Ole Miss women’s basketball head coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin will be a guest on the nationally-broadcast Stephen A. Smith Show today at 12:30 p.m. CT. The show can be heard on Sirius channel 82 on Mad Dog Sports Radio.
This appearance isn’t about the Rebels. It is about Ole Miss and some of the controversial comments Smith recently made about the university, Oxford and the state of Mississippi.
Smith suggested that black recruits were hesitant to play at Ole Miss due to its history and compared the university to programs such as LSU and Florida. He also defended Lane Kiffin’s move to LSU, that the better job was in Baton Rouge.
The outspoken McPhee-McCuin, who is black and a fan favorite at Ole Miss, is standing up to defend her experience at the university and in the state of Mississippi.
“My intent is to just make him knowledgeable about my experience in Oxford,” McPhee-McCuin told OleMiss365.com. “I think everybody is entitled to their own opinion. I listened in full to what he had to say, and there was a lot of stuff that he said that I hear a lot. But I want to explain to him why I think that’s not correct.
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“Now as far as him talking about LSU being a better job than Ole Miss, that’s his opinion. He has the right to have it. I’m not going on there to fight that. If that was the case, then I don’t think I need to be on his show. I think he reached out to me, one, because I don’t think he realized there was a woman of color coaching here, and if he did, he was probably shocked that I made the comment…or curious .
“I’m just going to on there and explain to him what my experience has been since I’ve been here eight years. I’m really invested in the community and kind of give him another side. Sometimes people want to have their own truth but they don’t always know the whole truth. I want to give him the other part of the truth that he did not talk about in-depth as loud as he talked about how the brothers didn’t want to come to Mississippi.”