re: On a scale of 1-10. How fricked Is OM?

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I don't think Ole Miss fans care. As long as they can play pretend country club rich, wear polos, delude themselves into thinking that a well manicured campus with brick buildings is exclusive to Ole Miss, eat cold chicken fingers on their grandmas china, rent chandeliers for their tents, think that an obnoxiously thick southern accent shows a sign of old southern wealth, that even though their school is ranked at or near the bottom of the SEC academically that they are somehow a small private Southern Ivy, or even though their wealth is a fraction of most SEC schools that they are somehow the wealthiest alumni base in the South...

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I married into an Ole Miss family and all of the above is true. It's amazing how much their opinion of Ole Miss differs from reality. It's getting a little better now that the facts are more publicly available through the internet and they can research academic rankings and endowment levels, but the amount of delusion in the Ole Miss bubble remains astronomicaly high.