Situated near Jackson is "detrimental" but Desota County's proximity to Memphis isn't?
If you could change one thing about Mississippi State
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If you provide to me a list of ways Jackson is better than Memphis then I am all ears
I wouldn't be caught living near either of them. I'm saying they are to-mato to-motto and it sounded like OP was trying to say Jackson Metro area was bad but Memphis area wasn't
Move it to maybe piedmont North Carolina or Southern California and still be born less than an hour away. Hell anywhere but where it is.
Get some of our whiz-bang ME students to grab a DeLorean and put in a flux capacitor...go back in time and change some coaching/AD decisions. Hold a gun to Foglesong's head and make him stay, and bribe the Ninja never to leave
Doc did some good things but he was never needed long term. Come in, disrupt things, then turn it over to Keenum who does a lot of good things.
Of course, he needs a strong AD and not a yes man. Byrne was perfect, obviously. Loafers and Selmon were/are weak. Cohen, for some of his faults, was a strong personality and that dynamic was OK.
Fans that appreciated everything about the school and not wish it was this or that.
With that said, people talk about merging with OM, what if USM was MSU from the beginning?. If USm was MSU and in the sec in the 80s with Reggie Collier and later Farve.... that may have been the foundation for something.
But as it is now.... I rode through USMs campus a month or so ago.... looks like 1990 still.
With that said, people talk about merging with OM, what if USM was MSU from the beginning?. If USm was MSU and in the sec in the 80s with Reggie Collier and later Farve.... that may have been the foundation for something.
But as it is now.... I rode through USMs campus a month or so ago.... looks like 1990 still.
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The funny thing is that 90 % of State and OM people are neighbors and coworkers that live the exact same lives.
That’s a big part of MS’ issues. It’s so rural with not much to do, so that means people get involved with people. Which equals gossip, competition, status battles, etc. The Memphis burbs and the Coast are a little more immune to this, but it illustrates why it’s so important for Jackson to grow and become a real city with diverse ideas. It’s the only hope for a true MS urban area. Right now it’s just another mess of small town politics wrapped up into the most dysfunctional metro area in the country.
MS just simply wars with itself in perpetuity.
Well this is certainly where we are now, in reality. I just hope the Duffs don’t decide to go all-in on USM NIL and buy their way into somewhere. You’d think if they wanted to, they’d have done it already.
The don’t care that much for athletics. The dad went to OM, one brother went to USM and one to Utah Valley…. They have been philanthropic for all three schools. They won’t go all in on any one schools or sport.
Let's go deeper...I'd change Mississippi. Mississippi needs a better economic base to support the state. Everything grows from there and a rising tide lifts all boats as they say.
reduce football capacity and put in all chairbacks with legroom
It would have been nice if Memphis was located in our borders.
Something I thought about last night... again...
Dan Mullen swallows his pride and buys AJ Brown.
maybe there is more to the story than that, but wish things would have worked out for him to stay in Starkville.
Dan Mullen swallows his pride and buys AJ Brown.
maybe there is more to the story than that, but wish things would have worked out for him to stay in Starkville.
***not a political post***
if we don’t have 70 plus years of Jim Crow, the entire state is vastly different today. Many people don’t leave Mississippi in the 1940’s (great migration), our small towns maybe have some life? HBCUs are unnecessary, Jerry rice, Walter Payton, air McNair are, perhaps, alums? Just imagine if we had not spent considerable government resources trying to maintain a system of segregation base on the inferiority of half the population…
Cannot do anything to change the past, but we can make sure we’re not doing anything similarly thing today!
if we don’t have 70 plus years of Jim Crow, the entire state is vastly different today. Many people don’t leave Mississippi in the 1940’s (great migration), our small towns maybe have some life? HBCUs are unnecessary, Jerry rice, Walter Payton, air McNair are, perhaps, alums? Just imagine if we had not spent considerable government resources trying to maintain a system of segregation base on the inferiority of half the population…
Cannot do anything to change the past, but we can make sure we’re not doing anything similarly thing today!
The location......you can argue. Locally, the biggest drain on MSU is the UofAlabama and our winning % vs theirs.
But Starkville has plenty there to make it a nice college town. The problem is alumni and fans. State and Starkville, just don't have enough bought in alumni and fans. It is far more often that I run into someone that graduated from State or wearing State garb, that when I strike up a conversation......it is always, "I ain't been there in xx years." blah blah blah. State has too many alumni that don't care about sports or the school.
Wasn't Stsrkville rated the best small town in the country by some magazine?
The Landing should help out the Cotton District a lot. The problem is the people that go to State don't go out all that much. I went to the Georgia game 2 years ago and Starkville was a ghost town on Thursday night. I was so embarrassed that the people I brought with me and wanted to see the town had zero to do on a Thursday night in a college town. Our students don't have that mindset, for the most part (from my very limited time of going out in Starkville as an adult). Same thing happened this year when Florida came to town. The Starkville bar scene is lacking, but the bars they do have don't get frequented unless it's a Friday or Saturday night. It's not like that in other SEC towns.
It's the town. The kids want to go out but they can't. Not only do they card people and not let them in, they pay bouncers $20 to take fakes. My son said he doesn't want to go out because he already had one fake taken and he needs to keep his other one for road trips. On the flip side, at UGA, they use "tape overs" where they xerox IDs and tape them over hotel room cards. Totally opposite take, and totally opposite results Athens vs Starkville. Its a culture.