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Not complaining, just wondering why there is a $20.00 service charge(last year charge was $5.00) to renew my season tickets according to my on line invoice. Service charge or not, tickets are renewed.

I saw everything from my seat in the stands, once the coach started walking away, Rick started to walk towards him and the coach took off like a little kid as he ran away looking back to see if Rick was coming. Sorry it happened FFR, no fan deserves to be treated that way.

"Coach Cal" replaced JJ at Memphis after JJ spent one season as interim head coach. JJ came to us from Alabama where he was an assistant.

Same here, I wanted to raise my MGC donation to the $500.00 level to keep my green lot parking space. When I asked about the current 9 payment option I was told it was no longer offered. No big deal, I just can't afford to move up my donation and go to the 3 payment option right now. hopefully next year.

From Standup and GMG1999 of the Mean and Green Board Randy Butler is in his second year of his current stint as the tight ends coach at Southern Miss, his sixth year overall coaching tight ends, his 16th year with the Golden Eagles and 28th year overall as a coach. He also is in his sixth year as the Assistant Head Coach and second as the recruiting coordinator. In 2005, Butler, who has the longest tenure of any coach on Bower's staff, coached Freshman All-American and All-Conference USA selection Shawn Nelson, who had the best season ever by a tight end in school history, registering 35 catches for 540 yards and five touchdowns. Nelson was named the New Orleans Bowl MVP, posting six catches for 121 yards and two touchdowns. He also coached the tight end position at Southern Miss during the 1993 and 1994 seasons. In 1994, Butler coached former Golden Eagle stand-out Terry Hardy, who was later drafted by the Arizona Cardinals in the fifth round and played several years in the NFL. In his nine years on the defensive side of the ball, Butler was an integral part of helping contin-ue the tradition of the Southern Miss defense. Butler's development of defensive lines over his tenure at Southern Miss helped further the long-time defensive tradition that is synonymous with Golden Eagle football. Butler spent the 2004 season retooling the defensive line after losing standout defensive ends Terrell Paul and Ronald Jones. The Golden Eagles finished 7-5 for the season and defeated North Texas, 31-10, in the Wyndham New Orleans Bowl. That defense finished No. 2 in Conference USA in scoring defense and No. 3 in total defense. He coached an outstanding line that helped the 2003 Golden Eagles win their fourth Conference USA championship and earn a third trip to the Liberty Bowl. The defense posted some impressive numbers that season, including a No. 14 ranking in scoring defense, No. 13 in pass efficiency defense and No. 23 in total defense. Four of the defensive linemen earned all-league honors for their efforts. Paul anchored the group with a first-team All-Conference USA selection, while Jones and Eric Scott picked up all-conference third-team honors. Redshirt-freshman Greg Casnave was one of three Southern Miss players to be named to the All-Freshman team. Jones signed an NFL free agent contract with the Indianapolis Colts. Butler also coached a stellar defensive line in 2002, led by Paul, an All-Conference defensive end as a junior. The defensive line jelled toward the end of the season and played its best football down the stretch, twice earning defensive Player of the Week honors from the Southern Miss coaching staff. Following the 2000 season, three defensive line-men coached by Butler were selected for postseason honors, three were drafted in the NFL Draft and one more signed a free agent contract. Cedric Scott was selected in the fourth round by the New York Giants, Daleroy Stewart in the sixth by the Dallas Cowboys and John Nix in the seventh, also by the Cowboys. DeQuincy Scott signed a free agent contract with the San Diego Chargers. That same season, three were named to various All Conference USA teams -- Cedric Scott, DeQuincy Scott and Nix. Cedric Scott was named C-USA Co Defensive Player of the Year and an All American by The Associated Press and Football News. Butler also coached Jeff Posey, a two-year standout who signed a free agent contract with San Francisco in 1996 and is currently a starter for the Buffalo Bills. In 1997, he coached Robert Brown, a four-year letterwinner and All-Conference USA first-team honoree. Brown has played professionally in the Canadian Football League for several years and has been an all-pro selection. The former Southern Miss standout was named Assistant Head Coach after the 2000 season. He moved over to coach defensive ends prior to the 1995 season. Prior to moving back to the defensive side of the ball, Butler spent two seasons coaching the tight ends. Butler was an all-star performer at Southern Miss at offensive tackle, earned three letters, and partici-pated in both the East-West Shrine Game and the Senior Bowl following his collegiate career. After a brief stint in the NFL with the Baltimore Colts, Butler returned to his alma mater as a graduate assistant coach. He was a part of the Southern Miss staff that coached the Golden Eagles to a 16-14 victory over McNeese State in the 1980 Independence Bowl. In 1981, he accepted a position as the offensive and defensive line coach at the University of the South. After one season there, Butler went to Southern Methodist University, where he spent the next five seasons as SMU's defensive ends and out-side linebacker's coach under Bobby Collins. While at SMU, Butler was a part of the 1983 Cotton Bowl and Southwest Conference Championship squad. In addi-tion, the Mustangs won the 1984 league title and par-ticipated in the Aloha Bowl and in the 1983 Sun Bowl. In 1987, he went to Mississippi Delta Junior College as defensive coordinator. A year later, Butler traveled to Tulane as the Green Wave offensive tackles and tight ends coach. He spent 1992 as the offensive coordinator at Navarro Junior College. His squad was 8-2 and won the Texas Junior College Conference Championship. Butler graduated from Southern Miss in 1979 with his bachelor's degree and with his master's degree in 1981. He was inducted into the Southern Miss Athletics Hall of Fame prior to the 1999 spring game. He is married to the former Angela Smith, also a Southern Miss graduate. The couple has two children, Anna Leigh and Chelsea. The Butler File: Date of Birth: Oct. 26, 1956 Hometown: Hartford, Ala. Education: Southern Miss, '79 (bachelor's), '81 (master's) Year at Southern Miss: 16 Year in Coaching: 28 Coaching Career: Southern Miss, 2005-06: Assistant Head Coach, Tight Ends Southern Miss, 2001-04: Assistant Head Coach, Defensive Line Southern Miss, 1996-00: Defensive Line Southern Miss, 1995:Defensive Ends Southern Miss, 1993-94: Tight Ends Navarro Junior College, 1992: Offensive Coordinator, Offensive Line Tulane, 1990-91: Defensive Ends Tulane, 1988-89: Offensive Tackles and Tight Ends Miss. Delta Junior College, 1987: Defensive Coordinator, Defensive Line, Linebackers SMU, 1983-86: Defensive Ends and Outside Linebackers SMU, 1982: Part-time assistant, defense University of the South, 1981: Offensive and Defensive Line Southern Miss, 1979-80: Graduate Assistant

