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re: Wow, the Grove sure does look horrible and overrated!
Posted on 8/5/21 at 11:26 am to RebelTheBear
Posted on 8/5/21 at 11:26 am to RebelTheBear
I was going to say it looks like the type of thing I would want to do once just to say I've been there, but after looking at the first 2 pictures, frick that. Not worth it.
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Posted on 8/5/21 at 11:27 am to Numberwang
Being crammed in a place with an absence of grills, various tailgate games, music, restrooms, etc. isn't a good time. The Grove is cool to see once, but it is overrated.
Posted on 8/5/21 at 11:29 am to Numberwang
I remember being a kid at Razorback games in the 1980s and seeing what seemed like the entire student section in blue blazers and the girls in dresses.
By the time I was there, kids tended to dress "preppy" but that was fading away, too. Sports coats were rare.
Imagine dressing up to attend a something as relatively low-brow and banal as a college sporting event, in an attempt to impress other people who are also attending a college sporting event.
It is cringe.
By the time I was there, kids tended to dress "preppy" but that was fading away, too. Sports coats were rare.
Imagine dressing up to attend a something as relatively low-brow and banal as a college sporting event, in an attempt to impress other people who are also attending a college sporting event.
It is cringe.
Posted on 8/5/21 at 11:32 am to Numberwang
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Imagine dressing up to attend a something as relatively low-brow and banal as a college sporting event,
Guessing you havent been to an SEC stadium student section yet?
This post was edited on 8/5/21 at 11:33 am
Posted on 8/5/21 at 11:33 am to RebelTheBear
I bet you enjoy Mardi Gras in the French Quarter too.
Posted on 8/5/21 at 11:54 am to RebelTheBear
So you got so upset at a comment in another thread that you had to go to the trouble of doing this?
Posted on 8/5/21 at 12:16 pm to RebelTheBear
I like the grove.
Posted on 8/5/21 at 12:18 pm to aggressor
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There are a boatload of kids from rich neighborhoods in Texas that go to Ole Miss because they didn't hsve the grades for Texas or A&M and Mom and Dad didn't care about paying OOS tuition so their little sunshine didn't have to go to Sam Houston or Texas State.
you're not wrong
Posted on 8/5/21 at 12:22 pm to Numberwang
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I'd guess the average A&M student comes from more money than the average Ole Miss student.
The Ole Miss student body isn't any richer (or even as rich as) most other SEC schools. While there are certainly plenty of rich kids that go there (as there are everywhere), there's a lot of posturing and keeping up with the joneses because of the greek culture that's so immersed in the school's identity. But we're still talking about a student body mostly comprised of people from Memphis and Mississippi (I'm from Memphis fwiw). Those two places aren't exactly the bastions of wealth, and MS is still the poorest state in the country and also small. A lot of them would never admit it, but the average student at Ole Miss isn't much different than a student at MS State, yet one group seemingly has the reputation of being old south blue bloods and the other poor rednecks.
This post was edited on 8/5/21 at 3:16 pm
Posted on 8/5/21 at 12:25 pm to RebelTheBear
by creating this thread, OP was defeated.
Posted on 8/5/21 at 12:28 pm to RebelTheBear
tailgating is fun and the grove is a great place to do it, but the fact that someone went through this much trouble for an ole miss game is kind of sad.
Posted on 8/5/21 at 2:54 pm to Numberwang
A&M students aren't any richer than other SEC schools in general. The school is rich but we have 65k plus students from all walks.
This is the key and actually is close to the same answer for A&M. The other option in Texas is they go to SMU (uber snob), TCU (moderate snob), or Baylor (go to church and are a snob).
The old saying for those schools compared to A&M, "Half the education, 4 times the cost!"
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But being a "rich kid" at Arkansas or OU isn't a big deal, because the culture isn't neurotic and try-hard.
This is the key and actually is close to the same answer for A&M. The other option in Texas is they go to SMU (uber snob), TCU (moderate snob), or Baylor (go to church and are a snob).
The old saying for those schools compared to A&M, "Half the education, 4 times the cost!"
Posted on 8/5/21 at 3:07 pm to aggressor
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A&M students aren't any richer than other SEC schools in general. The school is rich but we have 65k plus students from all walks.
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But being a "rich kid" at Arkansas or OU isn't a big deal, because the culture isn't neurotic and try-hard.
This is the key and actually is close to the same answer for A&M. The other option in Texas is they go to SMU (uber snob), TCU (moderate snob), or Baylor (go to church and are a snob).
The old saying for those schools compared to A&M, "Half the education, 4 times the cost!"
Yeah, I've actually worked in various companies and offices where education and academia truly matters ("Horrible Place To Work").
The only private school in Texas that matters to them is Rice. SMU and Baylor
No. TCU was an absolute no. You wouldn't even get an interview. One upper crust, highbrow snob who I absolutely despised ("Cromwell") made me aware that TCU was the school where nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and paralegals went; hence the absence of a law school and medical school. I'm in no way implying that Horrible Place to Work or Cromwell's thought process is correct; however, it is what it is.
Posted on 8/5/21 at 3:10 pm to lsufball19
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The Ole Miss student body isn't any richer (or even as rich as) most other SEC schools. While there are certainly plenty of rich kids that go there (as there are everywhere), there's a lot of posturing and keeping up with the joneses because of the greek culture that's so immersed in the school's identity. But we're still talking about a student body mostly comprised of people from Memphis and Mississippi. Those two places aren't exactly the bastions of wealth, and MS is still the poorest state in the country and also small. A lot of them would never admit it, but the average student at Ole Miss isn't much different than a student at MS State, yet one group seemingly has the reputation of being old south blue bloods and the other poor rednecks.
Spot on.
The biggest difference between the student bodies at State and Ole Miss is most State students, if not 2/3rds, are from Mississippi and only about 1/3 at Ole Miss are from the Magnolia State.
This post was edited on 8/5/21 at 3:11 pm
Posted on 8/5/21 at 3:16 pm to Tornado Alley
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The biggest difference between the student bodies at State and Ole Miss is most State students, if not 2/3rds, are from Mississippi and only about 1/3 at Ole Miss are from the Magnolia State.
33% oos at State
56% oos at OM
Posted on 8/5/21 at 3:20 pm to GentleJackJones
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The only private school in Texas that matters to them is Rice. SMU and Baylor
Is this really true about SMU's reputation in Texas? We had a fair amount of kids from my high school (elitist private school in Memphis) go there and all did very well for themselves. They're largely arrogant pricks but very sucessful nonetheless. Some stayed in Texas, others in New York/LA, and I believe one in London. I always figured going to a school like that, doing well, and making the right connections set you up pretty damn well for life after college. I never wanted to go to a snobby private school for college as I had been through 12+ years of that in my formative years and wanted to get outside that bubble.
This post was edited on 8/5/21 at 3:24 pm
Posted on 8/5/21 at 4:42 pm to lsufball19
SMU has the best cocaine parties
Posted on 8/5/21 at 5:20 pm to RebelTheBear
Bunch of up tight bitches and douchebags. And that's not tailgate food
Posted on 8/5/21 at 7:53 pm to secuniversity
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No one is saying it's terrible. It's just no different than most other schools in the South.
It's not particularly special.
except ESPN and every other network or magazine that ranks tailgating venues and gameday atmospheres continually rank the Grove as #1, but i will believe what my SEC brothers who have a reputation as haters say over the folks in Bristol.
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