 60 receiving yards in Starkville High School photographer Mississippi. According to Davis, he which would be the school’s first the season opener. He has quickly Thomas Brown has seen Brown play can see Brown’s talent shine through since Brown’s senior season. become a fan-favorite at Ole Miss football since his peewee days and in his work ethic and drive in the “It plays a big role in my life just and has once again attracted national said his talent was always superb. weight room. knowing I can look up to him and attention as he did in his high school “A.J. was a natural talent from “What sets A.J. Brown apart is (Mississippi State’s) Willie Gay,” days. He is a projected first-round the beginning,” Thomas Brown said. his work ethic,” Davis said. “Every Clark said. “My confidence is at 100 pick in the 2019 NFL Draft, and if he “I personally didn’t see anything time we are both in Mississippi, we percent. A.J. just tells me to keep continues to live up to his potential, that stood out physically like you are working every day. And for him, balling.” he could be a force to be reckoned see in some kids that are better just that is just one of his two or three According to Davis, after seeing with at the professional level. because of their size or speed. A.J. workouts for that day.” Brown excel in high school, there At this point, however, no one is was just good. His ball skills and That work ethic paid off during was never any doubt that he would surprised. hand-eye coordination were there as Brown’s senior season as he helped be among college football’s elite in a a seven-year-old.” lead his Yellowjackets to their first matter of time. According to Thomas Brown, A.J. state championship since 2012. “I knew A.J. Brown sat out of football during “At (that) point, I think everybody had the potential his junior high and freshman years in the nation knew about A.J. to be the best but returned to the gridiron for his Brown,” Thomas Brown said. “No wideout in the sophomore year of high school and surprises. He had just as good of country,” Davis never looked back. a senior year with everyone in the said. “And I “In tenth grade, I noticed he was stadium knowing the ball was going think he is just back,” Thomas Brown said. “When to him. Every single game, it was only that — if not the we played West Point, I noticed that a matter of time before A.J. struck.” best player in they would always kind of plug A.J. All the way to the state college football.” in here or there, even on defense. championship game versus Petal, With Brown So (his) being relied on as a tenth A.J. Brown continued to make being from grader at a 6A school against one of highlight-reel plays that kept his Starkville, he’s the best opponents and rivals stood national hype going. added an extra out to me.” “As usual, A.J. put his stamp on variable to It was after his sophomore season that game with a deep ball that kind the Egg Bowl that A.J. Brown began adding size to of wrapped up and every season his talent. summed up his high school he has been a “The coming out party was 11th- career,” Thomas Brown said. Rebel. In 2017’s grade year,” Thomas Brown said. A.J. Brown’s work ethic and installment “He really grew a lot. I thought he success impacted the Yellowjackets of the rivalry, was headed toward playing tight end who would play in his wake. Brown yelled to — he had gotten so big. I remember According to current Starkville the crowd, “This going to the spring practice game running back Rodrigues Clark, who is my city,” after

29482 PAGE 8 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 7 SEPTEMBER 2018 FOOTBALL PREVIEW Luke family ties The Luke family has a legacy spanning multiple generations at Ole Miss. With Matt Luke now at the helm, his hope is to continue building upon that legacy.