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RF isn't going anywhere, talk at the game is he already has written out a statement if he is let go and he isn't fighting back saying his release was performance related. NT will get such negative publicity if RF goes through with it, that he ain't going anywhere.

Have to agree, RV has done some good things, not near as many as he proclaims and honestly some of what has been accomplished he lucked into, he tends to talk a good game all in generalities nothing specific. I'm begining to believe what the TCU folks said when we hired him and that was in their opinion RV was nothing more than a used car salesman. I have little faith in his hiring abilities and fully believe that if allowed to make a change he'll bring in not the best person for the job, but someone that will tout him as a great AD and someone that he will be able to get along with. Sorry folks but all that will get us is more mediocrity and it allows RV to save his own ass, buy a little more time, so he can continue to look for another job and when he's gone we can all say "at least we get to tailgate".

If you think RV is going to hire us a good football coach when he fires DD you are sadly mistaken. He won't hire the best candidate for the job, he'll hire someone he can get along with, and be friends with. Don't believe, look over at the Super Pit. JJ gets an extension for what? .500 or just below year after year. Anyone who was there the night JJ was introduced should remember RV's quote about his short list he keeps in the top of his desk, its so short he can't find it. By firing DD all RV does is save his but for another 3 - 4 years. Personally I hope DD stays, so they both can leave together next year.

Congrats!

That's T. Boone Pickens to you...

Tony, Saw RV come and sit with group at the start halftime to talk tortilla's, what did he have to say??