Besides the obvious rivalry, I'd like to know why

[Bigdaddydog]

amazing

some of you hate/dislike OM on a personal level. Anything in your lives in particular happen?

As for me I've got a lot of family in and around the Oxford area so I don't have the disdain that some of you have. It's just the rivalry for me, but lately my eyes have been open to some of their douchery that I never really paid much attention to in the past. Sorry if an old topic

Amazing that no one has mentioned overt racism. An institution of higher learning prides itself on its moniker of "Ole Miss" astounds me. I cant believe how many people dont know what it means. Im guilty myself. Although I was born and raised in MS I didnt come across the truth until a few years ago. The "Ole Miss" was the plantation owner's wife according to slaves. They flaunt that under the guise of old Mississippi or the matriarch of the family when it just isnt true but what I was always told. Man I got a million stories. Im not saying I didnt experience racism in Starkville. In fact I have experienced it everywhere I have lived outside of the south. It is just the mentality of how they prance around and throw it in everyone's face. Even outside of race there is the 'better than everyone else' attitude which is laughable. Let them keep on thinking that when the rest of the world is living in the present. Hail State!

 

[mcdawg22]

It comes from going to St Al around all of those Ole Miss kids.

 

[RocketDawg]

I grew up in Florida but always a State fan due to my family being from MS and attending MSU. However, I never really had any hate toward OM. They were a team that I always wanted State to beat but I enjoyed beating Florida, Auburn and Alabama much more. Even when I was a student at State OM fans did not bother me. After college I went back home to Florida before moving to Jackson for a job. It was not until living in Jackson did I realize how pompous and arrogant OM fans are. I still don't have a hate for them. To me, they are a group of guys living off of stories that grandpa told them about the good old days. It blows my mind that people that attend a public school in MS think they are better than someone just because they attended OM. It's not like any student at MSU or USM could not have attended OM if they wanted to. It's not hard to get in and graduate. When I first learned the attitude OM fans had I would have thought that OM was a private school like Miami that was difficult to get in or had very high academic standards like Florida.

Most of the guys I graduated high school with ended up at either Florida, FSU, Auburn or Alabama. I can tell you that they always get a kick out of my OM friends now. It is truly laughable to see OM fans try to tell Auburn and Florida fans that OM has just as good as a program.

I'm pretty much with you ... how can people from a public school in Mississippi, that's considered Tier III by US News & World report, be arrogant about which college they attended. It just doesn't make sense. I only know one UM graduate ... I've been away from the state too long for it to matter much to me ... and the one I know is my sister-in-law She's OK mostly, and doesn't care much about sports (understandably ....).

Living in Alabama, I'd rather beat Alabama any day. 95% of my friends are Tide fans, and they are much more smug about Bama FB than UMiss fans ever could be. Out of a dozen or so in my golf group, none graduated from Tuscaloosa but all say "we" when referring to Alabama FB. Many have never been to a game in Tuscaloosa nor have they given a cent to the school, other than state taxes.

If I find a UM graduate who is snobby about where they went to school, I just chuckle.

 

[HammerOfTheDogs]

I have three good friends who are huge UM fans and i get along with them great. I think most of their fans are much like our fans, the difference is we let them get in our heads (I think it is some kind of collective inferiority complex).

I wish more of our fans took the view of "that's just little ole miss, we dominate them in most sports." And would stop the "they think they're better than us" sentiment.

Let's think we are better than them, and not worry about what they think. I much more want to beat Bama this year than UM.

One thing is for sure, their propaganda machine is much better than ours.

I agree. They're little **** crusts on the *** of life, dried out and sticking to a crack hair so it's painful to get them off. I seriously wish Mississippi State types wouldn't have such an inferiority complex to these guys. If State-type folks have to have an inferiority complex, have it to serious academic institutions like Vanderbilt, MIT, Stanford, the Ivy League, or even Millsaps....NOT a 3rd-rate clown college who takes in rejects who can't get into Georgia, UT-Austin, or Tarrant county Community College.