$50M and a half-full arena
- Thread starter Mr. Cook
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Original take.
The students are not in school.
Yea, but we beat the number 5 team, I bet it’s packed Saturday.
We have never filled it up in Nov/Dec, not even in 1995/96. With the hype going into that season if we didn't fill it up that year we never will. Most of those games weren't on TV either.
$35 million. We got the paint on sale
$19 Million. They are funneling the rest to The Dude.
So that's why it's the wrong shade of maroon. **
I don't see the need to spend so much on buildings for basketball and baseball, sports that don't make much money and don't appear to matter if you want good teams. Did anyone consult Dave Ramsey on this?
Beater meet horse. 
Beater beat horse.
Horse Die.
Beater still beat horse.
Beater beat horse.
Horse Die.
Beater still beat horse.
Construction costs for government projects are out of control. I saw where Mississippi is building a new dorm. Cost is $200,000 per bed.
We weren’t big time then either. That run lasted 2 years. Yay. You obviously are ok with that.
You can always yell at me for being negative like the rest of the boomers, who are fine with being average and eating casseroles.
We already learned on here about this. It’s bc the government is so efficient at everything they do!!
I was at the game tonight and had a great time. The Hump was about 1/3 full but the crowd was loud. 21 years since we beat a top 5 team! Place went crazy when Tolu hit that shot on the double team that put us up.
Mr. Cook has mentioned many times that he lives out of state.
I’ve noted previously that he’s also in the M-Club so I think his point about the lack of fan support at athletics events - especially against a Top 5 team - is apropos.
Basketball is the second most revenue producing sport.
Mouthbreather take. Casseroles can be awesome.
I used to make this one for my kids before I got married: I’d put down a layer of tater tots, a layer of cheese, then I’d slice hot dogs (like the nice angus beef ones) into little coins and lay them on top of the cheese, then cover that with two cans of chili, then another layer of cheese, then a sprinkle real bacon bits over that and put it in the oven. So take your casserole slander and shove it up your аss.
What the hell is wrong with a casserole?
Sausage and saffron rice casserole is awesome.
1 lb of breakfast sausage
1 large jar of cheese whiz
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 pack yellow saffron rice
brown the sausage mix it all together 350 for about 25 minutes.
8,160 was the announced attendance. I was there. It was slow to get there, but that seems about right.
Why doesn’t the pit - or whatever it’s called - have more students in it? I’m talking about the standing room area opposite the benches, where the banana came from.
It’s SPS. I will not.
Go check out Reddit—I think someone may be wrong over there********
With roughly 12,000 capacity, this would equate to 2/3 full. It could have been — it just didn’t look that way on TV especially in the upper sections.
State website and a couple of other sources say the capacity is 9,100. I thought it was closer to 10,000. Either way, it ended up being a good crowd that was enthusiastic the entire game.
My error then makes it worse, which is 80%+ depending on which figure one chooses to lose.
Add in the fact that it’s a paid attendance number and the truth lies somewhere in between.
Still the optics aren’t the greatest
Green bean casserole during the holidays is outstanding. One of my wife’s great aunts used to make it with a blend of creamed soups and extra onion. Damned good eatin’
Yep. Mississippians say they want the truth but…
…they really just want folks to be nice and do things the “right way” even when it’s not.
Mississippi State has often been deserving.
It’s ok. While I appreciate the defense, this is the type of topic that creates a lot of @$$ pain for this board and others in the fan base.
MSU is a microcosm of state of Mississippi — it doesn’t want to address the issues that prevent it for success (and forget about being elite).
Instead, people (and organizations) prefer to remember and long for old times, refuse to change and adapt, blame everyone and everything else, attack those that would disagree (including the people who want and/or have the capacity to help), and then - astonishingly - complain that nobody respects “us.”
Not the path to improvement and excellence
That doesn't surprise me. It's gotten crazy even with all the imported labor in construction. And government can't build anything for a reasonable price. Just compare rail and subway costs in America and Europe.
You know....every once in a great while you open a thread here and someone is throwing out recipes in a fight.