Pick-em for the Southern Miss Game on Saturday

[That Guy]

[quote="Grand Eagle"]

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I guess you missed it the first time I posted it. I don't live in MS. You see, Southern Miss is a big-time, big-name institution with one of the top 5 Polymer Science research centers in the world. As such, we attract students from all across the US and around the world.

I live in a metro area that is about 30x the size of little 'ol Peoria. So I'm the one that should be cracking jokes about your little hick town. However, I'm not doing that because those types of stereotypes are outdated and juvenile. It just shows that you can't debate with facts, so you have to resort to personal insults. Childish, but typical from someone that has nothing to back up their smack with.

So exactly how small do you think Peoria is? According to the 2000 census, "little 'ol Peoria" has a population of 347,387.

And since when does football determine the quality of a university? After all, you're the one who came on our site, and started talking junk about football. Just for the record, we're playing basketball tonight.

I hope we win by thirty tonight. Who knows, afterwards we might see your coach trying to break into our sorority houses to hit on our girls? Too bad for him most students are home on break...

[georgethedog]

I still think this S. Miss. guy is just a local guy having fun with this board. If he is really a S. Miss. graduate he apparently took quite a few courses in how to act like a goof. Mr. Eagle, if you are really a S. Miss. guy I want you to know that I turned down your school's offer to enroll in a Ph.D. program when I found out that it was looked upon as a second/third tier program.

[Mikovio]

The tier ranking system is a joke. We are 3x the size of your school, and have one of the top 5 doctorate programs in the WORLD. You're right, Bradley doesn't even come close to that. You can only offer 14 graduate degrees, while we literally have HUNDREDS to choose from. Southern Miss is a world-class Carnegie 1 Research Extensive university. Again, Bradley doesn't even come close. You are nothing but a small-time commuter school. If Bradley was in MS, you would be labeled as Junior College.

If Bradley was in Mississippi, it would be the best school in the state.

Don't like US News? Fine, let's take a look at the Princeton Review....

Average ACT score at Southern Miss: 22
Average ACT score at Bradley: 25 (low for us, as my 2006 class average was 26.5)

How come nobody wants to go to this "Carnegie 1 Research university"

Our football program is regularly regarded as on of the top in the nation outside of the BCS. The profits we rake in from football would beg to differ with your envy filled assessment. And the national exposure that our university gets from playing the majority of it's games on national television is priceless. I guess it's easy to call a ball crappy when you're not playing in one.

I'm not the least bit jealous.

I'm gonna let you in on a secret -- I go to graduate school at Northern Illinois. Like Southern Miss, NIU is (sadly) the best team in the state, and was invited to a crappy bowl that nobody cares about out of the MAC (and in fact, almost got paired with USM in Mobile, but ended up with a better opponent in TCU). It was depressing looking at all those empty seats. Yeah, TCU won big and claimed the hallowed Poinsettia title, but from what I gather they're less than thrilled.

In no way, shape or form does a minor bowl compare with a Sweet 16 in basketball. I wouldn't trade one Sweet 16 for a dozen Poinsettia/GMAC/Armed Forces bowls. If you're in the Sweet 16, you're at least technically still playing for it all. What are you playing for by facing the MAC runners-up in the Mobile, Alabama Bowl?

Wow, you played in it over 50 years ago. Good job. How about today? We play in or host a regional pretty much every year. We're also in or around the Top 25, and we are in the Top 20 in attendance. Yeah, we are vastly superior to your tiny little school full of wannabes.

The point is that we've reached heights you've never reached. We have a baseball coach that can't get fired because he's been there so long he's an admin and also recruited Kirby Puckett. But the team does play in a multi-million dollar state-of-the-art downtown stadium, and after we change coaches the program should get back on its feet.

Will you be laughing after your inferior school gets destroyed tonight?

