"Flagship"

[CougarArcher]

TSUN kills me with this flagship crap.... http://www.wtva.com/news/State_flag_comes_down_at_Ole_Miss.html

 

[fishwater99]

When will they drop Ole Miss and Rebels ??

Those are as racist as the flag?

 

[Palos verdes]

Ole Miss is no more of a flagship school than State is, but that's the OM media favor for you.

 

[BossDawg78]

TSUN kills me with this flagship crap.... http://www.wtva.com/news/State_flag_comes_down_at_Ole_Miss.html

When you feel the urge to tell people who you are just so they'll know your status in society, then you aren't that high on the totem pole.

 

[aTotal360]

It's like Rex Ryan telling teams that the Bills are going to be a bully. If you have to tell them, you're probably not.

 

[BiscuitEater]

TSUN insists they are the 'Flagship' University in the state of Mississippi .. yet, they just took the Mississippi Flag down.

So .. what do you call a Flagship without a flag? Surrender!

 

[thekimmer]

Its a meaningless throw away catch phrase that UM uses to pump themselves up....

TSUN kills me with this flagship crap.... http://www.wtva.com/news/State_flag_comes_down_at_Ole_Miss.html

It has no tangible basis to substantiate it.

As far as the flag is concerned, I really wish MS would get with the program and change it but for the time being, if I were the legislature I would have a little problem with their stance of cashing the checks but not flying my flag.

 

[thekimmer]

Good one!

 

[GhostOfJackie]

They do it just to piss us off, and I can't say it wasn't the perfect platform to do it on. Like then Mullen takes jabs at them in interviews and press conferences. No flagship would lose to Memphis in football.

We all know who the real flagship is.

 

[os62]

TSUN insists they are the 'Flagship' University in the state of Mississippi .. yet, they just took the Mississippi Flag down.

So .. what do you call a Flagship without a flag? Surrender!

A ship??*****

 

[thekimmer]

Exactly. How laughably absurd and utterly hypocritical is it for a university whose chosen nick name is still 'Ole Miss' and whose sports teams are still called the 'Rebels' to sanctimoniously decide to stop flying the state flag because of confederate symbolism! Try cleaning up your own backyard first!!! And don't even come on here with the pure bullcrap that those two terms not being linked to plantation/confederate symbolism.

 

[RebelBruiser]

It has no tangible basis to substantiate it.

As far as the flag is concerned, I really wish MS would get with the program and change it but for the time being, if I were the legislature I would have a little problem with their stance of cashing the checks but not flying my flag.

So basically "Flagship" = "Our State". Most rational people can see that they're one in the same, used for the same purpose. Thinking one is good, and the other is stupid is similar to thinking "Hail State/Hotty Toddy" is awesome, but the other is dumb.

Now, on your last point, go ask the legislature if they want to take funding away from Jackson State, Valley, and Alcorn too. They stopped flying the state flag before we did, and those schools rely on state funds for the lion's share of their funding, where we rely on state funds for less than 15% of our budget.

I would love to see CNN coming to town to do a story on how the Mississippi legislature decided to de-fund its three HBCUs because they refused to fly a state flag that carries a Confederate emblem on it. Wait, no, not even the Mississippi legislature is that dumb. The national media would LOVE to run that story.

 

[ckDOG]

^this x 100^

Exactly. How laughably absurd and utterly hypocritical is it for a university whose chosen nick name is still 'Ole Miss' and whose sports teams are still called the 'Rebels' to sanctimoniously decide to stop flying the state flag because of confederate symbolism! Try cleaning up your own backyard first!!! And don't even come on here with the pure bullcrap that those two terms not being linked to plantation/confederate symbolism.

Certainly some major player in the media is wise enough to call them out on this.

 

[KeyserSoze1999]

I would counter at the current time they are more "Cruise Ship". Because going on a "Cruise Ship" is sort of showing off one's wealth, like hanging a chandelier in a tailgate tent in the Grove. And a "Cruise Ship" is also filled with people drinking heavily while visiting a place the are foreign to, sort of like a large majority of out of state students pickling their livers at The Library.

