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    Arkansas State

    The key difference is USM used to play State and Ole Miss regularly in football and were competitive. Most of those schools you listed weren't even FBS until recently. That's what makes Mississippi different than Alabama and Arkansas. Also, I know "Southern alums are a bunch of LSU and Bama...
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    Food in Hattiesburg

    Gratefull Soul Midtowner Compadres Triangle Seafood Porter House GoldPost Keg & Barrel Topher's (but just breakfast)
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    USM is 18-4

    You'll have to pry that Vanderbilt win from our cold, dead hands. Don't sleep on Liberty either. That's a Q1 win. We'd have one of the highest NETs of the one-bid conference champions and would have a Q1 win. We will still need to win our tourney, but if we do, we're set up well to get a...
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    USM Fans— QB Situation

    Hall thought he had Myles Brennan lined up, but Kelly slithered him back to LSU. You're right though. In this era of transfers, he needed to find someone that has a track record of literally just being able to complete a pass in college football. Hell, South Al got the QB2 from Toledo and he...
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    CUSA got raided and this is what remains...

    I wouldn't say we're in a better position than Memphis but we're in a better position than we were before and they're in a far worse one if they can't get in the Big 12. On the Sun Belt vs. AAC thing, there's a part of me that would like to go back to playing old school rivals like Memphis...
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    CUSA got raided and this is what remains...

    It's pure politics. They make sense geographically and bring competitive football, basketball, and baseball. There's a ton of bad blood between them and ULL/ULM. They've refused to play ULM and rarely play ULL because of a superiority complex. Their fans are starting to warm up a little to the...
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    CUSA got raided and this is what remains...

    I know the 10 fans thing is a meme but if USM joined the Sun Belt w/ Marshall today we'd have top 3 attendance..... with a 1-6 team after the worst decade in program history. And #3 in the league in overall ticket sales. When I see comments about fan support from State and Ole Miss fans I think...
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    FAU, Charlotte, North Texas, UTSA, Rice and UAB joining AAC

    USM and Marshall have been rumored to join the Sun Belt for weeks. This is the domino that needed to fall to see movement on that. The question is does the SB go to 14?
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    Per The Athletic, The American is about to expand....

    This was my idea for awhile (minus the SEC part) but it's not going to happen. The logistics of creating a new league are just too difficult with the NCAA bylaws and so forth --- you have to wait 4 or 5 years or something ridiculous to get an auto-bid in basketball, baseball, etc. Otherwise...
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    We play Southern Miss in 2023, the week before the Egg Bowl???

    It was quietly moved in late 2019 or early 2020. Neither program said anything about it. Originally scheduled for September. I noticed the November date about a year ago and thought it was odd. I was actually thinking it'd be moved to another year with the SEC likely going to 9 games by then.
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    Harding has been quite impressive

    LaTech renovated their stadium after the tornado there. Same field but it looks nothing like the old place. It's nice --- certainly so for C-USA. It's the league doing a solid for them after what they've been through. Personally, I prefer the tourney to be on campuses. Less of a corporate...
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    Harding has been quite impressive

    This feels like a team that is bubble in May or that has to win the tourney to get in. And they're playing the tourney outside of Mississippi (Ruston) for the first time in many years, so that ain't going to be a walk in the park like it often is. We just took 2/3 from a good UConn team, but we...
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    Rumors from the weekend - Jay Hopson taking the place of Brad Peterson...

    I don't know if he's hated by Mississippi HS coaches, but one of the things that led to his downfall at USM was his inability to recruit in-state talent. As soon as Hall was hired here, we started getting commits from MS players that wouldn't give us the light of day under Hopson. Keyes being...
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    MAIS doing MAIS realignment things...

    There's a place for the MAIS but I think for only these rural, smaller academies. Prep, JA, MRA, PCS, and Hartfield at a minimum should join the MHSAA. Possibly Parklane. That being said, the opposite seems to be happening. A handful of Catholic schools have joined the MAIS from the MHSAA. I...
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    MAIS doing MAIS realignment things...

    Pulaski famously the team that does not punt, always goes for 2, and only onside kicks. Assuming a return trip in 2022, that might be a worth drive up.
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