Oh save it. You really think the average fan of an SEC school or Big XII school isnt willfully blind in the same ways? You really think they aren't on their boards wondering why the Big XII wants a school from Yukon/Alaska is or making jokes at our expense?
Well, let's hope it doesn't make 1000! I am so ready to have a decent conference home so that we can climb off the conference realignment merry go round.
The Beavs are a good team now, but have a pretty mediocre history with fits of pretty goodness sandwiched between years of futility. their record since 2003 (the start of the Mike Reilly years) that is remarkably similar to UConn's...and Reser is smaller than the Rent, which I heard was a key factor.
I lived in Oregon 25 years. Worked in Corvallis area for 10 of them. Oregon State has nowhere near the cache of Oregon but there is support. They used to have a decent basketball tradition 70's-80's with Gary Payton I think the big standout. It felt like a Mets/Yankees kind of rivalry where the beaver fans would rise up in a good year. There were OSU fans, but they were all kind of contrarians. I saw more UW fans in Oregon than OSU in a lot of places.
A.C. Green was great, and also really conservative, the original 40-year old virgin. While at Oregon State he organized a protest against Playboy magazine, and whenever he shot free throws at an away game the opposing fans would hold up centerfolds behind the basket.
Miami, Notre Dame, and ASU got in, but somehow not UConn... pretty bad we haven't be able to find a way to make that work. Would really supercharge meaningless rumors.If we get into B12, then speculation will move to B10
Many people in the northeast call the majority of the country fly over country and then go down the ugly path of hurling insults at large swaths of the country as toothless sister schtupers. I miss some things about the northeast but I certainly don't miss that stuff.
True. The minute I sent the post I thought of you. OSU has always had great fan support for football. Nobody outside of Arizona in the PAC super supports basketball but I really like Gill Coliseum.
I was lucky enough to attend the Tennessee-Alabama game last year. Great game, possibly the game of the year in CFB.
Yeah, we ain't doing our own cousins for sure. We will do their cousins though. We gangsta like that.I was lucky enough to attend the Tennessee-Alabama game last year. Great game, possibly the game of the year in CFB.
Anyway, the Tennessee home crowd for that game was a little bit rabid. Maybe an understatement. Their taunt of choice was to call the Alabama fans "cousin fûçkërs". Big banners on the all the frat houses saying, "Go home cousin fûçkërs." People screaming into the windows of cars with Bama plates, "Get out of here, cousin fûçkërs."
My point: I don't think our fanbase has a single thing to be ashamed of.
Yeah and then we have superjohn calling people out for referencing flyover states. A term that is barely pejorative and tamer than the terms other parts of the country use to refer to the northeast.I was lucky enough to attend the Tennessee-Alabama game last year. Great game, possibly the game of the year in CFB.
Anyway, the Tennessee home crowd for that game was a little bit rabid. Maybe an understatement. Their taunt of choice was to call the Alabama fans "cousin fûçkërs". Big banners on the all the frat houses saying, "Go home cousin fûçkërs." People screaming into the windows of cars with Bama plates, "Get out of here, cousin fûçkërs."
My point: I don't think our fanbase has a single thing to be ashamed of.
100% agreement. Certain folks on the board are more prone to that than others.
Jonathan Smith is a pretty good coach, but still has a losing record overall after 5 seasons of slow rebuilding, admittedly from a 1-11 season the year before he took over (sound familiar). I think Jim Mora will outperform him when all is said and done.
That may be true but it’s bias for a reason. UCLA, Cal, Stanford, UW? These are powerhouse universities and it just stands to reason that other schools in the conference are lifted by their academic reputations. To have never heard of Oregon State is about as sheltered as you can possibly be.
