Take the whole "Students are a problem" mindset and shove it

[MSUFORLIFE]

The students are not the problem. The team is the problem. Are there frat guys that want to go back to the house after we are down by 25 and drink? Sure. Same with some sorority girls. You guys have this mindset that every single student just wants to get drunk at the games. More than half of the students at the games want to watch a good football game and hang out with friends, and actually don't drink at all. We stand in line for hours to get the tickets. You don't. We like going to the games. Quit complaining about the students leaving the game early when we are losing to pathetic teams and the game isn't even competitive anymore. Also, don't say a word about the empty student section Thursday when our school does dumb stuff like schedule our national game to be against Kentucky and much less, during Fall Break. They know good and damn well that over half of the students are leaving on Wednesday to go home.

Why the hell would we, who have been in class all semester away from home, stay up here to watch us barely beat, or lose to a pathetic Kentucky team when we could be home eating hot meals and visiting old friends?

You have the wrong mindset when it comes to our students. If you want us to stay at the games during the 4th quarter, let's not be losing by 15-20 points going into it. Beating a Bowling Green team by 1 point is pathetic. No one wants to watch that ****. To be perfectly honest with you, most of the students that aren't at the game are actually enjoying themselves at another school's game that weekend. One that is way more exciting than the crap that we put on the field.

The solution is simple. When the team starts beating pitiful teams badly (Troy), and start being competitive and not losing by 35 points to the big boys of the SEC, then the seats will stay full. Until then, get over it.

 

[121Josey]

As heartfelt as your plea (or rant) may be, the scoreboard against non-Top 25 teams will not keep students in the seats when students head home on non-home game weekends, party on home game weekends. The only thing that will make a difference is to make those tickets more valuable (or more scarce), even to the extent of giving ticket packages to students and not full season tickets.

 

[BigMotherTucker]

You aren't THE problem... But you are A problem.

No, I didnt wait in line for hours to buy my tickets.. But I did shell out $4500 for my tickets so allow me to ***** about you not staying put during a game for a sec. I have a feeling that because of your showing this season your ticket alotmet will be hit hard in the near future.

/Congrats.

 

[AFDawg]

Waa waa. I did my time as did most on this board. I was a student for the end of the Jackie years. Yes, many students left then too, but I was a bitter ender. I earned my right to gripe.

As BMT pointed out, students leaving isn't the problem but it is a problem. It is, I grant, a problem throughout the SEC. But if you want to improve on, for example, the South Carolina timetable, then we need to do as they do and keep a packed and rocking stadium even in the bad years as much as we possibly can.

Also, get your **** straight on the maroon and white cheer. Y'all suck even when you're there.

Now get off my lawn.

 

[Hump4Hoops]

Stop rushing the "Maroon, white, fight fight fight" song, then you get a say.

But yeah, students may not be THE problem, but you're certainly A problem. You cited an example of one time we were down big at home. You also left early in a close game vs BG, as well as a blowout vs Troy. Does not sitting through a blowout and not staying when we play poorly equal the students will NEVER stay in a non-con game?

That sounds like your excuse.

You seriously don't understand how great you have it, on every level.

 

[hatfieldms]

Excuse after excuse after excuse

You are still a problem

 

[seshomoru]

I'm having a "get off my lawn" moment.

My wife saw us win a total of 11 games during her four years at MSU, so spare me the **** about how you don't want to watch this crappy team. You don't know what crappy truly is. Stop acting like a ***** and enjoy the brief moment in your life you can act like an idiot with your friends at an SEC football game.

 

[dawgstudent]

I get it if we are killing a team or getting killed. I would leave too and have done so in the recent past. I just didn't get the Bowling Green game. That was ridiculous.

 

[BigMotherTucker]

Waa waa. I did my time as did most on this board. I was a student for the end of the Jackie years. Yes, many students left then too, but I was a bitter ender. I earned my right to gripe.

As BMT pointed out, students leaving isn't the problem but it is a problem. It is, I grant, a problem throughout the SEC. But if you want to improve on, for example, the South Carolina timetable, then we need to do as they do and keep a packed and rocking stadium even in the bad years as much as we possibly can.

