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Posted on 4/5/11 at 4:51 pm to RebelNutt48
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Ever since we got that ESPN deal...they all get on ESPN3 if not on ESPNU. I remember watching the Jacksonville Stae game off the computer.
Yeah I watched almost all on the computer last year, but didn't realize they were nationally televised on TV.
Posted on 4/5/11 at 4:54 pm to BulldawgBooster
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I bet it was written by an Ole Miss graduate!haha
I believe it was actually written by a State grad, it was basically a book about the History of Mississippi State
Posted on 4/5/11 at 4:54 pm to OMLandshark
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but didn't realize they were nationally televised on TV.
Not nationally, but they were regionally televised.
Posted on 4/5/11 at 4:59 pm to OBReb6
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it was basically a book about the History of Mississippi State
But we have no history! haha Could you imagine if there was one SEC school in the state. I was in Oxford with a buddy Friday night for a concert at The Lyric, , I believe the band was Explosions in the Sky, wasn't my type of music, but enjoyed the atmosphere in Oxford, had a great time. Will actually take the wife through there next time I go.
Posted on 4/5/11 at 5:00 pm to OBReb6
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Mis'ippi State's people loathed those symbols long before loathing them was nationally cool. Mis'ippi State was born of a boycott by the working classes against the very aristocracy that Ole Miss embodies. In 1872, after the federal government provided for land-grant agricultural and mechanical colleges, the Mississippi legislature tried to attach an agriculture school to Ole Miss. Land was designated near the Oxford campus, a dean was hired, a curriculum was designed, the school was proclaimed open, and, according to Ole Miss history professor David Sansing, nobody enrolled. "Not a single student came," Sansing says, "because the sons of the industrial classes didn't want to go up to Ole Miss, where they would have to go to school with the sons of the gentry."
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So an entirely new school was created in Starkville. It opened in 1880 as Mississippi A&M but quickly acquired a popular nickname: People's College. No vestiges of class structure, such as those that prevailed at Ole Miss, were allowed at what would become Mississippi State.
Interesting read
Posted on 4/5/11 at 5:05 pm to OBReb6
In regards to the Rebel Black Bear mascot...
My girlfriend: "It looks like an ugly werewolf", ha ha.
My girlfriend: "It looks like an ugly werewolf", ha ha.
Posted on 4/5/11 at 5:06 pm to OBReb6
I never really realized that MSU and Ole Miss' hatred goes back before MSU's conception. I mean can any other school say this? Auburn and Alabama fans?
Posted on 4/5/11 at 5:08 pm to OBReb6
Didn't get to read much, damnit, when I clicked on the link I saw the girl with her back to the screen in a white swimsuit and clicked on it. Damn sports illustarted and their swimsuits.
It is amazing, I bet more than half the Ole Miss and MSU graduates don't know that the first Ag School was Ole Miss, I knew it, but of course the professor that told it said that Ole Miss thought it was beneath them and dropped it. It wasn't a test question so I never questioned him on how it all developed.
It is amazing, I bet more than half the Ole Miss and MSU graduates don't know that the first Ag School was Ole Miss, I knew it, but of course the professor that told it said that Ole Miss thought it was beneath them and dropped it. It wasn't a test question so I never questioned him on how it all developed.
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Posted on 4/5/11 at 5:09 pm to BulldawgBooster
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It is amazing that I bet more than half Ole Miss and MSU graduates don't know that the first Ag School was Ole Miss, I knew it, but of course the professor that told it said that Ole Miss thought it was beneath them and dropped it. It wasn't a test question so I never questioned him on how it all developed.
I knew. I've posted this information several times on here.
Posted on 4/5/11 at 5:10 pm to BulldawgBooster
Read the whole article if you can, really good read, I think its from 1991
Posted on 4/5/11 at 5:11 pm to OMLandshark
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I never really realized that MSU and Ole Miss' hatred goes back before MSU's conception. I mean can any other school say this? Auburn and Alabama fans?
Right. MSU exists solely because of hatred for Ole Miss.
Posted on 4/5/11 at 5:11 pm to BulldawgBooster
So in another words, if the people who would become Mississippi State alumni would have come to Ole Miss, then its likely Ole Miss would be the super power of the state like LSU is today, right?
Posted on 4/5/11 at 5:12 pm to Toddy
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Right. MSU exists solely because of hatred for Ole Miss.
Thats an incredibly powerful obsession.
Posted on 4/5/11 at 5:12 pm to OMLandshark
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So in another words, if the people who would become Mississippi State alumni would have come to Ole Miss, then its likely Ole Miss would be the super power of the state like LSU is today, right?
The school would be much larger, and different, that is for certain.
Posted on 4/5/11 at 5:13 pm to OMLandshark
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Thats an incredibly powerful obsession.
Yes, you can't get any more intense than that.
But it is the absolute truth.
Posted on 4/5/11 at 5:16 pm to OMLandshark
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I never really realized that MSU and Ole Miss' hatred goes back before MSU's conception. I mean can any other school say this? Auburn and Alabama fans?
That is a long hatred! I wouldn't call mine hatred, I went to State, have family members that went to both Ole Miss and State, cousins at both. I have partied at both, do I want to beat Ole Miss, Hell Yeah, but I don't hate Ole Miss.
Posted on 4/5/11 at 5:19 pm to OMLandshark
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So in another words, if the people who would become Mississippi State alumni would have come to Ole Miss, then its likely Ole Miss would be the super power of the state like LSU is today, right?
I agree, but, as it was stated, Ole MIss would be entirely different from what it is today. Ya'll would be ringing Cow Bells!!! hahaha Come on, you know you would!
Posted on 4/5/11 at 5:21 pm to BulldawgBooster
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I agree, but, as it was stated, Ole MIss would be entirely different from what it is today. Ya'll would be ringing Cow Bells!!! hahaha Come on, you know you would!
A cow would have never wandered onto the field in Oxford, so I doubt it.
Posted on 4/5/11 at 5:24 pm to OBReb6
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A cow would have never wandered onto the field in Oxford, so I doubt it.
Come on, let me have some fun! But this part of the article sums it all up. It is a good read.
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If Mississippi's university structure were like Arkansas's [with the emphasis on one major university by a similarly poor and sparsely populated state], then that single football program would contend for the national championship every year," says Rick Cleveland, executive sports editor of the Jackson Clarion-Ledger. But alas, whupped-down Mis'ippi, ridiculed from the outside, paradoxically finds solace in infighting.
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