Thoughts on Manhattan, KS

[jethreauxdawg]

Had a good time. It reminds me of Starkville. Fans were nice, although not as nice Saturday night. Saturday night I caught a few “17 Mississippi State”’s or something similar, followed by some form of “just kidding.” Overall, they seem like good people. I really think most of their fans were shocked they lost.
Food: good college town selection
Talent: yikes, worst overall collection I’ve seen in a college town
Stadium: I liked it, and you are allowed to leave at any point and re-enter.
Tailgating: everyone tailgates at their tailgate and there are very few TV’s, seems odd.
Traffic leaving the game was as bad as at home.
Doubt we’ll play there again, but I’d recommend going if we do.

 

[Choctaw Dawg]

I really enjoyed it, especially since we won.

Fans were extremely friendly, had a few bad apples that I witnessed but that's part of it. Most of them told me that we were prolly gonna enjoy this game more than they were lol.

Really liked our maroon contingent at the game, we had a lot more fans their than I thought we would have.

Traffic was terrible, but better than ours because our stadium sits right in the center of campus while theirs is on the northernmost part of theirs, slightly easier to get out.

I really liked the tailgating, the fraternity ones were really good out in the grass lots.

 

[TheStateUofMS]

"talent: yikes."

That bad huh? I've never seen a college town's talent described that badly.

 

[PineGroveBully]

17 Mississippi State”’s

They read the pack up there also?

 

[JoMo MoJo]

How many times did they call you “slaver”?

 

[AlCoDog]

You should go to South Bend sometime.

 

[JoMo MoJo]

That old concrete sign by the bridge was cool. Other than that it looked liked every small city in Southeast Texas.

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

No one asked if your toilet was inside or outside?

 

[PhredPhantom]

Had a good time. It reminds me of Starkville. Fans were nice, although not as nice Saturday night. Saturday night I caught a few “17 Mississippi State”’s or something similar, followed by some form of “just kidding.” Overall, they seem like good people. I really think most of their fans were shocked they lost.
Food: good college town selection
Talent: yikes, worst overall collection I’ve seen in a college town
Stadium: I liked it, and you are allowed to leave at any point and re-enter.
Tailgating: everyone tailgates at their tailgate and there are very few TV’s, seems odd.
Traffic leaving the game was as bad as at home.
Doubt we’ll play there again, but I’d recommend going if we do.

Why can't we have that at our stadium? The stock answer is that "we've always done it that way" but why have we always done it that way? Back in the old days they used to tear your paper ticket in half to keep it from being used by more than one person. I don't see why now they couldn't issue re-entry passes since the tickets have already been scanned and can't be used again by someone else for entry. Or they could "scan you out" which would let you or someone else re-enter since the seat has already been paid for. I don't see why this couldn't be implemented pretty easily. It would certainly make it more convenient if you needed to retrieve something from your car or tailgate. Cohen needs to make this happen.

 

[8dog]

I think its an sec rule

 

[jethreauxdawg]

They scan your ticket as you leave, and scan again when you return. The main reason most places don’t is the lost concession revenue

 

[WilCoDawg]

This belongs in a letter written to their fine institution, not here.***

 

[SirBarksalot]

When did they stop letting you re-enter? We used to leave at halftime and come back.
That was over a decade ago though.

 

[HotMop]

Why can't we have that at our stadium? The stock answer is that "we've always done it that way" but why have we always done it that way? Back in the old days they used to tear your paper ticket in half to keep it from being used by more than one person. I don't see why now they couldn't issue re-entry passes since the tickets have already been scanned and can't be used again by someone else for entry. Or they could "scan you out" which would let you or someone else re-enter since the seat has already been paid for. I don't see why this couldn't be implemented pretty easily. It would certainly make it more convenient if you needed to retrieve something from your car or tailgate. Cohen needs to make this happen.

They used to let you get passes to reenter the games, their would be a mass exodus at half-time then people would come back. With the junction being that close I'm afraid we'd lose alot of fans to the tailgates.

 

[BobSacamano]

The K-State fans we were with said all the Big 12 schools let you leave and re-enter.

 

[TaleofTwoDogs]

"talent: yikes."

That bad huh? I've never seen a college town's talent described that badly.

They hide the good ones until the visitors are gone. Sacking and pillaging was a problem before grandpa become head coach.

 

[boatsandhoes]

aTm’s was bad when I’ve gone. Embarrassing for the state of Texas.