JUSTIN DIAL [email protected] Long before Matt Luke was officially and we’d have those numbers with frequent mandatory outings may offer him a scholarship to play named the head coach of Ole Miss our names on the back.” have stunted Matt Luke’s personal quarterback and, along with that Football, before he declined several In his early years, Matt Luke interest in playing sports. When he opportunity, a chance to continue his other scholarship offers to stay home wasn’t the sports guy that one might finally did start playing, though, he family’s legacy in Oxford. and play at Ole Miss as a walk-on, he expect a future head football coach was prepared. Although he wasn’t “As soon as Ole Miss offered (me a was just a kid from Gulfport. to be. He was more into Star Wars the athlete that his brother was, Matt position), the party was over,” Tom One may wonder why anyone and things of that nature until he got Luke had a strong work ethic instilled Luke said. “It was an easy decision.” would give up opportunities such as up to third grade, when he started in him as a child. Playing at quarterback for Ole Miss paid tuition and the strong likelihood playing football. “It just came easy to Tom,” Tommy from 1989-91, Tom Luke had a solid of playing time early in one’s career, “I can see how a sibling getting said. “(Matt) worked hard because he career under center for the Rebels. but it was never a question for Luke of dragged to my events may have a had an older brother who was good. Because he was a quarterback, Tom where he was going to attend. negative effect (on his interest in He felt like everyone expected him to Luke had a different playing style than It was Ole Miss. It’s in his blood. his brother, who was a lineman in The Luke family is legendary on both high school and college. Ole Miss’ campus. Luke’s father, “(Their positions were) dictated Tommy Luke, played defensive back by their body types,” Tommy Luke for the Rebels in the 1960s under said. “(Tom) was a little skinny thing during the Rebels’ until he began to gain some (weight) “glory days.” He wound up at Ole Miss in high school when he started lifting because his sister was enrolled there weights. Matt, of course, had the at the time. body of a lineman. He played middle “She came up here, and I starting linebacker and center throughout all visiting up here with her,” Tommy of high school.” Luke said. “I was only recruited by Ole Four years after his brother Miss and Mississippi State. I liked it graduated from Ole Miss, Matt Luke (at Ole Miss), so I had to come.” graduated high school and received What the siblings didn’t know at several scholarship offers. However, the time was that their decisions to like his brother before him, he did not attend Ole Miss would shape their have one from his dream school. He family’s lineage, the history of Ole contemplated accepting an athletic Miss and the Rebel football program scholarship to Rice but ultimately for generations to come. decided against it. Instead, he chose to Matt Luke grew up sharing a take on the challenge of walking on to room with his older brother, Tom, in the Ole Miss football team. Gulfport. He was born and raised on “For me, it’s where I wanted to the Gulf Coast and attributes much be,” he said. “I had some scholarship of who he is today to his upbringing offers. But I just felt like maybe I had there. a chip on my shoulder, and I knew I “Growing up on the coast, I guess, is was gonna be good enough (for Ole probably the farthest you can get from Miss’ team). I just felt that way. I just Oxford, in Mississippi,” Matt Luke came here and worked really hard said. “I loved growing up there — very and earned everything I had.” proud of that. My oldest son’s name is Matt Luke was right — he Harrison, after Harrison County.” successfully walked on and played Matt and Tom Luke are seven at center for Ole Miss from 1995-98. years apart, so there wasn’t really He eventually became a leader in the much competition between the two locker room and ultimately served as in anything. Sports, wrestling or a team captain. He had no intentions whatever it was, the age gap was just of becoming a coach until he got his too vast for Matt to make up. first taste of coaching during his final “By the time (Matt) was eight year of playing for Ole Miss. years old, I was in high school. By the PHOTO: CHRISTIAN JOHNSON “The turning point in his career time he was really playing football, Head coach Matt Luke watches the team run drills during practice over the summer. is when (Ole Miss) went to the I was already in college,” Tom Luke (Independence Bowl),” Tom Luke said. “It was hard to have athletic said. “Coach (Tommy) Tuberville had (competition). But we shared a room left for