So really they are the "Cruise Ship". And for those of you who miss seeing the Confederate emblem part of the removed MS State Flag, just take a stroll through their "Grove" on GameDay---you will see plenty of Confederate flags, cold Abner's chicken tenders, and even an old man with a white beard dressed up like Colonel Reb.

 

[crushing]

So basically "Flagship" = "Our State". Most rational people can see that they're one in the same, used for the same purpose. Thinking one is good, and the other is stupid is similar to thinking "Hail State/Hotty Toddy" is awesome, but the other is dumb.

Now, on your last point, go ask the legislature if they want to take funding away from Jackson State, Valley, and Alcorn too. They stopped flying the state flag before we did, and those schools rely on state funds for the lion's share of their funding, where we rely on state funds for less than 15% of our budget.

I would love to see CNN coming to town to do a story on how the Mississippi legislature decided to de-fund its three HBCUs because they refused to fly a state flag that carries a Confederate emblem on it. Wait, no, not even the Mississippi legislature is that dumb. The national media would LOVE to run that story.

IMO, neither Hail State/Hotty Totty is awesome at all. I will usually just say Go Dawgs or something like that. I'm sure it's been for marketing and what not, but it's just not for me.

On the hotty totty thing though, every time I see or hear that I think of grown men yelling out that whole phrase or song or whatever you want to call it, and it actually makes me feel embarrassed for those adults yelling it. Kids yelling it, great. Men yelling it = weird. Feel the same about Bama and the rammer jammer crap.

I do somewhat get your "Flagship vs. Our State" comment though.

 

[MedDawg]

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[OleMissLogo]

As far as the flag is concerned, I really wish MS would get with the program and change it but for the time being, if I were the legislature I would have a little problem with their stance of cashing the checks but not flying my flag.

You mean like Alcorn, JSU, and MVSU already do?

 

[EurekaDog]

I'll be surprised if it doesn't happen before 2030. (NM)

slosdjsdf

 

[MaroonNation]

I always thought S L A V E S H I P was a more appropriate monicker for them.

 

[tatedog]

or the Love Boat.

 

[HammerOfTheDogs]

Mississippi is last in income, education, and health care.....

...first in poverty, teenaged pregnancies, and meth addiction. If the university of ole miss wants to call themselves "flagship", that means they're responsible for Mississippi being on the bottom of the nation in every good thing and on the top of every bad thing. Own it, rebs.

 

[CochiseCowbell]

I've been patiently waiting for you to weigh in, Mutt. You didn't disappoint.

 

[RebelBruiser]

...first in poverty, teenaged pregnancies, and meth addiction. If the university of ole miss wants to call themselves "flagship", that means they're responsible for Mississippi being on the bottom of the nation in every good thing and on the top of every bad thing. Own it, rebs.

But how can we be responsible for all the bad things when it isn't Our State?

 

[thekimmer]

So basically "Flagship" = "Our State". Most rational people can see that they're one in the same, used for the same purpose. Thinking one is good, and the other is stupid is similar to thinking "Hail State/Hotty Toddy" is awesome, but the other is dumb.

Now, on your last point, go ask the legislature if they want to take funding away from Jackson State, Valley, and Alcorn too. They stopped flying the state flag before we did, and those schools rely on state funds for the lion's share of their funding, where we rely on state funds for less than 15% of our budget.

I would love to see CNN coming to town to do a story on how the Mississippi legislature decided to de-fund its three HBCUs because they refused to fly a state flag that carries a Confederate emblem on it. Wait, no, not even the Mississippi legislature is that dumb. The national media would LOVE to run that story.

I don't think I ever said one or the other was stupid but whatever . Regarding the funding question, I think the same thing applies to JSU, Valley, etc although they do have a PR advantage with the legislature over UM with there HBCU status. Of course the legislature is not going to defund anybody but they can make life difficult and really I could not blame them if they did. How would you feel about paying your kids college tuition if he said he didn't like being related to you, decided to change his name and avoid telling folks he knew you.