Whit Wade's video clip at the Drill...

[windcrysmary]

I like it a lot... should it be considered as an info commerical schools do during football games on t.v.?

 

[Smooot2]

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[hilgeman]

ku

 

[qbdog]

while I can see the appeal, the speech came off a little too contrived and over the top. The message is good, but the delivery was a little much.<div>
</div><div>Granted, I never had him as a professor so I assume he's like that all the time. However, to outsiders, it could come across as a little pretentious (for lack of a better word).</div>

 

[aTotal360]

I kinda agree with you on this. I like his style and rhetoric, but the delivery is a touch over the top, a la Paula Dean. I think If he was 20 years older, the delivery would be a little more palatable. Something about a younger guy with long hair makes it looked a bit contrived. Years ago when I met him, I assumed he was atheaterteacher.

 

[cowbellpresident]

The "grinding" article from last year was embarrassing.

 

[cps36]

I'm trying really hard not to be a hater. It seems like there are a lot of people willing to take up for the guy and I appreciate the work he does with the pre-law society.

 

[windcrysmary]

what would my take on it be... I just came away being proud to have been born and raised in Miss.. I came away with "damn... I would have enjoyed taking a class from this guy"... ole miss or State.. I hate the national ridicule bestowed upon us all all the time .. I think it is time to stand up to it and throw a little back.. I've played it back several times and enjoy it and I think others around the country would appreciate and maybe cop a different attitude about us.... some editing would be ok...maybe cut the "grinding" part out because that would indeed confuse those outside our community....


I vote yes with some editing...

 

[thatlonghairedguy]

for an upper division Poly Sci course. I think yall aredefinitelyin the minority. I enjoy having another long-haired redneck on campus. The guy wear cowboy boots so that's good enough for me.<div>
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</div><div>and as far as the "grinding" thing, I think its kind ofembarrassingthat most people don't seem to understand that grinding=hard work. </div><div>
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[RocketCityDawg]

Inspire some Harvey-Updyke clone from a rival school to wish that we all develop a terminal disease.

Not that it would happen, but it might.

 

[QuaoarsKing]

but he was definitely my favorite prof I had at MSU. Contrived a reason to take his grad class in the MBA program even.

 

[FlabLoser]

blankstareku

 

[Incognegro]

that article was legit...

 

[RougeDawg]

while I can see the appeal, the speech came off a little too contrived and over the top. The message is good, but the delivery was a little much.
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Being that I live outside of MS now (TX and now LA) and having seen how outsiders view MS, his act is not just a little over the top, its a long time outdated. The rest of the country already thinks we are a bunch of redneck 17s who don't know how to read and write. His 19th century rhetoric is about as useful as a butter churn in a seafood factory, and further displays to outsiders that we are stillhung upin the past. I know wehave a lot of good things going at MSU, but this type of **** is a turnoff to someone not from MS. When I tell people where I went to school and what degree I have, a majority of them give me a startled suprising look. It gets aggravating trying to buck the stereotype that we are stupid and uneducated.

 

[jxndawg]

As a poli sci alum, I've heard nothing but great things about him as a teacher, and he's obviously passionate about State, so I feel guilty about criticizing him at all. That said, to me his delivery is a little on the cheesy side, like an actor from the 50s trying to talk with a southern accent. But if he gets people fired up I'm willing to hold my tongue.