CARLSBAD, Calif. – Ole Miss head coach Chris Malloy was preparing for dinner with some coaching friends and their wives ahead of the Cabo Collegiate last March when his phone rang. It was Malloy’s assistant, Emerson Newsome, who was with the Rebels’ players at a nearby beach.
“Hey, we’ve got a problem,” Newsome said to Malloy.
Malloy responded: “Of course we do.”
Malloy has seen everything over the years, dating to 2019 when one of his players lost a ball after hitting a bird late in the final round of the NCAA Stanford Regional, were Ole Miss missed by a shot.