I drove through the 'Burg yesterday. On Hwy 98, I-59, and Hwy 49 I saw exactly one sign with a reference to Omaha.
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stay supportive, Hattiesburg |
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 dawgatUSM |
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Posts: 1164 06/13/09 07:34 AM |
there's a few, but you really have to search for them.
i've lived here for 3 years (i'm moving at the end of the month, THANK GOD!)... It's a weird place down here. It's almost as if West of I-59 is a totally different place with businesses that do not want anything to do with that university. |
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bulldogka |
And that is exactly what seperates them from | #2 | ||
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Posts: 17 06/13/09 11:10 AM |
the two "elite" universities in the state. Good friend of mine is from Oak Grove and says that the town and university are on completely different
terms in some cases. I mean, a town that could easily double the population of Starkville and not promote its university any better than that.
But, I guess thats my own opinion. Hattiesburg has always felt as if it wasn't a part of Mississippi to me for some reason. |
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Posts: 25 06/13/09 10:27 PM |
FlabLoser wrote:There are signs all over town. It cracks me up that Miss State fans are reduced to making fun of a supposed lack of CWS signs in Hattiesburg, while USM fans are gearing up for the Eagles big game tomorrow night in Omaha against the #1 seeded Longhorns. How the mighty have fallen.......pretty sad really.
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Todd4State |
Enjoy it while it lasts | #4 | ||
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Posts: 5342 06/13/09 10:30 PM |
It won't be for long.
Espeially when your best players would have gone to MSU if we had a coach that knew what the hell he was doing. "Because just being good kids who make good grades isn't good enough anymore."- John Cohen
"This league doesn't care how hard you try. This league cares about having real players who can perform certain skills. If you try to throw a fastball in and you miss the middle of the plate, the league doesn't care that you're a really good kid. The game says you better execute the pitch." - John Cohen |
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ShineOnYouCrazyBulldog |
Congrats | #5 | ||
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Posts: 172 06/13/09 10:38 PM |
USM has played very well lately.
However, you are about to get brought back down to reality. No shit, congrats on getting there. But let's be honest here... |
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Posts: 26 06/13/09 11:09 PM |
ShineOnYouCrazyBulldog wrote:Well, MSU lost the first two on your last visit. The Eagles can't do any worse than that. This USM team beat the #9 seeded GaTech team twice on their field and swept the #8 Florida team 2 in a row on their home field. It is all pretty much bonus now. |
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RobertF50 |
It's a great time for USM. | #7 | ||
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Posts: 276 06/13/09 11:27 PM |
I wish our X-Head Coach had gone out with class. I hope Southern has a good run at the CWS being they are a Mississippi school.
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Todd4State |
Considering | #8 | ||
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Posts: 5344 06/13/09 11:46 PM |
that Polk scheduled his beloved baseball camp during the same week as the CWS that year, I would say that going that year was a bonus for us to. Unless you
were Wade Hedges of course.
"Because just being good kids who make good grades isn't good enough anymore."- John Cohen
"This league doesn't care how hard you try. This league cares about having real players who can perform certain skills. If you try to throw a fastball in and you miss the middle of the plate, the league doesn't care that you're a really good kid. The game says you better execute the pitch." - John Cohen |
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Posts: 19 06/14/09 12:49 AM |
Orpheus wrote:Well, when Southern makes it to Omaha 8 times, then we can start talking. |
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patdog |
We've been once in the past 11 years, same as USM has. | #10 | ||
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Posts: 11583 06/14/09 08:24 AM |
We lost all bragging rights in the Polk II era and have to earn them back again before we can say anything at all to a USM or UM baseball fan. Let's worry
about getting our program out of the cellar before we slam a program that has had some relative success over the past decade or so.
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Posts: 395 06/14/09 09:07 AM |
Orpheus wrote:"Well, MSU lost the first two on your last visit. The Eagles can't do any worse than that. This USM team beat the #9 seeded GaTech team twice on their field and swept the #8 Florida team 2 in a row on their home field. It is all pretty much bonus now. " That's nice and all considering only the top 8 national teams are seeded. There's no such thing as a #9 seed. Welcome to the fray, rookie. 
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thatsbaseball |
Bingo- it`s been a damn struggle for us to even get to Hoover lately | #12 | ||
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Posts: 3031 06/14/09 09:09 AM |
berating someone else`s program right about now is pretty shallow. NOTE: with the exception of poking fun at our Ole Miss "friends" about Omaha -but they just bring that one themselves and make it almost irresistable.
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Barkman Turner Overdrive |
I saw quite a few in North Hattiesburg Friday. | #13 | ||
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Posts: 1141 06/14/09 09:10 AM |
The Stuckey's, the Pepsi Bottling Company and probably half a dozen others. I can't speak for the rest of the town since I bypassed it on I-59.
"I didn't ask her, 'so whose bastard child is this?'"- Coastie from Gulfport
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HubDawg |
Totally False | #14 | ||
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Posts: 16 06/14/09 10:02 AM |
You weren't looking very hard. I can name at least 30 places just on Hwy 98 alone. You obviously didn't go back toward the university on Hardy.
Congrats to USM. Good for them. How in the world do we get off making fun of USM while we're sitting at home? I've seen flags all over town.
I'd say they've responded nicely. I personally know of at least 20 people who made the trek to Omaha, and I just moved here.
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Posts: 111 06/14/09 10:10 AM |
bulldogka wrote: i would guess that is because 50% of the people that live here didnt go to usm and could care less about the school. As for being a part of mississippi, it feels like a mix of central ms and the gulf coast. The gulf coast certainly doesnt feel like a part of MS |
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ababyatemydingo |
yeah, i was down there yesterday, and saw that too | #16 | ||
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Posts: 46 06/14/09 10:20 AM |
I'd say H'burg has responded quite nicely. Grow up, folks...give 'em their props. They earned it. Nobody gave it to them. Just my opinion
but I'd suspect if they played SEC ball, this year's USM team would be one of the top 4 teams, if not higher. I'm damn sure that they wouldn't
be wondering whether or not they were going to Hoover or not. Hell, only reason some of you let it eat you so bad is that you're just jealous it's
them instead of us. Pure immaturity to say that "all of USM's good players would be playing for us if our old coach wasn't a lazy bastard at
recruiting". Over the past decade, they've outplayed us, out-coached us, and out-recruited us... and they're enjoying the fruits of that, now.
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Rebheaded Stranger |
What does that mean "part of Mississippi"? | #17 | ||
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Posts: 349 06/14/09 01:46 PM Cohen's #1 Fan
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Mobile and Gadsden are pretty different? Aren't they both parts of Alabama? When you're talking about two hundred year old arbitrarily drawn lines on a
map, you're gonna end up with geographic and human diversity.
I'd say Tunica and Laurel are pretty different. Natchez and Iuka couldn't be much more different. Aren't they all parts of Mississippi? Where do you live that you get to decide what "Mississippi" gets to be? People from State and people from Ole Miss are always said to be different, but they're both schools in Mississippi. 
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