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Topic: Texas and OU to where?!?!

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CWSooner

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Re: Texas and OU to where?!?!
« Reply #532 on: August 09, 2021, 04:54:13 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on August 09, 2021, 02:00:33 PM
Yup that one looks more correct.

Here's an interesting one, of the "Closest P5 stadium to every county in the USA."


Some interesting quirks there.  U-Dub owns Alaska.  Stanford owns Hawaii.  Texas Tech owns most of New Mexico.  Colorado's territory goes almost to Canada.
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Re: Texas and OU to where?!?!
« Reply #533 on: August 09, 2021, 04:55:34 PM »
Quote from: CWSooner on August 09, 2021, 04:54:13 PM
Some interesting quirks there.  U-Dub owns Alaska.  Stanford owns Hawaii.  Texas Tech owns most of New Mexico.  Colorado's territory goes almost to Canada.
Yeah I thought there were some fun surprises in there, too.

Also, it makes it kind of obvious which current remaining B12 teams would make the most sense in the PAC, from a purely geographical standpoint.
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Re: Texas and OU to where?!?!
« Reply #534 on: August 09, 2021, 05:32:59 PM »
Quote from: CWSooner on August 09, 2021, 04:54:13 PM
Some interesting quirks there.  U-Dub owns Alaska.  Stanford owns Hawaii.  Texas Tech owns most of New Mexico.  Colorado's territory goes almost to Canada.
Quote from: utee94 on August 09, 2021, 04:55:34 PM
Yeah I thought there were some fun surprises in there, too.

Also, it makes it kind of obvious which current remaining B12 teams would make the most sense in the PAC, from a purely geographical standpoint.

Y'all are reading this correctly, right? 

This is PURELY based on proximity. I.e. Washington is the most geographically northwest stadium in the country, so Alaska is closer to UW than anyone else. Has nothing to do with fandom. Same with Stanford and Hawaii. 

So these teams don't "own" those areas from a fan standpoint, only from a proximity standpoint. Do we really think Alaskans are rabid Huskie fans? Do we think Montanans are rabid Cougar fans? 

And I don't think it says anything about which B12 teams make the most sense in the PAC, because even though Texas Tech is the closest P5 stadium to a LOT of counties in West Texas and New Mexico, it doesn't mean they dominate the fans in those areas. Or, quite frankly, that anything other than steers and #&$@# live in those counties. 
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Re: Texas and OU to where?!?!
« Reply #535 on: August 09, 2021, 05:34:07 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on August 09, 2021, 04:55:34 PM
Yeah I thought there were some fun surprises in there, too.

Also, it makes it kind of obvious which current remaining B12 teams would make the most sense in the PAC, from a purely geographical standpoint.
From purely that standpoint, Texas Tech (the school that own most of New Mexico) and TCU.
Other criteria would argue against TCU going to the Pac, however.
Unless they change their name to Texas Agnostic University.
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Re: Texas and OU to where?!?!
« Reply #536 on: August 09, 2021, 05:35:44 PM »
Quote from: betarhoalphadelta on August 09, 2021, 05:32:59 PM
Y'all are reading this correctly, right?

This is PURELY based on proximity. I.e. Washington is the most geographically northwest stadium in the country, so Alaska is closer to UW than anyone else. Has nothing to do with fandom. Same with Stanford and Hawaii.

So these teams don't "own" those areas from a fan standpoint, only from a proximity standpoint. Do we really think Alaskans are rabid Huskie fans? Do we think Montanans are rabid Cougar fans?

And I don't think it says anything about which B12 teams make the most sense in the PAC, because even though Texas Tech is the closest P5 stadium to a LOT of counties in West Texas and New Mexico, it doesn't mean they dominate the fans in those areas. Or, quite frankly, that anything other than steers and #&$@# live in those counties.
Sure!  If we were talking about fandom, we'd be talking about the NYT map.
I should have put quotation marks around "owns" in my post.
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Re: Texas and OU to where?!?!
« Reply #537 on: August 09, 2021, 06:14:06 PM »
Quote from: betarhoalphadelta on August 09, 2021, 05:32:59 PM
Y'all are reading this correctly, right?

This is PURELY based on proximity. I.e. Washington is the most geographically northwest stadium in the country, so Alaska is closer to UW than anyone else. Has nothing to do with fandom. Same with Stanford and Hawaii.

So these teams don't "own" those areas from a fan standpoint, only from a proximity standpoint. Do we really think Alaskans are rabid Huskie fans? Do we think Montanans are rabid Cougar fans?

And I don't think it says anything about which B12 teams make the most sense in the PAC, because even though Texas Tech is the closest P5 stadium to a LOT of counties in West Texas and New Mexico, it doesn't mean they dominate the fans in those areas. Or, quite frankly, that anything other than steers and #&$@# live in those counties.

Yeah, I knew what it was when I posted it. Not sure how you misunderstood my posts?  I pretty clearly stated "from a purely geographical standpoint" in one of them.

I think it's quirky the way CU-Boulder is geographically the most proximal to some counties almost in Canada.  And I think it's quirky how TTU-Lubbock is geographically the most proximal to a large part of New Mexico (no P5s in New Mexico so it gets divvied up by schools from other states).  And how Minnesota spans much of the upper portion of the contry.

Nothing more, nothing less, than that.
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Re: Texas and OU to where?!?!
« Reply #538 on: August 09, 2021, 06:29:28 PM »
Got it, guys... I thought y'all were taking the map seriously. 

My mistake ;-) 
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Re: Texas and OU to where?!?!
« Reply #539 on: August 09, 2021, 06:30:37 PM »
all those maps are silly
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Re: Texas and OU to where?!?!
« Reply #540 on: August 09, 2021, 06:54:06 PM »
Quote from: betarhoalphadelta on August 09, 2021, 06:29:28 PM
Got it, guys... I thought y'all were taking the map seriously.

My mistake ;-)
No, you must apologize for such an egregious error!

Now the NYT map seems like it's supposed to be a measure of fan favoritism by geo, but  maps like that are often pretty suspect in their methodology.
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Re: Texas and OU to where?!?!
« Reply #541 on: August 09, 2021, 07:06:44 PM »
How could USC possibly not be the closest school to their own county? Does their stadium hoover above the ground? 
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Re: Texas and OU to where?!?!
« Reply #542 on: August 09, 2021, 07:37:49 PM »
silliness
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Re: Texas and OU to where?!?!
« Reply #543 on: August 09, 2021, 08:51:53 PM »
Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on August 09, 2021, 07:06:44 PM
How could USC possibly not be the closest school to their own county? Does their stadium hoover above the ground?
Tie-breaker goes to the bigger school?
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Re: Texas and OU to where?!?!
« Reply #544 on: August 09, 2021, 09:11:46 PM »
Quote from: CWSooner on August 09, 2021, 08:51:53 PM
Tie-breaker goes to the bigger school?
UCLA maybe is closer to the geographic center of the county?
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Re: Texas and OU to where?!?!
« Reply #545 on: August 09, 2021, 10:29:21 PM »
It should be a tie. Some diagonal striping instead of a solid fill. 
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