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

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Here was the full post in which you quoted:

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Your post stated the Seals as boosters and then just listed the others as "prominent alumni." You didn't at all demonstrate that they boost shite.

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One damn booster, huh?

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I wasn't saying that State has one booster, I was saying that you claimed that State has more than OM while only demonstrating one big booster: the Seals.

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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.

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Link? Thanks.

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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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You somehow conflate salaries of alumni with endowment here. You do realize that they're not directly related, right? Schools invest in stocks, bonds, and even real estate, all of which are counted in "endowment" figures. It's not just a matter of philanthropic giving, but rather the net wealth of the university itself.

Honestly, a bigger correlation to endowment figures is tuition costs. Look at schools with smaller endowments, then look at their tuitions. Compare those to their counterparts. You'll see that even universities which are smaller and younger than ours can have much, much larger endowments (for example, Carnegie Mellon is several decades younger than either State or Ole Miss and has a much smaller student body - yet has a much larger endowment, because they raise a shitload of money through tuition costs every year).

Like I said, this shite is way more complicated than you want it to be. You are trying to simplify or boil down rather complicated phenomena in order to make State look good. It's lame, engie.

Ole Miss isn't "getting poorer." Sorry bro. I'll happily admit that State's doing a good job of raising money though, just as Ole Miss is.

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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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Like I asked, what list is he on and when was he on it. Because Bernie Ebbers went to MC and, before he went to prison, he was the wealthiest Mississippian. Just saying that Williams isn't the only Mississippian to be on a Forbes list. I'm not sure if that's what you meant but, then again and as per the usual, you weren't exactly clear.

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I'm going with the current decade-long trend, yes.

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And if you picked a different decade you'd get different results. Your methods aren't exactly without their flaws.

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Until you can(at the very least) close the student gap

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Student gap? The difference in enrollment between our two schools is literally a few-hundred.

And our freshman class this year is the largest freshman class of any school in Mississippi... or maybe that was last year. Regardless, whatever "gap" there may be is both insignificant and easily fixed, as if fixing it is even necessary.

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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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Unless you can demonstrate that number of living alumni correlates directly to funding for a university (such as its endowment) then you'd have a point, but you haven't yet demonstrated that and I've even demonstrated that the contrary can be the case (as in smaller and younger schools than ours having much larger endowments due to academic prestige, wise use of donations or grants, and wealthy alumni).

As with a lot of your posts engie, you think you have a sound argument, but it really doesn't hold up to any sort of scrutiny at all.

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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.

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Or the fact that State and Starkville are lame as hell and you're an also-ran in Mississippi when it comes to national media. That has a shitload to do with the inferiority complex as I see it. Why else would you all do the "People's University" and "Mississippi's College Town" and "OUR State" bullshite?

You're tired of us getting all of the attention. I can't say I blame you.

ETA - And clearly, as I just demonstrated, that shite didn't die with the Templeton regime. It still exists today - just look at the way your head coach behaves.