Probably already been brought up, but anybody know what they are?

My guess is the northeast corner.

When we went in 2012 or 2013(?) - Johnny's last season, we were in some lower first deck corner. Couldn't tell you if it was NE or not. Main scoreboard was at the opposite end, I think.

A few notes:
- Wasn't as impressed by The Grove as I thought I'd be. Neat to see how dressed up their chicks get and how they have chandeliers hanging in EZ-Up Pop-Up tents, but I couldn't get over how they are CRAMMED in so close together. Most of them bungee the legs of their EZ-Up to their neighbors', so there's not even an inch between each tailgate. And they aren't allowed to cook there, so everyone brings in food that's already been cooked via ice chests. Weird not to see & smell grills outside a stadium on a college football Saturday.

- Crappy fan base. It took me awhile to put my finger on it, but after we'd been wandering around The Grove for an hour or so hoping to be invited to have a drink and a scoop of lukewarm food by one of the locals (unsuccessfully), my wife finally described it perfectly - "It's like we're not even here…not a single person has made eye contact, or nodded, or done anything that normal social cues would suggest". Once she said that, I realized that was exactly what it was. They don't look at you, or when they accidentally do, it's like they're looking THROUGH you. Like a country club vibe, but trashy. I guess that's better than being screamed and cussed at a la Baylor or tceh, but geez. Some of our best memories from Aggie home game tailgates is offering total strangers beer and bbq and talking.

- One of the girls in our group got dehydrated and badly needed water. Thought she was gonna pass out. I spotted a tailgate with an open ice chest and bottles of water, so I politely asked the woman there if our sick friend could have a bottle. She looked at me as if I repulsed her and actually seemed to ponder the question (as if I'd asked her for money or something) before finally reaching in and grabbing a bottle.
But then get this - in one fluid motion, she turned back to her tailgate friends and resumed talking while THROWING the water bottle back over her shoulder in our general direction. I had to move quick to catch it. She couldn't just hand it to me, smile, say something like "Hope she feels better". Nah. Just lob it vaguely towards us and go back to being an ass.
That interaction perfectly summed up The Grove for us.

- However once the game starts, their fans suddenly DO notice you, and they take great delight in taunting visitors. They were of course sitting in other sections around us, and I couldn't believe the efforts they went through to get our attention just so they could be jerks - craning their necks, waving at us wildly so that when we'd look over they could make faces at us or show us their middle finger or whatever. Even the adults. Again, weird. Or maybe 'sad' is more fitting.
Seemed to have no concept of just enjoying and celebrating THEIR team instead of viewing every single play as an opportunity to take a dig at visitors.

- I've never seen a fanbase who knew so little about football. Their reaction to plays were so often way off. For example, Ags' ball, 3rd and 27. Johnny scampers for 28 yards and the first down. They'd celebrate the tackle and taunt us. WTF??
Or reverse scenario but their offense would only pick up 26 yards (so stopped short of the first down, and setup a punt). They'd high-five about the nice long 26 (but not 27) yard play.

- They trash their own stadium and grounds. This was one of Johnny's 'final drive miracle finish for the win' games, and once we iced it, their fans couldn't leave the stadium fast enough despite there being a few minutes left. They left behind a sea of empty bottles and cans. So it was like when tceh or LSU come to Kyle Field, but this was in their own stadium. Same scene in The Grove afterwards. Their fans just vanish and leave crap everywhere.

TLDR - Ole Miss fans don't understand the concept of hosting or how football works.

Anyway, have fun!!

A&M is in section L I likely have four tickets at $75 each for sale

Going to my first Ole Miss game with my wife and daughter this year. My mom's whole family went to Ole Miss (my mom started there but finished at ACU). My mom's brother and one of her sisters still live in Oxford. I'm glad I'm going to be around family for this experience.

Ghost91 said:

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When we went in 2012 or 2013(?) - Johnny's last season, we were in some lower first deck corner. Couldn't tell you if it was NE or not. Main scoreboard was at the opposite end, I think.

