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Posted on 11/9/11 at 1:22 am to Monticello
That logic makes no sense. We care more about football than State, Ole Miss. So because all their other sports are abysmal and they are "football schools" by default, they somehow get a pass?
I'm not denying we are a basketball school, but we're not Duke or UNC when it comes to football support. We are top 25 in attendance every year. Top 25 in revenue every year. We bring in more money than Wisconsin, Clemson, and VA Tech to name a few. Obviously more than State, Ole Miss, or Vandy in the SEC. And we are always right there with Arkansas.
I'm not denying we are a basketball school, but we're not Duke or UNC when it comes to football support. We are top 25 in attendance every year. Top 25 in revenue every year. We bring in more money than Wisconsin, Clemson, and VA Tech to name a few. Obviously more than State, Ole Miss, or Vandy in the SEC. And we are always right there with Arkansas.
This post was edited on 11/9/11 at 1:27 am
Posted on 11/9/11 at 1:23 am to ksayetiger
It started before their FB program went to shite.
Posted on 11/9/11 at 1:25 am to busey
I wouldn't call Vandy a FB school.
Posted on 11/9/11 at 1:26 am to Esarhaddon
I meant State and Ole Miss with that part, but yea.
Posted on 11/9/11 at 1:27 am to busey
And vandy is like every ones little brother.... You can't not like vandy its impossible
Posted on 11/9/11 at 1:28 am to busey
I don't know if I'd say you care more about football than MSU and Ole Miss. Didn't Randall Cobb take to twitter last year to criticize football support?
Posted on 11/9/11 at 1:28 am to CottonWasKing
Where did I say I didn't like Vandy?
Posted on 11/9/11 at 1:29 am to AuburnisGreatEtc
He criticized people showing up late because of tailgating.
And our attendance by % capacity has always been better than State or Ole Miss. For a few years there we were averaging 103% capacity. Last year was 98%.
And our attendance by % capacity has always been better than State or Ole Miss. For a few years there we were averaging 103% capacity. Last year was 98%.
Posted on 11/9/11 at 1:30 am to busey
uhh no you don't
Having a slightly larger stadium in a state with no other SEC program doesn't make your school some shining beacon of support. Kentucky's 1st love is basketball. State and Ole Miss fans always want to have better football programs.
When State/Ole Miss put out a good product on the field, they have no problems beating UK. Mullen has beat you three in a row, Crooms beat your dream team in a blowout, and Jackie had a winning record vs. you as well. Mississippi simply has better talent in-state, and if you supplement that with decent OOS finds you can produce 8-9 win teams and being competitive in-conference. UK has shite for state talent and has no OOS pull.
Having a slightly larger stadium in a state with no other SEC program doesn't make your school some shining beacon of support. Kentucky's 1st love is basketball. State and Ole Miss fans always want to have better football programs.
When State/Ole Miss put out a good product on the field, they have no problems beating UK. Mullen has beat you three in a row, Crooms beat your dream team in a blowout, and Jackie had a winning record vs. you as well. Mississippi simply has better talent in-state, and if you supplement that with decent OOS finds you can produce 8-9 win teams and being competitive in-conference. UK has shite for state talent and has no OOS pull.
This post was edited on 11/9/11 at 1:34 am
Posted on 11/9/11 at 1:30 am to Quantrill
Here's SEC culture... You have just joined fight club. Every fall we beat each other to a pulp. Sure, winning is job one, but job two is to rough up your opponent. If you can't win the game, the next best thing is to leave your opponent physically decimated so that he has a hard time winning the next week. Sure, Ole Miss is down right now, but while we are beating them they'll be sure to pop us in the mouth once or twice. The best way to inflict pain is with a ferocious defense. Fast, brutal, vicious defense. We also tend to like to grind it out with the running game. Yeah, we may have some teams run the spread, but they only succeed when the QB is a power runner. It's brutal football. THIS is how we like it. This is why SEC football is the best.
