A family friend has been to every Arkansas game home and away for 40+ years other than 2 games he missed because he was in prison in Mexico he has seen a lot of terrible football
I know Georgia is at a lowly #47 but seems like, or its reported, we have done well giving access to ppl in rural counties. Everyone in-state getting free tuition made that task tough as state's population grew.
my favorite was recently out of college without much money spending a fuckton to watch us get destroyed @ southern cal
im mid 30’s and can remember crying my eyes out at ‘he hooked it left, Florida State wins.’ was also the first year I went to a game. Of course, when you are like 6-7 years old and your team goes 60-3 the next 5 years it’s easy for football season to stick out in your mind. Now I just pray for football amnesia in regards to anything dealing with the Nebraska football team.
Good luck #Kansas Jayhawks #Kansas State Wildcats y’all going to the WAC “K State or KU, I cant remember which has already reached out to the WAC and Iowa State has started talking with the Big 10 from what I heard earlier today on the radio.”
I’ve never been to the state of Alabama. Concerned my joisey accent would not be welcome. I’m sure Birmingham is lovely, but for it to make it into the top ten of metros, it would need to be in a much shittier country. Perhaps Azerbaijan? I hear it has strong economic ties to Oklahoma
A 13 year old poor paul spent almost the entire second half of this game calling my dad from a pay phone at a Christian weekend camp. there were tears. College football is so weird and great when it isn’t just Bama and Clemson and OSU being funneled down our throat in an ESPN set up playoff.
I like Birmingham, but have to agree here. Just off the top of head 10 markets that are probably bigger New York LA Chicago Dallas Houston Miami DC Atlanta Detroit San Fran Also probably missing at least 10 more, Philly, Pitt, etc
I think the OP was “best metros” Having been to philly many times I’ll give Birmingham the edge site unseen
Well if we went Jackson MS although to the Gulf Coast then Southern Miss is primed for TV markets. Puts us in the top 75 We ready
I think they definitely had more flexibility if they weren’t great back then, too. Auburn was on probation a lot. LSU was complete garbage in the 90s. Arkansas and Ole Miss mostly stunk. Miss. State was decent under Sherrill but they’re still Miss. State. Georgia was basically a 6-5 team. South Carolina, Kentucky and Vandy were irrelevant. Tennessee was really good but was usually firewalled by Spurrier. So even when Bama wasn’t great they still were better than most of that group of turds. You can’t slip in the SEC now — if you do, it’s really hard to get back. Tennessee is still trying to figure out what the fuck is going on.
If you had used Georgia, LSU or basically any other SEC school you would have given a plausible argument. You chose poorly.
Hmm, where did Patrick go to college? Let me see, looks like he went—OH MY GOD HE WENT TO MARYLAND, HE’S GOING TO BLOCK TEXAS ISN’T HE??
Perhaps he’ll offer to sacrifice himself again for the economic betterment of those institutions. I can only hope.
My dad's from Jersey. He moved here at 23 after living in Cali for 4~ years post gambling debt to a certain outfit his father was involved in forcing him to relocate. Anyways, the point here is he's thrived and everybody fucking loves the guy, especially the southern women. You'd fit in famously, I'm sure.
Yep, between that and Texas/Oklahoma being shitty/on probation the 1990s was a great time for Michigan in Louisiana/Texas recruiting. We would regularly snatch up four-star type guys from that region until Mack, Saban and Stoops arrived. Now it’s nearly impossible for B1G teams sans OSU to snatch top-tier talent from down there.
No argument from me. For the record, I don't like the idea of separating the schools and I hope you guys land in a better spot than whatever the Big 12 is. Then proceed to lose every game ever.