ODE TO REX

*** I WAS VERY SAD TO HEAR OF THE PASSING OF SWEETWATER'S REX RHODES . REX WAS A STUDENT ,PLAYER, TEACHER ,COACH & ADMINISTRATOR AT SHS FOR 37 OF HIS 55 YEARS ON EARTH .

REX WAS TOO SMALL & TOO SLOW TO PLAY FOR THE WILDCATS BUT HE WAS TOO SMART NOT TO PLAY . REX'S  FOOTBALL IQ ALLOWED HIM TO BE IN THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME EVIDENCED BY HIS 3 INTERCEPTIONS IN HIS FIRST VARSITY START .

REX ALSO WON A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP AS A COACH . REX 'S HEART WAS BIGGER THAN THE HILLS THAT SURROUND THE SWEETWATER VALLEY .  I LOVED REX RHODES !

*** A HAPPY NOTE

MY FINE PROTEGE , JIM ELGIN HAS HIS TEAM IN THE ALABAMA STATE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME .

JIM AND I ARE SOULBROTHERS FROM GIBSON COUNTY AND WERE QB AND COACH AT RHODES COLLEGE IN 1985 RINGING A CHAMPIONSHIP WITH AN 8 - 1 -1 RECORD .

*** OLE MISS BEAT STATE . BOTH TEAMS HAD GREAT YEARS . IT WAS A HIGH POINT FOR BOTH TEAMS . I HOPE BOTH CAN MAINTAIN THESE LEVELS OF PLAY IN COMING YEARS . GREAT JOB REBELS AND DAWGS .


*** WILL THEY GO OR STAY ?

WILL HUGH FREEZE GO TO FLORIDA ? IT SEEMS TO BE THE SMART THING . BETTER SITUATION IN EVERY WAY . SORRY OLE MISS FANS .

BUT I THINK HUGH WILL STAY PUT . WILL HE REGRET THE ROAD NOT TAKEN ? ONLY TIME WILL TELL .

WILL DAN GO TO MICHIGAN , NEBRASKA , OR PARTS UNKNOWN ? HE SHOULD . WHY?HE CAN'T DO ANYMORE AT STATE ,& IT IS UNLIKELY THAT DANNO CAN MAINTAIN .

WHAT MULLEN HAS DONE AT STATE IS BEYOND  ALL ONE CAN IMAGINE . STATE #1 IN THE USA FOR 6 WEEKS

IF EITHER OF THESE TWO BOOK JUSTIN FUENTE WOULD BE A GREAT REPLACEMENT. JF DID A REMARKABLE JOB AT MEMPHIS THIS YEAR . WINNING 9 AT MEMPHIS WILL GET YOU NOTICED AT A LOT OF PLACES .


*** WHAT DOES NEBRASKA WANT

I AM NOT A BO PELLINI FAN . BUT AT LEAST 9 WINS A YEAR FOR 6 YEARS . OVERALL 66 - 27 RECORD .

WITH THAT KIND OF RECORD IT SOULD NOT MATTER IF YOU ARE A TURD WHICH BO IS .

THE HUSKERS PULLED THIS SAME STUNT WITH FRANK SOLICH A FEW YEARS AGO . THE BIG RED HAS NOT RECOVERED YET .

SPEAKING OF TURDS  . DO YOU KNOW TWO BIGGER ONES THAN NICK & MY HERO GENO .

*** A MAN TO LEARN FROM .

I WISH I HAD DISCOVERED THE TEACHING OF FROSTY WESTERING EARLIER IN MY CAREER . GET A COPY OF MAKE THE BIG TIME WHERE YOU ARE .

THIS BOOK IS A GAME CHANGER .

  *** ALL THE THINGS I DID WRONG
          SHE PUT IN A LETTER
         I READ WHAT SHE WROTE
          FARTED , THEN FELDT BETTER               SALLY HICKS & THE HOT LICKS
                                                                                    GIBSON COUNTY BAND OF THE YEAR