CBSSports.com College Football 100: #50- Cowbells

[The Fatboy]

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50. COWBELLS, traditional noisemakers, Mississippi State. On
the one hand, yeah, it's just a bell with a stick attached to it and
(usually) a State logo affixed to one side. But on the other, it's a
huge reason why trips to Starkville have become a gigantic thorn in the
side of SEC favorites since Dan Mullen
took over the Bulldog helm. The cowbells create a tremendous amount of
noise during their designated usage periods (touchdown celebrations,
timeouts, etc.), but there's plenty enough State fans willing to use
them during non-designated periods that Davis-Wade Stadium can become
just as loud and disruptive as SEC stadiums with twice its capacity.

And in 2011, how loud Davis-Wade can get will matter. A lot.
The Bulldogs will play host to both of the consensus SEC West favorites
and the closest thing the preseason has to an SEC East favorite--LSU visits Sept. 15, South Carolina Oct. 15 and Alabama
Nov. 12. A State victory in any one of those three games could
immediately turn the entire conference on its head--and given that this
is Mullen's most experienced team yet, the guess here is that thanks in
part to those cowbells, the Bulldogs will come away with at least one of
those scalps. -- JH

 

[VirgilCain]

was Auburn fan's outrage over Mullen's "empathy" over the loss of traditions (AU- trees & MSU-cowbells) discussed?
<a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=dan+mullen+traditions+auburn&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-USfficial&client=firefox-a" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">
Link to my simple google search on the topic</a>

Personally, I can't stand the condescension of AU fans on this topic. The tradition of cowbells even predates the AU tradition of "rolling toomer's corner" (started it the 1950's according to my brief google-ing). Have a missed a historical aspect to the toomer's corner trees (other than them being really old) that pre-dates the toilet papering tradition that would lend itself to making Mullen's comparison unacceptable?

 

[Topgundawg]

Can't wait for Sept....

 

[The Fatboy]

Alabama. That and that no one outside of Alabama gives a **** who Scarbinsky is or what he think. I might also add AU fans reading comprehension skills are terribly lacking in that they claim Mullens comments are an attempt to equate banning cowbells with Updyke's poisoning of tree, which was not the case.