Take a look at this reply to a thread I took off the conference realignment board:

(03-16-2014 06:02 PM)chargeradio Wrote:  USM or UAB will be the last to go from C-USA. USM has no market, and UAB's struggles in football are too great to warrant a promotion.

Depending on who the Big XII takes from the American, some combination of FAU, FIU, ODU, WKU, and MTSU will be leaving C-USA. For basketball, ODU and WKU are the only ones whose departure will hurt C-USA.

On the field issues aside, what can USM do to address this perception of not having a market? Things like this really get under my skin.

It's not a perception. We don't have a market. We can't count New Orleans.

Then what can we do to get a market (that doesn't involve moving the campus to a metro area)??

(03-21-2014 10:25 AM)DawgNBama Wrote:  Then what can we do to get a market??

Increase Hattiesburg's population to about 1mil.

Good luck with that lol

(03-21-2014 10:25 AM)DawgNBama Wrote:  Then what can we do to get a market (that doesn't involve moving the campus to a metro area)??

Nothing. Those idiots voted in Johnny DuPree again. Who the hell is going to want to move there....

Surprisingly the Huntington-Charleston market is 65. Not great, but not terrible.

Hattiesburg is ranked somewhere behind Bumf%%k, Egypt and Mayberry.

Nobody is leaving for a while. There are rumors the NCAA won't require 12 for a championship game. If they do make that change, why would the Big XII bother expanding?

(03-21-2014 10:25 AM)DawgNBama Wrote:  Then what can we do to get a market (that doesn't involve moving the campus to a metro area)??

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(03-21-2014 10:42 AM)randaddyminer Wrote:  

(03-21-2014 10:25 AM)DawgNBama Wrote:  Then what can we do to get a market (that doesn't involve moving the campus to a metro area)??

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(03-21-2014 10:22 AM)shiftyeagle Wrote:  It's not a perception. We don't have a market. We can't count New Orleans.

We have two McDonalds now... how many is Hattiesburg up to?

(03-21-2014 12:22 PM)RougeDawg Wrote:  

(03-21-2014 10:22 AM)shiftyeagle Wrote:  It's not a perception. We don't have a market. We can't count New Orleans.

We have two McDonalds now... how many is Hattiesburg up to?

Hattiesburg has a Cheddar's. Who gives a damn about McDonald's?

(03-21-2014 10:22 AM)shiftyeagle Wrote:  It's not a perception. We don't have a market. We can't count New Orleans.

Most years, I'd actually give you guys an edge over Tulane.

The Tulane comment is a good comment. TUlane may be in New Orleans, but I'll bet they compete mightily to be relevant in a city with the Saints and in a state with LSU and with a not so great athletic tradition of late. Markets ain't everything. Plus for sheer excitement and fun to play-ness, I'll take USM any day over Tulane.

(03-21-2014 10:42 AM)randaddyminer Wrote:  

(03-21-2014 10:25 AM)DawgNBama Wrote:  Then what can we do to get a market (that doesn't involve moving the campus to a metro area)??

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XACLY!

(03-21-2014 12:25 PM)demiveeman Wrote:  

(03-21-2014 12:22 PM)RougeDawg Wrote:  

(03-21-2014 10:22 AM)shiftyeagle Wrote:  It's not a perception. We don't have a market. We can't count New Orleans.

We have two McDonalds now... how many is Hattiesburg up to?

Hattiesburg has a Cheddar's. Who gives a damn about McDonald's?

bed bath and beyond .....along with all the amenities of outlying posts that are geographically substantial

just a stupid bs premise to begin with....wtfe....

(03-21-2014 12:25 PM)demiveeman Wrote:  

(03-21-2014 12:22 PM)RougeDawg Wrote:  

(03-21-2014 10:22 AM)shiftyeagle Wrote:  It's not a perception. We don't have a market. We can't count New Orleans.

We have two McDonalds now... how many is Hattiesburg up to?

Hattiesburg has a Cheddar's. Who gives a damn about McDonald's?

We have a Cheddar's 20 minutes down the road in West Monroe. It's awful though. Who would brag about having one?

(03-21-2014 12:25 PM)demiveeman Wrote:  Hattiesburg has a Cheddar's. Who gives a damn about McDonald's?

We raise you a Griff's....

(03-21-2014 01:11 PM)Bulldogs145 Wrote:  

(03-21-2014 12:25 PM)demiveeman Wrote:  

(03-21-2014 12:22 PM)RougeDawg Wrote:  

(03-21-2014 10:22 AM)shiftyeagle Wrote:  It's not a perception. We don't have a market. We can't count New Orleans.

We have two McDonalds now... how many is Hattiesburg up to?

Hattiesburg has a Cheddar's. Who gives a damn about McDonald's?

We have a Cheddar's 20 minutes down the road in West Monroe. It's awful though. Who would brag about having one?

Who would brag about having a McDonalds (or 2)?

(03-21-2014 04:33 PM)demiveeman Wrote:  

(03-21-2014 01:11 PM)Bulldogs145 Wrote:  

(03-21-2014 12:25 PM)demiveeman Wrote:  

(03-21-2014 12:22 PM)RougeDawg Wrote:  

(03-21-2014 10:22 AM)shiftyeagle Wrote:  It's not a perception. We don't have a market. We can't count New Orleans.

We have two McDonalds now... how many is Hattiesburg up to?

Hattiesburg has a Cheddar's. Who gives a damn about McDonald's?

We have a Cheddar's 20 minutes down the road in West Monroe. It's awful though. Who would brag about having one?

Who would brag about having a McDonalds (or 2)?

I guess I should have used one of those smilies to convey a less than serious tone. However, I would never joke about Griff's!