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re: Ole Miss can compete in NIL- Wealthy Alumni
Posted on 9/30/22 at 9:40 am to pigskinoshea
Posted on 9/30/22 at 9:40 am to pigskinoshea
The problem is Ole Miss alumni haven’t really supported the school. An old historic university such as Ole Miss, with all its famous and rich alumni should not be ranked 2nd or 3rd from the last in school endowments in the SEC. Ole Miss students and alumni won’t even go to a home game when they have a ranked undefeated team. Aggies, LSU, and other SEC teams can mostly fill a stadium no matter who they play or their rankings. When Ole Miss plays A&M in three weeks, the stadium will be full, regardless of the team records. So say you’re a five star recruit, it’s pretty obvious, what are your best options for a NIL marketing deal? A fan base that puts 100k people in the stadium every home game, or a fan base the head coach has to beg to come to the games? So while they maybe could compete as far as NIL, their history, shows they won’t. Just an observation not a criticism.
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Posted on 9/30/22 at 9:49 am to Jster15
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An old historic university such as Ole Miss, with all its famous and rich alumni should not be ranked 2nd or 3rd from the last in school endowments in the SEC.
But why? What are you basing this on?
As a school we only can do so much beyond the borders of the state we are located in, which has been the most stagnant in the south in terms of growth. Given Mississippi and it’s trajectory over the decades, why would Ole Miss be anywhere else in the pecking order than where we are?
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Ole Miss students and alumni won’t even go to a home game when they have a ranked undefeated team. Aggies, LSU, and other SEC teams can mostly fill a stadium no matter who they play or their rankings.
You make statements like this but do you have any grasp of the relative size of our alumni and fan base in comparison to those schools?
This post was edited on 9/30/22 at 9:51 am
Posted on 9/30/22 at 12:26 pm to Jster15
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The problem is Ole Miss alumni haven’t really supported the school.
It’s true. Outside of the local, Mississippi residents, everyone I know or have met from Ole Miss is from Memphis, Dallas, Atlanta, Nashville, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Shreveport, etc.
Excluding the Memphis folks, they, typically, couldn’t get into Texas, Georgia, or they wanted a change of scenery (didn’t want to go to LSU or the comparable state school in their backyard). Yet, on game day, they are more in tuned to those teams they grew up rooting for (Texas, Georgia, LSU, etc.)
This post was edited on 9/30/22 at 12:26 pm
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