Ole Miss gets Gay

I agree. Especially for undergrad, I think you make your experience what you want. At times as a MICHIGAN student I felt compelled to study when I maybe didn't want to, but because everyone else was. Then there were those friends/fellow students who did nothing but talk about how much work they had and how hard they studied and you'd think, whatever ...we're all fucking smart here. But if you're at Mississippi State (I know, not Ole Miss ..I know a lot of Bulldogs) student and nobody gives a shit about going to class, you're going to skip too. Hackey Sack or Fris on the Diag was always an option during the last three weeks of class, but that's another thing ....when the weather sucks in the winter, why not stay inside and study??? Takes a lot of discipline to 4.0 at San Diego State!

most of the colleges that aren't 'elite' for undergrad do things that seriously undermine your claim, like allowing high school kids to enroll, and half of the lecture will be empty. This forces the exams to be made easier and it's just a remedial trickle down effect. Most the kids who go to Michigan would just be wasting their time at such places, unless it's a program they naturally struggle with

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for just one night. Set him on fire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

Fetching coeds- coeds so dog ugly they play fetch when you throw a stick?

Thank for your the lucid and gracious thoughts.  This place is starting to sound like the Red Cedar Message Board.  The fact is that there are places all over -- north, south, east, and west -- that have charm and are doing some pretty cool things.  Yes, Oxford, MS is one of them.  If you don't think the whole Grove thing on a Saturday is pretty compelling stuff then, well, you should be on RCMB.

Yes, but on the other hand, when you been caught cheating over and over, don't be surprised if your reputation suffers.  Some of these schools -- Ole Miss at the top of the list -- deserve the scorn they get when a 5-star from Illinois flashes their cash.  But there are other Southern schools that have records that I believe are just as good as ours.  I hate it when I mention Michigan and someone says, "Oh, that's because you pay your players!"  Where is the shred of evidence for that?  But the same is true for Georgia, Clemson, and others.  Some of these schools don't need to cheat to get top recruits.  I just took my son for his freshman orientation at Clemson.  If we had seen that campus, etc., half of Bursley Hall my freshman year would have transfered there by mid-January.  So, I agree, not everybody is cheating down South.  But those who are deserve the suspicion they get.