A few notes:
- Wasn't as impressed by The Grove as I thought I'd be. Neat to see how dressed up their chicks get and how they have chandeliers hanging in EZ-Up Pop-Up tents, but I couldn't get over how they are CRAMMED in so close together. Most of them bungee the legs of their EZ-Up to their neighbors', so there's not even an inch between each tailgate. And they aren't allowed to cook there, so everyone brings in food that's already been cooked via ice chests. Weird not to see & smell grills outside a stadium on a college football Saturday.

- Crappy fan base. It took me awhile to put my finger on it, but after we'd been wandering around The Grove for an hour or so hoping to be invited to have a drink and a scoop of lukewarm food by one of the locals (unsuccessfully), my wife finally described it perfectly - "It's like we're not even here…not a single person has made eye contact, or nodded, or done anything that normal social cues would suggest". Once she said that, I realized that was exactly what it was. They don't look at you, or when they accidentally do, it's like they're looking THROUGH you. Like a country club vibe, but trashy. I guess that's better than being screamed and cussed at a la Baylor or tceh, but geez. Some of our best memories from Aggie home game tailgates is offering total strangers beer and bbq and talking.

- One of the girls in our group got dehydrated and badly needed water. Thought she was gonna pass out. I spotted a tailgate with an open ice chest and bottles of water, so I politely asked the woman there if our sick friend could have a bottle. She looked at me as if I repulsed her and actually seemed to ponder the question (as if I'd asked her for money or something) before finally reaching in and grabbing a bottle.
But then get this - in one fluid motion, she turned back to her tailgate friends and resumed talking while THROWING the water bottle back over her shoulder in our general direction. I had to move quick to catch it. She couldn't just hand it to me, smile, say something like "Hope she feels better". Nah. Just lob it vaguely towards us and go back to being an ass.
That interaction perfectly summed up The Grove for us.

- However once the game starts, their fans suddenly DO notice you, and they take great delight in taunting visitors. They were of course sitting in other sections around us, and I couldn't believe the efforts they went through to get our attention just so they could be jerks - craning their necks, waving at us wildly so that when we'd look over they could make faces at us or show us their middle finger or whatever. Even the adults. Again, weird. Or maybe 'sad' is more fitting.
Seemed to have no concept of just enjoying and celebrating THEIR team instead of viewing every single play as an opportunity to take a dig at visitors.

- I've never seen a fanbase who knew so little about football. Their reaction to plays were so often way off. For example, Ags' ball, 3rd and 27. Johnny scampers for 28 yards and the first down. They'd celebrate the tackle and taunt us. WTF??
Or reverse scenario but their offense would only pick up 26 yards (so stopped short of the first down, and setup a punt). They'd high-five about the nice long 26 (but not 27) yard play.

- They trash their own stadium and grounds. This was one of Johnny's 'final drive miracle finish for the win' games, and once we iced it, their fans couldn't leave the stadium fast enough despite there being a few minutes left. They left behind a sea of empty bottles and cans. So it was like when tceh or LSU come to Kyle Field, but this was in their own stadium. Same scene in The Grove afterwards. Their fans just vanish and leave crap everywhere.

TLDR - Ole Miss fans don't understand the concept of hosting or how football works.

Anyway, have fun!!

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your wife's perception is accurate. ole miss is the country club school of the south. still a great school with beautiful woman but they definitely put off that vibe.

I would agree with Ghost. We've been to all but 3 stadiums in the SEC and Ghost hits most of the accurate notes.

The grove is def the most over hyped thing in fb. Just rich catered in cc as noted

And of course the fans aren't good. They're historically awful

That sounds like a terrible experience.

I walked through the tailgate area by Neyland last week and was greeted warmly by many people, lots of food and drink offered. My t-shirt Vol fan BIL was with me, but they didn't pay much attention to him.

I hope TAMU and Oregon schedule a series someday. My daily dog walk takes me by Autzen and I have scored many a breakfast burrito from folks that comment on my TAMU hat that I wear along with a Ducks hoodie (local camouflage). Pretty friendly tailgating folks.

Ghost91 said:

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When we went in 2012 or 2013(?) - Johnny's last season, we were in some lower first deck corner. Couldn't tell you if it was NE or not. Main scoreboard was at the opposite end, I think.

