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First summer term on the Ole Miss campus began today, which means a group of new Rebels are welcomed to Oxford. Four mid-year transfers joined the football program for the spring semester, and eight more members of the 2012 signing class started classes this week. Quintavius Burdette
 Ole Miss has hired Dayton Miller to serve on Andy Kennedy's staff as Coordinator of Basketball Operations.Miller, a Birmingham, Ala., native, was a graduate manager for the program during the 2011-12 season. He was a three-year letterman at the University of Montevallo, leading the Falcons to the NCAA Division II Elite Eight in 2006. View his complete bio here.  We expected the Rebel Road Trip to generate a concentrated burst of media coverage, and it did not disappoint. We confirmed at least 45 examples of earned media from 36 different outlets, including 18 newspapers and 14 TV stations. Here are some of the more notable clips from the coverage. Daily Mississippian: Rebel Road Trip off and running Ole Miss Spirit: Rebels On The Road Hattiesburg American: Ole Miss football coach delights area Rebel fans Sun Herald: Rebel Visit Rallies Fans Meridian Star: Rebel Road Trip Rolls into Meridian WDAM: Freeze, Bjork of Ole Miss stop in Waynesboro WAPT 16: Rebel Road Tour rolls into Jackson Clarion Ledger: Redemption Road ABC 33/40: Rebel Road Trip: Hugh Freeze Visits Birmingham CBS 42: Ole Miss' Hugh Freeze in Town Daily Journal: Ole Miss hierarchy spreads message in Tupelo WTVA: Rebel Road Trip stops in Tupelo Vicksburg Post: Bjork has big plans for Ole Miss Commercial Dispatch: Fans ready to support Freeze, Bjork, Rebels Enterprise-Journal: Making 'it' happen: Freeze, Ole Miss officials appear at Fernwood C.C. Desoto Times Tribune: Freeze revs up Rebel fans Clarksdale Press Register: Freeze speaks to Rebel Club Commercial Appeal: Ole Miss' athletic leaders take message of unity on road
Follow me on Twitter @CampbellKyle.  Crowds on the 16 events of the Rebel Road Trip
exceeded our expectations at practically at every stop. Attendance ranged from
110 for the morning meeting in McComb to 680 for the evening event in
Jackson. Not including the thousands on
hand at Double Decker, total fans for the 15 stops were 3,241 (216.0 per event).
Below are the average attendance numbers per time of day and those stops that
reached capacity at their venue.
Morning average: 151.2Middday average: 154.0 Evening average: 343.0 Jackson-680 Tupelo-300 Corinth-240 (turned away 100) Nashville-240 West Point-145 Birmingham-115 Follow me on Twitter @CampbellKyle.
A lot of people had a hand in making Rebel Road Trip 2012 a reality. From the two advanced teams that prepped each venue to the folks back in Oxford, here are some of the individuals that deserve credit for making the inaugural RRT a success. We apologize for anyone not mentioned.
Speakers Group Dan Jones, Chancellor Ross Bjork, Athletics Hugh Freeze, Football Tim Walsh, Alumni Association Kyle Campbell, Athletics Keith Carter, UMAA Foundation Tom Eppes, University Richard Noble, Alumni Association Scott Noss, University Ben Burns, Volunteer (and more!) Advanced Team 1 Port Kaigler, Alumni Association (leader) Paris Buchanan, Athletics Sheila Dossett, Alumni Association Daniel Morrow, Alumni Association Matt Mossberg, UMAA Foundation Steve Mullen, Alumni Association Jim Urbanek, Alumni Association Advanced Team 2 Brandon Hudspeth, Athletics (leader) Clay Cavett, Alumni Association Ken Edwards, Athletics Julian Gilner, Alumni Association Eric Gross, UMAA Foundation Sarah Kathryn Hickman, Alumni Association Scott Thompson, Alumni Association Others Joseph Baumbaugh, Alumni Association Jordan Dillon-Maginnis, Alumni Association Micah Ginn, Athletics Greg Gray, Athletics Dan Pellegrino, Athletics Michael Thompson, Athletics Lee Tyner, University Danny White, UMAA Foundation Rusty Woods, Alumni Association Follow me on Twitter @CampbellKyle. If you saw today on the official site, another new face has joined Ole Miss' athletics administration with the announcement of Derek Cowherd as the Senior Associate AD for Academic Support. Derek continues a youth movement in the senior leadership of Rebel Athletics. Of course, the most notable is Athletics Director Ross Bjork, who, at 39, is the youngest AD among BCS schools. Below are the rest of us 30-somethings that have joined the administration in recent years -- a list that would have been even longer if not for Buffalo plucking our 32-year-old Foundation director Danny White to be their next AD on Tuesday. (congrats Danny!)
