Fran McCaffery

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Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve

Beard to Indiana is as signed, sealed, and delivered as it can be.

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I hope. Indiana sure is keeping it a secret then ..... there boards have basically removed him as a candidate. And I have no clue.

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Originally Posted by Homedawg

I hope. Indiana sure is keeping it a secret then ..... there boards have basically removed him as a candidate. And I have no clue.

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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.

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Originally Posted by Homedawg

I hope. Indiana sure is keeping it a secret then ..... there boards have basically removed him as a candidate. And I have no clue.

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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.

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Originally Posted by msstate7

I would be more worried about just leaving... maybe not for iowa, but somewhere.

Cam Carter got any eligibility left? He and Hubbard would be fun esp if we keep Murphy

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Two ball dominant guards?..that would not work. Just a list of guys we might want to look at that would fit the mold:

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.

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Originally Posted by Coach34

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.

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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.

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.

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Originally Posted by Tater

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.

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.

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Agree with this.
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.

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Originally Posted by Coach34

Yes- Cleveland was much more fun than Starkville. My friends told me and showed me numerous times

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You did it wrong my friend!!

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Originally Posted by msstate7

Villanova open now.

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Will be interesting to see who they target. The guy at VCU could be the name to watch there. Ryan Odom.

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Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve

Will be interesting to see who they target. The guy at VCU could be the name to watch there. Ryan Odom.

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I wonder if the FL coach stays there very long, or if a historical blue blood goes for him in a couple years.

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Originally Posted by Santiago

I wonder if the FL coach stays there very long, or if a historical blue blood goes for him in a couple years.

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He probably doesn't wanna leave the sec. He might be fired at a school that likes winning more than morals. Sorta joking, sorta not

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Originally Posted by Santiago

I wonder if the FL coach stays there very long, or if a historical blue blood goes for him in a couple years.

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There are not many blue bloods that can outbid Florida.

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Originally Posted by BrunswickDawg

Dance clubs? Lol. I don't even think Athens had any dance clubs in the late 80s and early 90s.
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.

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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.

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

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Originally Posted by Coach34

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.

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

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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.

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Originally Posted by AROB44

It's so invigorating to read how after 3 years our basketball coach never wanted to be here and has been looking for a way out. If this is true, then everyone should understand why we are losers and always will be. Really a sad commentary on Starkville, MSU and the fan base.

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He wanted to go to Arkansas.

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Originally Posted by Coach34

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.

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

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So if Starkville had 4-5 dance clubs it would be the epicenter of college towns?

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?

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Originally Posted by R2Dawg

So if Starkville had 4-5 dance clubs it would be the epicenter of college towns?

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.

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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.

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.

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Originally Posted by Pancho

who Iowa gonna hire?

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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.