Good for you Mississippi State

[dixiehack]

Somewhere in heaven Babe McCarthy is smiling. And Ross Barnett remains in hell.

http://blogs.clarionledger.com/msu/2012/06/13/msu-loyola-working-on-contract-to-commemorate-1963-game/

 

[Armchair_QB]

Two things:

1. I hope Loyola doesn't beat them too badly.

2. Which Loyola? I know they are referring to Loyola of Chicago but I'm sure a lot of people don't know that.

 

[Point of Order]

With that subject title I was expecting them to have joined the Big 12.

 

[CarlSpackler]

Loyola of Chicago, still the only team from the state of Illinois to win the NCAA men's basketball title.

 

[dixiehack]

For a Bulldog audience, I think they know which school it is. But yes, should be included.

And what made Michigan State think they should be in this spotlight? You wouldn't commemorate Texas Western with a Maryland-UK matchup at Cole Field House.

 

[Blitz]

The video "One Night in March" was put together in 2002 and chronicles this unique part of MSU and southern collegiate sports history.

State got a commit from a 4-star, Tebow-like QB the other day but this news is even more meaningful.

 

[Ace]

Looking back on this, it's amazing how much society's attitudes towards race have changed in my lifetime.

 

[Chef2]

With that subject title I was expecting them to have joined the Big 12.

Blitz just cracked Mercury Morris' cat in the head with an empty champagne bottle.

 

[Liut]

Looking back on this, it's amazing how much society's attitudes towards race have changed in my lifetime.

Agreed. Guerrilla warfare was taking place in the not-so-distant past.

 

[albert77]

People who were born after 1960 have no idea of how much guts it took for Mississippi State to play that game. They literally had sneak out of the state in the dead of night to avoid the state authorities.

As a Mississippian, I wish I could say that's a proud moment, but the fact that they had to sneak out at all speaks shameful volumes about how bad things were in this state at that time.

 

[Drip]

People who were born after 1960 have no idea of how much guts it took for Mississippi State to play that game. They literally had sneak out of the state in the dead of night to avoid the state authorities.

As a Mississippian, I wish I could say that's a proud moment, but the fact that they had to sneak out at all speaks shameful volumes about how bad things were in this state at that time.

Things still have a ways to go in some parts of the Magnolia State but Mississippi is trying.

 

[HejiraHenry]

For a Bulldog audience, I think they know which school it is. But yes, should be included.

And what made Michigan State think they should be in this spotlight? You wouldn't commemorate Texas Western with a Maryland-UK matchup at Cole Field House.

Neutral-court games have some RPI value. That's why Memphis and LSU played in Tupelo a couple of years ago.

 

[Blitz]

With regard to "how far things have come" in the U.S.:

Last night's NBA game showed 3 black refs huddled around the courtside monitor, to get a call right late in the game. That's the whole crew that reffed last nite's game.

Today, as ESPN was touting what was coming up, they cut to a camera of the guys in the control room who were getting Today's Top 10 together ... three black guys.

Those sorts of seemingly small advances are mainstream common nowadays.
Along with a healthy dose of hiring diversity, the jobs are done by those who do them best.

 

[westcoastvol]

With that subject title I was expecting them to have joined the Big 12.

I was prayyyyying. POS school that does little to anything for the SEC except collect a check most years.

 

[Blitz]

Come down to Starkville and watch your own POS school get its ass hammered this fall, clown.

 

[westcoastvol]

Come down to Starkville and watch your own POS school get its ass hammered this fall, clown.

If it helps get rid of Dooley, then so be it.

 

[Drip]

With regard to "how far things have come" in the U.S.:

Last night's NBA game showed 3 black refs huddled around the courtside monitor, to get a call right late in the game. That's the whole crew that reffed last nite's game.

Today, as ESPN was touting what was coming up, they cut to a camera of the guys in the control room who were getting Today's Top 10 together ... three black guys.

Those sorts of seemingly small advances are mainstream common nowadays.
Along with a healthy dose of hiring diversity, the jobs are done by those who do them best.

Unfortunately, there are many blacks who haven't "moved on up" in Mississippi. Education and salary levels are still a problem in many areas. But again, Mississippi has made strides. It's a good state with plenty of good people. It's sad and difficult to talk about The Magnolia State without thinking about its ugly past.

 

[Ace]

With regard to "how far things have come" in the U.S.:

Last night's NBA game showed 3 black refs huddled around the courtside monitor, to get a call right late in the game. That's the whole crew that reffed last nite's game.

Today, as ESPN was touting what was coming up, they cut to a camera of the guys in the control room who were getting Today's Top 10 together ... three black guys.

Those sorts of seemingly small advances are mainstream common nowadays.
Along with a healthy dose of hiring diversity, the jobs are done by those who do them best.

Also, not too long ago it was pretty unusual -- and in some states illegal -- for blacks and whites to marry. Now I know easily a dozen mixed-race couples through work and my kids' activities. It's no big thing at all.