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Noble Thomas De-Commits
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Now, calm down. I and all Ohioans can be Midwesterners if we want. Honestly I have not ever talked to an ohioan who didnt consider Ohio a midwestern state. So there! Part of the plan.
Damn Cyber, I was in that class too! Been a ref ever since (but took a hiatus for awhile due to business travel). I always thought Gary was a hell of a good guy. He was also the evaluator of officials for Big 8 women's basketball so I would see him at the women's games critiquing the officials.
I reffed for 15 years…been run out of most small towns in Iowa!…but work travel made it hard to keep my partner
I totally agree. In an attempt to find that "right" place to retire, I've observed weather for years. What living in the mid-south really means is trading your coldest months for hotter ones. No one is a fan of 100 degree weather, but it still sucks far less than zero. I'll gladly trade zero for 100.
In regards to the MN vs. IA vs. MO, most of the time there is not a drastic difference...maybe 3-5 degrees in Iowa vs. either. BUT....when the fronts come through, the cold generally doesn't reach nearly as far south and the warmth as far north. It is at those times we see the 15-30 degree temp differences and makes it exponentially more brutal as you head north.
For anyone wondering why Iowa is a great place to live, it's the people. If it were the weather, everyone would have left by now!
It’s like someone defined Ohio as “Midwest” sometime around 1820, then it became The Immovable Regional Object.
This is how I’d loosely define parameters to qualify as a Midwest state:
1. Majority of state is in Central time zone.
2. State abuts or contains at least one of Mississippi/Missouri rivers.
3. In Union state territory, geographically (Missouri accepted, partly due to name-of-river thing).
Fringe qualifier: Extreme Northwest Indiana, which is not the name of a state at all.
Side note: I promise not to use the word “abut” for the remainder of today.
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SIAP but Noble Thomas now has a Composite Rating - #87 CB and #882 Overall. That gives the class 8 top 1000 guys. For reference, 2020 had 12, 2019 had 9, 2018 had 10.
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Noble Thomas, Oregon State Beavers, Cornerback
2020: Daytona Beach News-Journal's Volusia-Flagler All-Area first-team selection. Targeted 24 times in coverage. Broke up eight passes and picked off two more....
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Indiana is 100% Midwest. To me, Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana are the most Midwest States. All the others are on the fringe and could be argued as something else.
I've lived in Indiana for the last 8 years. If Indiana isn't Midwest then Iowa certainly isn't. There's hardly any difference in everyday life.
I lived in Indiana for 8 years. Indiana definitely isn’t the Midwest. Indiana is just colder Kentucky, and Kentucky sure as hell isn’t the Midwest.
I just hate that Indiana thinks they are good enough to be in the Eastern time zone. No they should be central like the rest of us.
I unaffectionately call Indiana the middle finger of the south. I'd say the bigger problem is that Iowa is becoming just as ****** as Indiana/Kentucky than we'd like to admit.
**** I hate the eastern timezone here. The sun sets after 10pm in the summer.
This might be the "real" definition of the midwest but my perception of the midwest is to remove Ohio, the lower peninsula of Michigan, and the southern half of Missouri and keep the rest of this map.
Probably created by a bunch of people that have never set foot in the actual Midwest.
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