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dotcomdawg

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Gameday in Oxford. It's not even close. The crowd, the energy, the atmosphere.


Just finished watching SEC Nation in Oxford. It too, was WAY BETTER in Starkvegas than in Oxford. That was a dead crowd this morning.
 
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dotcomdawg said:
Gameday in Oxford. It's not even close. The crowd, the energy, the atmosphere.


Just finished watching SEC Nation in Oxford. It too, was WAY BETTER in Starkvegas than in Oxford. That was a dead crowd this morning.
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thier game is at 6 pm dude. I agree it was subdued but kinda hard to be pumped and party for 10 hours before kick.
 
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yeah, I'm glad our fans don't drink alcohol before, during and after games
 
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Alcohol has kind of taken a back seat in Oxford. They're a little more into the booger sugar now, I hear, and that it has gotten bad. Like, nearly run-the-town bad...Well, that's from some Oxford PD officers and even some Tupelo PD guys.
 
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Yeah, everyone up there is doing it. Old people, 30 something parents, breast-feeding mothers, I've even seen a couple 10 year olds take a line or two. I usually bring my Yeti just so people think I'm drinking, but I'm actually just coked out.
 
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they aren't awake. it has nothing to do with being pumped up. as soon as they wake up, they'll plot how to storm the field and take the goalposts down a little easier. i hear they'll bring shovels this time.
 
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SandmanRebel said:
Yeah, everyone up there is doing it. Old people, 30 something parents, breast-feeding mothers, I've even seen a couple 10 year olds take a line or two. I usually bring my Yeti just so people think I'm drinking, but I'm actually just coked out.
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I know you think I'm trying to be cute, and that you are trying to be cute, too, but evidently this is a real problem in Oxford and it comes up quite a bit among the law enforcement officers I work with. That stuff that gets trucked into Memphis for distribution, where would be one obvious local hotbed to sell it?
 
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I don't know about the SEC Nation today, but the opinion seems to be that Oxford was one of the best Gamedays all time. Lee Fitting, the producer of the show said this:

"This was the best on-campus experience I've been part of as Game Day producer," Fitting said to SI.com. "It wasn't a show, it was an event, and it was because you have such a great natural character in The Grove. You have an incredible recipe – a picture perfect setting, with thousands upon thousands of people that all share an unmatched passion for their school, their team and their sport. The buzz throughout the weekend was awesome. There were times when the production truck was actually shaking. ... It's a place, and an event, that every college football fan has to experience in person."
 
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RockstarFromMars

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You realize Lee Fitting produces Game Day and isn't affiliated with Ole Miss in any way, right?

Wait, bear-controlled media. Sorry.
 
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Why are you here? Don't you have a Heisman contender ** to watch?
 
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That's what I'm saying, you dolt. In a way I suppose it's a compliment, I suppose. UMiss sells a product that you can find at just about any other college campus on Saturday, and the media eats it up. I guess because it's shoved down their throat so much.
 
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I am able to root strongly against OM without allowing that rivalry to become a blind hatred that obscures me from seeing what the rest of the world sees. One would have to be blind to not acknowledge that they had an unbelievable moment with their Gameday weekend. It was a good tradition (the Grove) which ended up combining with many lucky things that made it the "best one ever" or whatever Fittings (and some others in the media) called it. Katy Perry who I have never liked was probably the greatest guest picker in the history of Gameday (just dumb luck unquestionably combined with some great writer who put it together for her). Perfect weather (luck). And most importantly, the state of Mississippi being professed as the college football epicenter for that weekend with everyone across the nation wanting to watch to see if us and OM were for real that day (just unbelievably fortunate timing for OM). Anyway, I can certainly understand the hate for OM, but it makes us appear irrational when we can't even acknowledge what the whole rest of the college football world sees.
 
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I was in the Grove yesterday for the first time ever. I had a pretty good time, but really, it's not much different from tailgating at any other major SEC campus.
 
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must not have been THE grove. must have been at A grove.

chandeliers and butlers would have been the tell-tale sign you were in the right place.
 
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Yep, he said that the week before he went to MSU. I'll find the quote from his comments about the Starkville show and post them.

