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re: LSU has only one "real" rival and its Ole Miss.
Posted on 9/23/25 at 12:26 pm to lsufball19
Posted on 9/23/25 at 12:26 pm to lsufball19
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your football team wasn't, which was the point. Your school having black students and football team having black players are two wholly different things. Your football team didn't have black players until 1971
Dire Wolf should've been more clear.
But what I said was correct.
No matter how much you don't want it to be.
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Posted on 9/23/25 at 12:52 pm to GrizzlyWintergreen
Y’all are all such ****.
Posted on 9/23/25 at 12:54 pm to Tornado Alley
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Dire Wolf should've been more clear.
you know what he meant
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But what I said was correct.
maybe we should just start at brown v the board of education since he didn't explicitly say integration of sec football.
The point he was making was 100% correct. The Ole Miss and LSU series was almost dead even before the football programs integrated and LSU is batting almost .700 since they integrated the football programs
This post was edited on 9/23/25 at 12:54 pm
Posted on 9/23/25 at 1:08 pm to lsufball19
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you know what he meant
I truly didn't. I took it to mean Ole Miss's very famous integration story. You know the one. He should've been more clear. You can't assume knowledge I didn't assume, Counselor.
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maybe we should just start at brown v the board of education since he didn't explicitly say integration of sec football.
All he said was integration. He didn't say "integration of your football team" or anything of the sort. Take it up with your co-counsel.
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LSU is batting almost .700 since they integrated the football programs
Congratulations on your football success.
Posted on 9/23/25 at 1:26 pm to lsufball19
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The point he was making was 100% correct. The Ole Miss and LSU series was almost dead even before the football programs integrated and LSU is batting almost .700 since they integrated the football programs
Ole Miss fans don't want to hear it... but the Meredith riots, Colonel Rebel, the confederate statue at the entrance of campus, confederate flags, Dixie and simply the reputation of Ole Miss as being a place for privileged White kids really hurt them in the '70s and early '80s. Ole Miss was truly stigmatized.
It slowly got better but quite honestly... I don't think Black recruits ever felt terribly comfortable about going there until the Chuckie Mullin thing happened. As tragic as that was... I think the response of the University and the fans helped heal a lot of those tensions and somewhat outdated notions.
Posted on 9/23/25 at 1:36 pm to Gunga Din
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Ole Miss fans don't want to hear it... but the Meredith riots, Colonel Rebel, the confederate statue at the entrance of campus, confederate flags, Dixie and simply the reputation of Ole Miss as being a place for privileged White kids really hurt them in the '70s and early '80s. Ole Miss was truly stigmatized.
shite, man, we still are and probably will be forever. And I get it. But, unfortunately, some of the reason for our reputation just isn't true.
Remember the "riots" when Pres. Obama was re-elected? Nothing actually happened, but that didn't stop Twitter from becoming ablaze with rumor and innuendo that a race riot was going down on campus. We were the front page story of USA Today the next day, despite the presidential fricking election.
This prompted the University to empanel a commission who spent millions concluding what we already knew - there were no riots. But some of the reason for our reputation is a concrete fact, sadly enough.
This post was edited on 9/23/25 at 1:39 pm
Posted on 9/23/25 at 1:46 pm to themetalreb
I think most sane LSU fans take OM very seriously these days. FWIW.
Posted on 9/23/25 at 1:48 pm to Gunga Din
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Ole Miss fans don't want to hear it... but the Meredith riots, Colonel Rebel, the confederate statue at the entrance of campus, confederate flags, Dixie and simply the reputation of Ole Miss as being a place for privileged White kids really hurt them in the '70s and early '80s. Ole Miss was truly stigmatized.
It slowly got better but quite honestly... I don't think Black recruits ever felt terribly comfortable about going there until the Chuckie Mullin thing happened. As tragic as that was... I think the response of the University and the fans helped heal a lot of those tensions and somewhat outdated notions.
That's all true, but it also doesn't help they're in a tiny state and share it with another SEC school. As of 2024, the estimated population of MS is 2.9 million, followed by (in the SEC footprint) Arkansas at 3 million, Louisiana 4.6 million, Alabama 5.1 million, South Carolina 5.5 million, etc. While a lot has changed with regionalism fading away with football recruiting, it still doesn't help that, outside Arkansas, they have a little more than half the population of any other SEC school and have another SEC school to compete against for in-state talent. And that also has an effect on the size of the alumni base in terms of monetary support for the school/program.
This post was edited on 9/23/25 at 1:51 pm
Posted on 9/23/25 at 1:51 pm to 03 West CoChamps
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The issue is LSU fans are NFL/Saints fans.
This could not be farther from the truth. The majority of LSU fans don’t give a piss about the Saints, or at least see them as a secondary interest of less importance. New Orleans is a world apart from the rest of the state and unless you’re from the NOLA area, the saints are generally an afterthought.
I would even argue that there are just as many Mississippians who follow the Saints given the organization’s history with Archie, Deuce, etc
Posted on 9/23/25 at 1:53 pm to 03 West CoChamps
Oklahoma was ready to be your Huckleberry.
Posted on 9/23/25 at 2:00 pm to lsufball19
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That's all true, but it also doesn't help they're in a tiny state and share it with another SEC school. As of 2024, the estimated population of MS is 2.9 million, followed by (in the SEC footprint) Arkansas at 3 million, Louisiana 4.6 million, Alabama 5.1 million, South Carolina 5.5 million, etc. While a lot has changed with regionalism fading away with football recruiting, it still doesn't help that, outside Arkansas, they have a little more than half the population of any other SEC school and have another SEC school to compete against for in-state talent. And that also has an effect on the size of the alumni base in terms of monetary support for the school/program.
No doubt.
We've missed out on some of the greatest Mississippians to ever play football too, for various reasons and at various times.
Hall of Famers:
Jerry Rice (Mississippi Valley State)
Walter Payton (Jackson State)
Brett Favre (Southern Miss)
Chris Jones (Mississippi State)
Fletcher Cox (Mississippi State)
Jackie Slater (Mississippi State)
Willie Brown (Grambling)
Lem Barney (Jackson State)
All Pros:
Steve McNair (Alcorn State)
Hugh Green (Pitt)
LC Greenwood (Arkansas Pine Bluff)
Posted on 9/23/25 at 2:01 pm to MrWalkingMan
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I would even argue that there are just as many Mississippians who follow the Saints given the organization’s history with Archie, Deuce, etc
Saints are far and away the NFL team in The Sip.
Don't forget the Black N' Gold used to hold training camp in Jackson.
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