We don't care that there weren't a lot of points put on the board in the LSU-Bama game. We care that they beat the hell out of each other. The team left standing was the team with the fewest injuries and the least worn down players. The game was over when Bama's players were beaten to a pulp and just couldn't punch anymore. That is how football is in the SEC!
What you will learn is that your team is soft. By the end of the first year your team will be burger. Your players will look up at your coach with big puppy dog eyes and say, "Why did you do this to us?". But we will not stop punching you in the head. Years from now you will finally toughen up... And then you will have really joined the SEC.
We don't care that there weren't a lot of points put on the board in the LSU-Bama game. We care that they beat the hell out of each other. The team left standing was the team with the fewest injuries and the least worn down players. The game was over when Bama's players were beaten to a pulp and just couldn't punch anymore. That is how football is in the SEC!
What you will learn is that your team is soft. By the end of the first year your team will be burger. Your players will look up at your coach with big puppy dog eyes and say, "Why did you do this to us?". But we will not stop punching you in the head. Years from now you will finally toughen up... And then you will have really joined the SEC.
Posted on 11/9/11 at 1:31 am to NIH
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State and Ole Miss fans always want to have better football programs.
OK. So does Kentucky. You CAN want both. I promise you it's possible.
Posted on 11/9/11 at 1:31 am to Larson
Posted on 11/9/11 at 1:31 am to busey
You didn't I was just pointing out why they got the pass
Posted on 11/9/11 at 1:35 am to NIH
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has no OOS pull.
Over 50% of our roster is from GA...
Posted on 11/9/11 at 1:36 am to SunHog
This is SEC football.
Iraq baby! Yes it's real.
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"When the work was done the Razorback image covered more than 18,000 square feet. The Florida unit admitted defeat.
“They said ‘We can’t top that – you can win.”
Iraq baby! Yes it's real.
Ark Medivac Show Razorback Spirit
"When the work was done the Razorback image covered more than 18,000 square feet. The Florida unit admitted defeat.
“They said ‘We can’t top that – you can win.”
This post was edited on 11/9/11 at 1:40 am
Posted on 11/9/11 at 1:37 am to busey
i mean quality OOS pull. Ole Miss and State border Louisiana & Alabama and can typically find good players that the bigger programs there pass over.
Posted on 11/9/11 at 1:41 am to NIH
We get mostly 3*. And don't even try to act like State is getting many guys that are any more than 3*. The talent level between State and UK is almost identical.
Posted on 11/9/11 at 1:42 am to busey
I dont pretend to follow Kentucky football but Miss State tends to have a better football team than yall right?
Posted on 11/9/11 at 1:42 am to Quantrill
Everything is Coke. Every. damn. beverage. is Coke.
Your stadium needs to hold 85k+ to be revered. 80k is respectable. Anything less than 75k is laughable.
RV's start to arrive on Thursday night. Spots are staked out as soon as campus closes on Friday afternoon. If tailgating has not begun in full force by sunset on Friday, you fail.
You hate whoever is visiting with a burning passion, but visiting rivals get free food and free beer. And you'll be damned if they don't have an amazing time and come away impressed by your home. All of this comes after mocking/harassing the shite out of them, of course.
If you lose a non-conference game, you are a disgrace and will be mocked as such.
fricking barbecue. If you can't find it on game day, you damn well better be in Louisiana, because that's the only acceptable excuse.
The women on your campus should be absurdly attractive, and should treat game day as a chance to show themselves off at their classiest or sluttiest, similar to Halloween. If this isn't the case for at least 70% of them, there's a problem.
Basketball is only to be discussed when every single bowl game is over, and will only be important until spring baseball training starts. If you need to circlejerk about hoops, do it with Kentucky, and maybe Arkansas will join in.
If you don't travel with your team at least once every now and then, you're doing it wrong. True dedication is making several road trips per year.
If you lose a bowl game to Ohio State, you are a disgrace.
SEC schools come first in SEC states, overall. The Falcons and Braves are a big deal in Atlanta, and the Saints are a big deal in New Orleans, and some people somewhere in Nashville probably give a frick about the Titans. But to Georgia, Louisiana and Tennessee as a whole, SEC schools are the stars of the show.
