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Funny Narrative
Posted on 6/3/25 at 12:30 pm
Posted on 6/3/25 at 12:30 pm
I have no beef with either school just pointing something out.
The Ole Miss MSU narrative is that Hail State is the little brother and that MSU is the hardest place to win in the SEC. However, overall, State has had more success than Ole Miss.
Football: Ole Miss > State
Basketball: Ole Miss < State (Final Four)
Baseball: Ole Miss < State (more Omaha and natty appearances)
Womens Basketball: Ole Miss < State (final four)
Its kind of interesting that Ole Miss has such a big brother complex when it is actually completely unjustified. This just shows the emphasis that we place on football because the reality is that State is actually probably the better athletic program. I think the O'Conner get is getting ready to be insane for that already storied program. There is an argument to be made that State does the most with less of any school in this conference.
The Ole Miss MSU narrative is that Hail State is the little brother and that MSU is the hardest place to win in the SEC. However, overall, State has had more success than Ole Miss.
Football: Ole Miss > State
Basketball: Ole Miss < State (Final Four)
Baseball: Ole Miss < State (more Omaha and natty appearances)
Womens Basketball: Ole Miss < State (final four)
Its kind of interesting that Ole Miss has such a big brother complex when it is actually completely unjustified. This just shows the emphasis that we place on football because the reality is that State is actually probably the better athletic program. I think the O'Conner get is getting ready to be insane for that already storied program. There is an argument to be made that State does the most with less of any school in this conference.
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Posted on 6/3/25 at 12:33 pm to VFL67
It's because football is way more important to the university budgets than the other 3 combined.
Most of the SEC didn't care about college baseball until the last 15ish years.
Most of the SEC didn't care about college baseball until the last 15ish years.
Posted on 6/3/25 at 12:36 pm to VFL67
Non sports related Ole Miss is all the fancy white collar degrees mainly lawyers
I grew in Mississippi that plays into superiority complex
I grew in Mississippi that plays into superiority complex
Posted on 6/3/25 at 12:42 pm to VFL67
The funny thing to me is when a thread on here turns into a MSST/ Ole Miss slap fight. There seems to be some real legitimate underlying hate there that Texas/ TAMU and Bama/ Auburn just doesn't seem to have.
Posted on 6/3/25 at 12:46 pm to linewar
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There seems to be some real legitimate underlying hate there that Texas/ TAMU and Bama/ Auburn just doesn't seem to have.
It’s the best rivalry in college and I’m jealous. It’s just such a pure hatred
Posted on 6/3/25 at 12:47 pm to linewar
Let me know when their hatred turns into prison sentences.
Posted on 6/3/25 at 12:52 pm to Oilfieldbiology
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It’s the best rivalry in college and I’m jealous. It’s just such a pure hatred
To me it's less of a big brother/ little brother thing...more like twins, or maybe same-age cousins that used to be close until one did something terrible to the other. Now they are mortal enemies - like don't leave them alone in a room with weapons type enemies, yet they are constantly exposed to each other which just makes the hate grow deep. I try to watch the Egg Bowl for that very reason - it doesn't matter the record, what may be on the line, nothing. Just hate.
Posted on 6/3/25 at 12:55 pm to Oilfieldbiology
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It’s the best rivalry in college and I’m jealous. It’s just such a pure hatred
There could not be a bigger disparity in the two fan bases socially.
And it's obviously not reality, but the stereotype isn't far off when you claim that there isn't a single Ole Miss fan that would be caught dead in jeans and there isn't a single State fan that owns a pair of khaki's.
Posted on 6/3/25 at 12:56 pm to Basura Blanco
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there isn't a single State fan that owns a pair of khaki's
Unless it's FRC's lol
Posted on 6/3/25 at 1:22 pm to Basura Blanco
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And it's obviously not reality, but the stereotype isn't far off when you claim that there isn't a single Ole Miss fan that would be caught dead in jeans and there isn't a single State fan that owns a pair of khaki's.
