Ring Responsibility? Educating people on how and when to ring? Please....

[bonedaddy401]

If it is third and short you better believe I am going to be ringing the hell out of a cowbell along with everybody else.<div>
</div><div>3rd down - Ring</div><div>Sack - Ring</div><div>Big hit - Ring</div><div>Kick Offs - Ring</div><div>Goal Line Stands - Ring</div>

 

[bonedaddy401]

If it is third and short you better believe I am going to be ringing the hell out of a cowbell along with everybody else.<div>
</div><div>3rd down - Ring</div><div>Sack - Ring</div><div>Big hit - Ring</div><div>Kick Offs - Ring</div><div>Goal Line Stands - Ring</div>

 

[bonedaddy401]

If it is third and short you better believe I am going to be ringing the hell out of a cowbell along with everybody else.<div>
</div><div>3rd down - Ring</div><div>Sack - Ring</div><div>Big hit - Ring</div><div>Kick Offs - Ring</div><div>Goal Line Stands - Ring</div>

 

[bonedaddy401]

If it is third and short you better believe I am going to be ringing the hell out of a cowbell along with everybody else.<div>
</div><div>3rd down - Ring</div><div>Sack - Ring</div><div>Big hit - Ring</div><div>Kick Offs - Ring</div><div>Goal Line Stands - Ring</div>

 

[Sutterkane]

bands play songs all the way up to the snap of the ball and they sure as hell play something after a big play. Most bands usually do a drumroll prior to a kickoff too.

 

[ScoobaDawg]

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[MedDawg]

We'll learn responsible ringing after the Auburn Thursday night game.

If we ring them irresponsibly during the Memphis game, then we'll probably hearsome Auburn whining before we even play. If we beat AU, then we'll hear a huge amount of whining from them.

 

[ScoobaDawg]

Are the "ring responsible" rules different for non-sec games? It would be an sec rule only.

 

[jcdawgman18]

The fines would have to mind-blowingly exorbitant for it to be an issue. Plenty of State fans would contribute to cover the fines.

 

[lawdawg7]

in past years we have paid a fine for having them at all. The school will pay a fine and that will be it, then we will have to do this all over again next offseason

 

[downwarddawg]

It shouldn't be that hard. We have a chance to preserve our tradition. I hope our fans can handle this. The AD dept has a lot of educating to do this year!</p>

 

[ScoobaDawg]

Di we become Texas or Florida and I didnt know it where money is printed and flows out of every tree on campus???
No we are at the bottom of the bucket of the sec money wise and shouldn't be wasting away money on fines.
And furthermore do you really believe this issue is going to go away (unless we start sucking in football again..then it will)
the fines will get larger and the school will have to react in a way fans dont want to see.

Our new AD just stuck his neck out to preserve our traditions (artificial noisemakers that are illegal) so that MSU fans can have what we want..
he got a compromise and we should be rejoicing and thankful that for the first time in a long time we will be able to WALK IN THE GATES not HIDING OUR BELLS

 

[therightway]

That is when the cowbell is really effective to bring our crowd noise to the level of the big stadiums around the country. We have a stadium with two open ends and is not nearly as big as most places that we play. I think that we are entitled to them because it is not fair that everyone else has a stadium pushing 90k. It is not fair that we cannot be as loud as they are. No sarcasm of course.

 

[lawdawg7]

Ill be in the student section ringing my cowbell when we are on defense, kickoffs, sacks, big hits, and every other time I rang mine last year. Thats all i really have to say about that...

 

[bonedaddy401]

the fine is a non issue. No we don't have money growing on trees, or whatever you said, but we ain't exactly "the po' folk". We will be fine and we will keep ringing them every game.

 

[MrHooch]

bands play songs all the way up to the snap of the ball and they sure as hell play something after a big play. Most bands usually do a drumroll prior to a kickoff too.

I will be highly disappointed if Stricklin and Mullen don't coordinate w/ the band director to make sure they are playing as much as is allowed during the allotted times so we can claim plausible deniability when we're ringing cowbells pretty much the entire game anyway...