Also, get your **** straight on the maroon and white cheer. Y'all suck even when you're there.

Now get off my lawn.

Holy hell... How did I forget this. If those kids 17 like they do that cheer, then there has to be some mighty dissapointed Mary Jane Rottencrotch's they hook up with at halftime.

/To 17ing fast

 

[Faustdog]

The students are not the problem. The team is the problem. Are there frat guys that want to go back to the house after we are down by 25 and drink? Sure. Same with some sorority girls. You guys have this mindset that every single student just wants to get drunk at the games. More than half of the students at the games want to watch a good football game and hang out with friends, and actually don't drink at all. We stand in line for hours to get the tickets. You don't. We like going to the games. Quit complaining about the students leaving the game early when we are losing to pathetic teams and the game isn't even competitive anymore. Also, don't say a word about the empty student section Thursday when our school does dumb stuff like schedule our national game to be against Kentucky and much less, during Fall Break. They know good and damn well that over half of the students are leaving on Wednesday to go home.

Why the hell would we, who have been in class all semester away from home, stay up here to watch us barely beat, or lose to a pathetic Kentucky team when we could be home eating hot meals and visiting old friends?

You have the wrong mindset when it comes to our students. If you want us to stay at the games during the 4th quarter, let's not be losing by 15-20 points going into it. Beating a Bowling Green team by 1 point is pathetic. No one wants to watch that ****. To be perfectly honest with you, most of the students that aren't at the game are actually enjoying themselves at another school's game that weekend. One that is way more exciting than the crap that we put on the field.

The solution is simple. When the team starts beating pitiful teams badly (Troy), and start being competitive and not losing by 35 points to the big boys of the SEC, then the seats will stay full. Until then, get over it.

This coming from "MSU4LIFE" is funny.

 

[HardyStreetAlumniClub]

Take the whole "I don't give a damn about my school" mindset and shove it

If you gave a damn you would be in the seats. Have fun hanging out in Madison with mommy and daddy while your team needs you in the stands Thursday.

One of the keys to winning is a loud and attentive student section. We will never get to where we want to be with that mindset.

But, I'm sure mommy will love to have her baby home to pamper and spoil more than she already has. Tune in on Thursday, I think ESPN is 408 in the Jackson area. I'll be the guy in the maroon shirt (former section F) that drove 4.5 hours on a work day that barely can afford his "big boy" tickets.

You have a lot to learn

 

[Son_of_34]

I see your 4500 and raise you...

You aren't THE problem... But you are A problem.

No, I didnt wait in line for hours to buy my tickets.. But I did shell out $4500 for my tickets so allow me to ***** about you not staying put during a game for a sec. I have a feeling that because of your showing this season your ticket alotmet will be hit hard in the near future.

/Congrats.

6,672 in tuition, not gone bring up books, parking decal, housing, etc...the continuous bitchin' on here is becoming absolutely pointless and is making this board intolerable. Most students go in at least 3 hours before kick off so sitting at a game 6+ hours and seeing the team take a **** on the field week in and week out would make anyone want to leave early if it isn't competitive. If it bother those who haven't been in school since the Regan administration so bad that those who can leave during a crappy game do, then like I've posted before get your *** off her and over to emailing the Athletic Department to do something about it.

 

[LandArchDawg]

I'm shocked you even had the attention span to type something that long.

 

[BigMotherTucker]

Do you not think that the rest of us havent paid our dues??

Get that tuition **** out of here... The rest of us grown-ups have our own **** and financhal obligations to worry about. You'll figure all that out when you grow the 17 up. In the meantime, you need to sit your *** in those premium sidline seats that you get virtually free and watch the 17ing game.

 

[seshomoru]

Yeah, we all paid that as well.

Unless we were smart enough to not have to. And I'll just warn you... you are an MSU fan. Your definition of shitting all over the field is going to change as you get older. And it won't be for the better.

