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MrNubbz

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Re: Urban to Tejas?
« Reply #140 on: November 30, 2020, 09:29:53 AM »
Quote from: bayareabadger on November 29, 2020, 10:25:54 PM

Shoot, UF's coach now looks pretty good, and he was a big-game loser who seems to piss off everyone who meets him.
Dan Mullen?Never heard that and seemed decent enough when I've seen him interviewed
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Re: Urban to Tejas?
« Reply #141 on: November 30, 2020, 09:41:05 AM »
Quote from: MrNubbz on November 30, 2020, 09:29:53 AM
Dan Mullen?Never heard that and seemed decent enough when I've seen him interviewed
He had some hideous record against high-level teams in Mississippi. It wasn't a totally fair standard, but it's one fans apply often. 

And yeah. He basically lost the Miami job because he came off so pompous, which was bad for him and Miami in retrospect. This year he started that brawl and then did the postgame in a Halloween costume. (I kind of like the public persona, but I don't have to work with him)
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Re: Urban to Tejas?
« Reply #142 on: November 30, 2020, 02:38:56 PM »
Quote from: bayareabadger on November 30, 2020, 09:41:05 AM
And yeah. He basically lost the Miami job because he came off so pompous, which was bad for him and Miami in retrospect. 
Was he in line for the Canes job and blew it somehow?
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Re: Urban to Tejas?
« Reply #143 on: November 30, 2020, 02:41:35 PM »
Quote from: MrNubbz on November 30, 2020, 02:38:56 PM
Was he in line for the Canes job and blew it somehow?
He interviewed for it at some point at reportedly came off just terribly in a personal setting. 
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Re: Urban to Tejas?
« Reply #144 on: November 30, 2020, 03:04:33 PM »
Well after Steve Superior,Urban Legend and a few posers perhaps that's mandated in G'Ville
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Re: Urban to Tejas?
« Reply #145 on: November 30, 2020, 06:46:48 PM »
Quote from: Mdot21 on November 27, 2020, 05:17:04 PM
Texas boards reporting Hermann is finished. One guy they all seem to be clamoring for: Urban.

Urban would make his Florida/OSU powerhouse teams look like light weights if he landed in Austin imo. Austin is a way nicer college town/city than either of those cities, no offense- and quite frankly he'd be able to get whoever the F he wanted out of Texas and California and then go take top kids from Florida, Georgia, Carolinas, and everywhere else like he's always done.


Is everybody saying Austin is great based on saying it for going on thirty years now? Austin isn't even Texas anymore given how many outsiders have moved in and demanded things how they are from wherever they moved from. And I wouldn't even consider Austin a college town anymore, sort've like Minneapolis isn't really a college town despite the presence of U-Minnesota. Too many other interests compete for Austin's identity, such as its no-longer-quiet state capitol politics, not to mention the many festivals and celebrations that have taken root in Austin that have nothing to do with UT.

TL; DR: Austin is growing/changing way too fast to count on Austin still being the "nice college town" anymore.
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« Reply #146 on: November 30, 2020, 06:49:14 PM »
Austin is a terrible cesspool and nobody should ever move here.

Except Urban Meyer of course.
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« Reply #147 on: November 30, 2020, 06:55:16 PM »
Historically, has Austin been a "college town"? 

I feel like Minneapolis was never really a "college town", despite UM being there. Just like Nashville isn't a "college town" despite Vandy being there, or Louisville not being a "college town" despite UL being there. 

But then you've got places like Madison, which is the capitol and it's a college town, and having been there many times, I'm not sure what else it has? So I might almost call Madison a "college town"... 
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« Reply #148 on: November 30, 2020, 07:00:28 PM »
Austin is not at all a college town, and really has never been one, in the sense that College Station, Texas, is.  Texas A&M is the only thing happening in Bryan/College Station.  Every single thing revolves around the college there.

As pointed out, there's a lot of stuff going on in Austin.

