re: "Saturday's Ole Miss at LSU game could be a classic ... for those who stay "

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I absolutely believed that if half the people who left had stayed, Mississippi State would have been a classic. Instead, it was a near-classic.

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I do not understand such logic.



If one is to believe that crowd numbers greatly influence the outcome of a game ... then it would seem like when the stadium was full, we were getting our asses kicked, and then once the stadium emptied considerably, the "comeback" occurred ... one could conclude that even less fans in the stands would have sealed the miraculous comeback.



I tend to think that we lost to Miss St. because they were considerably better on that day ... and the final score did not really indicate what happened on the field...i.e. an arse-kicking.

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I absolutely believed that if half the people who left had stayed, Mississippi State would have been a classic. Instead, it was a near-classic.

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While it would have been nice to have the whole crowd there at the end (what few of us were left still made a good bit of noise), I think it's a stretch to say that it would have made a difference. Save recovering an onside kick or completing a hail mary, our team did about as much as it could to win that game at the end, and I'm not sure more noise would have made it any better.

Still, it's a good thought. The stadium would have been absolute bedlam in that last couple of minutes if the whole crowd had still been there.