Don?t worry folks, Salmon to the rescue!
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Don?t worry folks, Salmon to the rescue!
We lose Jans and Ole Miss keeps Beard even after a blue blood offers him. That's how I will expect it to go anyway.
I doubt salmon can help us, but I think Zac SELMON may be able to help us a tad.Quote:
Originally Posted by ScooterDog
OK I was with Rick Ray but Stans and Howland? You lost me there. Those were two good coaches. I mean Stans is maybe one of top 5 coaches we've had.Quote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
Agree, we need to be in front of this if it becomes a real threat.
I think we might keep a few more players than Hub if we don't have a suck hire.
Be about the streak we are on. On top of that OM goes to a Final 4 this year and then baseball to Omaha. I'm bout to puke just thinking that is possibleQuote:
Originally Posted by Bothrops
We hired the wrong guy if he was looking to leave the second he got here.Quote:
Originally Posted by AROB44
Yeah I don't understand the Starkville hate. I know a ton of students that love it there as did I.Quote:
Originally Posted by basedog
I graduated in 1973, I never heard one person or student that hated Starkville even though we had to drive to the Crossroads to get a beer.Quote:
Originally Posted by R2Dawg
If Starkville is so bad how is it growing with Students? Also Coaches move around way more now days.
I ****ing hated Starkville. I turned down a walk-on spot at Delta State to go to State and I regret it to this day. Starkville is terrible for a college age kid
So Cleveland has better night life? LOL, you talking Delta State over MSU. U can’t to be drinking my friend. Their enrollment is down also.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
Yes- Cleveland was much more fun than Starkville. My friends told me and showed me numerous timesQuote:
Originally Posted by basedog
Cleveland population is a little over 10k. Starkville is over 25k. Too each their own.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
I had a alot of fun at Cheers in Sville- but Delta State matched itQuote:
Originally Posted by basedog
If Starkville wasn't fun for you, then that's a skill issue.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
Me tooQuote:
Originally Posted by R2Dawg
Agreed. We had ole miss friends that came down on the weekends because they liked it more in our circle. I've got degrees from multiple D1 schools and had the most fun at state by far. And never ran out of scenery or smokeshows to chase down.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tater
Why do so many coaches buy property here? Since it's so bad??
Is this really all you got why Starkville isn't good and Cleveland better? Nothing to do with town. What else you got? For that matter what does anywhere else have that Starkville don't? Tuscaloosa - a mall, higher crime? I know plenty of Bamers that hated Tuscaloosa.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
A card game, ho and alcohol sales is why one town is better than another? Glad you don't make big decisions for MSU or Starkville.
Meh, we'll see........I don't think a lot of them would leave.........Iowa ain't for everybody........
Literally have not met anyone else who didn't like the Starkville experience. Things ain't what make a place fun. It's people. And the people are phenomenal. It's like home walking on campus. The rap we get is super unfair. I brought a coworker to a baseball weekend last year, he's originally from India. On the drive down he point blank asked me "are they going to hate me cause I'm brown." I laughed and said no, that's Oxford. We went out and walked the campus that Saturday morning and on the drill field was a massive cricket tournament - men's, women's and children going. Couldn't have timed it better. Set the tone for the weekend. Then everyone was super welcoming in the lounge. He had to learn that southerners take pride in someone else liking our cooking and will keep handing you food until you say "no mas". Then we went and had a crawfish boil that sunday night with crab legs and all my "country bumpkin" farmer friends were super friendly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cowbell
Buddy was shocked how fun a weekend in Starkville could be. I'm just like "it's about a 8/10 - Football is better." All he came with was a positive attitude and a willingness to meet new people and give them a chance. If you do that in Starkville - it's a magical place. If you're just looking for a blowjob, go to Library on the square, buy some random a couple drinks, offer some blow for a blow and there ya go. Someone on this board seems to fit more in with that Oxfart crowd anyways. Maybe that's his real regret.