But I'm not sure that MDot really meant it that way, anyway.  I think he was just referring to Austin as a town with a college in it, because he also used the term "city", and I think that Catsby expounding on all of the other stuff to do in Austin actually supports MDot's point about how Austin can be viewed as a more interesting and more desirable place to be-- especially for a grown adult, rather than a student.

But still, Austin sucks and nobody should ever move here.

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« Reply #149 on: November 30, 2020, 07:04:21 PM »
Thanks. That's kinda what I thought. It's not what I would call a "college town" today, but I wasn't sure if it was 30 years ago.

Whereas West Lafayette is a college town, and it's sibling across the river, Lafayette, is a dying rust belt industrial town. So literally there's almost nothing other than Purdue there, and thus it's truly a "college town".
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« Reply #150 on: November 30, 2020, 07:15:26 PM »
Quote from: bwarbiany on November 30, 2020, 07:04:21 PM
Thanks. That's kinda what I thought. It's not what I would call a "college town" today, but I wasn't sure if it was 30 years ago.

Whereas West Lafayette is a college town, and it's sibling across the river, Lafayette, is a dying rust belt industrial town. So literally there's almost nothing other than Purdue there, and thus it's truly a "college town".

For sure, that's what I think of when talking about a "college town" with no other context.  Lubbock is a college town for Texas Tech.  Waco is sort of a college town for Baylor.  Houston and Dallas and Austin are not college towns, despite having multiple colleges associated with them.

30 years ago-- when I attended UT-- Austin was still not what I'd consider a college town.  But it definitely had sections that had a "college scene" that was independent from the rest of the city.  Bar districts and shopping districts that were (relatively) close to campus and were primarily students. 

60 years ago, when my parents attended UT-- the population was 186,000, so still probably not a college town, though I'm sure it had a VERY college-y vibe.  Far moreso than it does now.
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Re: Urban to Tejas?
« Reply #151 on: November 30, 2020, 07:24:04 PM »
Damn right.

No one would think of Atlanta as a "college town" because Tech is here.  Austin isn't as big and UT is larger, but I think it's well over the line.

A college town caters to students and would dry up and blow away without students.  Knoxville, TN is not a college town for me, nor is Nashville.  Chapel Hill surprised me with how small it is, definite college town.

Columbus, OH?  Nope.  You can live your life without noticing a student there.
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Re: Urban to Tejas?
« Reply #152 on: November 30, 2020, 07:30:35 PM »
I'm a little surprised to hear that about Knoxville. Granted, I've never been there, but as a college football fan I've never heard Knoxville discussed in ANY other context than related to the Vols. 

I assume Athens is hardcore college town?
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Re: Urban to Tejas?
« Reply #153 on: November 30, 2020, 07:54:21 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on November 30, 2020, 07:15:26 PM
For sure, that's what I think of when talking about a "college town" with no other context.  Lubbock is a college town for Texas Tech.  Waco is sort of a college town for Baylor.  Houston and Dallas and Austin are not college towns, despite having multiple colleges associated with them.

30 years ago-- when I attended UT-- Austin was still not what I'd consider a college town.  But it definitely had sections that had a "college scene" that was independent from the rest of the city.  Bar districts and shopping districts that were (relatively) close to campus and were primarily students.

60 years ago, when my parents attended UT-- the population was 186,000, so still probably not a college town, though I'm sure it had a VERY college-y vibe.  Far moreso than it does now.

By this definition, Madison is not a college town. Shoot, Eugene might not be a college town.

Might I offer another definition? Let's use football as a bellwether. If there's a home football game, can you get around much of the town on a Saturday and not know there's a game happening? Like, if I'm in Madison and it's game day, I have to alter the way I get around the place. I think that's true in a lot of Southern college towns, not in Minneapolis. 

Maybe Austin is so big that's not the case. I dunno. I've never been and had not one but TWO excuses to go there fall through. But I know if I ever get a job in tech, I'm coming with my outsider influence, just for you my friend. 
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