 

[TR.sixpack]

But hopefully that's just message board bluster.

 

[ScoobaDawg]

That is when the cowbell is really effective to bring our crowd noise to the level of the big stadiums around the country. We have a stadium with two open ends and<span style="font-weight: bold;"> is not nearly as big as most places that we play</span>. <span style="font-weight: bold;">I think that we are entitled to them </span>because <span style="font-weight: bold;">it is not fair that everyone else has a stadium pushing 90k</span>. <span style="font-weight: bold;">It is not fair that we cannot be as loud as they are</span>. No sarcasm of course.

Because other teams are sucessful in the past and present...have better leadership in the past...and built larger stadium that hold more people...is why we should be allowed to ring cowbells?
This is what is wrong with MSU fans. Little man syndrome.
It's everyone elses fault that we are not as big as them...so we are ENTITLED to cowbells. Give me a break.

It's not fair that other teams have bigger stadiums, more fans, more money, better talent, better coaches... ITS NOT FAIR!!!!!

If this really was sarcastic..Sorry for blasting you.

 

[bonedaddy401]

and anyone who is mad because I and thousands of other MSU fans don't can kiss our collective asses.

 

[lawdawg7]

Count me in with that crowd. Im sure were not alone.

 

[Oxford Godfrey]

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[bonedaddy401]

itdoesn'tmatter what "agreement" is reached. People are going to have, and ring, cowbells in DWS. Period. End of discussion.

 

[therightway]

I think the SEC should pay for our stadium expansion to get it up to the size of the larger ones. We should also get 5 downs instead of four. Did you not see where I said no sarcasm of course. It was a joke that I am sure most realzied.

 

[dawgoneyall]

needs to have someone responsible for recording the decibel levels at every home and away game. Settle once and for all if the Cowbells give State an unfair advantage. If they don't then the others have no legal reason to oppose the cowbells.

I heard a lawyer once related a story where he and some other lawyers were willing to peruse a legal resolution to the cowbell issue. It was not going to involve MSU but rather as a fan action. LT strongly discouraged this action. Thus, no lawsuit. So, get documented decibel levels and demonstrate whether the cowbells either are a hindrance to the opposition and impose an unfair advantage ( above that of the crowd noise at other stadiums) or they don't and present this data to the SEC and simply state MSU is willing to let a court of law decide fairness. Also, let the SEC know that if they lose then compensation would be expected for 35 years of mistreatment. (Everyone's one year share for 35 years of abuse/discrimination seems reasonable.)

 

[Oxford Godfrey]

Or if they do, it will be the kind of luxury your athletic department can dole out thousands of dollars to enjoy each year, say, in the place of facilities expansion or development.

 

[bonedaddy401]

plenty of people would pony up to cover a cowbell fine. If it bothers you Rebs that much just don't come to Davis Wade. Hell last year half of yall were gone before the third quarter.<div>
</div><div>And don't start with the 15 yard penalty bull ****. They called a warning or whatever a fews years back and nobody checked up.</div><div>
</div><div>So basically if you don't like the cowbells, back of the line crybaby. Nobody here gives a ****.</div>

 

[Oxford Godfrey]

And if properly enforced, you couldn't raise enough money annually from fans alone to cover the fines before some of you decide that there are better ways to waste money.

 

[AlCoDog]

Since you always seem to know everything about everything, why were the bells not an issue during the last decade when we were winning 3 games a season and losing to Maine? Nobody was saying ****.

Seems to me Chris Relf was a much bigger advantage than the cowbells last year. Maybe that's why none of the Landsharks could tackle him, because of how loud it was.

 

[TheStateUofMS]

It wasn't a big deal then because no one was showing up for games in the large numbers they did this past year and people weren't bringing their bells as much as they did this year. I've been attending MSU games for 15years and this past year was by far the loudest season we've ever had at State. I remember thinking during the Florida game this past season that the SEC will say something about the cowbells. Especially after what Urban Meyer said, "I didn't think those we allowed in games."<div>
</div><div>I do think this could be a way of the SEC trying to "pay us back" for all this misfortune they have caused us this past season in football and basketball, and might possibly turn a blind eye to the cowbell issue and this was a way the SEC could tell us we can bring 'em and ring 'em, just not ring them while the other team has the ball and trying to call a play, bc everyone on this board is right, ppl will be ringing them at all times like this past season. Even some dumb asses will ring the bells when we're on offense.</div>

 

[Oxford Godfrey]

You actually filled out your stadium, and opposing coaches, ADs, media, etc., noticed that clanging a cowbell on a third down was a no-brainer rules violation.

