Excellent analysis from NAFOOM...

[jmbeck]

http://nafoom.yuku.com?topic=34452

Unfortunately, people within our fanbase don't understand what Mullen is doing.

 

[jmbeck]

http://nafoom.yuku.com?topic=34452

Unfortunately, people within our fanbase don't understand what Mullen is doing.

 

[DirtyLopez]

with that assesment, although it has a few things right. I think that the difference among our fanbase being excited and onboard is that 1.Templeton and all the **** that he brought with him is gone. 2.Although he hasn't won yet, we can see competence in Mullen and that is polar opposite of croom. 3.Because LT is gone, we have an entertaining experience from the time you step on campus, through the game, and until you leave campus. Many including myself probably were waiting for templeton (and croom) to go before coming back. When I came back last season, I didn't recognize the place (and my boycott only lasted for the seasonthat followedgoing to the bowl game under croom). In closing, we really should erect a statue of Fogelsong because he got this whole thing pointing in the right direction.

 

[FlabLoser]

....for everyone to pull the rope together. He always said we needed everybody pulling the rope.

 

[dawgatUSM]

But I found it funny in the comments that a guy actually said Memphis travels better than Jackson state from last year when there were easily 8k more jstate fans last year than Memphis fans this year. They better wake up to reality.

 

[dawgstudent]

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[jakldawg]

to beat Ole Miss until Mullen got to campus.
Oh, and the resulting comments really make that link worthwhile. Keep those tears coming, Scott Tennorman.

 

[RonnyAtmosphere]

...if he knew his MSU history, he would realize Jackie Sherrill did the exact same thing: United the MSU fanbase by denigrating the University of Mississippi.


Jackie called them "Mississippi" instead of T.S.U.N. It invoked the same unifying tribal identity among the MSU faithful.

An Ole Miss coach can never pull this off in regards to MSU, because their delusional fanbase thinks they are going win the NC every year, hence Miss. State is small potatoes.

 

[o_GuitarDawg]

I thought that OM was on the top with the likes of the Florida's, LSU's and Alabama's? They are coming off - before the loss to Jacksonville State- two Cotton Bowls wins against two of the toughest teams in the Big 12.
Maybe I just heard it too much from their fans.

 

[57stratdawg]

State was 20 years behind the rest of the SEC when he left. The ideas that Byrne implmenented (Seat priority listing, new media deal, novelty uniforms, young head coach) are not ground breaking, but they were at MSU.

It's really easy to close that gap from 20 years to 5 years (which is where I feel like we are now), but that next 5 years will be extremely difficult. Because we were so far behind, things are different and we have all come together. I'd be willing to bet that in 2012, things will be different.

That is why I thought it was bad idea to wait on the stadium expansion.

 

[dawgatUSM]

He's talking about how our attendance was so good last year only because of the home scheduling, when we legitimately sold 53K tickets to Mississippi State supporters Saturday (minus the 3K or so Memphis fans)<div>
</div><div>So, I'm just saying that they need to wake up and realize that people are getting to be attracted to what's going on in our program.</div>

 

[o_GuitarDawg]

Denial, misery, accepting the fact that There certainly is one program in the state that is on the rise, and it's not OM.
Keeps those tears coming, Scott Tennorman!

 

[o_setterman]

'''So in the stands this past weekend in Starville, you had a sellout crowd, all dressed in unison, stay for virtually the entire game to watch the dismantling of Memphis and potentially the coming out party for their first great QB.

In Oxford, you had a multi-colored fanbase, leaving 6,000 empty seats at kickoff, leave the stadium in droves at halftime. You had less than 20,000 fans in the stadium as our football team tried (and failed) to stave off the most improbable upset in at least 37 years of Ole Miss Football.'''





loved this

 

[thunderclap]

I realize a little more each day that much of our suckage over the past 20 years was self-imposed.

 

[lawdawg02]

Byrne said that he's been around college athletics for basically his entire life, and he has never seen a coach that "gets it" like Dan Mullen does. From marketing and promotion to fund-raising to on-the field, he said Mullen just understands what it takes to do this job and do it well.

 

[o_1984Dawg]

is that some of them seriously believe we sacrifice other games for their game. Seriously, they watch one State game all season and think everything that happened that day was just for them.

 

[Bdog9090]

it's fun to see that even after a loss to a FCS school, a lot of UM fans still have their self-aggrandizing attitude towards our rivalry and their place in the SEC compared to us.

