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I must’ve missed that. Was that explicitly said by someone?

From what I saw in the video, they were making major changes to the south end zone that don’t match it at all…

In a perfect world, we just throw up the exact same style thing on the East and West sides. You could add seating or more levels depending on our needs.

The real answer to the stadium was given to us 15 years ago:

-It adds student capacity AND premium seating which gets us to 70k alone

-Gives the fans and students a concourse that overlooks the Campus & the Grove

-Leaves room for expansion and renovation of East and West Concourses & press boxes

-Perhaps most importantly, it completes our stadium even with differing East & West sides.

-Lastly, it gives our fans and visitors a truly impressive "front door" to our stadium. Ole Miss deserves a stadium that matches campus and the passion we have for football. Emerging from the Grove to an entrance like that would be the greatest atmosphere in all of college football, despite a smaller stadium.

FYI I'm all for developing the area in front (I'm thinking and Ole Miss version of the Braves Ballpark), but if we are thinking long term, and we should be, we want a stadium that we can be proud of for 100 more years. Do it now or in a decade, it just needs to happen. This is the way.

Can’t play much worse than that half….which is why I’m expecting a victory. Win or loss, hopefully this is the wake-up call we need.

I keep hearing this, but haven’t seen anything saying it outright.

Also, if we aren’t tearing down the end zones, we are continuing to polish a turd and making it look less uniform.

At least we have uniformity in the grade of the bowl at the moment. The renovations suggested would disrupt that if there isn’t a plan to do the end zones over time.

I’m not saying it’s not completely infeasible to tear down the whole thing, but for such an important and historic place for our campus, you’d think we’d want something to be proud of long term. Idfk

Not to be negative or sacrilegious before the beginning of football season, but I found it to be an interesting thought experiment.

Any players or coaches that rubbed you the wrong way while seemingly being beloved among our fans?

Mine would probably be the Nkemdiche brothers. They were good, but I was over it by the time they left. Early Denzel was great. Might be because that’s when I was in school and saw a lot of off the field behavior.

Also, Hugh Freeze. I knew there was something disingenuous from the start. Wins will solve a lot, but I was ready for the Freeze era to be over as soon as he got to Oxford.

Why is your keyboard typing all this stuff? Seems dishonest

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but looking at Tennessee and Kentucky for example, they'd play what, at most three traditional SEC teams per season, if that?

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True, I guess 4 would be the unlikely. There would be a few teams in that situation, but you have to break a few eggs to make an omelet I suppose. Minnesota, Colorado, Texas Tech, Mizzou, etc.

Most of them would be able to maintain regular play with their traditional rivals/opponents

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Not my favorite overall, simply because it disintegrates too many traditional rivalries, although we're probably headed there eventually anyway (unfortunately).

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I left room to retain those with the lottery games, but I'm honestly not seeing too many in the first place. The legacy conference pairings would solve a lot of that, albeit not every year.

What rivalries are you talking about?

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No North Carolina?

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Damn it. You could just add them to Atlantic South, shift SC to Southeastern, Auburn to Midsouth, and remove Tulane or Memphis.

My thesis followed the accident. This all came from like 15 minutes sorting towns on excel at work just to see what it would look like.