INSIDER: Snead Kicks off Rebel Signing Class

By Ben Garrett

OleMissSports.com INSIDER  

At this point last year, Jevan Snead was just a few weeks away from fulfilling a life-long dream of playing big-time college football.

Being one of the most highly-recruited quarterbacks coming out of high school in 2006, Snead signed a national letter of intent to attend the University of Texas as the hopeful successor to the great Vince Young. Playing sparingly in his true freshman year for the Longhorns, Snead found himself behind another young gun in redshirt freshman Colt McCoy, and decided that the best option for success and his aspirations of one day becoming an NFL quarterback, would be to transfer to a school where he would have another opportunity to gain a starting role.

Now Snead, an early component in what expects to be a stellar 2007 Ole Miss signing class, finds himself in unfamiliar territory, as the true Texan has begun to adjust to a life outside of the heart of Texas, and in to the heart of Dixie. 

“It’s everything I expected it to be.” said Snead of Ole Miss. “When I came down on my visit there weren’t too many people around, but everybody told me how friendly everybody was. I got to see the town, but I’ve gotten to see it more. I really enjoy it.

Although Snead will have to sit out the 2007 season, he has began his preparations for the possibility of earning a starting role in 2008, as both Brent Schaeffer and Seth Adams are set to graduate following the conclusion of the upcoming season. However, Snead will face some stiff competition as Michael Herrick and Cliff Davis among others will be jockeying for the role as leader of the Red and Blue

“When you’re going out for a job, you have to see yourself as a starter,” Snead said. “I see myself as a starter. I understand I have to work to get there and I know I have some great competition.”

With a wealth of talent entering Oxford by the recruiting efforts of the Rebel staff, the future for Ole Miss Football looks bright, and a key factor to that success will be the play of the starting quarterback. Whoever that may be, Snead believes that success for the Rebels is just around the corner.

“I see this team as a winner, he said. “Hopefully we will when some championships while I’m here.”

The University of Mississippi Athletics

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