re: Please educate me on Ole Miss & Mississippi State

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what is your feel for South Carolina

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Great question. My sister’s lived in suburban Columba for 30 years so I have a feel for what Columbia’s about, but I’m not sure how that translates to Gamecocks fans. Responsible and laid back, big into golf, not gonna talk football too much, probably more interested in other sports. Am I close at all?

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Says the Mississippi State guy. Priceless.

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You really want to go there?

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A metric ton of Ole Miss students are from Atlanta.

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I know from my children's friends that they get a significant amount from the 'burbs of Bham (Vestavia, Mtn Brook, etc.).

A lot of that has to do with the surprising amounts of scholly money both schools will offer to out of state students with decent test scores. Not by much, but would have cost me less to send daughter #3 to either Ole Miss or MSU -- she took a hard look at both -- than Auburn (who is very chintzy with the scholly money, TBH).

This is all you need to know.

After the Civil War, when the Morrill Act was signed that created land grant institutions, the Mississippi legislature wanted to expand the University of Mississippi to include the Land Grant college (this happened in Louisiana).

Students at Ole Miss didn't want farmers at their esteemed institution so the legislature chose an area east of Starkville because of its ample agricultural land. MSU is second only to Texas A&M in campus acreage, but the vast majority of the acreage is farmland.

Ole Miss used to refer to State students as "Bookfarmers" and when football came around, the rivalry was intense. After breaking a losing streak in Starkville, Ole Miss students tried to tear down goal posts and MSU students defended their field, tearing out chairs and beating the Ole Miss students with them.

Then Ole Miss students stole the live mascot and painted it red and blue, resulting in the dogs death. All of this led to the creation of the Egg Bowl trophy, which is still rewarded to the winner today.

State broke a losing streak to Ole Miss after a cow wondered on the field during a game. State started bringing the cow to games, then eventually just the cow's bell - which developed into the cowbell tradition of today.



As others have noted, Ole Miss tends to attract students that come from other states who want to party, and in state legacy students. State attracts the blue collar and first generation college students, mostly from in state but does recruit the Birmingham area very well.


Here's my experience. I dated two girls from Ole Miss. One was from Vicksburg and was a southern belle who worked with pageants cotillions and her sorority and all of that was more important. The other girl was from Indianapolis. She didn't get into IU and wanted to have a big college experience and Ole Miss was the best place for her.

The girl from Vicksburg's family was probably worth a couple hundred thousand. The girl from Indianpolis was worth millions. Its a strange dynamic. The girl from Vicksburg was of average intellect. The girl from Indianapolis was one of the dumbest people I ever interacted with. I broke things off with her because she was so dumb.

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Great question. My sister’s lived in suburban Columba for 30 years so I have a feel for what Columbia’s about, but I’m not sure how that translates to Gamecocks fans. Responsible and laid back, big into golf, not gonna talk football too much, probably more interested in other sports. Am I close at all?

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We talk football a lot, we just know we suck. So when we trash talk other fanbases and then those fanbases bring up how much we suck by bringing up our entire history (like we don't know what it is), we really don't get it because we know we do... doesn't mean we can't trash talk.

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St. Louis, Missouri

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Yes.

When you go on a campus tour as a prospective student at Ole Miss, the guides will mention where different programs and degrees stack up with other schools from the southeast, and some even from around the nation.

When you go and tour Mississippi State, they will only talk about how this and that is better than at Ole Miss.

Apparently I'm not done talking about 'Late Night'.

The conversation would go

- "hey where yall goin'?"

-"We're goin' to Late Night"

-"Oh cool, where at?"

-"We're going to Jimmy's"

-"Yeah we're going to Late Night too"

-"Where at?"

-"Lizzy and Bella's place"

-OK cool we might stop by later if Jimmy's sucks [code for 'we're just there to score some coke']"

-"K bye!"




Think of how this conversation works in any other town-

"Where yall going?"

"Jimmy's. Yall?"

"Lizzy and Bella's."

"Cool, we might see yall later"


I don't understand all the "Late Night" interjections.

Honestly I like State people much better. Down to earth hard working people who are street smart. Ole Miss are a bunch of fratty vineyard vines wearing pussies but they do have some smoking hot chicks in Oxford. So they got that going for them…which is nice.

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Also, you can't buy cold beer at the store. You have to buy it warm then throw it in a cooler with ice so it is cold by the time you get to where you are going. But enough about all that.

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Cold beer has been for sale in Oxford since 2013.