A Sports Post - Ole Miss Tradition?

So, on the free message board on the Ole Miss Spirit (omspirit.com), there was a thread about basketball and I contributed.  Someone asked about the pre-game routine, and said that back in the day when Col. Reb came down from the rafters and they had the strands of crepe paper coming down was the coolest thing ever or something like that.  I said I thought Col. Reb was bush league, and somebody responded with this:

"Call the streamers and Col. Reb 'bush' if you want, but two things for sure.

1. You obviously have little if any pride in tradition as far as your Col. Reb remark"

To which I responded with this:

what do you mean by tradition?

hopefully it's my generation that is laying the groundwork for the actual "tradition" of which you speak.  hopefully it's my generation that is going to stand up and say enough is enough, we're tired of tradition being based on mascots and tailgating.  we want wins.

y'all complain and whine and cry about col. reb and "tradition but what tradition are we talking about?  my dad is almost 60 and he has a hard time remembering the "glory years" and i know nothing of any success in any major sport minus a tie for the SEC west in 2003.

so, you're right.  i couldn't care less about "tradition" especially when it's one so mired in mediocrity.  actually, to say it's been mired in mediocrity is being generous.

i want more than the grove and pretty girls.  those things are good, but when we're repeatedly getting beat down week in and week out (and then it turns into year in and year out).  i want to see ole miss win CHAMPIONSHIPS, and anything short of that is tradition i don't care about.

so, you're right.  i have no pride in ole miss "tradition" because there is no ole miss "tradition" to speak of.  i do love ole miss and do want to see ole miss have that tradition, but i want it to be something tangible.  i want it to be trophies.  i want it to be nets cut down.  i want it to be banners put up in vaught hemingway and tad smith.  not some pathetic mascot.  so if that's what you mean by tradition, then no.  i couldn't care less about it.

That was the meat of my post.  I think it speaks for itself.