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Please educate me on Ole Miss & Mississippi State
Posted on 8/24/21 at 10:37 am
Posted on 8/24/21 at 10:37 am
I have a pretty good feel for most SEC schools and their fanbases, except for Ole Miss & Mississippi State. I picture Ole Miss fans being formal "old money" types and hot Southern belles. I picture State fans as more salt-of-the-earth blue-collar types. That's literally all I've got and it's probably wrong.
I saw somewhere Ole Miss counts several famous writers as alums. Any interesting history of either school? Who gets more in-state t-shirt fans? Please educate me.
I saw somewhere Ole Miss counts several famous writers as alums. Any interesting history of either school? Who gets more in-state t-shirt fans? Please educate me.
Posted on 8/24/21 at 10:39 am to Naked Bootleg
I would say your assessment is pretty correct. Ole Miss has lots of students who come in from the north - degenerates with rich parents. 56% of the student body is from outside Mississippi. Don't know much about moo state but I think that's fairly accurate
This post was edited on 8/24/21 at 10:40 am
Posted on 8/24/21 at 10:43 am to Naked Bootleg
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Any interesting history of either school?
Ole miss sent almost their entire male student body to fight at Gettysburg. They were part of pickets charge and made it further than any other unit but every soldier was either killed or wounded for 100% casualty rate.
Posted on 8/24/21 at 10:44 am to Naked Bootleg
quote:As the post above noted, there are a lot of out of state kids who couldn't get into the better schools back home who end up at Ole Miss to party. As to the Mississippi aristocracy, there's not nearly as much money as their is pretention behind their sense of superiority.
I have a pretty good feel for most SEC schools and their fanbases, except for Ole Miss & Mississippi State. I picture Ole Miss fans being formal "old money" types and hot Southern belles. I picture State fans as more salt-of-the-earth blue-collar types. That's literally all I've got and it's probably wrong.
I saw somewhere Ole Miss counts several famous writers as alums. Any interesting history of either school? Who gets more in-state t-shirt fans? Please educate me.
Ole Miss is the liberal arts school, and MSU is the ag/engineering school.
Posted on 8/24/21 at 10:44 am to mikehoncho69
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Ole Miss has lots of students who come in from the north - degenerates with rich parents. 56% of the student body is from outside Mississippi.
Yea ole miss tends to have more out of state kids. We heavily lean towards in state and because of that I think we probably have the edge for in state fans. A lot of ole miss grads tend to move back to Texas Atl or Tennessee
Posted on 8/24/21 at 10:45 am to mikehoncho69
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I would say your assessment is pretty correct. Ole Miss has lots of students who come in from the north - degenerates with rich parents. 56% of the student body is from outside Mississippi. Don't know much about moo state but I think that's fairly accurate
Yeah, they get all of the monied party focused, dying to be Greek kids who couldn't get into UGA, Bama, LSU, Texas, UF, and Tennessee.
It's all of the entitlement with none of the accomplishment.
Posted on 8/24/21 at 10:46 am to Mstate
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Ole miss sent almost their entire male student body to fight at Gettysburg. They were part of pickets charge and made it further than any other unit but every soldier was either killed or wounded for 100% casualty rate.
The remaining male students at Ole Miss at the time, the cowards and the cripples, make up the ancestral base for all the Ole Miss fans you see today.
This post was edited on 8/24/21 at 10:46 am
Posted on 8/24/21 at 10:46 am to mikehoncho69
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Ole Miss has lots of students who come in from the north
Is St. Louis, Missouri "the north"? Ole Miss pulls from the greater south east region Texas to North Carolina and all states in between. State has more percentage of in-state students.
Posted on 8/24/21 at 10:48 am to Mstate
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Ole miss sent almost their entire male student body to fight at Gettysburg. They were part of pickets charge and made it further than any other unit but every soldier was either killed or wounded for 100% casualty rate.
Other than the casualty rate, that's fricking awesome.

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The remaining male students at Ole Miss at the time, the cowards and the cripples, make up the ancestral base for all the Ole Miss fans you see today.

This post was edited on 8/24/21 at 10:50 am
Posted on 8/24/21 at 10:48 am to Naked Bootleg
Don’t believe the stereotypes.
Posted on 8/24/21 at 10:50 am to Saskwatch
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Is St. Louis, Missouri "the north"? Ole Miss pulls from the greater south east region Texas to North Carolina and all states in between. State has more percentage of in-state students.
I'm from the north(sorry) and knew about a dozen folk who went to Ole Miss. The rest went to USCjr or Bama.
My point still stands that its out-of-state rich kids looking to party thier faces off.
This post was edited on 8/24/21 at 10:52 am
Posted on 8/24/21 at 10:51 am to Naked Bootleg
Ole Miss = OU
State = OSU
One is more pretentious and is a “who do you know here” type. One is more laidback, welcoming and friendly. Pretty easy to put together here. Ole Miss thinks they’re Alabama just like OU but in reality the Rebs are more comparable to Arkansas historically.
State = OSU
One is more pretentious and is a “who do you know here” type. One is more laidback, welcoming and friendly. Pretty easy to put together here. Ole Miss thinks they’re Alabama just like OU but in reality the Rebs are more comparable to Arkansas historically.
Posted on 8/24/21 at 10:51 am to AllbyMyRelf
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The remaining male students at Ole Miss at the time, the cowards and the cripples, make up the ancestral base for all the Ole Miss fans you see today.


Posted on 8/24/21 at 10:53 am to twk
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there's not nearly as much money as their is pretention behind their sense of superiority.
But there's not pretention and a false sense of superiority either. It's just a lazy stereotype people like to run out.
Posted on 8/24/21 at 10:54 am to turnpiketiger
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Ole Miss thinks they’re Alabama just like OU but in reality the Rebs are more comparable to Arkansas historically.
No Ole Miss fan in existence thinks our program is comparable with Alabama or Oklahoma. What the frick?
Posted on 8/24/21 at 10:56 am to Tornado Alley
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But there's not pretention and a false sense of superiority either. It's just a lazy stereotype people like to run out.
The thing about this ridiculous take is that anyone in the nation is free to travel to Oxford and take a stroll through the grove on game day. Those who do this and are unbiased going into it will readily see that it's no lazy stereotype. The pretention hangs in the air like the smell of bourbon and chicken tenders. It's probably the first thing they'll notice....right ahead of the startling lack of diversity.
This post was edited on 8/24/21 at 11:00 am
Posted on 8/24/21 at 11:00 am to Drebin
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he thing about this ridiculous take is that anyone in the nation is free to travel to Oxford and take a stroll through the grove on game day. Those who do this and are unbiased going into it will readily see that it's no stereotype
So, you’re asking folks to walk through the grove, obverse a bunch of people they don’t know, and then make judgments and determinations based on those observations, and, if those judgments and determinations don’t match up with yours, the person is biased?
Isn’t that stereotyping?

This post was edited on 8/24/21 at 11:05 am
Posted on 8/24/21 at 11:02 am to Naked Bootleg
Mississippi has more of the T-shirt fanbase in-state due to the average Mississippi peckerwood's affinity for confederate imagery.
Posted on 8/24/21 at 11:02 am to mikehoncho69
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My point still stands that its out-of-state rich kids looking to party thier faces off.
There is a notable portion of the Ole Miss student body who meet this description. At least when I was there
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