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  • creepycoug
    creepycoug Member Posts: 24,082
    edited January 2014
    dnc said:

    this thread fails to deliver

    I disagree. But now I have decided it's time to go shovel dog shit from my backyard, which will prove to be more rewarding I suspect.



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  • Purple_Pills
    Purple_Pills Member Posts: 2,110
    creepycoug said:



    super duper nice try.

    apparently you can't read. apparently words like "relative" elude you. apparently being "near" things is good enough when you want one conclusion, but not being within a "short drive" is not when you want another. Penn State is in the middle of the state, and far away from both major metropolitan locales.

    The Pennsylvania State Fucking University is near the geographic center of a football state with almost 13,000,000 people.

    That's one hell of an advantage. On top of that, many of the adjacent states have decent talent too.

    Population of Pennsylvania - 12,773,801
    Population of WA, OR, & ID - 12,513,607

    PA has 2 big five conference programs competing for that local talent, the PNW has 4. PA shits out football talent like Montana, Marino, and Namath.

    Penn State has a comparative advantage geographically vs. many programs.

    creepycoug said:

    and then there are the other examples. of course, geography matters when you have loads of recruits nearby. a very few schools have that advantage, and Washington is not one of them.

    Washington has decent talent nearby to draw from. It is not a comparative advantage, nor is it a handicap. Luckily Washington is in a popular, thriving city with an intl. airport with a great range of direct flight options minimizing transportation frictions allowing Washington to supplement that talent from other areas. With the future subway, travel frictions will be even less. Getting a PSA, their parents, etc. to campus is pretty darn easy for just about anyone on the west coast and places further away near a major airport.

    creepycoug said:

    Seattle has little or nothing to do with Washington's place in cfb history - whatever that place is - good, bad or otherwise.

    Wrong. Since the west coast was once an outpost due to travel frictions, major professional sports did not exist. Husky Football grew into the giant it is because it was located in a large, growing city without Major League Baseball, etc. Husky Football was pro sports in Seattle. Just ask Hugh McElhenny.
    creepycoug said:

    Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, Atlanta, Philly ... where are the juggernauts? your last answer to this question makes my point and you don't even understand why.

    None of those places have the state's flagship university. If UT was in Dallas, it still would be a super power. Ditto Penn State in Philly or UGA in Atlanta. Georgia Tech has done fine for itself too despite its academics keeping out the coug fucking stupid, which many talented kids out of high school are.
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  • Swaye
    Swaye Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 41,739 Founders Club
    What the fuck is going on here?
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  • oregonblitzkrieg
    oregonblitzkrieg Member Posts: 15,288
    edited January 2014
    Purple_Pills said:

    creepycoug said:



    Apparently, none of you have been to:

    Norman Oklahoma, Happy Valley, PA, Syracuse, NY, Tuscaloosa, AL, College Station, TX, Tallahassee, FL, any place in Kentucky, any place in Arkansas, Lincoln, Nebraska, Manhattan, KS, any place else in the midwest not in the city of Chicago.

    I could go on and on. If there had been a different outcome in this state's history, and the UW had been sited in Olympia and the capital up on homo hill, there would be no difference in Washington's football history. If that same program had gone on runs like Oklahoma has, it would matter not that it was located in Olympia.

    Olympia is Eugene. I've been to both on several occasions. They are the same place save for the UofO and a Federal Courthouse located in one and not the other. Besides that, they are the same place.


    Olympia is also a lot different than Eugene. Being a state capital, huge military area, and bedroom community hugely overshadow the colleges. If Aberdeen or Centralia were a major college town, they could be Eugene like.
    The only similarity I see between Aberdeen and Eugene is that Kurt Cobain was raised in Aberdeen and Courtney Love was raised in Eugene. Aberdeen looks more like Coos Bay, a coastal Oregon town that has very few jobs and small mossy homes.
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  • BiggusDickus
    BiggusDickus Member Posts: 553
    edited January 2014
    Jesus christ this thread has become AuburnDoogFS. The "Iron Laws" are shit, and it remains to be seen if Penn State remains a football school post-Paterno
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