I would be more worried about just leaving... maybe not for iowa, but somewhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by Saltydog
Cam Carter got any eligibility left? He and Hubbard would be fun esp if we keep Murphy
I hope. Indiana sure is keeping it a secret then ..... there boards have basically removed him as a candidate. And I have no clue.Quote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
Who knows but as long as OM is playing you will not get the vibe he is leaving. IF they offer no doubt he would take it, it's a blue blood Basketball school and State.Quote:
Originally Posted by Homedawg
Beard and his agent are smart. They kept the Ole Miss stuff on the down low until like 48 hours before he was introduced. Same thing when he went from Tech to Texas.Quote:
Originally Posted by Homedawg
Two ball dominant guards?..that would not work. Just a list of guys we might want to look at that would fit the mold:Quote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
Sean Newman Jr-La Tech
Moe Odum-Pepperdine
Mekhi Conner-Sam Houston St
Naithan George-Ga Tech
Guess it comes down to what you like. In college I liked going to dance clubs and those types of things. You can sit, drink beer, or play pool for so long. Cheers was fun at times but having to drive all the way to Columbus for a real dance club sucked.
Villanova open now.
Dance clubs? Lol. I don't even think Athens had any dance clubs in the late 80s and early 90s. Sorry you couldn't two step enough at Classix on country night. If their Mothership from the disco days still worked maybe you would have enjoyed yourself more.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
The one thing Starkville sort of lacked was regularly having great live music. But at the time the university did a good job of bringing in some strong acts to so at least you got a couple of good concerts a year.
Agree with this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tater
I get Coach 34's comments as well.
All that said, MSU/Starkville has a niche seemingly for people wanting something not like the masses. We should really market that, and take pride in it.
I know people right now in large cities that are pushing their high school children toward MSU, and these adults are not MSU alumni. They just love the campus, the relaxing atmosphere , and think their kids will thrive in that environment, as well as be safer there than some of the larger cities and campuses these days.
You did it wrong my friend!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
Will be interesting to see who they target. The guy at VCU could be the name to watch there. Ryan Odom.Quote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
I wonder if the FL coach stays there very long, or if a historical blue blood goes for him in a couple years.Quote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
He probably doesn't wanna leave the sec. He might be fired at a school that likes winning more than morals. Sorta joking, sorta notQuote:
Originally Posted by Santiago
There are not many blue bloods that can outbid Florida.Quote:
Originally Posted by Santiago
Hard to believe they didnt. Jackson had Katmandou's. Cleveland had one that was packed night after night. Hammond, La had a couple of great dance clubs we would visit with teammates. ULL had the strip in Lafayette with bars and dance clubs we would visit with teammates. Baton Rouge had the Zoo and other clubs that were awesome.Quote:
Originally Posted by BrunswickDawg
Those places were fun. StarkVegas back then was The Landing for drinking beer, playing pool, and fighting.....Macks...Cheers with dancing a few days per week...and beer drinking to pay pool. Boring AF
Was before my time, but my brother was here in the late 90s and early 00s. He said it was basically Cheers or Len Lews. You had a couple of places that are still around, Rick’s and Rosey Baby, but other than that Starkville nightlife was a dud. There was no Bin, Two Brothers, new Landing, Hell Zorbas was not even around just yet. Starkville is still behind every other SEC town in terms of nightlife but it was 180 from what it used to be.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
He wanted to go to Arkansas.Quote:
Originally Posted by AROB44
So if Starkville had 4-5 dance clubs it would be the epicenter of college towns?Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
Didn't realize a dance club was the center of life in what made a good place to live.
In a free market society, if that were true there would be like a ton of them everywhere.
Sounds like people just want to dump on MSU and Starkville? Everywhere else is always better than where you are.
who Iowa gonna hire?
Well Hobie's, Moe's, Rick's on concert nights, Two Bros all fit the bill of dance clubs. Haven't been by Landing 2.0 but have to imagine it fits the theme. Losing cowbells to covid hurts - that 1-3 AM option is the only thing missing by Cleveland34's standards.Quote:
Originally Posted by R2Dawg
So maybe we should be judging Starkville for what it currently is and not for what it was.
And hell, what I know about what different people are trying to do - more is starting to pop up.
It looks like Darian Devries will have right of first refusal. A lot of people say he was runner up when the hired McCaffery and the only reason he didn't get it was because he didn't have any HC experience.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pancho