A meeting of the elders - NIL

[gtowndawg]

THANK YOU. Starkville is a problem that a lot of people do not want to admit. And not the town itself. It's location and marketing of the town. Oxford is surrounded by the exact same thing Starkville.....NOTHING. However, they market Oxford 1000x better than we market Starkville.

It also hurts that we don't have the best recruiters on staff. David Turner is a recruiting anchor at the moment. Offensively I think we have really good recruiters. Defensively.....not so much.

We know so many people from Memphis with kids at State. Tons. Most of them had no connection to the school but it's pretty close and they work hard to waive out of state tuition so it attracts many from Memphis. All of the families go on and on about how great Starkville is (because they have never been). It's a great place to many outsiders but as you say, we don't do much to build that reputation like Ole Miss and Oxford have done over the past 20 years.

edited: I think the school has made some steps in that direction, just a bit slow.