Next 10 years

[webbmaster]

I predict Southern Miss will be the premier program in the state of mississippi.


Oops! Wait a minute...they already are!

[Po Monkey Lounger]

Quick, name the last ranked team USM beat and the year?? Anyone?

I think Brett Farve was the QB then.

[webbmaster]

I believe it was Alabama in 89.

Are we talking about the past or future?

You guys can't make up your mind.

[mudsucker]

You of all people live in the damn past!

[nomsduckhunter]

I predict Auburn will be the premier program in the state of alabama.

Oops...they already are

UAB is the second best program... coming off a 7-4 year

So that makes bama 3rd. Last years record at 6-5.

We better stay in Div 1A or Alabama State at 10-2 last year will move you to 4th overall.

[webbmaster]

Auburn deserves it right now.

No argument there.

Have a nice day.

Hope your coach chokes on a doughnut today in Birmigham.

[webbmaster]

You of all people live in the damn past!

I guess you don't understand the meaning of irony.

Figures.

[Greenhead22]

[webbmaster]

:lol:

Good to have you back GH22.....I don't think this place is near as fun without the both of us.

[Greenhead22]

I go out to town to work a night shift with no internet and come back to all this fun.

[webbmaster]

Yep, as you can see not much has changed!

One post with a simple set list of records over a certain time frame > most folks inability to discuss some of the more interesting trends it shows > Bama envy > Explanantion of "accepting" as opposed to "admitting" > moral victory for those measuring their own programs success while using Bamas record as a benchmark (numbers always help in this case- especially for the ones usually most confused) > frustration because webbmaster is always right > more Bama envy > inability to focus on anything but Alabama.



Football season cant start soon enough.....although, I think its going to start this afternoon in Bham.

By the way, why won't Ole Miss play Southern Miss?

[Greenhead22]

Well, I'll be forced to take up for Ole Miss on this occassion. USM wants no part of Ole Miss or MSU. They are the one's that keep backing out of offers made. USM cannot guarantee the min amount of $$$ to keep UM or MSU from playing someone else on the schedule.

[go24]

No doubt, Southern Miss can handle the other two

However, we don't need a low level, underachieving, snot-nosed punk to come over and remind us

Have a nice day

[webbmaster]

Here's an interesting article I ran across:

http://www.thedmonline.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/07/26/42e63f0b66a47

Buzzards rejoice! USM, UM should meet in Vet
Roun McNeal

July 26, 2005

USM may not have as many fans as our glorious university, but after writing a critique of their fan support encapsulated in my critique of our crappy schedule in 2005, I found that the ones they do have get mad.

Perhaps my criticisms of Southern Miss were ill-placed. They seem to have caused many of my loyal readers (from multiple in-state schools, no less) to totally miss the point of my last installation.

Allow me to repeat: We should play tougher opponents.

To be absolutely clear – I would rather Ole Miss play Southern Mississippi than Northwestern State.

I suppose I was unclear when I said, “Why don’t we man up and show those buzzards that we can shove a big pile of “The Rock” up their golden butts anytime, anywhere.” USM graduates, understandably, misunderstood that as my unfettered defense of UM’s refusal to play Southern Miss.

Most of my reader response from people affiliated with Southern Mississippi wondered why Ole Miss and Southern Miss do not play.

The most popular answer to their rants was that the Rebels consist largely of “poultry waste” (not the word they used) and are deathly afraid of losing to Southern Mississippi on a consistent basis.

Still, I can be happier about losing to Southern Mississippi than to Wyoming.

To be fair, USM fans are not the only ones that think the Golden Eagles could own Ole Miss in football this year.

Athlon Sports Annual has USM pegged as the 32nd best team in the country. You have to flip all the way back to 61 to find Ole Miss. USM has a quality football program – that Ole Miss would mop the floor with.

However there are real financial implications to such a match up. M.M. Roberts Stadium has a maximum capacity of more than 30,000 fans – about half the number Vaught-Hemingway seats and close to half of Mississippi State’s capacity. Thirty thousand lost fans is no small chunk of change.

Out-of-state opponents make for fun road trips for alums and bring in tourism dollars when other teams visit Mississippi.

The only thing Ole Miss-Southern Miss or USM-MSU games do is fulfill the interest of the public.

