Get to Know the Enemy: The 10th Man Edition

ArcherSPS

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Aug 22, 2012
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Greetings my fellow SPSers, today I will take you into the wilds to observe a creature more rare than the Northern Hairy Nosed Wombat or the Rio Pescado Stubfoot Toad...The Southern Miss fan. Though we are used to seeing herds of opposing fans from the swamps of Baton Rouge, the plains of Auburn, and the trailer parks of Alabama, these black and gold clad are extremely rare due to there only being ten left in existence....So join me, Sterling Mallory Archer, as we take a look at the rare, endangered Southern Miss fan.

Although it is difficult to find one of the ten with the naked eye, it is fairly simple if you take the advice of my friend Toucan Sam and "Follow your nose!". You will know that you are near one of these rare fellows if you start to smell the strong odor of copious amounts of Axe Body Spray.

They are a quite forgetful lot that is capable of neglecting majestic birds of flight. They even once forgot to feed their eagle, leading it to starve to death while it was perched on their campus, which is a shame because you can always get a new eagle, but not a new football program:


I know what you are thinking: "B-but Sterling I found multiple google images of more than 10 USM fans on a google image search!" . Well I hate to break it to you, but images like the one posted below are nothing more than propaganda distributed by the Nasty Bunch. You see the male on the far right?That is nothing more than an Iowa fan photoshopped in.


I tried to find footage of some of their recent football games, but alas all I could find was bootleg Ukrainian facetime stream from their raucous victory over fellow FCS rival Alcorn. Although they are a loud bunch that are quick to remind you that every P5 conference wants them and their gameday atmosphere is second only to crosstown rival William-Carey, you can still sit very comfortably and stretch out over multiple rows at their stadium on a fall saturday:

Now that you've seen what you're going to experience in NITChampsburg please give one of their fans a dollar or maybe even some extra change so that they can be clothed when the harsh winters hit:

"Some people go Greek. Other people wear tutus at football games."
http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/story/news/education/usm/2014/08/30/crazy-usm-fans/14888969/
 
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GhostOfJackie

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Apr 20, 2009
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I know it's facing the away side, and it looks to be raining, but there are more Alcorn fans there than home team fans. Let that sink in for a minute.

Tell me again why we are playing these guys?
 

haildawgs87

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Sep 2, 2015
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My get to know your opponent comment would be is Southern Miss is known as giant killers. Shouldn't sleep on them.
 

johnson86-1

All-American
Aug 22, 2012
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My get to know your opponent comment would be is Southern Miss is vaguely recognizable to major conference football fans outside of Mississippi as having been something of a giant killer prior to the 2000's. Also, Farve went there. Shouldn't sleep on them.

FIFY. I'm a fan of Monken, and I hope he gets it together, and maybe it will be this year, but I don't think it's likely he'll have all the transfers clicking in the first game of the season. Also, I think college football has just changed too much for USM to put up competitive matches against well-run SEC teams. The resource gap has just gotten too big. Through no fault of USM, and despite MSU and UM being completely mismanaged for a long time, MSU and UM are closer to Bama in resources than USM is to them. MSU and UM just had the good fortune of being around earlier than USM and of founding a conference with the right schools.
 

wpmusm

Redshirt
Mar 24, 2012
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That picture is from the 2013 MTSU game, I think. At the time, we had lost 22 in a row and it was raining all day. That equals horrific attendance.
 

Col. Forbin

Junior
Oct 2, 2012
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Didn't realize Alcorn, App State, and North Texas were "giants".

Good for y'all though. Really gives you some hope on the future.
 

HD6

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Apr 8, 2003
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He's right, that pic was taken by Justin Sutton, who's on Bulldog Sports Radio. I emailed him, it is from the 2013 MTSU game.
 

HD6

Sophomore
Apr 8, 2003
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I was hoping you were right, for what it's worth.
 

justinrsutton

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Oct 1, 2013
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Went to two or three other games there that year. My son and I would watch MSU play all of the 11am kicks we had that year, and he would then want to go to a game. Never paid more than $10 to get us both in. Never had sit outside the 40s or more than 8 rows up.
 
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