Hahahahahaha this is hysterical.
All of the MSU grads I know are chemical engineers working in industry. Seeing as I’m not a lawyer, doctor, or financial advisor I don’t know any ole miss grads.
Posted on 6/3/25 at 1:41 pm to Oilfieldbiology
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Hahahahahaha this is hysterical.
About twenty years ago, I went up to spend the weekend with some friends who live on Old Waverly in West Point MS. He was in charge of a big member/guest tourney crawfish boil and I was helping him out with it. It also happened to be during the Ole Miss/State baseball weekend.
Some of the players, coaches and parents from both teams rolled in after the Sat night game and for a country club affair, it was getting rather rowdy in the parking lot. Everyone was cordial and having a great time, but even at the country club level you could easily pick out the State people from the Ole Miss people. They mingled some of course, but there was a VERY distinct Ole Miss side and State side of the party, And that included what they drove, how they dressed (especially the women), and even what they drank.
Posted on 6/3/25 at 3:36 pm to VFL67
quote:I mean, if we're going to use milestones from decades ago as comparisons, then I'd like to add that only one of the two has gone to Atlanta, and it's not the little bro who got shown that he too could win in Omaha.
Football: Ole Miss > State
Basketball: Ole Miss < State (Final Four)
Baseball: Ole Miss < State (more Omaha and natty appearances)
Womens Basketball: Ole Miss < State (final four)
Posted on 6/3/25 at 5:23 pm to Basura Blanco
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There could not be a bigger disparity in the two fan bases socially.
And it's obviously not reality, but the stereotype isn't far off when you claim that there isn't a single Ole Miss fan that would be caught dead in jeans and there isn't a single State fan that owns a pair of khaki's.
I am old enough to remember when Ole Miss and State had about 8K each and Oxford and Starkville were tiny towns.
Both were pretty isolated communities so you had mostly full time traditional students. There was no commuter base.
Probably more than any other place out there... the rich kids went to Ole Miss... and the middle class kids went to State if they could. In the southern part of the state the middle class kids went to Southern.
There was a time when Southern had the biggest enrollment of the three schools.
Things seem to have changed some as MSU has more widespread appeal than it used to for suburban kids... and more regular kids have access to Ole Miss.
I think at that time, due to the
Posted on 6/3/25 at 5:25 pm to VFL67
I actually saw Miss State play in SEC title games ...
Posted on 6/3/25 at 5:31 pm to Basura Blanco
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the stereotype isn't far off when you claim that there isn't a single Ole Miss fan that would be caught dead in jeans and there isn't a single State fan that owns a pair of khaki's.
Can’t tell if this is supposed to be a serious observation.
If it is
Posted on 6/3/25 at 5:37 pm to Gunga Din
Miss State takes a bunch of Our of State kids.
Posted on 6/3/25 at 5:42 pm to lewis and herschel
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Miss State takes a bunch of Our of State kids.
UGa- 45k enrolled ?
State of Georgia- 12-13 million people?
Everybody’s taking some of y’all’s kids. And I applaud it, yall are doing it the right way
Posted on 6/3/25 at 5:44 pm to Vecchio Cane
Any state. I meant Out of state, many of my neighbors here in Nashville send their kids to State.
Posted on 6/3/25 at 5:47 pm to VFL67
I can say without a doubt Ole Miss football stadium wasn’t as loud as some other venues in the sec … it was pretty average . For OU fans I think most would say Auburn was the loudest and then LSU. LSU had just lost to Bama and we’re not very jacked up but still was pretty good. It was not as loud as Tenn either .
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Posted on 6/3/25 at 6:03 pm to Soonerd78
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Ole Miss football stadium wasn’t as loud as some other venues in the sec
I’ll take up for my rebel friends on this:
I think it’s the shape of the stadium. Some parts are really loud, others are amazingly muted.
I’ve heard that it’s pretty loud on the field, which I guess matters most?
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