Good enough for me. These are public institutions, created to serve the citizens of the state of Mississippi, and if Mississippi wants these games, I do too.

So, I sat down and used my imagination to devise a six-year plan to get these schools playing one another.

First consideration: if USM is going to play Mississippi State and Ole Miss, they are going to want home games. Fair enough, but they cannot be in Hattiesburg.

Thirty thousand missing fans is just too much.

However, if USM played their home games in Jackson at Veterans Memorial Stadium – with USM getting the “home team” money – both teams would profit. Certainly Jackson would love to get something in that stadium other than the MHSAA State Championship football games.

Here is how the deal works: USM plays either MSU or Ole Miss every year for six years. So, USM would play Ole Miss twice in Oxford and once in Jackson and would play Mississippi State twice in Starkville and once in Jackson.

The deal probably would not be able to happen until 2007, so it would look like this: USM at Ole Miss (2007), USM at State (2008), Ole Miss at USM (2009), USM at State (2010), USM at Ole Miss (2011), State at USM (2012).

For USM, this is cheaper and more profitable than traveling to Raleigh or Berkeley.

A bus ride to Starkville is pennies compared to more than 100 plane tickets to sunny California.

By suggesting two-and-one deals for USM, I am not being snotty. I am just being realistic.

Ole Miss loses too much money by playing in Hattiesburg (hence, what I call the “Jackson Compromise”).

As a columnist, the idea is that I get to set the agenda.

However, in this case, my readers influenced me to write on this subject. In a way, then, the public set my agenda for me. Which is a testament to the hard-nosed will of football fans in Mississippi for these teams to meet on the gridiron.

I say give them their wish.

I liked this guys response:

Thanks but No Thanks.

Why would Southern Miss give up so much to play Ole Miss or Miss State? You are suggesting that Southern Miss play 2 for 1 with the likes of Ole Miss & Miss State who has little to no national prestige; Heck State can’t even win 4 games. Not to mention that you think Southern Miss should agree to move their home game to Jackson, that’s laughable! The only team Southern Miss has recently had a 2 for 1 deal with was Nebraska. Ole Miss and Miss State are not even in the same category as Nebraska. When we played OK State, Texas A&M, Cal, and Illinois it was a home and home series.

As for playing the game in Jackson, Southern Miss is trying to grow it is local support and recently sold out all their new Suites to local supporters, I really don’t see them liking the idea of moving any home games anytime soon. Also consider that Southern Miss refused to move the Nebraska game to Jackson, that game had a much larger financial impact for Southern Miss than any game with either of the northern schools would have. As for the problem you perceive with not making enough money playing in a stadium that only holds 33,000, I just don’t get it. I have heard this and many other excuses for over 20 years and this particularly one just doesn’t make sense. Most contracts are written so that the visiting team gets paid a flat fee for playing the game on the road, and in return they do the same for the opposing team on the return trip. Where does Ole Miss lose money because of seating capacity at an opponent’s stadium?

By the way how much did Ole Miss make when they went to Arkansas State and did Ole Miss make any TV revenue from that game? One final point to consider; all the previously named games I mentioned above were on National TV($$); do you really think a MS State or Old Miss game would generate any TV revenue? Southern Miss, since joining CUSA, has been on TV as much and most year more then both of the northern schools, in fact last year Southern Miss appeared on TV more then both of them combined. The majority of those games where broadcasted on national TV ESPN not regional games on Jefferson Pilot.

I remember the games against State and Ole Miss in Jackson and they were a lot of fun. And strictly from a fans perspective I would love to see us play again, but from the financial side of this, your proposal makes no sense. Good Luck in your future and maybe we’ll see you in a bowl game one year.
You got to be kidding me!
Memphis

Anyhow, what do I know? I'm just a snot nosed kid from Alabama. I'm just giving you guys one more thing to whine about.

[nomsduckhunter]

Ya'll are killin me......

speaking of choking....
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QUOTE:
"First of all let me begin by saying that I am a huge CMS fan, and think he deserves atleast 2 more years before any talk of firing him should begin. But could it be; that the reason David Cutcliff left ND as OC is that he already has an inside track, that if Shula dosen't win that he is lining up for our job as HC. I know the reported reason that he left ND was because of his health. But it just struck me as odd that he would just up and leave a program like ND. What do you all think."

This guy delusional or what?