"We're proud of the fact that all the great players from the state of Mississippi on this team have an opportunity to actually play for a championship,"
USM Head Coach Larry Fedora in response to Mullen's comments.
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All this bullshit Mullen championship talk makes me wonder: What if there was a MS "Championship"?
I’d like to know what everyone else thinks about why MSU and Ole Miss don’t schedule USM. I have my own opinions, but I’m just curious to know what everyone else thinks. (Sorry for hijacking the fanshot).
A game like that benefits USM more than either Ole Miss or MSU.
I don’t think the SEC teams are going to gain any recruits from beating USM, but they sure could lose some to them.
To take this even farther off track, I wonder if fans in other SEC states discuss this, such as wondering why Bama and Auburn don’t play UAB/Troy, or if this is one of those things limited to only Mississippi.
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That's basically the same thing that I think.
There’s just not a whole lot of upside to playing them (see Memphis-Ole Miss). If they win, we look terrible. If we win, we win a game against a C-USA opponent.
I think it’s also hard for our players and coaches to put the same kind of effort into the a UM-USM game as USM would. If we play Bama, then USM, with Auburn, LSU and State the following 3 weeks – what games do you think we are focused on? It’s not their fault, but they just don’t have the same “distractions” that we do.
I started to mention the Memphis-Ole Miss comparison but didn't for some reason.
Arkansas State and Tulane are good examples too. Ole Miss doesn’t play either of those teams anymore, well other than Tulane last year. A game against them every now and then is fine, but Ole Miss didn’t do itself any favors by having nearly the entire nonconference schedule go ASU/Memphis/Tulane for years.
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It's a known thing
in Arkansas that the Hogs simply will not play ASU. It’s not even up for speculation.
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by Mexter Dccluster on Nov 29, 2011 12:13 AM EST up reply actions
And I've never once heard anyone say they should.
I’m sure somebody has said it, but I’m also sure it’s a rare thing, while people say pretty often that Ole Miss and MSU should play USM.
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I mean, most Arkansans that aren't Hog fans
want ASU to play Arkansas. Sure, as an Ole Miss fan you hear it more than USM wants to play us. I think if you lived in Arkansas you’d hear the same from ASU/UA folks.
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by Mexter Dccluster on Nov 29, 2011 4:47 PM EST up reply actions
Also, USM demands home and home...
which might not be a revenue problem if USM averaged 50,000 in attendance instead of 30,000 (or less) in a 37,000 seat stadium. To schedule home & home with USM, Ole Miss would have to sacrifice the home game gate/vendor receipts from a game against an out-of-state directional school. Plus, we hate them.
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by A Fan's Notes on Nov 29, 2011 4:12 PM EST up reply actions
I have cousins who are alumni of USM and we actually discussed this during Thanksgiving...
While all of the above reasons are valid, there is also the fact that USM’s stadium holds about 60% of the people that Ole Miss or TSBU’s stadiums do. Also, instate games really bring no additional revenue to the State.
It just doesn’t make economic sense for either us or TSBU to “waste” an out-of-conference game against USM, but TSBU plans to in a few years. I mean really, how many Ole Miss people would view Hattiesburg as a destination game? Being able to party in the French Quarter and the fact that Tulane was a charter member of the SEC are the reasons we play them.
Yeah that's definitely a problem too.
The solution would be to make it a one game home series for us and MSU, but USM people might go crazy over that. Or, what the hell do I know, they might like it.
I could look this up (I’m not going to), but what are the chances State plays them in the Liberty Bowl. I believe it’s CUSA’s #1 tie in, but if Houston goes BCS then I guess it would devolve to USM…??
It really tells you everything that's wrong with Ole Miss
When people want Ole Miss to play Tulane so they can get drunk in New Orleans. As if they don’t get drunk in Oxford, or Memphis, Starkville, Tuscaloosa, Baton Rouge…anywhere really.
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Wha??
We prefer away games in NOLA to away games in Hattiesburg. How the hell is that “what’s wrong with Ole Miss”? Seriously. Out of all the fucked up shit you could point to as being “what’s wrong with Ole Miss” you choose THIS?
Also, New Orleans is one of America’s great cities and a hell of a lot more than just a place to get drunk.
Mullen's reply
to Fedora was correct though. Basically along the lines of good for them but, you know, it is just, Conference USA, not the SEC. Have to give Mullen props for that because, well, it’s true. Unfortunately this year and last, USM would have beaten both Ole Miss and MSUx.
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by BimBamOleMissByDamn on Nov 30, 2011 8:12 AM EST reply actions
Exactly.
Fedora’s reply was funny, in part because he himself knows that he’d beat the both of his with his team this year.
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by The Ghost of Jay Cutler on Nov 30, 2011 11:21 AM EST up reply actions
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