Miss St wants to enter the stadium race

[cooltigger21 0]

Now if Miss. State start talking about exspandign their small stadium, then why in heavens name can't get the ball rolling and exspand Jordan-Hare.

There has to be a demand for seats before you expand, or else the stadium will look bad on TV.

Exactly. Let's have some sustained success and the demand will be there. In the meantime they could work on making the exterior look nicer.

[AUloggerhead 2,244]

Hey augolf1716 -- don't you mean "patsies" to describe our OOC weak opponents? "Pasties" are, well ... accoutrements of burlesque artists.

[PatBoCamRob 30]

To the folks asking why they can't/won't enlarge the stadium from 55,000 to 90,000 overnight... Go visit any hall of sports history at a school that has a 90K stadium. Every big stadium started with bleachers on one side and a hill on the other.

To the folks that want AU to build upper decks in the N and S end zones... For $350, you can buy a season ticket in the W or E upper decks. That promotion has been going on for a week. When the powers that be see such tickets sell out in a day, they will add upper decks.

In regards to OP, Miss State is an intersection of two dirt roads. That backwater town can languish in the dark ages forever, for all I care. If they want to build 20,000 seats in order to have them go vacant... Or in order to fill them with non-paying students... That's fine with me. And I hope Dan Mullen trips down some steep stairs.

[augolf1716 21,236]

Hey augolf1716 -- don't you mean "patsies" to describe our OOC weak opponents? "Pasties" are, well ... accoutrements of burlesque artists.

WT from a post almost 4 years ago.......damn I fell, oh I mean feel older now. I said what I meant to say or something like that. I think maybe. Guess it all makes since or sense

and call me golf...it saves time or thyme

[mcgufcm 4,107]

Easy on Starkville! I grew up there, and one of my best friends is the mayor!

Seriously, though, if you haven't been recently (and why would you?), it's really, really changing. They've added tons of new restaurants and completely revitalized downtown. In all seriousness, when I left for college, there were two (maybe three, depending on how you feel about the bowling alley) bars in town. Now, downtown alone has three on Main Street and University (basically the same road, it just changes names as you get closer to campus) has four more. Some of those places are quality. Good taps, good cocktails, and good food. Plus, it has always had the best BBQ in the SEC, and that's still true.

Also, kind of crazy, Starkville won a bid to become one of the first C-Spire, fiber-to-home cities. The entire city will be wired for 1 Gbps internet (they've already started service in two areas). Plus, C-Spire is opening a data center in Starkville, making it their base of operations in Mississippi. The other locations are places like Birmingham, Atlanta, Nashville, Raleigh... and Starkville. It's population is growing quickly.

I'm pretty proud of those guys. Not so proud that I have any desire to move back, but proud enough to brag on the Internet. That's something, right?

[PatBoCamRob 30]

Easy on Starkville! I grew up there, and one of my best friends is the mayor!

Seriously, though, if you haven't been recently (and why would you?), it's really, really changing. They've added tons of new restaurants and completely revitalized downtown. In all seriousness, when I left for college, there were two (maybe three, depending on how you feel about the bowling alley) bars in town. Now, downtown alone has three on Main Street and University (basically the same road, it just changes names as you get closer to campus) has four more. Some of those places are quality. Good taps, good cocktails, and good food. Plus, it has always had the best BBQ in the SEC, and that's still true.

Also, kind of crazy, Starkville won a bid to become one of the first C-Spire, fiber-to-home cities. The entire city will be wired for 1 Gbps internet (they've already started service in two areas). Plus, C-Spire is opening a data center in Starkville, making it their base of operations in Mississippi. The other locations are places like Birmingham, Atlanta, Nashville, Raleigh... and Starkville. It's population is growing quickly.

I'm pretty proud of those guys. Not so proud that I have any desire to move back, but proud enough to brag on the Internet. That's something, right?

Starkville is the kind of town that... if you grew up there... it's inevitable that the mayor is your friend.

[mcgufcm 4,107]

I hate you... because you may be right.

But I'm only 31. It's not inevitable that my 32 year old friend would be mayor so young. So take that!

[CJBas 4]

It will take 25 years to grow the population base and the alumni base in Ms. to fill that many seats. Jackson, the state's largest city is roughly the size of Huntsville,Al.

It's not far from Memphis, but some real bad roads getting there. They could use the cooperation of the state's highway dept to build some good roads.

[CJBas 4]

Easy on Starkville! I grew up there, and one of my best friends is the mayor!

Seriously, though, if you haven't been recently (and why would you?), it's really, really changing. They've added tons of new restaurants and completely revitalized downtown. In all seriousness, when I left for college, there were two (maybe three, depending on how you feel about the bowling alley) bars in town. Now, downtown alone has three on Main Street and University (basically the same road, it just changes names as you get closer to campus) has four more. Some of those places are quality. Good taps, good cocktails, and good food. Plus, it has always had the best BBQ in the SEC, and that's still true.

