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Our spring football "game" is this weekend, and this is the first time I can remember the term "Super Bulldog Weekend" not being used at all. I don't know when that phrase was first used, but it is on some of my old t-shirts from the mid-80's. What used to be a great 3-day event filled baseball, football, a concert as well as other miscellaneous sports and activities sprinkled around Starkville has dwindled to almost nothing special over the past few years. The university's website still has Super Bulldog Weekend as one of our traditions. But rather than put forth the effort to actually make it Super again, they apparently just killed it off. According to the university's email, we'd all need to hitch a ride with Marty McFly to see the "game" anyway. In my opinion this is a major administration fail. Farewell Super Bulldog Weekend. RIP.
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The Peeper

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Super Bulldog Weekend is the LSU Weekend. Softball, baseball, Wiener Dog Races in the District. I think the Arts District Festival is another weekend though, April 18 I think and Zach Bryan May 2. Still have all the events just spread out over a few weeks. The mayor has claimed they want the hotels and restaurants to be full multiple weekends instead of full one weekend

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GhostOfJackie

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bolddogge said:
Our spring football "game" is this weekend, and this is the first time I can remember the term "Super Bulldog Weekend" not being used at all. I don't know when that phrase was first used, but it is on some of my old t-shirts from the mid-80's. What used to be a great 3-day event filled baseball, football, a concert as well as other miscellaneous sports and activities sprinkled around Starkville has dwindled to almost nothing special over the past few years. The university's website still has Super Bulldog Weekend as one of our traditions. But rather than put forth the effort to actually make it Super again, they apparently just killed it off. According to the university's email, we'd all need to hitch a ride with Marty McFly to see the "game" anyway. In my opinion this is a major administration fail. Farewell Super Bulldog Weekend. RIP.
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I just checked. Super Bulldog Weekend has not gone anywhere. It is May 1-4. Link Below
From the University Website

I never thought that the Spring Football game HAD to be on that weekend anyway. The baseball series, Arts Festival, and other events around town make it what it is. Spring Football games (in my opinion) are one of the most boring events a University can have.

I still remember hanging a huge cardboard cutout of a corndog out my window when I lived above Bin 612 in college. That was when they had the stage right beside Bin612 and it might still be. I don't know the latest set up, that was years ago. LSU fans got a kick out of it and the band even commented on it during the show. Those weekends everyone in that complex would just open their doors and it was a huge open party. I learned my lesson with that after having too many things stolen from rando's who came in and out. Some of the best times of my life to look back on. Now it's soccer tournaments, tee ball games and dance recitals that get me going.

I love you all,
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You linked 2025, it's the weekend of April 24
GhostOfJackie said:
I just checked. Super Bulldog Weekend has not gone anywhere. It is May 1-4. Link Below
From the University Website

I never thought that the Spring Football game HAD to be on that weekend anyway. The baseball series, Arts Festival, and other events around town make it what it is. Spring Football games (in my opinion) are one of the most boring events a University can have.

I still remember hanging a huge cardboard cutout of a corndog out my window when I lived above Bin 612 in college. That was when they had the stage right beside Bin612 and it might still be. I don't know the latest set up, that was years ago. LSU fans got a kick out of it and the band even commented on it during the show. Those weekends everyone in that complex would just open their doors and it was a huge open party. I learned my lesson with that after having too many things stolen from rando's who came in and out. Some of the best times of my life to look back on. Now it's soccer tournaments, tee ball games and dance recitals that get me going.

I love you all,
GOJ
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The Peeper

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GhostOfJackie said:
I just checked. Super Bulldog Weekend has not gone anywhere. It is May 1-4. Link Below
From the University Website

I never thought that the Spring Football game HAD to be on that weekend anyway. The baseball series, Arts Festival, and other events around town make it what it is. Spring Football games (in my opinion) are one of the most boring events a University can have.