Everyone hates everyone. If you can't find a reason to despise a fellow member, you aren't trying hard enough. But when the regular season ends, you damn well better be rooting for your conference brethren to represent.
Lax liquor laws are a must. If drinking on campus on gameday is a pain in the arse, I consider you a pain in the arse. Looking at you, Gators.
The insanity never stops. If football isn't a prominent topic 365 days a year, you don't have the right culture. When the regular season ends, it's bowl season, and when the bowl season ends, it's recruiting hysteria. Recruiting hysteria goes to a new level on NSD, and we actually mock each other and get excited about which unproven 18 year old kids decided to play for our school. When NSD is done, it's time to debate team issues ahead of spring ball, then it's time to over-analyze every absurd piece of trivia that comes out of spring practice and break down the spring game (don't forget to mock your rivals about who had the worst attendance for their spring game. Mizzou is without a doubt going to get reamed for this). After agonizing over how your departing players did in the NFL Draft, the Fulmer Cup arrives and we take turns agonizing and making fun of our players and other people's players who run afoul of the law. Then it's Media Days, and then it's the regular season. Repeat ad nauseam for the rest of your life. Love every second of it.
Welcome to the SEC.
Your stadium needs to hold 85k+ to be revered. 80k is respectable. Anything less than 75k is laughable.
RV's start to arrive on Thursday night. Spots are staked out as soon as campus closes on Friday afternoon. If tailgating has not begun in full force by sunset on Friday, you fail.
You hate whoever is visiting with a burning passion, but visiting rivals get free food and free beer. And you'll be damned if they don't have an amazing time and come away impressed by your home. All of this comes after mocking/harassing the shite out of them, of course.
If you lose a non-conference game, you are a disgrace and will be mocked as such.
fricking barbecue. If you can't find it on game day, you damn well better be in Louisiana, because that's the only acceptable excuse.
The women on your campus should be absurdly attractive, and should treat game day as a chance to show themselves off at their classiest or sluttiest, similar to Halloween. If this isn't the case for at least 70% of them, there's a problem.
Basketball is only to be discussed when every single bowl game is over, and will only be important until spring baseball training starts. If you need to circlejerk about hoops, do it with Kentucky, and maybe Arkansas will join in.
If you don't travel with your team at least once every now and then, you're doing it wrong. True dedication is making several road trips per year.
If you lose a bowl game to Ohio State, you are a disgrace.
SEC schools come first in SEC states, overall. The Falcons and Braves are a big deal in Atlanta, and the Saints are a big deal in New Orleans, and some people somewhere in Nashville probably give a frick about the Titans. But to Georgia, Louisiana and Tennessee as a whole, SEC schools are the stars of the show.
Everyone hates everyone. If you can't find a reason to despise a fellow member, you aren't trying hard enough. But when the regular season ends, you damn well better be rooting for your conference brethren to represent.
Lax liquor laws are a must. If drinking on campus on gameday is a pain in the arse, I consider you a pain in the arse. Looking at you, Gators.
The insanity never stops. If football isn't a prominent topic 365 days a year, you don't have the right culture. When the regular season ends, it's bowl season, and when the bowl season ends, it's recruiting hysteria. Recruiting hysteria goes to a new level on NSD, and we actually mock each other and get excited about which unproven 18 year old kids decided to play for our school. When NSD is done, it's time to debate team issues ahead of spring ball, then it's time to over-analyze every absurd piece of trivia that comes out of spring practice and break down the spring game (don't forget to mock your rivals about who had the worst attendance for their spring game. Mizzou is without a doubt going to get reamed for this). After agonizing over how your departing players did in the NFL Draft, the Fulmer Cup arrives and we take turns agonizing and making fun of our players and other people's players who run afoul of the law. Then it's Media Days, and then it's the regular season. Repeat ad nauseam for the rest of your life. Love every second of it.
Welcome to the SEC.
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