Biggest Rush Mistakes at any institution

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by sasquatch

I think everything has been covered as far as this mini-debate goes, so I'm just gonna say this: If you go to an SEC school, then you probably get what I'm talking about. If you don't go to an SEC school (even if it is in the South), you probably don't get it and if you don't get it right away then you never will. I just realized it's pointless to keep arguing about all this South/North stuff because one side will always be "right". I think you look like an idiot in your faded designer jeans and your ugly striped untucked button down with frankenstein square shoes. You think I look like an idiot in my khakis, oxford and loafers.

Way to overgeneralize and miss the point there. I don't think you look like an idiot, although your posts sure don't help the perception that you act like one.

I didn't go to an SEC school, but having lived in the South longer than you've been alive, I do get it. Better than you, I bet. I also get that there is a lot more to the South than the SEC.

[sasquatch]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

I also get that there is a lot more to the South than the SEC.

You're exactly right. There's also SEC football and bourbon.

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by sasquatch

You're exactly right. There's also SEC football and bourbon.

Should this be follow up with a "Praise God"? It sort of seems like it should.

From a fraternity rush perspective, I think there are more similarities across the SEC than there are differences about what would be acceptable dress.

If people in other regions find that boring or impractical, that's just fine. Other than on online chat boards, I doubt the guys down here give it much thought or discussion.

MysticCat, I agree with there being a lot of difference across the south generally in Southern culture, but I'm not sure there's that big a difference in what fraternity chapters expect in dress. And it's a area where you probably ought to err on the side of being boring and predictable, at least until you are initiated.

It might be interesting if we could look at pictures of chapters, other than composites, to see. I think decade in, decade out, in the SEC it's a field of khakis/chinos, navy blue sport coats, and button downs for rush. But maybe I'd be surprised.