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Me too, Kingfish.

the 1st of many. the lower tiers have empty stadiums. not sustainable

No football? Why?

I still say Belhaven College and not Belhaven University.

There are several other colleges in MS who should also drop their football program.

has the word college become a dirty word?
belhaven college became belhaven university.
ms college is now ms christian university.
are you able to bang more money out of donors and the government if you are a university?

This will turn into another MUW debacle. Football coach posted his dismay on Twitter. Apparently somebody forgot to loop him in. They can spin this however they like, but high schoolers and their parents will assume MC is in dire straights.

Football is a costly enterprise so I can understand the desire. This seems though like a short sighted thing. How many potential attorneys will want to have their law degree from Mississippi Christian University? I am not a graduate and don't live in Clinton yet the name change seems silly just for the sake of being called a "University".

So much for 200 years of tradition.

@KF I’m not surprised. Despite your weekly post of a YouTube video for FBC of Jackson. You have never really shown respect for Christians. The is evidenced by your insistence on promoting the degenerate Christ hating Larry David and Bill Maher.

I could handle one, maybe two of these major changes, but announcing all three at once will be interpreted by alumni and potential students as dire. And how does a DII school blame NIL for cancelling football? This is just a stepping stone move for an up and coming progressive college president. Alums will be left with the pieces.

I bet the discontinuation of the football program will draw more ire than any other change (including the name).

They have had a PhD program for a while and that's always been the difference between a college and a university. This let's them keep "MC", which is good, and if their students want a Christian college experience, that's great for them. I guess I can still call them MC, which is really what I've always called them. (Of course I didn't go there, so no one really cares what I think.)

UAB tried to get rid of their football program and that only lasted a short while. Blazer football came back stronger. We will see how this goes for MC. The sport is different now with NIL.

As a longtime employee and MC graduate, I am not upset about the football program. They have had a handful of winning seasons going back 30+ years. MC is not a football school, and it will be fine. As far as the name change, I am not a fan. My degree says Mississippi College, and I will always refer to my alma mater and workplace as that.

Now the football coach can feel free to apply for the USM job

I also thought of the law school. Makes it sound like some unaccredited garbage law school. Oh wait...

We were very interested in our children going to MC when they graduate in a few years. One of the primary reasons was because it is a Christian school. However, the last think I want is for my child to not even be able to get their foot in the door when looking for a job because some bigoted HR person sees "Mississippi Christian" on their resume and automatically eliminates them as a potential candidate. The name change will affect future enrollment.

Dropping football and the associated students will make the campus and learning environment better.

Should have gone all the way and gotten rid of "MC" also. Madison folks already stole it, and they have a better football program. All the naysayers on social media should have showed up for football games. But no, they just post their rants on computers.

Agree with the 1st 4:18 poster. I have felt the same way for the last 6 years. Especially when Boyce decides to hang it up.

Another Delta State…

@4:44. Agreed! I would like to know how many of those upset have even been to a game in the last 20 years! I have missed very few games in the last 15 years, and I see the same people every time...a few students and very few faculty and staff. I am not opposed to this move. More money and energy can be put into the other sports.

Let's be honest. If your resume/CV lists anything "Mississippi" you probably are hurting with regional or big city hiring managers unless you have an engineering or medical degree with it, or you go on to a top grad program. At least as far as lucrative careers outside the state. And we go back 140 years with all these schools. Not a Yankee or Mississippi hater.

But ignoring 200 years of a name is just stupid. MC is MC. This is like creating Space Force "Guardians," just with leaving out hundreds of years of history. This is akin to creating White Southern Male University, when, in fact, that's not the bulk of their students.

Better to drop football and keep the Christians than vice versa.

Back in the 1970's when Jackson State had upgraded programs and acheived research "university status" with the other 3 universities the college board and the legislature decided rather than give JSU that recognition the designation "university" would become a meaningless title and all state colleges would be called university. Now it seems the term has regained it's lofty status once again. What's really happening?

What Christians at Mississippi College? I never saw any Christians who worked at that place. The administration and their brown nosers are too busy trying to backstab the other workers. All it is a bunch of snoots from Ole Towne Clinton thinking their shit don't stink.

I don't know what kind of money that the smaller schools bring in with football and I haven't been to a game at MC since 1985.

However, I like the name change. In the social climate we are in now, it is great when an entity reinforces their mission statement. It's time to choose up sides, but I like that we can still call it MC.

Troy State
Memphis State
Delta Straight
The W
TSUN
State
The Barn
Bammer

Those names will always be the same for me.

I am a graduate of MC and this is imo not a great idea. Excluding other religions in your official name is surrendering. Snake worship away and while you are at it….might want to add conversion therapy of your show choir group as a major

We are big enough to call ourselves University! Let’s change our 190 year old name to reflect our booming success! Wait, we can’t afford football any more? Ok, just throw it in the same press release! Nobody will notice.

A friend has a grandson who attends MC. His grandson says football games are poorly attended by the student body, & that MC doesn't publicize games very well. The last athletic event I attended at MC was a basketball game 5 or 6 years ago. The student section was about half full, at best. The game was poorly organized, almost like MC just didn't care very much. MC lost to Delta State, BTW.

4:39 - You aren't a Christian if you're as ashamed to be a Christian. You sound like a member of one of the mainline denominations.

I am confused about people hating on Christian being in the name. There are tons of schools that have some sort of religious reference in their name. Ex. Presbyterian college Dallas Baptist university abilene Christian university. They wanted to emphasize the Christian nature of the school. Also mc has always been a university with numerous graduate programs and a law school. So it's about time they put it in their name.

Has TCU - - Texas Christian University taken a "hit" to its reputation that I missed?

I getting some vibes.

3:35 is giving off the vibe he lost a girlfriend to a Delta State, Millsaps, or Mississippi SWAC football player.

I get the vibe MC wants to sound like TCU.

I get the vibe they are tired of the personality of football players.

I get the vibe the AD as basketball guy is trying to become a D1 non football school or is jealous of football.

I have no idea.

Is MC a suitcase/commuter school?

Are a lot of colleges turning into them?

Pfffftttt.
No football team?
Puhleaze......
They're just trying to conform to High Freeze's demands once he leaves Auburn with a foot in his ass.

A board of trustees can do this with no buy-in from the alumni. Nice.

Run Lewis Run.

I'm glad MC is clearing up its mission by adding "Christian" to its name. Nobody realized its religious affiliation (sarcasm). Matthew 6:5

I don’t know how they workshopped this—alums are melting down on FB. Maybe the decision makers thought that throwing in “Christian University” returns more hits for a prospective student in a Google search than “Mississippi College?”

Even if it wasn’t well sourced or attended, fair to say that once football leaves campus, especially at a southern school, for better of worse, you are cutting yourself off at the legs. Only going to attract a limited brand of male student.

4:13, your tin foil hat is on too tight. And why do you even come here?

Everyone calm down, MC is not dropping football, they’re just dropping the brutal American style football. Real football, which you may know as soccer, will still be played.

Name change fine no football bad. Can get rid of 1/2 the foundation employees as fundraising will go way down. 20 full time people way to many now. So as you drop football layoff employees before Christmas that will no longer be needed.

No one is commenting on the consolidations which involves eliminating and downgrading positions and depts

What 8:25 said

Now MC will know what can be, unburdened by what has been.

College vs University is an accreditation issue. It appears they are moving to advance the level of accreditation, which should be a good thing.