The Rush: Ole Miss turns to frat house to fill football roster
Prior to the full 2022-2023 season schedule release, the NBA announced it won’t play any games on November 8, the day of the midterm election. The league has a history of politics, from a former player-turned-Senator to turning arenas into voting locations. Plus, you’ll never guess where Lane Kiffin and Ole Miss turned to fill out their football team roster. Here’s a hint… TOGA! TOGA! TOGA!
Video Transcript
- We're in a time where we need to use our voice.
- I'm going to challenge all my NBA guys and try to get our entire teams registered to vote.
- It starts with us as voters.
JARED QUAY: Hey, do you have any plans for Tuesday, November 8, 2022?
- I don't know.
JARED QUAY: I know what you definitely won't be doing on November 8-- watching the NBA.
- Well, why the hell not?
JARED QUAY: The NBA isn't playing any games on November 8 because it's election day.
- What election?
JARED QUAY: The midterms, duh. The NBA has done important work to promote voting over the last few years, like working with cities to turn arenas into voting centers during the 2020 presidential election. This year, every single team will play the night before the midterms in what the league is calling "Civic Engagement Night." The NBA is hoping that not scheduling games on election day will promote voting and allow players to help get out the vote. Hmm, it's almost like election day--
- Should be a national holiday.
JARED QUAY: The NBA is no stranger to politics. Two-time NBA champion and Hall of Famer Bill Bradley served as a senator for 20 years. And remember when people got excited about the idea of a Gregg Popovich-Steve Kerr presidential ticket in 2020? I truly think that ticket could have won. Then again, the last time someone with zero experience as an elected official ran for President, didn't go so great.
- Hoo.
JARED QUAY: You know what's great? Picking up a punter in a very unexpected place.
- You guys have also added a punter to your roster. Can you talk a little bit about him?
- Yeah, I don't know a whole lot about him. I think he was down at the frat house, you know, like at a keg party or something, you know, where they got him from.
JARED QUAY: That's right, the Ole Miss Rebels are gearing up for the season and needed some help at the punter position, so they took a recruiting trip to a frat house.
- I heard Delta's the worst house on campus.
JARED QUAY: In this case, the scouts hit up the Sigma Tau house and found Charlie Pollock.
- We've got some conditioning work to do with my guy, but we just said, hey, someone go find a punter.
JARED QUAY: Man, you had to be desperate to hit up a frat house to fill up the roster.
- A really futile and stupid gesture.
JARED QUAY: The good news is, Pollock was actually a D1 player at Nevada back in 2020, so he's not exactly starting from scratch. I kind of feel bad for the frat house though. Like, what do you do when a football team poaches one of your guys?
- Toga party.
- Toga, toga, toga!
JARED QUAY: Toga, toga, toga. Oh man, do I have to finish the show now, because I'm really in a party mode, man. This one time in Miami, we went to this toga party on a Wednesday. See, in Miami, we don't do big parties on the weekends. We do them during the week because partying is kind of like one of your studying groups. Like, I know a homeboy that graduated in drinking. He had a degree in shots.