GTR airport to get a flight to DFW
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I just bought a house in Starkville so it would be great for my finances if the GT would soon boom like people say.
People in most of the state don't understand just how little connection NE Mississippi has to Jackson.
This demonstrates your fundamental lack of understanding. We all realize there is not much of a direct tie from Jackson to Tupelo. The issue that most bring up here, regarding you and other NEMS folks who trash Jackson, is that we ALL need Jackson to do well, if you care about the state as a whole. And more specifically, how that ties into MSU's growth. That's the point.
If you only care about your small area up there, or if you do not believe that Jackson is key to MS, then.......well, I can't help you. Because without Jackson doing well, the best the state can hope for is for those select few areas (already discussed in this thread) to tread water while the rest of the state loses population. Because it is hard to truly see Desoto, Tupelo, the GT, Hattiesburg or the Coast ever truly driving the whole state of MS (I'm talking in our lifetimes). Desoto is part of Memphis, Tupelo and GT are just too small at the moment, and the Coast is limited by hurricanes and proximity to New Orleans and Mobile.
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Your fundamental lack of understanding is Northeast Mississippi just isn't connected to Jackson at all, in any way, (other than the state government) and the rest of the state has always been fine with that. If we don't care about the rest of the state, it's the rest of the state's fault. The road net was the prime example. The road connection to Jackson until fairly recently was the dang Natchez Trace, a two-lane, low speed, federal built National Parkway. Our economic, medical, recreational, and transportation ties are to Memphis and Birmingham, not Jackson. Most people here also go to Nashville a lot more than they do Jackson. Most people here never even think about Jackson at all, unless the state government screws something up. Tupelo is the defacto capitol of its own region by default.
Duh. Like I said in the previous post, we all understand this.
It does suck that you don't care about the rest of the state of MS. The whole state affects MSU, not just the Tupelo region. We should all be concerned about the entirety of the state, but I'm not surprised that so many of you aren't. That is why we are where we are.
Last time I check, MSU is the reason we are all on this message board. Not Tupelo or anywhere else.
Well, the rest of the state didn't care about MSU either. It had the same exact road problem.
I agree that Jackson needs to do well for the state to truly succeed. I hope that they turn a corner some day.
I've got another idea: take your argument to direct messaging. I don't know about anybody else, but I'm getting tired of this battle constantly raging on a sports page. I'm not taking sides. I'm just getting tired of having to wait through the ******** to find a real post.
Fair enough, and that's the depressing part. MSU would do better if the state did better (I mean we are literally adopting 'State' as our primary marketing campaign). And since it's not, we have to look outside the state. And you know you already does that to a wildly successful degree? That's right, our potnas to the northwest. They have around 57% vs. our 37%, per google. They've been executing their plan for years, whatever it is.
We better be formulating ours. GTR being 10 miles away from campus is a big part of that, and is something that many of our competitors don't have. Ole Miss, Auburn and Alabama are all 45 min. to an hour away from a formidable commercial service airport. I don't know where we should be concentrating our out-of-state recruiting, but we need to be figuring that out.
One thing I do think we are blessed with is the driving proximity to Huntsville and Nashville. We actually can compete there based on geography with our other big state SEC school brethren.
I don't know if out-of-state recruiting will eventually pay off for the state or not. It did for the state of SC, through Clemson's efforts. I haven't seen much return on Ole Miss' investment, except more partying. I wish we'd adopt some specific benchmarks at MSU in how we do it, and be able to track it, like Clemson did when they decided to go hard after NY and NJ.
We need something, because I honestly don't know what the 17 we are doing. The university continues to grow, mainly by way of being an SEC school. All I see on here is people complaining that they didn't recruit their kid correctly for academics, or that we never waive out-of-state tuition for such and such, so I'd like to hear some success stories if there are any, as far as what our university priorities are.We need a development boardthis stuff is just as interesting to me as sports.
GOAT deserves a ton of $h!t but this aint it.
The only thing that would make this better if it were a Delta flight to DFW.