USM Athletics

[MarkDallas]

USM Athletic Department is now robo-calling me in an attempt to "pack the rock". That, in addition to the emails they are sending me, is making me regret buying my ticket through official channels.

Good news is that number is now blocked on my phone.

 

[notoriousD_O_G]

Doing the same to me. Got a call this morning and several emails. They have reached out to me more than State the past month and I am a BDC member. They must be expecting some thin crowds.

 

[Maroon Eagle]

Yep. Got the robo-call today, two personal calls earlier in the week, and another personal call the week following the game. I had expressed interest in attending another game but probably couldn't do their three-game pack because I had other plans happening those days.

 

[RebelBruiser]

See, this is why you don't play USM.

 

[Xenomorph]

I get a quarterly call from Troy asking for donations despite a polite request to be removed from their system.

 

[was21]

Only ONE of many reasons

 

[TaleofTwoDogs]

The USM win might just turn respectable, They are 2-1 and have scored 106 points in their last two games. Face Nebraska this weekend. If they beat the farm boys from Neb. they will probably go bowling. Can only help our position if SOS is looked at later.

 

[Confucius Say]

The USM win might just turn respectable, They are 2-1 and have scored 106 points in their last two games. Face Nebraska this weekend. If they beat the farm boys from Neb. they will probably go bowling. Can only help our position if SOS is looked at later.

They are going bowling regardless of sat game at Nebraska

 

[Palos verdes]

USM will likely come up short in Lincoln, but they will win 6-7 games.

 

[kired]

I've gotten the same from all the lower teams we've played - Memphis, UAB, and Troy.


Memphis didn't even make sense because I never bought tickets thru them. Must have been something to do with the liberty bowl.

 

[campshelbydog842003]

One of the ten keeps telling me that we are working on a 2 for 1 with them in the future.

 

[was21]

After we whip a ***, I want them to win all the rest...with an exception or two in the conference

 

[411dawg]

I got the same call. I listened and laughed all of the way to the end and took advantage of the opt out option. I was even getting adds popping up on the Sixpack, I guess because I ordered my tickets online. I'm sick of the southern miss.

 

[MaroonNation]

Aren't y'all playing in Memphis this weekend?

 

[GloryDawg]

Not only are you a ********** you probably take it up the *** as well.

 

[wpmusm]

Hearing the same thing.

Also saw where Howland mentioned that you guys are working on a 4 game deal with us in hoops.

 

[patdog]

I would much prefer a 2 for 1 deal. Or if 4 games, 2 in Starkville, 1 in Hattiesburg and 1 in Jackson. For what it's worth, I think it's good that your administration is trying to sell tickets and I agree with Monken that this team deserves better support than it got in the last home game. The team we played in the first game this year is a completely different team than the one we played last year.

 

[wpmusm]

If it's 4 games, I'd prefer the neutral site game to be in NOLA but 2 MS schools playing in Louisiana makes little sense so that will probably not happen. I am happy with a 2-1 deal, and most USM fans I've talked to are fine what a 2-1 deal as well.

As for Monken's comments, I agree with him but we were so bad from 2012-2014 that fans aren't going to want to come out for a game against Austin Peay. It's just not realistic to expect 32-33k for a game against a bad FCS team. If we play a good game at Nebraska on Saturday, the UNT game will have a solid crowd especially with MSU/OM being on the road that day.

 

[Requiem For A Dawg]

I understand you live in the Jackson area, but there is no way in hell we play any type of football there.

 

[KeyserSoze1999]

Can't really blame USM they have had sparse crowds for a while now and suddenly for the MSU game they were packed. They even announced on their PA system during the game, "something for our visitors from Starkville" and played Journey's "Don't Stop Believin".

In sort of a Sixpack manner of speaking they know that we are MSU fans and that our Bulldogs are our "1A"...they are just wondering if their Golden Eagles can be our "1B".

 

[patdog]

I was talking about the basketball series. No way we should play USM in football other than a 2-for-1 with 2 games in Starkville. If USM wanted to play their home game in Jackson, that would be up to them, but I can't see that they would want to. It's better for them to play the big games in Hattiesburg. I agree, we should never play a home football game in Jackson, and I'd prefer not to play a road game there either.

 

[BiscuitEater]

Don't know what ..

One of the ten keeps telling me that we are working on a 2 for 1 with them in the future.