Auburn, and coach (David) growing up, and the one thing we had “ Cutcliffe had come in. (Matt) had the in common was the love for Ole Miss.” opportunity to sit in front of a chalk The brothers’ love for Ole Miss It was my lifelong dream. My dad board and talk (about) how coach stems from their father, who, Cutcliffe’s offense was going to be admittedly, didn’t have to push his and my brother were my role relayed to his teammates — using love for his alma mater onto his models and my heroes. I wanted to (their) old terminology — for that sons. The Luke family would travel one game.” to Jackson or make the drive up to be just like them.” Ole Miss wound up winning that Oxford to see the Rebels play as often game convincingly — with a final as possible, but living in Gulfport with score of 35-18 — under interim head Matt Luke three kids didn’t make that an easy coach Cutcliffe. Matt Luke had played task for Tommy Luke. Ole Miss Football head coach an integral role during the matchup, “Every time (Ole Miss) played in both on the field and behind the Jackson, we tried to make it, and we’d sports),” Tom Luke said. “Instead of be good, and once he got into it, he scenes on the chalkboard. That game come up (to Oxford) for homecoming getting to play all the time, (Matt) really started liking it.” was the pivotal moment in Matt every year,” Tom Luke said. “We’d had to travel to watch me play all-star Tom Luke approached high school Luke’s career — a moment that would make that five-hour trip (to Oxford), baseball games or high school baseball graduation with several scholarship change his life forever. and we’d always go into the book store games.” offers on the table. However, he Originally, Tommy Luke was averse — always buy a jersey. It started with Throughout Matt Luke’s childhood, didn’t yet have one from the only to either of his sons getting into the my dad’s No. 35. Then, we started to family trips to watch his brother school that mattered to him: Ole coaching profession. grow a connection to other players, play occurred near-weekly. These Miss. Eventually, Ole Miss did “Matt, I have never recommended FOOTBALL PREVIEW THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 7 SEPTEMBER 2018 | PAGE 9

anyone go into the coaching field, but there was no doubt in my mind that 1967: TOMMY LUKE, MATT LUKE’S FATHER I think you’re an exception,” Tommy (Matt) was the perfect person (at) the Luke said, giving advice to his son. perfect time. I think it (was) a perfect “I think you’re just cut out (for it). scenario … and I still feel that way, You’re very knowledgeable about two years later.” everything, and you know how to do As Ole Miss’ interim head coach in it.” 2017, Matt Luke led the Rebels to a Matt Luke spent his fifth year at 6-6 record. That may not sound too Ole Miss as a student assistant coach impressive at first, but considering to Cutcliffe. Luke had exhausted his that he was thrust into the position eligibility as a player, so for him, this late into the offseason, finished 3-1 was the next best thing. in the Rebels’ last four games and “Several people tried to talk me out topped the season off with a road win of it,” he said. “Coach (Cutcliffe) really in the Egg Bowl, Luke showed that he said, ‘I want you to give this a shot. I can win at the college level. want you to try it for one year; I think “(Matt being head coach causes) a you’ll be really good at it.’” mixed emotion,” Tommy Luke said. Following that year of student “You know how tough it’s gonna be. coaching, Matt Luke graduated and You win, and everything is great. was forced to go elsewhere to gain You lose, and you’re the worst ever. more coaching experience. I didn’t know if I wanted Matt to go According to Tommy Luke, through all that or not, but he was Cutcliffe called Matt Luke and said, (more) worried (about) us having to “You know I can’t hire you straight put up with all that talk.” out of college — you can’t do that in Following the Rebels’ Egg Bowl PHOTO: OLE MISS YEARBOOK the SEC. You’re gonna have to go off victory in Starkville, Ole Miss Head coach Matt Luke’s father, Tommy Luke (35), poses for a team photo in 1967. to another school, and when I get an removed the interim tag from Matt opening, I’ll hire you back.” Luke’s title and introduced him as So that’s what Matt Luke did. He the new head football coach. Luke’s 1991: TOM LUKE, MATT LUKE’S BROTHER spent two years as Murray State’s dream of becoming a head coach was offensive line coach to prepare finally achieved at his destination himself for a return to a position in an school, his alma mater. SEC program. “(Being named head coach is) Cutcliffe kept his word. In 2002, he obviously a great honor at any rehired Matt Luke as an offensive line