Or - Nick Saban, bin Laden and the rest of Birmingham Cabal, secluded in their fortress 20 miles below the Hoover shopping mall, are terrified that a rookie coach posting a 5-7 record and showing a glimpse of what a respectable football program looks like is going to change the entire complexion of the WORLD AS WE KNOW IT.

Mississippi State football must be stopped - and we're ALL in on it.

 

[MSUArrowCS]

http://blog.al.com/solomon/2009/11/home_cookin_penalties_at_missi.html<div>
</div><div>In short: Visiting teams at DWS, despite its small size, average 2.77 delay of game and illegal procedure penalties per game since 2005, good for 9th in the country. The only SEC team ahead of us on that list is Florida.</div><div>
</div><div>The cowbells are used to deter the other team's offense, especially on 3rd down and/or goal-to-go situations. That's not their only use, and they mean a lot more than that to some people as a symbol of tradition, pride, etc. but anyone who won't admit that they are used for this is being naive.</div><div>
</div><div>From reading the reactions throughout this thread, I'm almost in favor of the school taking action against those who break the new rules. If you don't want to follow the rules, if you'd rather crap on our only chance in four decades to have a tradition respected, then you're being selfish.We sure do have some boneheaded morons on here. The SEC says "Keep your tradition. Support and encourage it, just treat it like you would other organized sources of noise in the stadium", but some of you would rather be stubborn pricks than be able to have the tradition openly and honestly. In that case, it must not be as much about tradition as we've always claimed. Do you hear yourselves? Geez.</div>

 

[DowntownDawg]

....to the point that it hurts. If that doesn't work, they'll raise it some more. In turn, we'll have to start frisking people and taking them up in the stands. It'll be cheaper to pay extra security for this purpose.

And this is because of idiots like you who will, without a doubt, ruin the thing.

 

[AlCoDog]

Exactly the response I was expecting form a condescending, smart-*** prick who thinks his **** doesn't stink. Hilarious how much time and effort you spend over here showing everybody how smart you are.

I guess you are trying to be funny because your answer is actually the truth to a much smaller extent. Is the argument not that it gives State an unfair advantage? As long as we suck, who cares because it wouldn't be a big enough advantage to matter. Play Florida and LSU close, whip Ole Miss' ***, and the bitching begins.</p>

 

[dawgstudent]

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[Oxford Godfrey]

I'd hardly call it a conspiracy or agenda that if two teams that evenly matched - and really, you were evenly matched in a lot of games last year, especially LSU and Ole Miss - and one side's fans can create an inordinate amount of artificial noise that's banned on record, that people would say something about it.

So yes, you're getting better at football, have more fans showing up at your games, and people are noticing you. Yes, those are all true.

Also, my **** has a bitter, nutty aroma. Hey, does anyone have one of those mornings at work where you drink so much coffee you go to piss at 11am and smell it?

 

[Oxford Godfrey]

All this started when I heard Stricklin on Finebaum two weeks ago, using terrible, terrible analogies and misguided logic to defend the cowbells as a tradition.

 

[AlCoDog]

I know you're trying to be funny, but you're not.To me, you just comeacross as you being a dick. In my opinion, you are the Clay Travis of Ole Miss.

 

[Dawgfan61]

Just wave it. Honestly we don't care if you look like a bunch of racists fighting a 150 year old war. Why should you care if we look like a bunch of "rednecks" ringing a cowbell?

 

[Sutterkane]

to be higher than everyone else's in the conference and give a ridiculous reason for why we are doing so when really we're paying for something (the fines) with the money.

See what I did there?

 

[dawgstudent]

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