A few notes:
- Wasn't as impressed by The Grove as I thought I'd be. Neat to see how dressed up their chicks get and how they have chandeliers hanging in EZ-Up Pop-Up tents, but I couldn't get over how they are CRAMMED in so close together. Most of them bungee the legs of their EZ-Up to their neighbors', so there's not even an inch between each tailgate. And they aren't allowed to cook there, so everyone brings in food that's already been cooked via ice chests. Weird not to see & smell grills outside a stadium on a college football Saturday.

- Crappy fan base. It took me awhile to put my finger on it, but after we'd been wandering around The Grove for an hour or so hoping to be invited to have a drink and a scoop of lukewarm food by one of the locals (unsuccessfully), my wife finally described it perfectly - "It's like we're not even here…not a single person has made eye contact, or nodded, or done anything that normal social cues would suggest". Once she said that, I realized that was exactly what it was. They don't look at you, or when they accidentally do, it's like they're looking THROUGH you. Like a country club vibe, but trashy. I guess that's better than being screamed and cussed at a la Baylor or tceh, but geez. Some of our best memories from Aggie home game tailgates is offering total strangers beer and bbq and talking.

- One of the girls in our group got dehydrated and badly needed water. Thought she was gonna pass out. I spotted a tailgate with an open ice chest and bottles of water, so I politely asked the woman there if our sick friend could have a bottle. She looked at me as if I repulsed her and actually seemed to ponder the question (as if I'd asked her for money or something) before finally reaching in and grabbing a bottle.
But then get this - in one fluid motion, she turned back to her tailgate friends and resumed talking while THROWING the water bottle back over her shoulder in our general direction. I had to move quick to catch it. She couldn't just hand it to me, smile, say something like "Hope she feels better". Nah. Just lob it vaguely towards us and go back to being an ass.
That interaction perfectly summed up The Grove for us.

- However once the game starts, their fans suddenly DO notice you, and they take great delight in taunting visitors. They were of course sitting in other sections around us, and I couldn't believe the efforts they went through to get our attention just so they could be jerks - craning their necks, waving at us wildly so that when we'd look over they could make faces at us or show us their middle finger or whatever. Even the adults. Again, weird. Or maybe 'sad' is more fitting.
Seemed to have no concept of just enjoying and celebrating THEIR team instead of viewing every single play as an opportunity to take a dig at visitors.

- I've never seen a fanbase who knew so little about football. Their reaction to plays were so often way off. For example, Ags' ball, 3rd and 27. Johnny scampers for 28 yards and the first down. They'd celebrate the tackle and taunt us. WTF??
Or reverse scenario but their offense would only pick up 26 yards (so stopped short of the first down, and setup a punt). They'd high-five about the nice long 26 (but not 27) yard play.

- They trash their own stadium and grounds. This was one of Johnny's 'final drive miracle finish for the win' games, and once we iced it, their fans couldn't leave the stadium fast enough despite there being a few minutes left. They left behind a sea of empty bottles and cans. So it was like when tceh or LSU come to Kyle Field, but this was in their own stadium. Same scene in The Grove afterwards. Their fans just vanish and leave crap everywhere.

TLDR - Ole Miss fans don't understand the concept of hosting or how football works.

Anyway, have fun!!

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I was born and raised 75 miles west of Oxford. I went to sports camps there as a kid, lots of basketball and football games and a few baseball games. I've never understood everyone's obsession with The Grove. It sucks. They're not inviting and they're not inclusive. Half the time, they don't even socialize with other Rebel fans; just the ones in their circus tent with gas station fried chicken. It sums up the state of Mississippi perfectly. If you don't like their state, get out, because they do everything the way it's supposed to be done. They're stuck back in time about 60 years. They are under the impression that everyone but them are classless and beneath them (see their tailgate style vs EVERYBODY ELSE IN AMERICA). All the while, not knowing that everyone else surrounding them has progressed at a rate 10x of theirs.

I lived in the state for 2 years. It was truly an instance of, if you don't have family there, didn't go to school there or know a ton of people, you were considered an outsider and were completely invisible to them. Meridian is the same as Jackson. Jackson is the same as Oxford. So on and so forth. Their facilities are trash, their fans are trash and their state is trash. Just don't tell them that, because they don't know it.

