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bayareabadger

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Re: Urban to Tejas?
« Reply #154 on: November 30, 2020, 07:56:49 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg 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.
This is part of the reason I think the myth of Tech as a potential football sleeping ... maybe giant is too strong, is nothing but a myth. If people in your own city mostly don't care about you, it'll be a tough road (that's a contrast to say Minneapolis which isn't overwhelmingly Gophers, but possesses a strong contingent)
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Re: Urban to Tejas?
« Reply #155 on: November 30, 2020, 08:03:00 PM »
Quote from: CatsbyAZ on November 30, 2020, 06:46:48 PM
Is everybody saying Austin is great based on saying it for going on thirty years now? Austin isn't even Texas anymore 
I'm afraid this is the allure.  :57:
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Re: Urban to Tejas?
« Reply #156 on: November 30, 2020, 08:04:19 PM »
Quote from: bayareabadger on November 30, 2020, 07:56:49 PM
This is part of the reason I think the myth of Tech as a potential football sleeping ... maybe giant is too strong, is nothing but a myth. If people in your own city mostly don't care about you, it'll be a tough road (that's a contrast to say Minneapolis which isn't overwhelmingly Gophers, but possesses a strong contingent)
I lived in the Atlanta area (Marietta). Atlanta is full of Dawg fans, not Tech fans. They're outnumbered in their own city. 
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« Reply #157 on: November 30, 2020, 08:05:33 PM »
Quote from: bayareabadger on November 30, 2020, 07:56:49 PM
This is part of the reason I think the myth of Tech as a potential football sleeping ... maybe giant is too strong, is nothing but a myth. If people in your own city mostly don't care about you, it'll be a tough road (that's a contrast to say Minneapolis which isn't overwhelmingly Gophers, but possesses a strong contingent)
Agreed, I don't feel any big-city team is likely to become great.  But like USC and Miami, IF a program like GT got all the best players within a 50-mile circle of its campus, it'd be a juggernaut.  

Atlanta is the most talented area in the south, outside of FL.  
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Re: Urban to Tejas?
« Reply #158 on: November 30, 2020, 08:13:39 PM »
Quote from: bwarbiany 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.



It is not a huge city, but it is sizable. It seems to me to be the largest city between Cincinnati and Atlanta. It looks a lot bigger than Lexington KY, which I'd guess to be the primary challenger. 
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« Reply #159 on: November 30, 2020, 08:29:59 PM »
Apropos of nothing at all, Tom Herman and Matt Campbell are both 30-18 over their last 48 games.
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Re: Urban to Tejas?
« Reply #160 on: November 30, 2020, 08:32:09 PM »
Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on November 30, 2020, 08:13:39 PM
It is not a huge city, but it is sizable. It seems to me to be the largest city between Cincinnati and Atlanta. It looks a lot bigger than Lexington KY, which I'd guess to be the primary challenger.
I was very surprised at how big Knoxville was.  At least the downtown area LOOKS like a bigger city than the other SEC college towns like Gainesville, Auburn, etc.  
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« Reply #161 on: November 30, 2020, 08:37:13 PM »
Quote from: CWSooner on November 30, 2020, 08:29:59 PM
Apropos of nothing at all, Tom Herman and Matt Campbell are both 30-18 over their last 48 games.
And Tom Herman isn't winless in rivalry games, and has a CCG appearance. 
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« Reply #162 on: November 30, 2020, 08:57:37 PM »
Quote from: CWSooner on November 30, 2020, 08:29:59 PM
Apropos of nothing at all, Tom Herman and Matt Campbell are both 30-18 over their last 48 games.
Matt Campbell is 30-18 at Iowa State. Tom Herman is 30-18 at Texas. There's a huge difference. 
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« Reply #163 on: November 30, 2020, 08:59:45 PM »
Quote from: Mdot21 on November 30, 2020, 08:57:37 PM
Matt Campbell is 30-18 at Iowa State. Tom Herman is 30-18 at Texas. There's a huge difference.
Yep.
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Re: Urban to Tejas?
« Reply #164 on: November 30, 2020, 10:25:53 PM »
Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on November 30, 2020, 08:37:13 PM
And Tom Herman isn't winless in rivalry games, and has a CCG appearance.
And one of those things is weeks from being untrue.
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Re: Urban to Tejas?
« Reply #165 on: November 30, 2020, 10:46:18 PM »
Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on November 30, 2020, 08:37:13 PM
And Tom Herman isn't winless in rivalry games, and has a CCG appearance.
Did Campbell leave your wife at the alter?Would you like to revisit your"Toledo's loaded" statement?So he lost a couple close contests to Kirk,he's still punching above his weight.Kirk has lost to his fair share of schmucks,hell evenURZ lost to Purdue and Iowa if ya wanna be picky.Mack Brown lost to the Sooners 5 of the 1st Seven times he coached against them but still won an NC,SMDH
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Re: Urban to Tejas?
« Reply #166 on: November 30, 2020, 10:56:26 PM »
Quote from: Mdot21 on November 30, 2020, 08:57:37 PM
Matt Campbell is 30-18 at Iowa State. Tom Herman is 30-18 at Texas. There's a huge difference.
If Day bolted for Sundays I'd have no problem with MC
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Re: Urban to Tejas?
« Reply #167 on: November 30, 2020, 11:10:48 PM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on November 30, 2020, 08:05:33 PM
Agreed, I don't feel any big-city team is likely to become great.  But like USC and Miami, IF a program like GT got all the best players within a 50-mile circle of its campus, it'd be a juggernaut. 

Atlanta is the most talented area in the south, outside of FL. 
I don't totally agree with that, but I think Tech and those other two have one big difference.

Miami and LA can bandwagon on their teams. USC can generate buzz. Miami, could get good enough to sell out that NFL stadium. 

Tech is a nerd school with hardly a neighborhood in the metro that has more Tech fans than UGA fans. Even if Miami nominally doesn't care about the 'Canes (probably), that interest far outweighs the paltry following of Tech. (Plus Tech's academics make it a challenge on a number of levels)
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