school, much less your alma mater,” and tight ends coach, a position which Luke said. “At some point (in life) Luke held for three seasons. I’ve been a fan, a player, a coach, an “It was my lifelong dream,” Matt alumnus, a graduate assistant — I’ve Luke said. “My dad and my brother pretty much been everything you can were my role models and my heroes. I be. (This is) not a job — I am truly wanted to be just like them.” emotionally invested.” In 2004, Ole Miss fired Cutcliffe and replaced him with , who retained Matt Luke on the coaching staff for just one season. PHOTO: OLLIE BROCK | OLE MISS YEARBOOK Following the 2005 Tom Luke prepares for a play versus Tennessee in 1991. season, Luke — who continued to hold the same coaching position 1998: MATT LUKE — served under Cutcliffe at Tennessee for two years before following him to Duke. There, Luke served as a co-offensive coordinator and the offensive line coach. After six years away from Oxford, Matt Luke was rehired by the university in 2012, when became the head coach. Under Freeze, Luke spent four years as a co-offensive coordinator and the offensive line coach. During Freeze’s tenure, Tom Luke’s son Cale Luke continued the Luke tradition by enrolling at Ole Miss. He was the third generation of the Luke family to attend Ole Miss, and like his uncle, Cale walked on to the football team and received a scholarship before his time in Oxford was up. “Watching (Cale) graduate was more fun than anything,” Tommy Luke said. In summer 2017, Freeze resigned as the head coach of Ole Miss Football because of allegations of personal misconduct. Matt Luke was named interim head coach on July 20, 2017, as the Luke name became even further embedded in the lore of PHOTO: JASON BAKER | OLE MISS YEARBOOK Ole Miss. Matt Luke snaps the ball for Ole Miss in 1998. “Obviously it was exciting,” Tom Luke said. “But at the same time,

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39630 FOOTBALL PREVIEW THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 7 SEPTEMBER 2018 | PAGE 11 Knox brothers Assistant sports editor Ben Miller sat down with Luke and Dawson Knox to talk about football and life. BEN MILLER [email protected] Q: How did you end up playing on opposite sides of the ball?

Dawson: Well, I’ve been on offense my whole life. I’ve played quarterback, a little receiver, so I’ve had no type of defensive background. And when I got here, I just walked on as a tight end because I already knew how to run routes, but I had to learn how to block. If I was to do anything on defense, I would have no idea what I was doing. Luke: For me, I played offense pretty FILE PHOTO: ARIEL COBBERT much my whole life, too, up until my Tight end Dawson Knox gains yards for the Rebels during the game versus Auburn last season. Auburn won 44-23. senior year. I played a little DB before that, but I was mainly an offensive at all. Since he came here, I’ve been I just fell in love with everything, and it him under my wing for the most part, guy — that’s where I got most of my a huge fan, and that’s one of (the) was over from there. because he’s always been able to stand reps. But senior year they put me at biggest reasons (that) I came here — up for himself. linebacker just to see how I would do, just that he was here. I’ve got about Q: Dawson: Being the older one, Luke: I’d choose his side if it came and I did pretty well. So I just grew to three other guys on this team that went you obviously probably beat up on down to it, but nobody really messed love that more than tight end. I thought to my high school, so that played a part Luke a fair bit. But were you ever with him. (I) haven’t really had to do I was going to play tight end in college in it, too. protective over him from other that. just like Dawson, but I started to love Dawson: Yeah, I really had no idea people? playing defense and was better at it. about Ole Miss before my first visit Q: Favorite band? here. I came to a game once during my Dawson: Yeah, it was always sort of Q: What brought you to Ole Miss? sophomore year of high school with a like, ‘I can mess with him all I want,’ but Luke: Zac Brown Band. I knew friend who was a Texas fan. Texas was as soon as someone else from outside Dawson would be slow, so I had to just Luke: Really it was just him. Like, playing down here, so I was actually of the family starts messing with him, get mine in quick. before Dawson came here, I didn’t wearing his Texas gear and supporting I’d get protective. Like, if he got in Dawson: Well, I like a lot of different have much connection to Ole Miss, (its) team. That was the first exposure a fight with somebody in camp, I’d types of music, but the Zac Brown Band I had to Ole Miss. Then once I visited, definitely take his side, but I mainly take would have to be up there for me, too. Once In A Lifetime Offering Four individual estate lots in the heart of Ole Miss and Oxford offered for sale Located just across W Jackson Ave. from Sorority Row