I still remember hanging a huge cardboard cutout of a corndog out my window when I lived above Bin 612 in college. That was when they had the stage right beside Bin612 and it might still be. I don't know the latest set up, that was years ago. LSU fans got a kick out of it and the band even commented on it during the show. Those weekends everyone in that complex would just open their doors and it was a huge open party. I learned my lesson with that after having too many things stolen from rando's who came in and out. Some of the best times of my life to look back on. Now it's soccer tournaments, tee ball games and dance recitals that get me going.

I love you all,
GOJ
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That's a January 2025 article you linked. My other post shows the dates in the small clip from HailState.com This years Super Bulldog Weekend is April 24-26, LSU Weekend
 
bolddogge

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The only time SBW didn't include the football spring "game" was when it postponed due to heavy rainfall all day long. Why didn't they have it this coming weekend? Were the wiener dogs busy?
 
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bolddogge said:
I guess if they post it a couple of times on X five months ago that's enough...
No reason to be promoting it any more than that since it's really nothing special anymore.
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Maybe I am in the minority here, but why should it have to be promoted? Its going to be big no matter what. Have you been to a SEC baseball series lately? Every weekend is SBW type crowds. They are even having pre-game bands for all SEC games at the Diamond Dawg Alley. The Derby is big on its own. The CD Arts Festival is big on its on. Almost every weekend during the spring has some kind of event and is big, off and on campus.

You go from saying its dead to then being mad its not being promoted enough. You just want to b*** about something for the sake of it.
 
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When I was is school it was called "Super Saturday."

It used to be my favorite weekend of the year. I stopped caring about it when they killed off the pig-cooking contest. Without football it's just another home weekend SEC series and there are 5 of those to choose from.
 
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Duke Humphrey said:
Maybe I am in the minority here, but why should it have to be promoted? Its going to be big no matter what. Have you been to a SEC baseball series lately? Every weekend is SBW type crowds. They are even having pre-game bands for all SEC games at the Diamond Dawg Alley. The Derby is big on its own. The CD Arts Festival is big on its on. Almost every weekend during the spring has some kind of event and is big, off and on campus.

You go from saying its dead to then being mad its not being promoted enough. You just want to b*** about something for the sake of it.
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Nah I'll give it this a run. I do think the University and City should have been more forthcoming with their promotion of SBW this year. No doubt. It does seem to have lost its luster over the years. To me, SBW is more about the events in the Town of Starkville rather than just the University. I remember we used to have a festival called "old main" I think, and it was more downtown. Is that still around in some form? I saw the band Moe play there back during the early 2000's, when Moe was all the talk.

We do indeed need to market more than one weekend, and they do. But let's also keep the SBW weekend as the biggest one in terms of marketing.
 
bolddogge

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Duke Humphrey said:
Maybe I am in the minority here, but why should it have to be promoted? Its going to be big no matter what. Have you been to a SEC baseball series lately? Every weekend is SBW type crowds. They are even having pre-game bands for all SEC games at the Diamond Dawg Alley. The Derby is big on its own. The CD Arts Festival is big on its on. Almost every weekend during the spring has some kind of event and is big, off and on campus.

You go from saying its dead to then being mad its not being promoted enough. You just want to b*** about something for the sake of it.
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The baseball team is vastly better than the past several years and drawing record crowds. That's truely awesome. But SBW was historically the biggest event of the spring and promoted as such. Now it is just like every other spring weekend with a home series. They're all big weekends? Nope. If they're all special, then none are special. You've just diluted what once was.
 
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bolddogge said:
Our spring football "game" is this weekend, and this is the first time I can remember the term "Super Bulldog Weekend" not being used at all. I don't know when that phrase was first used, but it is on some of my old t-shirts from the mid-80's. What used to be a great 3-day event filled baseball, football, a concert as well as other miscellaneous sports and activities sprinkled around Starkville has dwindled to almost nothing special over the past few years. The university's website still has Super Bulldog Weekend as one of our traditions. But rather than put forth the effort to actually make it Super again, they apparently just killed it off. According to the university's email, we'd all need to hitch a ride with Marty McFly to see the "game" anyway. In my opinion this is a major administration fail. Farewell Super Bulldog Weekend. RIP.
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