It’s true. Outside of the local, Mississippi residents, everyone I know or have met from Ole Miss is from Memphis, Dallas, Atlanta, Nashville, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Shreveport, etc.

Excluding the Memphis folks, they, typically, couldn’t get into Texas, Georgia, or they wanted a change of scenery (didn’t want to go to LSU or the comparable state school in their backyard). Yet, on game day, they are more in tuned to those teams they grew up rooting for (Texas, Georgia, LSU, etc.)

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Posted by MullenBoys

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Posted on 9/30/22 at 12:40 pm to GentleJackJones

Ole Miss & Miss State have produced very rich alum, but the fact is, it's not as level as some think. While Ole Miss has produced writers, CEO's or RealTree camo etc,
& Miss State has produced Mossy Oak, numerous CEO's of big companies along with Ole Miss, we don't produce the numbers individually like a big school such as Alabama or an LSU etc.

Alabama alone nearly doubles enrollment than that of Ole Miss or MSU.

Mississippi is the smallest state in population in the SEC, yet we have more colleges per capita than any state. That's just one eating the other. If Ole Miss and MSU were a combined college instead of recruiting against each other, we might be someone nobody really wanted to face on their schedule.

For every rich Alum Miss State or Ole Miss has, bigger schools can more than double that just based on the numbers. It is what it is but we both gonna fight hard