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interesting meeting at the Oxford IHOP JOSH GOLLIHAR with Michigan head coach . [email protected] Harbaugh was in search of a competent Saturday brought on a new beginning Memphis-based author quarterback, and Patterson was in search for two programs — one at the forefront Lisa Patton will preview her of a way out. They were a perfect match. of national conversation, the other placed latest novel, “Rush,” which The unlikely union between the two on the back burner. One has a high-profile depicts sorority recruitment led to hyperbolic proclamations across coach, and the other’s coach has his dream at Ole Miss, at 5 p.m. Friday the country. Matt Hayes of Bleacher job. One has an elite defense, and the at Off Square Books. Report wrote an article titled “QB Shea other has the best wide receiver group A former student at the Patterson Ready to Be Michigan’s Savior in the country. Both have one thing in University of Alabama, After Escaping Ole Miss Wreckage.” common: Ole Miss . Patton is no stranger to SEC There are two things to dissect here. First, Shea Patterson was a blue-chip prospect traditions and college life in Michigan’s recent result against Notre coming out of high school and headlined the South. Dame proves that the work of a “savior” is the 2016 Ole Miss recruiting class. Tabbed PHOTO: ROBIN ALAM | ICON SPORTSWIRE VIA AP IMAGES “Rush” is set in a fictional not as easy as writing words on paper. as the No. 1 dual-threat quarterback, sorority on the University When he left Ole Miss, Patterson Michigan quarterback Shea Patterson (2) is tackled by Notre Dame defensive lineman Julian Okwara Patterson was perfect to set the college of Mississippi campus and left behind an experienced offensive (42) and Notre Dame defensive lineman Jerry Tillery (99). football landscape ablaze under Hugh allows readers to experience line with four returning starters as well Freeze’s offense. After suffered opponents. And, of course, Michigan’s injury and took in stride all the hardships the behind-the-scenes as a wide receiver corps as deep and a season-ending injury, the Patterson high profile rivalry game versus Ohio State and responsibilities an SEC quarterback lives of sorority members, talented as any in the country. In his era began more quickly than expected. at the end of the regular season looms, faces. This man, Jordan Ta’amu, was a freshmen going through first game this season, Patterson had to Leading a second-half comeback on the as Ohio State is looking as good as ever. no-name junior college transfer from New recruitment and sorority operate without one of his top receivers road against Texas A&M, Patterson gave If Patterson cannot lead the Wolverines Mexico Military Institute who chose a employees. — Tarik Black, who injured his foot in the Rebel faithful a glimpse of greatness. to victories in these matchups, the savior backup role with the Rebels over a chance The book’s plot follows the practice — as well as without an offensive Sadly, he would never reach the levels of may join the long list of Harbaugh’s to start for Minnesota. Nobody expected distinct, but intersecting, line capable of keeping the Fighting Archie, Eli or Chad. underwhelming Michigan quarterbacks. that the player waiting in the wings was lives of three people Irish’s front seven out of the Michigan Within the first seven games of the On the other side of the divorce are ready to explode. Ta’amu burst onto the backfield. Constant hits and humidity season, the Rebels suffered four losses Matt Luke and the Rebels. Ole Miss is in scene by leading the Rebels to three wins, led to Patterson suffering cramps — three of which were blowouts — and the second season of its two-year bowl among which was a statement win in the throughout the second half. lost Patterson to a knee injury that cost ban. There is little to no pressure on Luke Egg Bowl, that brought the Rebels’ season The play-calling from Harbaugh him the rest of the season. Ole Miss’ first except to build the program for when the to a .500 record. The Rebels’ offense has was clearly not built for the skillset of a half against LSU would be the last time time comes again for Ole Miss to play for stabilized considerably since Ta’amu — player like Patterson, who spent most Patterson took the field as a Rebel. bowl berth. Ole Miss’ current roster puts whose fit in Phil Longo’s system seems of the game under center. Coach and Patterson joined a group of players, the team