Be prepared

[DCdawg]

Im a student and I'll be there, but I don't think the student section will be full by any means. Keep this in mind: fall break gives people a 4 day weekend. If you lived far enough away that you haven't gotten to go home and see family all semester, you would probably go too. There are many students from Texas, for instance, that this probably will happen to. Those students who live 2 hours away and just don't care are the ones who need to be penalized.

[AlSwearengen]

Awesome! Love how much our students bitch about our team, and then do nothing to help them out. Very hypocritical

I'm starting to wonder about Mississippi State, from top to bottom. There needs to be an extensive psychological study on everyone associated with MSU to figure out what the problem is.

[PMDawg]

Our students haven't watched football in the history of the school. It's not very good football to them relative to what they watch now. Hell, it's not very good football to me either.

That's a lie. When I was there, we went into the stadium two hours early to get good seats and the student section stayed full the entire game. At least until the wheels fell off the Jackie train. The only people leaving early were the frat boys.

[bluelightstar]

Your statement is contradictory. They haven't watched football but it's not good compared to what they watch now.

Wrong, I'm saying you can't tell the students: "this is much better football than what we played forty years ago." They're comparing it to what they watch today. and it's not very good in that frame of reference.

[bluelightstar]

That's a lie. When I was there, we went into the stadium two hours early to get good seats and the student section stayed full the entire game. At least until the wheels fell off the Jackie train. The only people leaving early were the frat boys.

I think you misunderstood my post. I'm saying today's students aren't comparing 2013 MSU football to 1976 MSU football. They're comparing 2013 MSU Football to the rest of the 2013 SEC, and are leaving unimpressed. Yes, that is how TODAY'S students think and I don't really see a huge problem with that thought.

[LiterallyPolice]

That's a lie. When I was there, we went into the stadium two hours early to get good seats and the student section stayed full the entire game. At least until the wheels fell off the Jackie train. The only people leaving early were the frat boys.

So in other words the stadium stayed full when we were beating good teams and competing for the west? Surprise surprise.

Everyone blaming this on the students is wack. It's not generational. It's not because you and your peers were superior. News Flash: when you are dealing with a group of thousands of people, it's useless to analyze the thoughts and mindsets of individual people. Groups act somewhat predictably. And a group of 6,000 people today is going to act very similarly to a group of people 100 yrs ago.

The bottom line is that our football games are boring and have been for the past couple of years. I won't say our "product is bad"... I think our team is a pretty good team. The problem is the nature of the games we play:

1.) We blow out an inferior opponent - Boring
2.) We squeak by an inferior opponent - Infuriating
3.) We get blown out by a superior opponent - Depressing

Our team may be a decent team, but the games themselves are generally predictable and don't really elicit any type of positive emotion (excitement in a close game; joy of beating a quality team). When games are less fun, less people show up. It's that simple.

Add to the fact that events OUTSIDE the stadium have improved so much in the last 7 - 8 yrs. Tailgating is WAY more awesome at MSU now. Once again, groups act predictably... if there are better alternatives to being at the game, the group at the game dwindles.

... ESPECIALLY on a thursday night game over fall break. Kids are skipping a somewhat meaningless game to see their families.... and we criticize.

/rant (and PMDawg - this obviously turned into a generic rant, not specifically aimed at you or your comment).

[notsofarawaydawg]

Saban says

[BulldogBear]

Probably in average student's mind - Uninteresting football < poon

[chef dixon]

Probably in average student's mind - Uninteresting football < poon

Yea can't hate on that. Unless you've already been tagging it for a while, its gonna take some really good football to reverse that trend.

[Coach34]

. Our students are watching some of the best football in the history of our school. If this isn't good enough to get them to stick around, then they must really hate football.

No shit- some of us had to sit there and watch us go 1-10 and 4-7 before we hired Jackie

[fishwater99]

Be prepared for the student section tomorrow night.

I agree it's fall break.. I would be at hunting camp if I was still in school..

Anyone bitching about the small student crowd is an idiot..

If you want to bitch, try the SEC for their bad scheduling.... Did they even ask if we had a fall break, I never got one...

[Jack Lambert]

I just can't jump on board with the whole get mad at the student section train. If the product is good, people stay, its not an MSU thing, its a human nature thing.

They care more about leg, beer and party more then football. Ten years from now when their hair is falling out, they are 25 pounds over weight and have two kids football will become important to them. Why can't anyone grasp that?

[ShotgunDawg]

I agree it's fall break.. I would be at hunting camp if I was still in school..

Anyone bitching about the small student crowd is an idiot..

If you want to bitch, try the SEC for their bad scheduling.... Did they even ask if we had a fall break, I never got one...

I agree with this, don't understand why the SEC can't schedule teams to be on the road during fall breaks. Surely, all 14 SEC schools don't have fall break on the same weekend.

With recent attendance problems, I would think the SEC would be more than willing to look into this.