Are you serious? LA is god awful. Pullman, WA makes Ames looks cosmopolitan. Tucson is nasty. The Oregon schools are pretty much like midwestern college towns.
I'm not sure where this sexy perception of the Pac comes from.
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Are you serious? LA is god awful. Pullman, WA makes Ames looks cosmopolitan. Tucson is nasty. The Oregon schools are pretty much like midwestern college towns.
I'm not sure where this sexy perception of the Pac comes from.
They are like a late night infomercial. Everything looks better when it's late at night and your brain isn't working.
When everyone thinks of the Pac-12 sexiness they actually think of Pepperdine. I'm being serious about that.
Not that I am saying I'd prefer being in the PAC but Id take going to the Pacific Northwest on a trip any day over any single town in the Big12. Beautiful country-I could give a crap about the city the schools occupy.
LA would be fun. ASU would be fun. Arizona would at least be warm. Oregon,OSU u could make into a nice vacation (I love fly fishing) Berkley would be nice. Standford would be nice. All seem like nice vacation areas.
I guess I was thinking about making it into a more 'outdoors' vacation.
Have you actually been to any of these cities/towns?
I live in Seattle, and Seattle is out-freaking-standing. Love it.
Pullman is like a midwestern college town, as is Corvalis. If you like Ames, there's no reason to hate on these two towns.
LA is fun to visit - just spent a long weekend there a short time ago. Even if it isn't your thing, if you can't enjoy yourself there for a weekend, I think that is on you.
Went to the ISU-Cal bb game, and really liked Berkeley. Fun town, lots going on. And San Francisco is just a short BART ride away. Same for Stanford.
Tempe/Phoenix - sort of a generic big city, from what I've seen. But again, if you can't enjoy yourself there for a weekend, I think that says more about you.
Tucson - never been there, but Calexico and some other great bands live there, so it can't be all bad. And a close friend of mine - who's travelled around the world - calls it her dream city. She's a romantic like that.
Eugene - never been there. But I have a negative impression. So I'll give you that one.
Thats more what I think of when I think of Lubbock,Waco, Lawrence, Stillwater, Ames, Manhattan...
LA is hell on earth. It is without peer the worst place I've ever been.
I agree that the Pacific Northwest is a nice area naturally, but if I'm going to a road game, it's not a week long vacation. It's getting in on Friday night and coming home on Sunday. Most of the time will be spent in that town.
I guess what I'm saying is that if I'm just going on vacation, I could see vacationing in that area, but not wouldn't have a particular hard on for a weekend trip.
Al:
Aren't you a Mitchell County kid? If you can stomach McIntire - nothing against it, have had a lot of fun there - I think you will be fine in any Pac town. Take on some of Klosterman's sense of adventure.
Aren't you a Mitchell County kid? If you can stomach McIntire - nothing against it, have had a lot of fun there - I think you will be fine in any Pac town. Take on some of Klosterman's sense of adventure.
Yeah, this is not about making a list of best places to live.
What places best facilitate enjoying a weekend of activities centered around watching college football?
I thought this line from the link to the Louisville paper in the link CW provided was interesting. He is talking about the Big Tweast at this point:
Conference expansion: Now what for Louisville, Big East? | Eric Crawford
None of these schools, by the way, should view any such arrangement as permanent. There is no way that 16-team "super conferences" are going to last in the long run. If the leagues don’t like sharing the revenue in the current arrangement, they’re not going to enjoy splitting it 16 ways.
Conference expansion: Now what for Louisville, Big East? | Eric Crawford
None of these schools, by the way, should view any such arrangement as permanent. There is no way that 16-team "super conferences" are going to last in the long run. If the leagues don’t like sharing the revenue in the current arrangement, they’re not going to enjoy splitting it 16 ways.
http://www.big12sports.com/fls/1041...k.pdf?SPSID=106746&SPID=13138&DB_OEM_ID=10410
This is a link to the Big 12 by-laws. From reading it, I think that it takes 8 teams to dissolve the conference, but not 100% sure of that. So even if MU left for SEC, conference would still exist and we could share 6 teams exit fees.
This is a link to the Big 12 by-laws. From reading it, I think that it takes 8 teams to dissolve the conference, but not 100% sure of that. So even if MU left for SEC, conference would still exist and we could share 6 teams exit fees.
While I don't agree that LA is the worst place ever, it is a horrible place to spend a weekend focused around watching college football. Might as well just tailgate on the freeway, since you'll be spending about 4 hours getting to the stadium and another four to get back to the hotel or out anywhere.
I agree, and I would take a Midwestern/Southern college town over the Bay area every time. I did enjoy my one trip to UW, and I imagine the other NW schools would be nice, but not any better than several Big 12 schools and way less feasible.
I've read this as well, but my very-non legal understanding is it would take 6 to vote to dissolve since it would be a majority vote which would take 6 given 10 members.
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