RockstarFromMars said:
I don't know about the SEC Nation today, but the opinion seems to be that Oxford was one of the best Gamedays all time. Lee Fitting, the producer of the show said this:

"This was the best on-campus experience I've been part of as Game Day producer," Fitting said to SI.com. "It wasn't a show, it was an event, and it was because you have such a great natural character in The Grove. You have an incredible recipe – a picture perfect setting, with thousands upon thousands of people that all share an unmatched passion for their school, their team and their sport. The buzz throughout the weekend was awesome. There were times when the production truck was actually shaking. ... It's a place, and an event, that every college football fan has to experience in person."
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RockstarFromMars said:
I don't know about the SEC Nation today, but the opinion seems to be that Oxford was one of the best Gamedays all time. Lee Fitting, the producer of the show said this:

"This was the best on-campus experience I've been part of as Game Day producer," Fitting said to SI.com. "It wasn't a show, it was an event, and it was because you have such a great natural character in The Grove. You have an incredible recipe – a picture perfect setting, with thousands upon thousands of people that all share an unmatched passion for their school, their team and their sport. The buzz throughout the weekend was awesome. There were times when the production truck was actually shaking. ... It's a place, and an event, that every college football fan has to experience in person."
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Apparently you cannot understand context. From the GTR paper:

A day after ESPN's College GameDay made its first appearance at Ole Miss for the Rebels' game against Alabama, Lee Fitting, the program's executive coordinating producer, proclaimed the show "its best ever."
Fitting doesn't expect that "best ever" title to last very long.
The GameDay crew has set up shop in The Junction for Saturday's Mississippi State-Auburn game and, as it was with last week's game at Ole Miss, it the first time ESPN's wildly-popular pregame show has been on the MSU campus. The trip to Starkville is the 62nd campus the program has set up shop in since it first began to take the show on the road in 1993. The program airs from 8-11 a.m.
"Whenever we go to a school for the first time, it's really special," said Fitting, who has been with GameDay since 2000 and its executive producer since 2012. "Last week in Oxford, it was off the chart. I expect that it will be off the chart at Mississippi State this week, too. I predict it will be just as good, if not better, than last week."
Before you read too much into Fitting's prediction, you should know that "being the best every week," is sort of built into the program's DNA.
"All of us on the show, we keep each other honest and try not to get stuck in our ways," Fitting said. "We want to be better than we were last week. We want to be the best show out there, not just the best show on ESPN or the best sports show. We want to be the best show, period."


Read more: http://www.cdispatch.com/news/article.asp?aid=37091#ixzz3GcPVoMjH


Sorry, but Ole Miss wasn't all that special with their Gameday, it was simply the "first time". Most people say MSU one-upped you the following week, on the field, and with Gameday. Based on their own merits, no less, not 20 years of begging. Just put it to bed, nobody is buying that rebel bullsh*t anymore.

What a stupid topic to argue about. We all know Ole Miss thinks very highly of perception, and we don't care.
 
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They can win all the "groving" awards they want, I honestly couldn't care less. The game is played on the field. As long as we keep doing what we're doing, taking care of business on the field I couldn't be happier. Isn't it a bit telling when your fan base is more excited about a comment from the producer of a television show than the outcome of the actual game, or comments from experts in the sporting word? (Coaches Poll, AP Poll)
 
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Bwahahaha. After begging them for years (Chris Fowler's words, not mine) to come to Oxford, we one upped you the very next week. It really doesn't matter though, you guys will claim the award for "best ever college game day" anyway. It's what you DO. Hang that banner, and have fun playing your first smash-mouth run team next week in death valley.
 
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Southern Law Dawg said:
I was in the Grove yesterday for the first time ever. I had a pretty good time, but really, it's not much different from tailgating at any other major SEC campus.
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I think there was a time that the Grove was a really unique tailgating experience. Now most SEC schools are basically the same. It's nice because oak trees are beautiful and it's got more shade than most tailgate areas, but they're not really more into tailgating than any other SEC fanbase as far as I can tell. They were less into the actual football games, but I'm assuming they no longer have trouble getting people to go into the games now that they are having some success.
 
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