My best advice, being an Arkansan, is to show up and give them a taste of their own medicine. I went to a ton of Ole Miss/Arkansas games as a kid and absolutely loved when the Pigs would beat them and harass the hell out of them. They absolutely deserve it and it's pretty much kill or be killed when it comes to attitude. Bury those idiots.

TexasAGGIEinAR said:

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I was born and raised 75 miles west of Oxford. I've never understood everyone's obsession with The Grove. It sucks. They're not inviting and they're not inclusive. Half the time, they don't even socialize with other Rebel fans; just the ones in their circus tent with gas station fried chicken.

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Now that you mention this (in bold), I recall that as well and remember thinking it was weird that they don't even seem to interact with each other.
And no kids running around throwing the football or that kind of thing. Just an overall weird atmosphere - SOOO out of synch with any other college football Fall Saturday vibe.

The Lost said:

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The grove is def the most over hyped thing in fb. Just rich catered in cc as noted

And of course the fans aren't good. They're historically awful

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Yeah. I have a younger female cousin who wasn't accepted at A&M and Ole Miss was her backup school.

At the time, I thought that was such a random choice - no one in our extended family has any connection whatsoever with the school or that part of the country.

However in retrospect it was perfect for her. Everyone in the family has always described her as '*****ly {Her Name}' since childhood, and she came out of Ole Miss even MORE so.

Honestly if I showed her this thread with my post above, I'm 100% certain her reaction would be to laugh and say, "Yeah, so what?". There would be no attempt to deny, or to make excuses, or to say we just happened to encounter a bad sub-population that day, or anything like that.
Like she would probably actually have a smug PRIDE in what I wrote. It's sad, but I'm glad she couldn't get into A&M because I don't think even A&M would've made a dent in her.

Ghost91 said:

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When we went in 2012 or 2013(?) - Johnny's last season, we were in some lower first deck corner. Couldn't tell you if it was NE or not. Main scoreboard was at the opposite end, I think.

A few notes:
- Wasn't as impressed by The Grove as I thought I'd be. Neat to see how dressed up their chicks get and how they have chandeliers hanging in EZ-Up Pop-Up tents, but I couldn't get over how they are CRAMMED in so close together. Most of them bungee the legs of their EZ-Up to their neighbors', so there's not even an inch between each tailgate. And they aren't allowed to cook there, so everyone brings in food that's already been cooked via ice chests. Weird not to see & smell grills outside a stadium on a college football Saturday.

- Crappy fan base. It took me awhile to put my finger on it, but after we'd been wandering around The Grove for an hour or so hoping to be invited to have a drink and a scoop of lukewarm food by one of the locals (unsuccessfully), my wife finally described it perfectly - "It's like we're not even here…not a single person has made eye contact, or nodded, or done anything that normal social cues would suggest". Once she said that, I realized that was exactly what it was. They don't look at you, or when they accidentally do, it's like they're looking THROUGH you. Like a country club vibe, but trashy. I guess that's better than being screamed and cussed at a la Baylor or tceh, but geez. Some of our best memories from Aggie home game tailgates is offering total strangers beer and bbq and talking.

- One of the girls in our group got dehydrated and badly needed water. Thought she was gonna pass out. I spotted a tailgate with an open ice chest and bottles of water, so I politely asked the woman there if our sick friend could have a bottle. She looked at me as if I repulsed her and actually seemed to ponder the question (as if I'd asked her for money or something) before finally reaching in and grabbing a bottle.
But then get this - in one fluid motion, she turned back to her tailgate friends and resumed talking while THROWING the water bottle back over her shoulder in our general direction. I had to move quick to catch it. She couldn't just hand it to me, smile, say something like "Hope she feels better". Nah. Just lob it vaguely towards us and go back to being an ass.
That interaction perfectly summed up The Grove for us.

