Say you were an Ole Miss student or recent alum or, for that matter, any alum during or after the Houston Nutt tenure in Oxford. With a very long side-eye toward our friend and beguiled colleague Gray Hardison, you too felt something of a, well, despondence toward Ole Miss football in that era. As well you should.
Well, Houston Nutt — former coach of the Ole Miss Rebels’ football program, and most recently of CBS Sports’ stellar in-house college football coverage team on autumn Saturdays — is suing Ole Miss for embarrassment stemming from alleged statements made on the part of athletics department officials and Hugh Freeze defaming his good name in college football coaching.