 

[godlluB]

Most students go in at least 3 hours before kick off so sitting at a game 6+ hours and seeing the team take a **** on the field week in and week out would make anyone want to leave early if it isn't competitive.

The gates aren't even open 3 hours before game time. dubmass.

 

[thatsbaseball]

Hell I thought Starkville was the problem....Oh I get it, it`s anything and everything except Mullen not putting a good hard nosed competitive football team on the field. This **** is getting weaker by the day.

 

[uptowndawg]

Poor guy

I'm sorry that you have to get there early and stand in line. I'm sorry that you have to sacrifice so much to afford the cheap tickets and travel probably all of about 5 minutes to the stadium. But at least you can justify leaving early since your not being rewarded for your sacrifices.

Do you realize that most of the alumni are spending a significant portion of their salary on their season tickets and BDC donation? And that they're traveling from places like Jackson, Memphis, New Orleans, Gulfport, and Birmingham to see the game? Or that not every one of us is wealthy enough or has enough free time to make this easy? Don't act like it's convenient for us to come to a game. It'd be much easier to stand in a 17'n line.

Everything you say about the entertainment value of our team is spot on. But the alumni seem to not have the same problem with leaving early, or at least not all at once and quite so early. And it's not the difference between being 21 and being 60; some of us alumni are less than 30 and still like to party (if not party harder) like we did in college.

Seems like most of the students are just fair weather fans, only show up when we're doing good or it's convenient.

 

[HardyStreetAlumniClub]

6,672 in tuition, not gone bring up books, parking decal, housing, etc...the continuous bitchin' on here is becoming absolutely pointless and is making this board intolerable. Most students go in at least 3 hours before kick off so sitting at a game 6+ hours and seeing the team take a **** on the field week in and week out would make anyone want to leave early if it isn't competitive. If it bother those who haven't been in school since the Regan administration so bad that those who can leave during a crappy game do, then like I've posted before get your *** off her and over to emailing the Athletic Department to do something about it.

You think all of us just decided to jump on the MSU bandwagon? No, most of us paid our dues at MSU as well. Our point is that it is IMPERATIVE that the students see their attendance at football games as a major reason that our team wins and our program progresses.

Sure, we will lose people if the game is a blowout either way, but we are losing way too many... way too early.... way too often. You look like a bunch of "fair weather" fans. It's a serious problem whether these clueless spoiled modern day college students think it is or not.

Why do I say that? Because it's a fact...

 

[thekimmer]

Most of the folks on this board were students once.....

Including myself. I can't speak for all years but in my time at State the students pretty much stayed till the end and that included some real stinkers where we actually LOST. I cannot believe the moaning about games where we actually WON. The team might be a problem but with three consecutive winning seasons it aint that bad so don't feed me that load of BS that its the team's fault. No, its the students fault. They (as a collective group) have chosen to be fair weather fans. Period. Look, if the students don't want to go to the games its a free country but keep your d*** mouth shut when your ticket allotment is slashed and given to people who actually want to support the team and attend the games.

 

[ShrubDog]

Your student section is a problem. They need AA

 

[Son_of_34]

The gates aren't even open 3 hours before game time. dubmass.

Excuse me, 2 hours then cock sucker.

Unless we were smart enough to not have to. And I'll just warn you... you are an MSU fan. Your definition of shitting all over the field is going to change as you get older. And it won't be for the better.

Sorry you did not pay that unless you are currently a freshman. In my years here, tuition has increase every year but 1 and I dont know when you were in school but im sure if you went to MSU tuition was not that high

Do you not think that the rest of us havent paid our dues??

Get that tuition **** out of here... The rest of us grown-ups have our own **** and financhal obligations to worry about. You'll figure all that out when you grow the 17 up. In the meantime, you need to sit your *** in those premium sidline seats that you get virtually free and watch the 17ing game.

Well if you have your own FINANCIAL obligations I would suggest you not "shell out" 4500 on tickets.