- However once the game starts, their fans suddenly DO notice you, and they take great delight in taunting visitors. They were of course sitting in other sections around us, and I couldn't believe the efforts they went through to get our attention just so they could be jerks - craning their necks, waving at us wildly so that when we'd look over they could make faces at us or show us their middle finger or whatever. Even the adults. Again, weird. Or maybe 'sad' is more fitting.
Seemed to have no concept of just enjoying and celebrating THEIR team instead of viewing every single play as an opportunity to take a dig at visitors.

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Every bit of this. We were there the very same year and got the exact same vibe and treatment. The Grove is BIG TIME overrated and their fans are trash. Half the crowd chanting in unison "F U Johnny, F U Johnny" while he's laying there on the turf with a twisted knee……I'll never forget that. At least the Tennessee fans, while they booed Walter and Regis when they got hurt…..at least they were friendly and accommodating outside the stadium before the game and after. I have no desire ever to go to Oxford for anything again. And I have a niece who plays volleyball for them

Have a parking plan before you go. + They are not well organized.

Ghost91 said:

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When we went in 2012 or 2013(?) - Johnny's last season, we were in some lower first deck corner. Couldn't tell you if it was NE or not. Main scoreboard was at the opposite end, I think.

A few notes:
- Wasn't as impressed by The Grove as I thought I'd be. Neat to see how dressed up their chicks get and how they have chandeliers hanging in EZ-Up Pop-Up tents, but I couldn't get over how they are CRAMMED in so close together. Most of them bungee the legs of their EZ-Up to their neighbors', so there's not even an inch between each tailgate. And they aren't allowed to cook there, so everyone brings in food that's already been cooked via ice chests. Weird not to see & smell grills outside a stadium on a college football Saturday.

- Crappy fan base. It took me awhile to put my finger on it, but after we'd been wandering around The Grove for an hour or so hoping to be invited to have a drink and a scoop of lukewarm food by one of the locals (unsuccessfully), my wife finally described it perfectly - "It's like we're not even here…not a single person has made eye contact, or nodded, or done anything that normal social cues would suggest". Once she said that, I realized that was exactly what it was. They don't look at you, or when they accidentally do, it's like they're looking THROUGH you. Like a country club vibe, but trashy. I guess that's better than being screamed and cussed at a la Baylor or tceh, but geez. Some of our best memories from Aggie home game tailgates is offering total strangers beer and bbq and talking.

- One of the girls in our group got dehydrated and badly needed water. Thought she was gonna pass out. I spotted a tailgate with an open ice chest and bottles of water, so I politely asked the woman there if our sick friend could have a bottle. She looked at me as if I repulsed her and actually seemed to ponder the question (as if I'd asked her for money or something) before finally reaching in and grabbing a bottle.
But then get this - in one fluid motion, she turned back to her tailgate friends and resumed talking while THROWING the water bottle back over her shoulder in our general direction. I had to move quick to catch it. She couldn't just hand it to me, smile, say something like "Hope she feels better". Nah. Just lob it vaguely towards us and go back to being an ass.
That interaction perfectly summed up The Grove for us.

- However once the game starts, their fans suddenly DO notice you, and they take great delight in taunting visitors. They were of course sitting in other sections around us, and I couldn't believe the efforts they went through to get our attention just so they could be jerks - craning their necks, waving at us wildly so that when we'd look over they could make faces at us or show us their middle finger or whatever. Even the adults. Again, weird. Or maybe 'sad' is more fitting.
Seemed to have no concept of just enjoying and celebrating THEIR team instead of viewing every single play as an opportunity to take a dig at visitors.

- I've never seen a fanbase who knew so little about football. Their reaction to plays were so often way off. For example, Ags' ball, 3rd and 27. Johnny scampers for 28 yards and the first down. They'd celebrate the tackle and taunt us. WTF??
Or reverse scenario but their offense would only pick up 26 yards (so stopped short of the first down, and setup a punt). They'd high-five about the nice long 26 (but not 27) yard play.

- They trash their own stadium and grounds. This was one of Johnny's 'final drive miracle finish for the win' games, and once we iced it, their fans couldn't leave the stadium fast enough despite there being a few minutes left. They left behind a sea of empty bottles and cans. So it was like when tceh or LSU come to Kyle Field, but this was in their own stadium. Same scene in The Grove afterwards. Their fans just vanish and leave crap everywhere.

