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But we are RTDF like the old days.
We have cowbells and play a song remix from the 80's.
We have HS coaches calling the shots.
Take that Ole Miss... and your advanced technology.
https://x.com/BradLoganCOTE/status/1...060660052?s=20
edit: Have we done this before at a game? Don't we sponsor drone competitions at MSU and actually have government contracts?
What's the figure on the left supposed to be?
And MSU is drone U.
We can't do crap like that! We're blue collar!
If I remember correctly back during the Barry administration MSU ?DOGS? engineering dept beat MIT and several other high level tech schools with a completely ready for production vehicle powered by a small engine with four electric motors (similar to a train) on each wheel with incredible MPG. Supposedly they drove it to washington for the winners ceremony. Never heard another word about it. That is real world high tech solutions. The DOGS can do it. I will have to say their stadium music is much better.....unfortunately.
It's amazing the difference one season has made for them and for us.
They also had Chuck Liddell and his family there all dressed in olemiss gear mugging for the camera. I’m assuming they pay these types to show up and pretend to be fans and make sure they get on camera.
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No. Lane has made it cool to be in Oxford. Their administration has made it cool to be in Oxford. They are taking a page out of The Jerry Buss playbook. Make it look cool where no one wants to miss it. Some in our fan base make fun of them because of how inflated their view of Oxford is but guess what? It works. Their administration is on the cutting edge, they know their fans pay a bunch of money for weekends in Oxford so they give them a show.Quote:
Originally Posted by AlSwearengen
We on the other hand roll out an 80s Doghouse with an 80s song and roll up garage doors. Our program and university has ZERO juice right now and the administration from the Presidents office down does not seem to give a shit.
He was paidQuote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
So he was paid. Lets start paying people. Looks bad when they have Chuck Liddell, Emeril Lagasse, etc and we have Bob from Bogue Chitto.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cooterpoot
You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to StarkVegasSteve again.Quote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
Yeah, perception is reality. They are the fun place, with the fun coach, and the fun offense. We are the hard working blue collar team that works harder than Ole Miss, yet is boring to watch, and loses more games.
I honestly am not sure how we get any recruits. "Son, why would you want to play for a fun offense, with a fun coach, a party atmosphere, and not have to work as hard....when you could come here instead and bust your ass to catch a few balls once we're down 41-7 to LSU and the stadium is empty?"
Tough sell.
We need to bring someone in from outside to liven up our gameday atmosphere, what we do has gotten embarrassing. Also, If we do change coaches, we need to get someone with a big personality.Quote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
The personality change needed most is the top spot- President position. He had much more to do with Cohen and the JoMO hire as well as even the Lemo hire and he had ALL to do with the rush CZA hire. He is the blue hair of blue hairs. just my humble opinion that he'll push Selmon out in a year or 2 and start the same process over again. He gives folks larry templeton flashbacks
Keenum is not the problem. He just rubber stamps athletic dept decisions. You can blame Keenum for our academic shortcomings in recent years, of which we have had a few, but I will give him credit that he does not meddle in the athletic dept.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pancho
Back in the year of Hugh Freeze's first egg bowl, I went to Oxford for that game. I knew then, seeing in person, they were already ahead of us in marketing.
There was a song written(not rap but something modern), about the players on the team. Names of the players in the song. Very cool thing. The older Kimdiche brother was on the team and he was named in it.
Now.... imagine being a recruit on the sideline hearing that played during a TV timeout, and the crowd cheering it.
Is there just group think at MSU or what? I feel like Byrne would have taken us in a proactive direction, but seems Cohen hire slowed down on creativity.
Having been close to both Oxford and Starkville for many years...... What hurts Starkville badly is the proximity to UofAlabama and Tuscaloosa. Mississippians along the 45 coorridor and even all over the central to NE part of the state, see Tuscaloosa as the go to place when they want to do something, have some fun, etc etc.
Ole Miss is competing with Memphis and UofMemphis for attention and people's time. Oxford is a destination to party, shop and go to their campus in North Ms. Their school and town get a lot of people, that have no interest in OM athletics, from Desoto County and Memphis that drive down because they were invited. That is a big advantage over where we are located.
With all that said, they do hype up every thing around their town and campus. We poor mouth everything. Their school spends money on bullshit like a drone show. We pinch pennies and talk about savings. But again, I think the perception of Starkville and MSU has a lot to do with locals comparing us to Tuscaloosa and Bama.
If I had to guess I?d say NDAs. We have a tremendous amount of new tech and new to us tech waiting under NDAs to come out. Hell, we have an entirely new financial system waiting behind NDAs to come out. Just wait. It won?t be long now, just have to get thru the process. Petrol is on the way out. Hydrogen, electric, water powered and many more waiting. Car planes in the wait. Financial system in the wait. Brand new health system in the wait behind NDAs??.It?s all ready and many more?.WW3 just started, the fake nuke standoff is coming and much more. Once they scare every single person on earth, the truth will be told and NDAs lifted. A whole new world is right around the corner.Quote:
Originally Posted by lastmajordog
As far as our problems, they are many and deep, but it won?t matter real soon.