Also, kind of crazy, Starkville won a bid to become one of the first C-Spire, fiber-to-home cities. The entire city will be wired for 1 Gbps internet (they've already started service in two areas). Plus, C-Spire is opening a data center in Starkville, making it their base of operations in Mississippi. The other locations are places like Birmingham, Atlanta, Nashville, Raleigh... and Starkville. It's population is growing quickly.

I'm pretty proud of those guys. Not so proud that I have any desire to move back, but proud enough to brag on the Internet. That's something, right?

Starkville is the kind of town that... if you grew up there... it's inevitable that the mayor is your friend.

And the police chief, and the entire town council, and teh board of education, and every preacher in town.

[cooltigger21 0]

It will take 25 years to grow the population base and the alumni base in Ms. to fill that many seats. Jackson, the state's largest city is roughly the size of Huntsville,Al.

It's not far from Memphis, but some real bad roads getting there. They could use the cooperation of the state's highway dept to build some good roads.

them and every other state could do that. They are working on 78 to make it a lot better in preparation for the I 22 project. I wish Alabama would fix I 20 from Tuscaloosa to the state line.

[mcgufcm 4,107]

People in Alabama should be careful to criticize Mississippi roads. Hwy 82 in Mississippi is four-lane from the Alabama border all the way to Arkansas. Alabama's side? It's in bad shape, and they've been "working on" turning it into a four-lane road since I was a child. No joke. Or drive I-59 in Mississippi and find one section of the road that's as crappy as that bumpy mess from Gadsden to Chattanooga.

Mississippi sucks at lots of stuff, but the major roads in the state are in better shape than Alabama.

[homersapien 11,396]

People in Alabama should be careful to criticize Mississippi roads. Hwy 82 in Mississippi is four-lane from the Alabama border all the way to Arkansas. Alabama's side? It's in bad shape, and they've been "working on" turning it into a four-lane road since I was a child. No joke. Or drive I-59 in Mississippi and find one section of the road that's as crappy as that bumpy mess from Gadsden to Chattanooga.

Mississippi sucks at lots of stuff, but the major roads in the state are in better shape than Alabama.

And Alabama roads are (way) better than the roads in South Carolina.

[weagl1 1,785]

Mississippi is making a gazillion dollars off the casinos and the tobacco settlement. They have spent no telling what upgrading the roads. I lived in Jackson for 18 years and we dodged orange barrels for at least 10 of them. The roads in that area are now so far ahead of what you see around Montgomery and Birmingham you wouldn't believe it.

[mcgufcm 4,107]

I live in Jackson now. I'm not sure where those non-orange barrelled roads are, but they don't exist between Belhaven and downtown.

[WarEagle84 0]

FYI, the interstate highways are maintained by the federal government. If they are upgrading the interstates, it is because your congressmen and senators are better negotiators than Alabama's (or for you idealists, because there is a greater need in Mississippi), not because of casinos or legal settlements. Those will contribute to improving/maintaining the state highways.

[auguy85 0]

I'm quite proud of the expansion at Davis-Wade.

Cement was produced in Mobile and marketed by an Ole Miss Alum

[douggwilliams 61]

FYI, the interstate highways are maintained by the federal government. If they are upgrading the interstates, it is because your congressmen and senators are better negotiators than Alabama's (or for you idealists, because there is a greater need in Mississippi), not because of casinos or legal settlements. Those will contribute to improving/maintaining the state highways.

Probably because greater need. More traffic on them. Alabama should legalize gambling. That is all.

[mcgufcm 4,107]

Oh definitely a political influence thing as well. Mississippi has a proud tradition of elder statesmen bringing money home. Cochran, Lott, Stennis, Eastland, etc. Plus Barber was chairman of the RNC before he was governor. It's political influence far exceeds its population.

[PatBoCamRob 30]

Oh definitely a political influence thing as well. Mississippi has a proud tradition of elder statesmen bringing money home. Cochran, Lott, Stennis, Eastland, etc. Plus Barber was chairman of the RNC before he was governor. It's political influence far exceeds its population.

Meanwhile, our chief magistrate apparently dislikes money so much he has rejected a salary.

[Guest jojo1515]

I'm quite proud of the expansion at Davis-Wade.

Cement was produced in Mobile and marketed by an Ole Miss Alum

And the support piers (caissons) were done my company in bham...we sure are helping them out...or maybe its the other way around...

[RunInRed 16,449]

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[NoALtiger 3,868]

I wonder if their clocks, toilets, and elevators work.

[BamaGrad03 0]

Nice Apple II, I mean 90s laptop, I mean jumbotron.