 

[jmbeck]

The line in Alabama this week is "they're acting like this game is their SuperBowl. They have the Auburn game circled on their calendar, but the MSU game isn't even a blip on Auburn's radar".

In-state Auburn fans have every bit the arrogance and feeling of superiority as all Alabama fans.

 

[MSUCosmo]

His point was valid but just look at the responses. Those elitist Rebel dickheads all spout the same ********. Not one of them can come up with their own thought. It's just the same anti "MooU" propaganda that they all eat up just like the tall tales their pappies used to tell them about the glory days when their leather helmet clad football teams were actually relevant.

17 them up their sorry asses. I'll watch my team succeed this season as well as enjoy the Rebel implosion. Except for that one day in November, the two are mutually exclusive. Sorry Rebel fans, but "concentrating" on your patheticness doesn't take away from my "preparation" of MSU's next game in the least.

41-27, and enjoy that Jax State Cock up your *** for many years to come.

 

[FlabLoser]

The Kang was a PR master as well.

 

[Shining Beacon]

I'm very well aware that Sherril had the same philosophy and that resulted in THE MOST successful stretch of MSU football....EVER.

The point of the post was to point out that a unified fanbase, regardless of the motivation, is much more powerful in raising the profile of a program thana fanbase who is constantly bickering within itself. Between Foglesong, Byrne, Mullen and now Stricklin, MSU has successfully brought the fanbase together and is now becoming a legitimate threat AT LEAST to Ole Miss and PROBABLY to the rest of the SEC south of Bama, Florida, LSU and Georgia.

MSU's fanbase IS working together while UM's fanbase is NOT.

 

[FlabLoser]

He's talking about how our attendance was so good last year only because of the home scheduling, when <span style="font-weight: bold;">we legitimately sold 53K tickets to Mississippi State supporters</span> Saturday (minus the 3K or so Memphis fans)<div>
</div><div>So, I'm just saying that they need to wake up and realize that people are getting to be attracted to what's going on in our program.</div>

That impressed me. At other high-attended games is seems most of the west upper deck was visiting fans.

 

[muscleshoalssound]

that they are miles ahead of us. Are they too stupid to realize that in the last 20 years the Egg bowl has been split 10-10? Are they too ignorant to realize that we can actually have a good coach that can do good things for our program? Are they really too arrogant to think there is no way we can pass them?<div>
</div><div>I have been told my whole life that MSU fans have an "inferiority complex", but I have always known that it is not us with the problem, it is their problem with the "false-sense-of-superiority complex".</div><div>
</div><div>The numbers (head-to-head records in recent history, gameattendance, etc.) show that our two programs are virtually equal, and I think we are clearly the ones on the rise right now.</div>

 

[perch0]

I did not read all post however from what I read They being OM do not understand that the last time they were unified was when they all had the same attitude which they can no longer have. That being the Plantation Attitude. That is what unified them.

 

[Phil Wenneck.sixpack]

Seriously you dumb 17's, get off your high horse. No one outside the state of MS thinks you are a powerhouse. You'd think last week would prove that but instead of having half a brain and understand that the poster was right on the money, damn near every reply was "oh but we're better than you" or"oh but you've got a inferiority complex" or they even pulled this one out "but Sherrill cheated"....blah blah blah blah blah.You can't even pretend to have a civil talk with them without it being thrown up again that "the nation will always hold us in higher degree than you". Since we're talking records and since we must bow before the lore that is Ole Miss football, tell me Rebs, how many times have you guys played Bama over the years? Or how about Auburn? I'll help you. This year's meeting marks the 55th meeting between you and the Tide. Oh and I notice there was a break from 1944 to 1964, convienent huh?Especially when you claim titles in 1959, 1960, and 1962.You guyshave only playedAuburn 34 times. By comparison, State will playBama for the 94th time this year and Auburn forthe 84th time.We have both had little success over the years over each of these teamsand that's a good measuring stick historically for both of us. Yes, you have more history, bowl wins, and a better overall record but for God's sakes, you are notin college football's elite like you think.More success than us? Of course.Not even the most maroon of glasses can dispute that but damn, it's ridiculous to read thesame drivel over and over and being completelydead set against giving any State coachcredit for doing anything worthwhile.My apologies to you civil and reasonableNafoomers who visit.

 

[jakldawg]

Ole Miss fans have been, are, and always will be the Norma Desmond of the SEC.

They've always been big. It's college football that got small.