re: How many football games does Mississippi State win in 2013?

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Which original post? I'm not digging through this. Link it. I'd love to read it. Thanks.

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The one you quoted originally -- when you dropped this gem:


Here was the full post in which you quoted:

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LOL, u mad. Show me some numbers that say anything different, Einstein. If it doesn't include your prominent alums, then it also doesn't include Mr Henry Mize, Leo Seal, George Bryan, Fred Carl Jr, Ronnie Parker, Hartley Peavey, Arthur Williams Jr, etc. Surely your argument isn't that OM has more mega-money boosters than MSU. If they did, you could show me where they drop multi millions at a time for your athletics program. Meanwhile, the Seals dropped $12 mil last year in a single check for the practice facility.

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One damn booster, huh?

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our endowment is the largest of any university in Mississippi. You're trying to prove some point, doing a poor job at it, and coming off looking kinda sad.

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Endowment funding is the longest-standing "statement" of wealth -- and consequently the one which takes the longest to change. Your endowment is $469 mil -- ours is $350 mil. Over the past 5 years, our growth rate has consistently outpaced yours by 5-8%/yr. More students graduating from MSU that are making more money on average over their lifetime makes this elementary in the long term. The numbers I posted show starting salary and mid-career salary. Even if OM can "fix" the starting salary deficit, it will take years to catch back up in the mid-career category.

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Who? And on what list? Genuinely curious. And do you mean to be on any Forbes list ever or just currently?

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Arthur L. Williams, Jr. -- An insurance magnate whose original company merged to form Primerica and later in life a large shareholder in Citigroup. The most recent record of his wealth I can find says he's worth $1.4 billion.

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Again, false. You're predicting the future and saying what you think will happen, but you don't know shite and neither do I.

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I'm going with the current decade-long trend, yes. Until you can(at the very least) close the student gap, there isn't much OM can do to change the trend. That won't happen quickly. The actual infrastructure isn't even in place @ OM to support many, if any, more students currently. As is, you have about 25k more living alumni than MSU does. At current graduation rates, that gap will be completely closed in just over a decade.

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You're trying to cobble together a "MISSISSIPPI STATE IS RICH TOO DANGIT" argument, which is funny because it totally undermines the "we're good, salt of the Earth" people so many State fans like to make.

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Correct. The days of "poor ole MSU" are in the rearview. That mindset died with the Templeton regime. You will still meet some older fans like that -- but it's almost completely absent in my generation. I've never lived to see you dominate us in football, finances, or anything else for that matter. I missed the demoralization of Vaught and most of the games played in Jackson which provide the ultimate difference in the series.

I guess no "inferiority complex" was passed on to me from my parents -- while that's the only possible explanation for the OM "superiority complex" that's still very real.