All Good Things Must Come To An End

Meaghan Snell

For many students, Saturday’s Ole Miss vs. LSU game will be the last season game to attend at Ole Miss this year. However, for seniors it is much more than that. It is the last game they will ever attend as students in Vaught-Hemmingway Stadium, sitting in the beloved student section.

“I’m feeling a lot of emotions, but I am definitely sad,” said senior journalism student Allison Thomas. “I’ve spent four years of my life sitting in the student section cheering on my Rebs, win or lose.”

Football has become a Saturday routine for many seniors, from picking out the perfect game day dress to show off at the Grove, to getting it completely soaked with the endless drink showers after a touchdown, but what is it that Thomas will miss most of all?

“It is definitely the energy,” she said. “All the students are there each week for the same reason, and everyone shares the same feelings. One minute you’re mad about the same plays, and the next minute you’re turning around to high five some random guy you don’t even know.”

Meaghan Snell said “I cannot believe this is my last game. I never thought the day would come.”

The student section isn’t the only place memories were made. Ole Miss Football recruiting assistant and senior “Golden Girl” Meaghan Snell will spend her last game as she has many others, on the field.

Snell said it felt like just yesterday she stressed about her outfit for the first game and walking out onto the field during warm-ups.

“I cannot believe this is my last game,” she said. “I never thought the day would come. It’s so unreal. One thing I know, no matter the outcome of the game I can tell you there will be plenty of tears, but I wouldn’t want to spend my last game day as a Rebel any other way than as a ‘Golden Girl.’”

There have been a lot of first times, and memories made for both Snell and Thomas, but on Saturday, both girls will attend their first-ever last game as Ole Miss students in Vaught-Hemmingway Stadium. Before that, Snell gives a little piece of advice to younger Ole Miss students.

“Never, I mean never miss a game day,” she said. “Whether you’re spending it in the Grove, locking the Vaught, as an athlete or as a worker, never pass one up. These four years fly by and the memories made in that stadium will always be with you.”

Victoria Lanza is a senior broadcast journalism major at the Meek School of Journalism and New Media. She can be reached at vglanza@go.olemiss.edu.