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agreed, smaller state overall, 2 other schools that actually support football, smaller student body every year so smaller pool of alumni. anything bigger than a 70k seat stadium for ole miss would be too much as it just isn't feasible to sell tickets to that many people for the aforementioned reasons. not a knock on ole miss, just kind of a natural reality they can't control.

Exactly. That's why I find our attendance pretty impressive. Another thing that kills Ole Miss is its huge out-of-state attendance, especially Texas. 95% of those Texas kids go back to Texas after graduation and maybe come back once a year, while they have friends still there. So, while we have our 15k students, 5k have probably never seen football and another 3-4k go back to Texas and never come back. That leaves about 5k every 4 years that even know what football is and stay somewhere relatively close to north MS. We may pull a couple thousand decent alumni every four years.

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btw, please don't give memphis credit for being a threat . they're selling season tickets right now for like $65 total,

That's why I included them. You give a family that both parents work, both making around 30k a year the option of down the road $40 family total game or 75 minute south Ole Miss game that will cost a family of 4 a $100 to attend and they will all pick Memphis. But you're right, they aren't much of a threat right now.