Ole Miss fans flock to buy overpriced football season tickets every spring but much fewer show up for basketball games during the winter months. When the football program takes a hard nose dive, fans switch over to baseball. Basketball seems to be an afterthought here in Oxford.
Which makes sense considering Ole Miss has never been, and probably will never ever be, a basketball school.
And that’s okay. This is Mississippi, after all, land of high school football. I’m not writing this to suggest Rebel sports fans “should” follow basketball. Rather, I write to question the Ole Miss athletics department’s complacency.