 

[rem101]

I'm not going to talk about the rest, but I just don't get this part. That's the point of college. Going home was usually the last thing on my mind, whether we had a game or not. Some of the funnest weekends in Starkville were off weekends. Off weekends are also a great time to visit other schools. But to each their own I guess. Enjoy your warm soup Thursday night. More than likely there will be more going on in Starkville than your hometown that night.

Why the hell would we, who have been in class all semester away from home, stay up here to watch us barely beat, or lose to a pathetic Kentucky team when we could be home eating hot meals and visiting old friends?

 

[Dawg1976]

You need to change your ID to MSUFORAHALF. Just another whinny *****.

 

[AFDawg]

MSU4TwoQuartersUnlessImThirsty

 

[BigMotherTucker]

I tend not to take financial advice from dickheads like you. But thanks... When you learn sit through a football game, get back with me.


Also. Thanks for the spelling correction. 'preciate that.

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

You are going to go far with an attitude like that young man. You guys have a tough life and we shouldn't expect you to be there in tough times. I guess we can go ahead and cross out your name for our gifting program.

I find this amusing when my 15 year old has more balls than a college student who actually brags about it.

 

[GhostOfJackie]

I'm not going to talk about the rest, but I just don't get this part. That's the point of college. Going home was usually the last thing on my mind, whether we had a game or not. Some of the funnest weekends in Starkville were off weekends. Off weekends are also a great time to visit other schools. But to each their own I guess. Enjoy your warm soup Thursday night. More than likely there will be more going on in Starkville than your hometown that night.

Apparently, MSU4LIFE is not one to truly appreciate the beauty of summertime in Starkville. And not going back home until December 23rd. Starkville is a wonderful place to be at the age of 21 with only the cool folks left in town.

 

[uptowndawg]

HotMeals&OldFriends4LIFE !!!

 

[Son_of_34]

I tend not to take financial advice from dickheads like you. But thanks... When you learn sit through a football game, get back with me.


Also. Thanks for the spelling correction. 'preciate that.

Well lets see old man, I said through 21-3 in Houston, 51-7 against Alcorn, 59-26 against LSU and those where the only games I was able to attend this year, and don't even get me started on the beatings by WVU, Georgia Tech, and the rest of the SEC during the Croom years that I also sat all the way through, so its not like all students leave early and to be honest after I graduate, if this continues, I would like for the student section to be cut by at least a third and put in a possible young alumni section like UGA did for those, like me, who can wait until the game is over to leave.

 

[BigMotherTucker]

Then im not seeing why we are having a quarrel. Ultimatly, we have the same vision of our student section.

 

[seb304]

All of you are doing nothing but pissing the students (trust me, I've seen all this bitching talked about on Twitter and the like) and I fail to see how it helps.

 

[johnson86-1]

Life Tip 1: Don't be an idiot.

If you have to fly home or live more than 6 hours away, by all means go home for all of fall break, but otherwise, you should not be rushing home on the Wednesday of fall break when there is a football game on Thursday. Ignoring how crappy the football is or is not, some awesome things happen on night like that and you should try to make as many of them happen as possible. There will be plenty of time for hot meals later.

Life Tip 2: Don't worry about what other people think.
If you don't want to hang out for more than a half of football, don't do it. But you should be able to understand that the reason you give students access to good seating at dirt cheap prices is to build up the atmosphere and create loyal fans among the student body before they go out and become alumni. If we have large portions of the students leaving at halftime, we're failing at both and there's no reason for the school not to maximize revenue instead.

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

You are right. I should be afraid of that.

 

[seb304]

Didn't mean to reply to you specifically. Guess my point is I fail to see how this complaining about it every day is helpful.

 

[uptowndawg]

I'm so 17'n confused over what ya'll were even arguing about.

 

[Son_of_34]

Then im not seeing why we are having a quarrel. Ultimatly, we have the same vision of our student section.

 

[BigMotherTucker]

would not talking about it be helpful?

 

[UIUCDog]

This thread 17in' sucks.

asdf

 

[horshack.sixpack]

You may have taken a wrong turn. Most of the pack alumni were pissing off students when they were students! I suspect it won't stop now...