Kentucky was thinking .. but they just agreed to a two game package ('16 home & '17 away) to play Southern Miss becoming the 'FIRST" SEC team not located in Mississippi to play Southern Mississippi in M.M. Roberts Stadium.
The Golden Eagles will travel to Lexington, Ky., on Sept. 3, 2016, to open the two-game series, with the Wildcats making their first-ever trip to Hattiesburg and Carlisle-Faulkner Field at M.M. Roberts Stadium on Sept. 2, 2017.

 

[johnson86-1]

I was talking about the basketball series. No way we should play USM in football other than a 2-for-1 with 2 games in Starkville. If USM wanted to play their home game in Jackson, that would be up to them, but I can't see that they would want to. It's better for them to play the big games in Hattiesburg. I agree, we should never play a home football game in Jackson, and I'd prefer not to play a road game there either.

For basketball, if we were going to do a 2 home, 1 away, and 1 neutral, I'd like to see us play the neutral on the Coast rather than in Hattiesburg and then also play a team in Jackson. I think we could help grow our fan base on the coast in the future if we play a baseball game or better yet, a weekend round robin at the Shucker's stadium, play a basketball game or an early tournament at the Coast coliseum, and then do 2 for 1's with USM football. I'd love to add a 2-1 with Tulane two but with the upcoming requirement to play a nonconference game against a big five conference team, doing 2-1's will result in us not being able to get 7 home games each year if we do them more than ever other year.

It's so much easier to get to LSU than MSU from the coast, it'd be helpful if we made it easier for people on the coast to take their kids to some live MSU sports.

 

[RebelBruiser]

Aren't y'all playing in Memphis this weekend?

Yep. I hope we never play USM though, and I still can't believe your alums/boosters didn't keep Byrne from scheduling that.

At least when we work a deal with Memphis, we can get a home and home with them in basketball that offers at least something positive in return.

USM has nothing, and I'd be happy to let their program continue to die on the vine.

 

[patdog]

We've tried basketball games on the coast a long time ago and attendance was pathetic. Not to say it might not be better if we tried again now. We do have a baseball game scheduled in the new Shuckers stadium this year.

As for future football scheduling, I think it's going to break down like this over a 4-year cycle:
1. Two home-and-homes with power 5 teams
2. Two 2-for-1s with mid-major teams
3. Four buy games vs I-AA teams
4. Two buy games vs mid-major teams

 

[johnson86-1]

We've tried basketball games on the coast a long time ago and attendance was pathetic. Not to say it might not be better if we tried again now. We do have a baseball game scheduled in the new Shuckers stadium this year.

As for future football scheduling, I think it's going to break down like this over a 4-year cycle:
1. Two home-and-homes with power 5 teams
2. Two 2-for-1s with mid-major teams
3. Four buy games vs I-AA teams
4. Two buy games vs mid-major teams

I think that's probably right, but I hope we can trade out two or more of the I-AA games for buy games with mid-major teams. I'm assuming that with the major conferences more or less all cutting down to 3 games per year against non-power 5 opponents, it will get a little more economical to buy mid-major games. Maybe only have the I-AA teams in years where we are playing a power 5 team on the road so that we have a little bit more of a breather on our home schedules to balance out the tougher road game. Or alternatively, maybe only have the I-AA teams at home when we also play a power 5 OOC game at home. That way the desirability of our home football schedule stays relatively even for our fans each year.

ETA: I think attendance on the coast would be much better now. Fan base has grown and also the difference between the Jackson Metro market and the Gulf Coast has shrunk.

 

[wpmusm]

I also thought you were talking about the football series. The 4 game hoops series will probably be 2 Starkville, 1 Hattiesburg, and 1 neutral (hopefully at Coast Coliseum).

 

[Maroon Eagle]

With all this USM discussion, there are now ads promoting the October 3 game...

...against North Texas appearing on this site.

 

[wpmusm]

Well, A&M did come to Hattiesburg in the late 90s, but they were still in the Big 12 of course...

But the UK game is a good deal for us, hopefully they'll be a bowl team by the time they come to USM.

 

[was21]

Don't believe everything you hear. We just got that **** behind us and no need to even discuss keeping it going

 

[GhostOfJackie]

Yep. I hope we never play USM though, and I still can't believe your alums/boosters didn't keep Byrne from scheduling that.

At least when we work a deal with Memphis, we can get a home and home with them in basketball that offers at least something positive in return.

USM has nothing, and I'd be happy to let their program continue to die on the vine.

It's because y'all are scared to play USM **