in a perfect situation, moving more natural than Patterson’s was — quarterback are not clicking yet. On including high-profile recruits Deontay past the 2018-19 season. The “Nasty Wide began starting at quarterback regularly. Saturday, Western Michigan will offer Anderson and Breon Dixon, that left Outs” can scare any defense they face, and With no expectations and no bowl the duo another chance to build some Ole Miss in a mass exodus as a result of Scottie Phillips has already established game coming, the JUCO transfer with a offensive momentum that Michigan the NCAA investigation and subsequent himself as a playmaker at running back. depth chart full of talent may be in a better desperately needs as it nears a three- sanctions. His decision led to an The Rebels’ real star is the man who situation than the Wolverines’ “savior.” week stretch of matchups versus top-15 filled in full-time following Patterson’s

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Memphis author explores Greek life issues through fiction

involved with Ole Miss ANDREW OSMAN sororities: Lilith Whitmore, [email protected] the president of Alpha Memphis-based author Delta Beta; Cali Watkins, a Lisa Patton will preview her potential new member with latest novel, “Rush,” which everything but the pedigree depicts sorority recruitment to get her a bid; and Miss at Ole Miss, at 5 p.m. Friday Pearl, Alpha Delta Beta’s at Off Square Books. housekeeper. A former student at the Patton said her hope with University of Alabama, this novel was “to write Patton is no stranger to SEC something with meaning and traditions and college life in that had a message.” the South. Although she attended “Rush” is set in a fictional Alabama, Patton said the sorority on the University decision to set “Rush” at Ole of Mississippi campus and Miss felt right. allows readers to experience “I wanted to set my the behind-the-scenes characters in Memphis and “The main message is that lives of sorority members, have them go to Ole Miss,” young women have a voice, freshmen going through Patton said. “It felt very and young women today are recruitment and sorority natural.” learning to use that voice,” employees. Patton said the book is Patton said. “They can use The book’s plot follows the primarily about women’s’ their voices for change.” distinct, but intersecting, lives but also deals with To ensure the book lives of three people equality and inclusion. presents accurate information, Patton spoke with women involved in Greek life at Ole Miss, LSU and Alabama as well as housemothers and housekeepers at Ole Miss. “Rush” is Patton’s fourth novel. She was inspired to write her first book, “Whistlin’ Dixie in a Nor’easter,” after working in Vermont as an innkeeper. After this, though, Patton said she realized that the North was not for her and PHOTOS COURTESY: LISA PATTON returned to Tennessee. In Memphis, she worked in the Lilly, who was a sorority struggles and achievements music industry as a manager member at Ole Miss in the of its central characters,” at the Orpheum Theatre, a 1980s, said she loves the Lilly said. promoter for a radio station book, noting how true-to-life Lilly said she is unsure and a music producer, before Patton’s writing is. if the book could lead to returning to her writing. “Even though this is a changes in Greek life on the This will be Patton’s fourth work of fiction, I think (that) Ole Miss campus. time at Square Books, and the author does a good job “The book raises some the store’s special events of capturing the culture of serious, thought-provoking coordinator, Alissa Lilly, is sorority life and that readers questions (about) issues of particularly excited about will enjoy peering into that race, fairness and economic having Patton visit again world — into its good parts diversity within sorority with a novel Lilly thinks and not-so-good parts,” Lilly culture — both for the many will relate to. said. sororities themselves and “Patton is a best-selling Lilly said she thinks the how the system as a whole Southern writer, and we are book will be engaging even treats the employees who so excited that she’s doing an for those who haven’t had work in the sorority houses,” event here for ‘Rush,’” Lilly first-hand experiences like Lilly said. “Hopefully, it said. “We think it will be a Patton’s. will spark conversations big book for our community “I think people who read on campus and provide a because it is set here in ‘Rush’ will not only be backdrop for heightened Oxford on the Ole Miss entertained by the book’s awareness and positive campus and is about sorority engaging story but will also change.” life in the South.” be deeply moved by the Make the DM part of your morning ritual Drop it and drive.

