Clem Report: Austin Simmons ‘most talented’ modern-era, two-way Ole Miss Rebel?

Talk of Champions

OMSpirit

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🗓️ 16 October 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Second-year lefty Austin Simmons is seemingly next in line to replace Ole Miss quarterback Jaxson Dart at season’s end, if not sooner.

The 6-foot-4 Simmons has operated all year as the Rebels’ clear-cut No. 2. Simmons, a former four-star recruit, has appeared in three games and completed 10 of 21 passes for 137 yards and a touchdown.

No. 18 Ole Miss (5-2, 1-2 SEC) is off this week but returns to action against Oklahoma (4-2, 1-2) in Oxford on October 26.

“The hard part as far as planning goes is it’s kind of a wait-and-see mindset,” long-time Ole Miss baseball assistant coach Mike Clement said in an all-new edition of the Ole Miss Spirit’s ‘Talk of Champions’ podcast.

“The hardest part with all those football guys that we’ve had in the past is they have to come in and make their mark in January.”

Lane Kiffin’s Rebels and their inexplicably-struggling offense laid another egg against an SEC opponent — only this time at rival LSU and in a 29-26 overtime stinker.

The Rebels now find themselves in a precarious College Football Playoff position. If desperate times do, indeed, call for desperate measures, could Simmons down the line be called upon to provide a spark?

Those are all football questions, however. Simmons’ ceiling in baseball is just as high. Unfortunately, the balance of playing two sports in college comes with its share of sacrifices. Ole Miss baseball is currently in the middle of fall intrasquads.

Clement discussed the Simmons Conundrum, as well as the recovery of 2022 co-ace Hunter Elliott, the transfer-portal sluggers and much, much more in ‘Talk of Champions,’ powered by RiverLand Roofing.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Talk of Champions at Ole Miss Spirit podcast with Ben Garrett.
0:06.7	It's up. It's up. It's up. It's up.
0:10.5	Welcome in to an all-new edition of Talk of Champions.
0:25.8	I'm Bing Garrett at Spirit.
0:27.1	And on Twitter, I write and talk about your Ole Miss Rebels at the Old Miss Spirit.
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0:39.5	And I've got with me, Ole Miss Hitting Coach, Mike Clement,
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0:53.3	Clem, how you doing, buddy?
0:54.7	Good.
0:55.0	While you were going through those promos,
0:59.1	I have a lot of gray hair in my beard.
1:02.8	It just means you're a silver fox.
1:05.7	You know I never had gray hair before I met you?
1:09.0	I find that really hard to believe you're a division one hitting
1:11.4	coach and you've been one for a long, long time. You think I gave you that? If so, man, how
1:15.6	blessed have you been over the course of your career? It's all you. It's all me. Hey, I take it. I own it.
1:22.7	I do kind of put it on you to always come on my show as much as possible to catch me up on
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