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Rebel senior Kristi Boxx remembers the day she stepped on campus and
had her first meeting as part of the Ole Miss women's tennis team. She
remembers then senior Mimi Renaudin telling her and the other freshmen
to savor every moment that it goes by fast. Fast forward three years
later, and Boxx is about to conclude a stellar career for the Red and
Blue.
Boxx didn't have to go far to achieve a high level of success team-wise or individually. The Grenada, Miss., native has led the Rebels to three straight NCAA appearances--with a fourth on the way--the NCAA Sweet Sixteen, and an SEC Western Division Championship. Individually, she just became the second player in program history to earn All-SEC first team honors all four years in addition to being an All-American. She has been nationally ranked in singles and doubles her entire career and currently is ranked No. 10 in singles and No. 6 in doubles. Boxx also became the second second player in program history to achieve 200 combined wins in singles and doubles. Last week Clarion-Ledger beat writer Hugh Kellenberger caught up with the Mississippi native for a feature. Chasing A Title Today, Ole Miss Athletics is welcoming back four former Rebels who went on play professional football for a panel discussion entitled NFL & Beyond. The event will take place on the Grove stage at 11 a.m. prior to the BancorpSouth Grove Bowl at 1 p.m. The attendees include two current players (two-time Super Bowl MVP Eli Manning and Stacy Andrews) and former pros Ronnie Heard and Tre' Stallings, who have both gone on to careers in college athletics. Over the course of Manning's eight-year NFL career, he has been a two-time Pro Bowl selection and this past season set an NFL record for most fourth-quarter touchdown passes in a season with 15. Off the field, Manning, along with his brother Peyton, assisted in the delivery of 30,000 pounds of water, Gatorade, baby formula, pumice and pillows to the people of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. After touring the University of Mississippi Medical Center's Blair E. Batson Hospital for Children, Manning undertook a five-year campaign in 2007 to raise $2.5 million for the construction of "The Eli Manning Children's Clinics" at the hospital. During the offseason, Manning resides in Oxford with his wife Abby and their daughter Ava Frances.
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This Saturday, Ole Miss Athletics is welcoming back four former Rebels who went on play professional football for a panel discussion entitled NFL & Beyond. The event will take place on the Grove stage at 11 a.m. prior to the BancorpSouth Grove Bowl at 1 p.m. The attendees include two current players (two-time Super Bowl MVP Eli Manning and Stacy Andrews) and former pros Ronnie Heard and Tre' Stallings, who have both gone on to careers in college athletics.
A four-year starting offensive tackle during his Rebel career, Tre' Stallings was a sixth-round pick of the Kansas City Chiefs in the 2006 NFL Draft. A native
of Magnolia, Stallings played in the NFL Europe
League with the Amsterdam Admirals in 2007 before joining the Baltimore Ravens
in 2008. In 2010, he was an Administrative Fellow with the previously known Pacific-10 Conference Championship Department, while today he is the Assistant Director of Championships for the Southeastern Conference, administering competition and championships for track and field and cross country. He also provides support for all other conference championships. FEATURE: Tre' Stallings Life After Football VIDEO:Be A Missionary- Everyday This Saturday, Ole Miss Athletics is welcoming back four former Rebels who went on play professional football for a panel discussion entitled NFL & Beyond. The event will take place on the Grove stage at 11 a.m. prior to the BancorpSouth Grove Bowl at 1 p.m. The attendees include two current players (two-time Super Bowl MVP Eli Manning and Stacy Andrews) and former pros Ronnie Heard and Tre' Stallings, who have both gone on to careers in college athletics.
After going undrafted, Heard signed with the San Francisco 49ers in 2000 and played with the team from 2000-2004, starting 24 of 69 games in five seasons. A native of Lake Jackson, Texas, Heard then spent the following season with the Atlanta Falcons before retiring in 2006. Today he serves as an Assistant Director of Development for the UMAA Foundation, while his brother, Grant, coaches the Ole Miss receivers. FEATURE: 49ers' brother act is Heard and seen Grant, Ronnie trying to make impressions Recent PostsCategories
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BILL LOTT said: GREAT JOB THIS YEAR GUYS - WISHING THE REBELS THE VERY BEST IN THE COMPASS BOWL - LETS PICK A FIGHT WITH PITT AND SHOW THEM WHAT OUR REBELS ARE ALL ABOUT. HOTTY-TODDY - GO REBELS. BE BLESSED AND GOOD LUCK! in post Some Notes On Bowl Trip
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Rod Taylor said: Rumor has it that Paul Dongieux will be inducted into the Hall of Fame this fall. The Rebels would be wise to study his legacy. Heart of a lion and a will to win against any odds. I can still hear the thousands chanting his name after his murderous tackle beat LSU in 69. in post Under The Lights: Ole Miss Football
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