‘Not a great fix right now’: Keith Carter, Ole Miss trying to solve student-section puzzle
Talk of Champions
OMSpirit
4.7 • 677 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Ole Miss athletics director Keith Carter was satisfied with the game-day fan experience and environment for week one against Troy.
For the most part.
Carter and the rest of the Ole Miss administration remain fully aware of the weekly, student-section-sized mind-bender on their hands.
“I thought at kickoff it was really good,” Carter said. “I thought the crowd turned out, the student section turned out. Our marketing team has done a fantastic job over the summer coming up with some really creative and cool things to do. The DJ was really awesome. I thought it was good.
“Obviously we hope the people will stay. In the second half, it was hot, I get it, but we hope that people will stay through the second half and support the team. I feel like there’s a mental hurdle that our team faces when they come out of the locker room at halftime and a lot of the folks have left. We’re really hoping our students will come and stay.
“But I thought it was good for an opener against a non-conference team. It’s interesting the way our schedule works out this year. We have all four of our non-conference games at the beginning of the season. Usually for one of those non-conference games people kind of take it off. We’re hoping everybody shows up (Saturday) and will be there for that one and we’ll keep rolling.
“But I thought overall I thought the environment for week one was really good.”
Carter also covered SEC and College Football Playoff expansion, a potential M-Club Hall of Fame and other renovation projects in the podcast linked below.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Talk of Champions at Ole Miss Spirit podcast with Ben Garrett. |
| 0:06.7 | It's up. It's up. It's not. It's up. This is the talk of Champions Extra. |
| 0:26.2 | I'm Ben Garrett at Spirit. |
| 0:27.6 | Been on Twitter. |
| 0:28.1 | He's Keith Carter, Old Miss Athletics Director. |
| 0:30.5 | Hey, buddy. |
| 0:32.2 | How's it going? |
| 0:33.2 | Good. |
| 0:33.6 | How are you? |
| 0:34.4 | What are you up to? |
| 0:36.4 | Man, just, you know, making it easy, not much going on right now. |
| 0:39.3 | Right. |
| 0:40.3 | Just, you know, staying at home a lot around the pool. |
| 0:43.3 | No, tons going on, obviously, with football. |
| 0:47.3 | You know, it's just when football starts, you know, everything turns on. |
| 0:52.3 | And that's what we do it for. |
| 0:53.3 | It's so much fun. Obviously, we've got |
| 0:55.0 | soccer and volleyball and cross country going as well and, you know, students back in town and our |
| 1:00.8 | kids back in school. So it's just rolling, man. Soccer has its highest ranking ever. They're |
| 1:06.9 | balling out there. They are. They are. They're really good. I got a chance to go watch them play last night, and they were able to be Western Kentucky, really, really good team. |
| 1:17.9 | And, you know, the thing that we talked a lot about in our department, our programs is we've been able to win a national championship the last couple years in two different sports. |
| 1:28.9 | And that's our goal every year now. We want to win national championships. And so, |
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