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SPORTS PROTESTS continued from page 1 tell the story of how a group of black players forced the League to move its 1965 All-Star game from New Orleans to Houston, but Nike’s new ad prompted him to rework the lecture. By the time Wednesday’s Brown Bag Lunch arrived, Ross had pulled together a new presentation taking a look at how Kaepernick’s experience resembles that of the 21 players who boycotted the AFL in 1965. “Some 50 years before Colin Kaepernick took a knee in protest of police brutality and continued racial discrimination in America, black AFL All-Stars had successfully challenged racism in the city of PHOTO: SLADE RAND New Orleans,” Ross said. Professor Charles Ross lectures on the role of protests in professional football in the Overby Center on Wednesday. The Ole Miss Center for the Study of Southern Culture hosted The group of AFL players the discussion. who boycotted the league’s his first knee in 2016. Those mistreatment peaked upon breaking nature of sports to encourage students with All-Star game in 1965 did so 21 players voted to boycott their arrival in New Orleans for themselves. Ross said fans busy schedules to attend for reasons similar to those after their experiences the All-Star game in January and players often leave their without having to miss out on that led Kaepernick to take with discrimination and 1965. 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Mississippi together,” she said. public interest and may be America win, offers advice To help advance her brought, if at all, only by the platform, Branch developed Attorney General or a district “Love Letters,” a program that attorney,” the appeals court donates paper, envelopes and judges wrote. “We find that BRIANNA BYNUM stamps to incarcerated parents SCV’s members have no [email protected] to help them reach out to private right that entitles their children. Most recently, them to require that UM Miss Mississippi 2018 Asya she has been visiting schools refrain from implementing its Branch is representing the around the state to talk to diversity plan.” University of Mississippi children about her experiences In July 2017, the university in this year’s Miss America and to encourage them to be announced it would put up competition, but she will not persistent. signs acknowledging that be the first Rebel to grace the “I want to tell them that some buildings on campus Miss America stage. no dream is impossible,” were built with slave labor. Miss America 1960 Lynda Branch said. “You know, your The university also announced Lee Mead — who has since circumstances don’t have to then that it would remove the married and prefers to use define your future. You can name of James K. Vardaman her husband’s last name, Shea progress through anything. from a building. Vardaman, — is an Ole Miss alumna who You have to use your situation a white supremacist, was won the title after winning to strengthen you, and you Mississippi’s governor from Miss Mississippi in 1959. just have to learn from it and 1904 to 1908 and a U.S. Another Ole Miss student, move forward. Just know it senator from 1913 to 1919. , won Miss doesn’t have to hinder you in The move to add historical America just one year before any way.” context to some places and Shea’s reign. Ole Miss graduate to rename others at Ole Miss “It was an incredible shock Christine Williamson is Miss has been happening amid to me,” Shea said. “I went to Tennessee 2018 and will debate in many parts of the the Miss America pageant also be participating in the U.S. about how to deal with knowing I couldn’t possibly pageant. She was a broadcast the public display of symbols win because Miss Mississippi Miss America 1960 Lynda Lee Mead journalism major and news and monuments tied to slavery had won the year before, so I anchor for NewsWatch Ole and the Confederacy. New was just trying to do the best “I know Sam Haskell you can do to increase your Miss during her time as a Orleans is among the places I could and not embarrass my personally. He’s a very chances of winning other than student. that have recently removed state.” fine man, and I regret do the things that you do (in) The competition’s winner Confederate monuments. Shea’s participation proved tremendously the the very best way that