REBELS:McCluster stands tall playing ‘Wild Rebel’
OXFORD – Dexter McCluster was born to be wild.
No player on the Ole Miss roster is better equipped to take a shotgun snap and facilitate offense from the “Wild Rebel” formation than tiny McCluster, who is hard to see behind a row of hedges much less an SEC offensive line.
He swears that size won’t impact his ability to throw the ball, but it was his new running-mate, freshman Brandon Bolden, who threw the only pass on a Wild Rebel play.
McCluster keeping or McCluster handing to Bolden coming across in motion was enough to fluster Memphis in Game 1, a 41-24 Rebels victory.
Ole Miss coach Houston Nutt was reluctant to talk much during the week about the formation he made famous at Arkansas where Darren McFadden and Felix Jones ran the “Wild Hog.”
The cat’s out of the bag now, and that doesn’t matter all that much. The Wild Rebel is not so much about the element of surprise as it is, “Hey, can you stop this?”
djournal.com
9/3/08
