Quote Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve View Post
Because they have this weird new concept called Alumni Outreach. A lot of schools are trying it out. Mississippi State is in a wait and see approach. I wish I was kidding. Ole Miss keeps up with their alumni and makes it a big deal to come back to campus for a few weekends in the fall and spring.

Mississippi State doesn't care. They could care less if young alumni came back. I mean I'm lucky enough that we have a condo in Starkville and have season tickets to everything or it would be almost impossible to come to games and enjoy them. Tickets aren't a problem, at least right now, but I mean where the hell are you supposed to stay in Starkville? There's 6 hotels and the team takes one of them and then there's a couple of fleabag motels, but I mean that's just not enough for a college town on a gameday weekend. I mean if I'm the University, I'm running gameday shuttles to hotels in Columbus and West Point. Hell, I'd be running charter buses to hotels in Meridian, Grenada, and even Jackson. Make it accessible for people to get there and they may be more willing to come. And that goes past just young alumni, that goes to out of state fans or even in state fans that may not live close to Starkville. I mean Mississippi State could EASILY afford to do that. Hell, Everett would probably cut them a deal on the buses.

I’m from Meridian. We get a TON of business hotel wise from teams that play us. The drive is easy to Stark and there’s more places to eat here. It makes sense for people to stay, but if my girlfriend wasn’t a senior, I would be driving back and forth every game…that’s certainly way less enjoyable than actually being able to do something after the games. Starkville definitely needs some better bars though. The fact the district closes at 1 is insane. I work 5 days a week and I stay up until 1 almost every night. Starkville City council must also all sit on the SBC. SHEESH