Quote Originally Posted by Maroonthirteen View Post
I think it is far more complicated than just some led lights and marketing.

I think it goes all the way back to 2014 and the way the season ended. That knocked a little air out. Then lose to Bama and OM again in 2015 and 2017. Then Mullen leaves. Then Moorhead loses to Mullen...I just think all that took a lot of wind out of people's sails.

Also, in the meantime, Bama is winning NCs and OM is winning. I think many younger people and non-affiliated people now root for those schools. Then you have the tv effect combined with Starkville being 2 hours from everywhere and few hotels that are crazy expensive.
Yet Oxford has about 3-4 more hotels than us and consistently puts 60K in their stadium. Hell they were doing that before Lane got it rolling. Now it is understandable because they are winning, but there is still a small supply of hotels, AirBNB’s, etc. so how are they still getting all those people to come shell out $1,000/weekend?