Wednesday morning was a morning for the Ole Miss Rebels as Head Coach Chris Beard and two student-athletes made the short plane ride to Birmingham for the 2023 SEC Men’s Basketball Tip-Off. Shortly after 10:40, Head Coach Chris Beard made it to the podium, where he went into great detail about the Ole Miss Basketball program heading into his first season as Head Coach of the Rebels. Coach Beard faced a barrage of questions regarding his past and the expectations for the Rebels into the 2023-2024 season.
Coach Beard presented the media with a response, ” Stay honest, and stay humble,” providing his Ole Miss Basketball program with the pillar to follow heading into the 2023-2024 season.
In conversations with the coaching staff and players, Ole Miss Basketball is ready to shock the college basketball world during the upcoming season. Coach Beard brings a winning culture to Ole Miss, where National Championships will be the standard for the Rebels to follow. A standard that the folks in Oxford have never seen in terms of their basketball program. Coach Beard is a Bob Knight disciple; spending time under one of the greatest coaches in college basketball history gave Coach Beard the tools to compete for a National Championship wherever he coaches.
For Coach Beard, turning Ole Miss Basketball into a program that competes at the highest level for the National Championships, he understands that excuses are no more. Winning at that level comes with a cost many fail to realize; Coach Beard understands that he has the backing of Athletic Director Keith Carter and the entire Rebel Nation. Coach Beard and his staff took the Ole Miss job with the knowledge that turning Ole Miss Basketball into a Championship contender wouldn’t happen overnight; however, the potential is there to use year one as the groundwork for a future filled with celebrations and happiness for all of Ole Miss Basketball.
Coach Chris Beard set the record straight on Wednesday that Ole Miss Basketball will no longer be a program that tolerates excuses. Simple as that. Winning is the only thing that matters for Coach Beard and his staff as they seek to bring Ole Miss Basketball their first-ever Final Four and National Championship in over 114 years as a college basketball program.
Ole Miss will open the season on Monday night, the 30th, in an exhibition game against Tusculum at the Pavilion on the campus of Ole Miss.
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