He's right. They've built a brand that spreads far outside Mississippi. Walker Jones, the president for their NIL collective, has access to a private jet so he can fly people in and out of Oxford (obviously looking for NIL money). Meanwhile, when SEC gameday was here they spent 15 minutes talking about how Arnett brought them eggs from his house that morning (and how Miss. State that was). Pretty sure they were mocking us. I love State but we're so far behind in some of these areas I don't see how we catch up with our current line of thinking.Quote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
"Hard hat mentality" only gets you so far in this world. Basically, Ole Miss has the employer mindset, we have the employee mindset.
I remember the "Feed Moncrief" (or whoever the overhyped WR was that year) song. It was pretty cool. We could barely get a "Rowdy, Rowdy, Rowdy" cheer going at the Dude.Quote:
Originally Posted by Santiago
We have to get someone from the outside to revamp our game day and in stadium experience. OM is far ahead of us.
We really do. Bad to the bone, maroon/white, "another T" and even the SNL skit is just played out. I know timing is not great (inflation, etc.) but we have to bowl in the stadium. I mean we have glorified duck blinds in the endzone for goodness sake. I understand the attendance argument (we don't need more seats) but there are ways to bowl in without increasing capacity. Make all lower-level seat chairbacks (North Carolina did it recently) or heck, make the decks just premium seating (or whatever we call those contraptions up there on the west side). On TV, Ole Miss stadium looks better because it's bowled in. Ours is nicer in person, no doubt about that, but 90% of people only see what ESPN shows them.Quote:
Originally Posted by viverlibre
I understand the argument to save money, but if there was ever a time to make sure we have everything dialed in, it's TODAY with all the conference expansion and realignments setting things up for the next 100 years and beyond.
Somebody check me on this but I think this year Ole Miss has more out of state than in state students. A lot of kids who can?t get in to UGA or Texas use UM as their back up school.
And??? I have heard that forever and I have came to the conclusion that it does matter ONE BIT. Hell, we need to start recruiting Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Birmingham, and Charlotte a hell of a lot harder.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pinto
I'm pretty sure his kid goes there. Lets not act like Chuck Liddell is f@cking Conor McGregor.Quote:
Originally Posted by AlSwearengen
I didn't even know Liddell was still alive.
Some need to quit crying about a cheesy OM drone fly over. We do better stuff every game with our flyovers. The US flag paratrooper thing at Bama game was super cool. Drones are nothing.
MSU can't show our drone stuff because it is secret US gov stuff.
OM ain't got jack on us. People need to quit crying like a baby cause OM has won a few more games than us. Who cares. We'll beat them again soon and you'll forget about all this stuff. Remember last year OM was undefeated and no one could beat them? We still own them in baseball too as bad as we are. And basketball too. Dang near anything.
Their stadium atmosphere is miles better than us. People are not whining because they have won more than us, which they have. Our gripes and complaints are because they are cutting edge with everything they do and we are stick in 1987 with everything we do. Hell our stadium speakers are from 2008.Quote:
Originally Posted by R2Dawg
Uhh, against LSU they had the same paratrooper thing and the flag on their guy didn't touch the ground (according to a buddy of mine who attended that game).Quote:
Originally Posted by R2Dawg
Cool storyQuote:
Originally Posted by JoseBrown
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Originally Posted by JoseBrown
The phrase "getting smoked" doesn't quite encapsulate our situation, lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by BeardoMSU
Isn?t the Portnoy thing is against the new NIL rules?
No it is fine because they are not associated with gambling anymore and he is doing it with his watch company. However, those watches are almost $2500. I do not think this is going to make as big of a dent as Portnoy thinks it is. He is also doing it as a bit to try and get under the skin of Brandon Walker.Quote:
Originally Posted by Leeshouldveflanked
Yep! Why else would he be taking $1500/unit out of his own pocket. He must have one helluva markup on those things.Quote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
Oh from what I've read, they're trash watches. But the optics of this is huge for Ole Miss. I don't think anybody would argue they are leaps ahead of us.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mjoelner34
Atmosphere is better due to winning. 2014 our atmosphere was just fine.Quote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
You mean the cutting edge tarps they had in bleachers that year? Their stadium isn't near as good as ours. We've done many cutting edge things but no one wants to acknowledge it.
Winning creates atmosphere. Sure are their some things we can improve on yes but the whinning is pathetic and like a sissy girl. Look at last 12 years of football, I'm not sure they have won more than us either - basically even - not counting this year.
OM is riding high right now with Kiffin like we were with Mullen and it sucks. That is it in a nut shell. Fine to have the we need to improve argument which I have no issue.
Ah, and who did it first? MSU did. Yeah they can hire the same people we can. We can do the drone thing if we want to. Then people would complain because OM did it first.Quote:
Originally Posted by viverlibre
Wait, it's a negative for State that the paratrooper allowed the flag to touch the ground? I mean what's your point with that part of the post?Quote:
Originally Posted by viverlibre