You can't even get MSU fans out of their recliners on GameDay to spend money at a bar representing their various alumni chapters in big cities. It really is embarrassing when lsu gets 600 people at a watch party and msu can't get 15.
Yes. When I was in college, it was the main hangout spot for students
Easter Webster has grown a lot over the past few years. EW is now a 3A school. Lotsa flight out to that area from Starkville.
As a young guy I can tell you that the differences between ABC enforcement between Starkville in Oxford is night and day. Bar owners there are not worried in the slightest of letting underage students into their bars while starkville bars are extremely strict about it.
Not explicitly told but highly encouraged.
But this is not relevant to Starkvilles growth. It’s the alums with disposable income that make the difference. And have grown Oxford. (I realize it wasn’t your point and you were just responding to someone else )
Absolutely nothing the city is doing is preventing anyone from visiting Starkville and having a great time. SEC sports, plenty of shopping, the CD, plenty of places to eat. If you are a golfer, a world class golf destination is 15 minutes away.
I have nothing against Caledonia. It’s a fine school. I also had 4 kids go to Starkville, and the education they got along with opportunities to compete in athletics, AP, highly highly qualified teachers, other extra curricular was outstanding. Now does that come with some other crap that Starkville may be known for like fights etc? Yes, but they really didn’t see much of that in the classes and circle of friends they had. Starkville is large enough to offer most kids their in group. A lot of smaller places there is one in group and it’s a problem if you aren’t in it.
Your definition of middle class and mine are way different. If someone has enough disposable income to have a condo in Oxford or Starkville, they ain't middle class.
The night route ran when I was in college and did just that. Pulled up outside the house we lived in on Col Muldrow. It was great.
As the father of a child currently in the “Greek Life” at State, I can tell you that’s an emphatic no.
That’s because it’s all they have. Have you ever spent more than 10 minutes with an LSU fan? Most are lucky to be the land lord of 3 or 4 teeth! And You don’t need teeth to eat the azz hole out of a gar or crayfish.
Never have had to "pay to park downtown". Only from Montgomery to the bridge on University and yes that sucks. Thanks Lynn Spruill, who by the way said businesses wanted it but none ever came forward and said "oh yeah lets pay to park in front of my store"
Hell I thought EVERYBODY except the "Air Raid Preservationists Society" recognized this. I've never been so bored of MSU football in all of my 50+ years of watching it than I have been since Don Merlinz left
She has announced that she lied about a year ago when she said she wasn't coming back. She now says she still has unfinished projects she wants to see through before she leaves.
But there is hype among young kids about which is "party school", which attracts young people to town.
As someone that has/had nieces and nephews in the school....This is true. If your kid is a high achiever in the classroom. If he/she isnt, starkville schools are an awful place to be. If your kid isnt in AP you'll have to deal with the "other crap" .. the other crap being... 2-3 fights weekly, parents fighting in the office, and videos of adminstration dragging kids out of fights by their hair, teachers arrest for making advances on students, kids expelled for adult actions taking place in the stairways, thats the environment that is there.
We have never been the party school and until OM got Kiffin and basically went to 100% admission, we always had a higher enrollment. The youths aren’t what moved the needle in Oxford.
She's the only one fight for progress. It's the damn board who is full of incompetence and afraid of letting college kids have fun
Spruill is awful and has been awful for Starkville.
She is too busy taking advice from her buddy Dickie Scruggs on what’s best for Starkville
What is it about Spruill that you don't like? I know the property taxes are high but outside of that - she seems to be a decent mayor from afar.
This has always annoyed me. I’ve been to LSU and Bama alumni watch parties in Nashville, and they’re wild. Complete blast.
What has she brought to starkville? The divide b/t the campus and starkville is as big as its ever been. The school district detorirated on her watch. She claims shes brought business to town but how many have left. Specifically the downtown area, the shopping center was vowell's was has been a wreck, same for Umi and where club 24 use to be. The entire sportsplex area and mckee park is a bust. Starkville isnt even safe anymore, there was a shooting at a little league game. rent and taxes are at record high's. The only positives i've seen on her watch is the new cornerstone park and the main strip of hwy 12 thru town. The only other areas that have seen growth under spruill is the area's near campus, she's neglected almost everything else