TLDR - Ole Miss fans don't understand the concept of hosting or how football works.

Anyway, have fun!!

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This. The Grove was vastly overrated and did not enjoy having our 10 year old son being heckled by frat dudes while we tried to take in the campus. We missed the entire 3rd quarter standing in line for the trough style restroom. Concessions were being handled by local high school kids trying to get volunteer hours...

OilFieldIRI said:

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Ghost91 said:

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When we went in 2012 or 2013(?) - Johnny's last season, we were in some lower first deck corner. Couldn't tell you if it was NE or not. Main scoreboard was at the opposite end, I think.

A few notes:
- Wasn't as impressed by The Grove as I thought I'd be. Neat to see how dressed up their chicks get and how they have chandeliers hanging in EZ-Up Pop-Up tents, but I couldn't get over how they are CRAMMED in so close together. Most of them bungee the legs of their EZ-Up to their neighbors', so there's not even an inch between each tailgate. And they aren't allowed to cook there, so everyone brings in food that's already been cooked via ice chests. Weird not to see & smell grills outside a stadium on a college football Saturday.

- Crappy fan base. It took me awhile to put my finger on it, but after we'd been wandering around The Grove for an hour or so hoping to be invited to have a drink and a scoop of lukewarm food by one of the locals (unsuccessfully), my wife finally described it perfectly - "It's like we're not even here…not a single person has made eye contact, or nodded, or done anything that normal social cues would suggest". Once she said that, I realized that was exactly what it was. They don't look at you, or when they accidentally do, it's like they're looking THROUGH you. Like a country club vibe, but trashy. I guess that's better than being screamed and cussed at a la Baylor or tceh, but geez. Some of our best memories from Aggie home game tailgates is offering total strangers beer and bbq and talking.

- One of the girls in our group got dehydrated and badly needed water. Thought she was gonna pass out. I spotted a tailgate with an open ice chest and bottles of water, so I politely asked the woman there if our sick friend could have a bottle. She looked at me as if I repulsed her and actually seemed to ponder the question (as if I'd asked her for money or something) before finally reaching in and grabbing a bottle.
But then get this - in one fluid motion, she turned back to her tailgate friends and resumed talking while THROWING the water bottle back over her shoulder in our general direction. I had to move quick to catch it. She couldn't just hand it to me, smile, say something like "Hope she feels better". Nah. Just lob it vaguely towards us and go back to being an ass.
That interaction perfectly summed up The Grove for us.

- However once the game starts, their fans suddenly DO notice you, and they take great delight in taunting visitors. They were of course sitting in other sections around us, and I couldn't believe the efforts they went through to get our attention just so they could be jerks - craning their necks, waving at us wildly so that when we'd look over they could make faces at us or show us their middle finger or whatever. Even the adults. Again, weird. Or maybe 'sad' is more fitting.
Seemed to have no concept of just enjoying and celebrating THEIR team instead of viewing every single play as an opportunity to take a dig at visitors.

- I've never seen a fanbase who knew so little about football. Their reaction to plays were so often way off. For example, Ags' ball, 3rd and 27. Johnny scampers for 28 yards and the first down. They'd celebrate the tackle and taunt us. WTF??
Or reverse scenario but their offense would only pick up 26 yards (so stopped short of the first down, and setup a punt). They'd high-five about the nice long 26 (but not 27) yard play.

- They trash their own stadium and grounds. This was one of Johnny's 'final drive miracle finish for the win' games, and once we iced it, their fans couldn't leave the stadium fast enough despite there being a few minutes left. They left behind a sea of empty bottles and cans. So it was like when tceh or LSU come to Kyle Field, but this was in their own stadium. Same scene in The Grove afterwards. Their fans just vanish and leave crap everywhere.

TLDR - Ole Miss fans don't understand the concept of hosting or how football works.

Anyway, have fun!!

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This. The Grove was vastly overrated and did not enjoy having our 10 year old son being heckled by frat dudes while we tried to take in the campus. We missed the entire 3rd quarter standing in line for the trough style restroom. Concessions were being handled by local high school kids trying to get volunteer hours...

