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Who does?

Starkville is already a good southern small town, and everyone with a brain knows that. But when they get done with the new Crossroads development sandwiched between the Cotton District and MSU campus, it will become one of the best cities in the south. There is a snowball effect to nice development. It will continue.

Panem et circenses. Starkville and the golden triangle is a perfect area for a college.

I really don't like mayonnaise, nobody cares.

I really don't care what John Gruden thinks. Or his nearly 40 year old impression of a town.

I agree. Cowbells are the worst!

1. This made the rounds a few months ago, I believe.

2. I don't mind it. Starkville has become a great little college town, and it doesn't feel so manufactured and packaged as others. It's actually a Mississippi college town, and it's not pretending to be anything else.

The surge in new restaurants, businesses, and property values reflect the city's successes, as do the numerous awards the city has won in the last recently.

It's become great place to live or visit, and managed to do so while keeping it's percentage of a$$holes at a minumum. There are very few who feel like they have to prove their net worth at every turn. I think of it as how Oxford once was.

It's way past time for the SEC to do away with the cowbells. I'll never understand why State gets this special exemption. (I suppose the folks in charge feel sorry for State and its failure to ever achieve anything meaningful athletically except for the CWS win a few years ago.) No other school gets to bring in artificial noisemakers. If the SEC won't ban them, then every road game State plays, the opposing fans should be allowed to use the artificial noisemaker of their choice. I'm thinking vuvuzelas.
/Cue the leg humpers' outrage/

Do they still allow cows to roam freely in downtown like in India?

John Gruden has always been an asshole, but as a State fan, I have to agree with him about the cowbells. I'm a 50+ while male, and I swore 5 years ago that I would not attend another game in person because of the cowbells. They are awful!!

Starkville is a sh*thole.

He's right, you know.

The same assholes saying "Starkville is a shithole" have only been down Hwy 12 and haven't been to Starkville in a decade. Spruill is a libtard but she has done a great job with making the roads better and bringing in new development. South Montgomery, the Cotton District, and Main St/Downtown are great areas. Starkville may have the best roads of any city in the state now!

"it will become one of the best cities in the south"

You are out of your mind.

Boo fucking hoo. I got a fucking vicious migraine just from the noise at at an LSU game. No cowbells there.

3:35, the noise? What about the smell?

@3:15 maybe I should have clarified it will be one of the best small cities in the south. But the point stands. Please see the renderings if you have not.

The land that fun forgot

I couldn't get them banned, dig up Johnny Vaught and complain to him…

For context, in terms of major SEC college towns, Starkville and Oxford both rank at the bottom at around 25K. Auburn is next at 76K followed by Fayetteville at 94K. You could put three Oxfords in Auburn. The university student enrollment is similar -- at the bottom.

In terms of total population, MS has 2.96M followed by LA with 4.57M and AL with 5.11M. MS is really too small to have two SEC teams but we seem to remain competitive. Both teams do well in multiple sports.

The only "good thing" that has ever come out of starkville is Highway 82!

Starkville is not, never has been ... and never will be Oxford.

Cowbells make up about 20 percent of the decibels at Scott Field, now drowned out by the rap selections (not music) blasting from the Jumbotron. I hate going to a rap concert and having a football game breakout, but that’s what it is. And yes I’m an old sob who would rather hear the marching band get revved up on a big third down play instead hearing lil’ Boozy Wayne or Snoop Tupac.

I did 4 years in Starkville as a student. It was a crappy place then, it’s not much better now.

I could’ve used a little more cowbell

3:05- I was there yesterday. It’s still a sh*thole.

Why would anyone want to go to school there there there are much better campuses and towns in the state and region.

I love the comment from OM people claiming MSU sports are irrelevant. OM has never one a single SEC regular season title in any men's sport with an integrated team.
That is irrelevance.

The Mississippi State crowd pretends their "junction" is on par with the
Ole Miss Grove.

News flash ... never in their wettest dreams.

BTW, it would serve them well to get rid of that goofy "State" script on the football helmets.

MSU used to have impressive uniforms.

I do like their cheese, their famous Redneck alum Jerry Clower and their other colorful personalities. (Coach Sherrill and his motivational castration of a bull, head Coach Mike Leach and the legendary Jack Crystal).

Crystal :
"Bulldogs on their own 20.
Maroon jerseys and white britches ... 80 yards away from the land of milk and honey".

Crystal was one of the best !

I’ve only been to Starkville three or four times. It was surprising to me how much was there, places to eat, stores and stuff, because I’d only ever heard from others what a potato patch it is. Having lived in Oxford for three semesters, I found Starkville (and, admittedly, I haven’t been there a lot) to show less pretense and snootiness than Oxford.

@ "Why would anyone want to go to school there there there are much better campuses and towns in the state and region."

Maybe to actually learn something. Like English.

Little Brother.

Funny watching all the ole miss keyboard warriors circle jerk each other over hating on Starkville. Maybe some folks like a slower wold where you don’t have to go crazy in debt just to prove a point that your opinion doesn’t matter 🤷‍♂️

Gruden still rocks, and is a great coach. But in today's wussified world, he's mocked as "old school, boomer".

Starkville is small town USA with some great spots.
Oxford is plastic land for Mississippi's wealthy whites. No soul.

Starkville is the Pelahatchie of SEC football, with no disrespect to The Hatchie. Oxford is the Gluckstadt. Both are small but unique.

Maybe it's time to do away with the rebel f'n flags also....petty snobs.

Both kids had free rides to go to Ole Miss and Miss State. They opted to go get an actual education out of state.

As far as towns, Oxford is nice enough. It’s fine, but not the Heaven that delusional OM fans think it is. Decent restaurants for a town its size. I actually enjoy visiting occasionally for work.

Now Starkville? First, let’s start with the whole “Starkvegas” thing. It’s really cringy. Then add the strip malls and low-budget restaurants, well , I would hate to spend a single night there (which I have).

Don’t sleep on Hattiesburg. That place has taken off with that new mayor. Every time I visit the place gets better and better.

The city with the most upside right now? Although it doesn’t have a school, Tupelo has really improved and is a good place to spend a night. Good hotels and restaurants.

But back to Starkville, yeah, it’s a sh*thole.

Not everyone who attends games in Oxford have money. A lot of it is financed. I know some uber rednecks from the north delta, Sardis, Grenda, Batesville, and other surrounding areas who can't make a loan payment on time during football season but them and white trash Barbie post pictures from the grove every home game weekend.

Also, Oxford isn't in The Delta like many like to proclaim....

You save a lot of money for rehab by sending your kids to third tier public colleges.

"Maybe it's time to do away with the rebel f'n flags also"

I believe that actually happened some years ago.

A lot of people like Starkville. Good for them, that they have a place they like to go to. If other people don't like to go there, don't go.

But those cowbells , , ,

All these Ole Miss Fans sound just like cry baby liberals from the left.