Oh, I'll be laughing alright. Before I read your posts, I saw this as just another win for us. Now, yeah, I'll laugh my *** off

[Grand Eagle]

The tier ranking system is a joke. We are 3x the size of your school, and have one of the top 5 doctorate programs in the WORLD. You're right, Bradley doesn't even come close to that. You can only offer 14 graduate degrees, while we literally have HUNDREDS to choose from. Southern Miss is a world-class Carnegie 1 Research Extensive university. Again, Bradley doesn't even come close. You are nothing but a small-time commuter school. If Bradley was in MS, you would be labeled as Junior College.

If Bradley was in Mississippi, it would be the best school in the state.

Don't like US News? Fine, let's take a look at the Princeton Review....

Average ACT score at Southern Miss: 22
Average ACT score at Bradley: 25 (low for us, as my 2006 class average was 26.5)

How come nobody wants to go to this "Carnegie 1 Research university"

Our football program is regularly regarded as on of the top in the nation outside of the BCS. The profits we rake in from football would beg to differ with your envy filled assessment. And the national exposure that our university gets from playing the majority of it's games on national television is priceless. I guess it's easy to call a ball crappy when you're not playing in one.

I'm not the least bit jealous.

I'm gonna let you in on a secret -- I go to graduate school at Northern Illinois. Like Southern Miss, NIU is (sadly) the best team in the state, and was invited to a crappy bowl that nobody cares about out of the MAC (and in fact, almost got paired with USM in Mobile, but ended up with a better opponent in TCU). It was depressing looking at all those empty seats. Yeah, TCU won big and claimed the hallowed Poinsettia title, but from what I gather they're less than thrilled.

In no way, shape or form does a minor bowl compare with a Sweet 16 in basketball. I wouldn't trade one Sweet 16 for a dozen Poinsettia/GMAC/Armed Forces bowls. If you're in the Sweet 16, you're at least technically still playing for it all. What are you playing for by facing the MAC runners-up in the Mobile, Alabama Bowl?

Wow, you played in it over 50 years ago. Good job. How about today? We play in or host a regional pretty much every year. We're also in or around the Top 25, and we are in the Top 20 in attendance. Yeah, we are vastly superior to your tiny little school full of wannabes.

The point is that we've reached heights you've never reached. We have a baseball coach that can't get fired because he's been there so long he's an admin and also recruited Kirby Puckett. But the team does play in a multi-million dollar state-of-the-art downtown stadium, and after we change coaches the program should get back on its feet.

Will you be laughing after your inferior school gets destroyed tonight?

Oh, I'll be laughing alright. Before I read your posts, I saw this as just another win for us. Now, yeah, I'll laugh my *** off

We're a state school, and as such, can't discriminate against people with lower test scores like a private school can. Using entrance requirements to make your argument is laughable. Who cares what's coming in? It's what we're putting out that matters. And we're putting out more and better qualified people than Bradley. When you get a program that even sniffs a Top 5 world ranking, come talk to me. Until then, you can keep your little commuter school and it's 14 graduate programs.

I guarantee more people will see our "minor bowl" than watched Bradley get absolutely BLOWN AWAY by Memphis in the sweet 16.

[mike radigan]

Will you be laughing after your inferior school gets destroyed tonight?

Yes!

[tornado]

I think this thread got a little out of hand with the off topic stuff, but.............

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You win, I will be PMing you

Congrats!!

I am impresed with how many guesses were right within one or two points.

Even our friend Grand Eagle got the winning score EXACTLY right, but unfortunately he guessed the wrong team winning!

[Mikovio]

I guarantee more people will see our "minor bowl" than watched Bradley get absolutely BLOWN AWAY by Memphis in the sweet 16.

First of all, no.

Second, by making the Sweet 16 Bradley played a total of 3 games, two of which were wins over Kansas and Pitt, who a lot of people thought were going to the Final Four. Those were "people in Vegas are getting their legs broken"-type upsets. That was way, way, way more impressive/relevant than anything Southern Miss can accomplish by beating MAC runner-up Ohio in the Nobodycares Bowl.

That said, good luck this season. Your team is better than I expected, and I do think you will finish in the top half of C-USA....