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Based on my experience the last couple of times I've gone to a concession stand at Kyle Field, this sounds like an enormous improvement. Any way we can get their high school kids bussed down here for games??

Ghost91 said:

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OilFieldIRI said:

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Ghost91 said:

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When we went in 2012 or 2013(?) - Johnny's last season, we were in some lower first deck corner. Couldn't tell you if it was NE or not. Main scoreboard was at the opposite end, I think.

A few notes:
- Wasn't as impressed by The Grove as I thought I'd be. Neat to see how dressed up their chicks get and how they have chandeliers hanging in EZ-Up Pop-Up tents, but I couldn't get over how they are CRAMMED in so close together. Most of them bungee the legs of their EZ-Up to their neighbors', so there's not even an inch between each tailgate. And they aren't allowed to cook there, so everyone brings in food that's already been cooked via ice chests. Weird not to see & smell grills outside a stadium on a college football Saturday.

- Crappy fan base. It took me awhile to put my finger on it, but after we'd been wandering around The Grove for an hour or so hoping to be invited to have a drink and a scoop of lukewarm food by one of the locals (unsuccessfully), my wife finally described it perfectly - "It's like we're not even here…not a single person has made eye contact, or nodded, or done anything that normal social cues would suggest". Once she said that, I realized that was exactly what it was. They don't look at you, or when they accidentally do, it's like they're looking THROUGH you. Like a country club vibe, but trashy. I guess that's better than being screamed and cussed at a la Baylor or tceh, but geez. Some of our best memories from Aggie home game tailgates is offering total strangers beer and bbq and talking.

- One of the girls in our group got dehydrated and badly needed water. Thought she was gonna pass out. I spotted a tailgate with an open ice chest and bottles of water, so I politely asked the woman there if our sick friend could have a bottle. She looked at me as if I repulsed her and actually seemed to ponder the question (as if I'd asked her for money or something) before finally reaching in and grabbing a bottle.
But then get this - in one fluid motion, she turned back to her tailgate friends and resumed talking while THROWING the water bottle back over her shoulder in our general direction. I had to move quick to catch it. She couldn't just hand it to me, smile, say something like "Hope she feels better". Nah. Just lob it vaguely towards us and go back to being an ass.
That interaction perfectly summed up The Grove for us.

- However once the game starts, their fans suddenly DO notice you, and they take great delight in taunting visitors. They were of course sitting in other sections around us, and I couldn't believe the efforts they went through to get our attention just so they could be jerks - craning their necks, waving at us wildly so that when we'd look over they could make faces at us or show us their middle finger or whatever. Even the adults. Again, weird. Or maybe 'sad' is more fitting.
Seemed to have no concept of just enjoying and celebrating THEIR team instead of viewing every single play as an opportunity to take a dig at visitors.

- I've never seen a fanbase who knew so little about football. Their reaction to plays were so often way off. For example, Ags' ball, 3rd and 27. Johnny scampers for 28 yards and the first down. They'd celebrate the tackle and taunt us. WTF??
Or reverse scenario but their offense would only pick up 26 yards (so stopped short of the first down, and setup a punt). They'd high-five about the nice long 26 (but not 27) yard play.

- They trash their own stadium and grounds. This was one of Johnny's 'final drive miracle finish for the win' games, and once we iced it, their fans couldn't leave the stadium fast enough despite there being a few minutes left. They left behind a sea of empty bottles and cans. So it was like when tceh or LSU come to Kyle Field, but this was in their own stadium. Same scene in The Grove afterwards. Their fans just vanish and leave crap everywhere.

TLDR - Ole Miss fans don't understand the concept of hosting or how football works.

Anyway, have fun!!

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This. The Grove was vastly overrated and did not enjoy having our 10 year old son being heckled by frat dudes while we tried to take in the campus. We missed the entire 3rd quarter standing in line for the trough style restroom. Concessions were being handled by local high school kids trying to get volunteer hours...

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Based on my experience the last couple of times I've gone to a concession stand at Kyle Field, this sounds like an enormous improvement. Any way we can get their high school kids bussed down here for games??

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It might sound like an improvement but it's not. Trust me.