you will receive a $50,000 Harvard University last to be far from embarrassing. misunderstandings that have can,” Shea said. scholarship. Live coverage of year acknowledged its ties She said that the personal caused him to have to resign,” Shea has not attended a the Miss America competition to colonial-era slavery, and interview portion was Shea said. “We’re headed in Miss America competition will be broadcast from 8-10 Yale University rebranded a her favorite part of the a new direction, and I’m just since 2009 and will not be p.m. Sunday on ABC. residential college that had competition and that talking very hopeful.” attending this year. However, been named for a 19th century to the judges was a pleasure. Although this year’s she is hoping to attend the U.S. vice president who A lot has changed since competition is surrounded 100th anniversary of the supported slavery. September 1959, when by controversy, Shea said competition in 2021. Shea competed for the she hopes the Miss America This year’s Miss America crown. 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marketing communications LASHERICA THORNTON major, asked her family if they [email protected] had been affected at all, to which they responded, “No, not Tropical Storm Gordon one hair.” swept over the Mississippi- However, she wasn’t afraid Alabama border Tuesday for her family. They lived on night, knocking out power for the coast when Hurricane thousands of Mississippians in Katrina hit in 2005; they the storm’s path. evacuated for it and all tropical It was expected to make storms or hurricanes after that. landfall as a hurricane but Now they’re used to it, she said. never reached sufficient “During this time of the year, strength. On Wednesday, the television in the living room Gordon was reclassified as a is solely on our local news tropical depression. Since then, channel, WLOX, and we keep a the storm has dropped heavy close eye on updates in case of rains across Mississippi but a possible unfortunate turn of has spared the families and events,” Young said. communities of two Ole Miss Flash flood warnings were students. issued from the Florida Mississippi has reported panhandle up through parts no major destructions or of Mississippi, Alabama, casualties thus far, but the Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, PHOTO: DAN ANDERSON | AP PHOTO storm caused a tree limb Iowa and Illinois. Trucks with the Alabama Department of Transportation work to block off a flooded part of US Highway 98 while fighting rain from to fall on a mobile home in Young’s mom stocked her Tropical Storm Gordon on Wednesday in Spanish Fort, Alabama. Pensacola, Florida, killing a car with supplies and filled and Creel described hurricane When Creel was seven stayed to work in the hospital, 2-year-old child. it with gas in case water got season as always being scary years old, he and his parents he evacuated to Jacksonville, “Hearing (that) a baby’s life into gas lines, advising Young when it comes around. experienced Katrina, a Florida, with his aunt. “Only (was) taken due to extreme to do the same even though He said his family often puts category 3 hurricane — that to come back to an empty lot weather is always saddening,” she’s in Oxford. up window shutters, fills the is, one with 100-140 mph where our house used to be,” Naoime Young, an Ocean Taylor Creel, a junior bathtub with water in case sustained winds — when it Creel said. Springs native, said. “Whether marketing major from Biloxi, pipes burst and buys plenty of made landfall on Mississippi’s With more than 200 Katrina it is thousands (of lives) or one said his parents told him the food and water. coast, with winds stretching deaths lingering on Gulf Coast life taken — no matter what, only effect back home from Even though Creel’s family across 400 miles. residents’ minds just as they it is a detrimental impact and Gordon was rain. wasn’t affected this week, “We lost everything,” Creel do on Creel’s, residents now (is) sad information for all Hurricanes are a constant Gordon caused him to think said. prepare more, just as they did coastal residents.” threat from June to October, back to Hurricane Katrina. While his mom, a nurse, for Tropical Storm Gordon. Young, a junior integrated

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