Yeah, their sports program is SO bad that even their ELITE baseball team couldn’t get them in the Big 12. Ducks had nothing to do with them NOT getting an invite.
My 6th grade shop teacher?
I don't think I said that.
I just said their baseball team was elite, and the rest not so much. Learn to read dog.
Honestly I don't know if you are joking because he might have ended up being that.
@THE HCP is a Lakers fan and acts accordingly as a Ducks fan. Unfortunately, when you get a more popular fanbase, you get fans that like to stomp downwards.
And he loves Baseball!
Psssst. I know that. But in this situation he acts like one and the shoe fits.
You’ve been here long enough to not take a SINGLE thing I type seriously. Yes of course I know who he is……gotta get back to trolling!
Nah I think it was more of Beaver fans actually blaming OTHER schools for what happened to them. Their damn athletic director and coaches all did. It’s embarrassing. Sucks, but let’s not spin why/how it happened. And I have that one amendment of free speech behind me, so I can say whatever I want.
Lies!
You should have seen the shoes I rocked to my dentist appointment today! Straight Fire! @superfly4201 I apologize for continuing to crush you daily!
From what I heard it was much more the bolded part than anything else and the 'media partners' were used as more of a scapegoat. The reason being both WSU and OSU are not the 'Pullman' or 'Corvallis' markets at all and their TV ratings reflected that. Both schools routinely outdraw a good chunk of the B12 teams when it comes to eyeballs and that's really all the TV people should care about. That's why that argument doesn't make any sense and never has. Either the TV execs were complete morons, incompetent or just used to deflect the criticism away from the B12. From what I heard it was much more than bringing on Colorado, Utah and the AZ schools made a ton of sense travel wise and schools just didn't want to deal with the travel of getting to Pullman/Corvallis. That's the only logical explanation for it and what stings is the one thing that makes those campuses unique (especially WSU) is the one thing that ended up dooming them to 2nd tier status.
Hey if you look reeeeeeaaaaaaaalllllll close thru the window, you can see some of the chaos and riots in our streets. Somebody was walking across the street with a fresh gyro from the Mad Greek Deli and dropped it! Luckily made it home safe.
I’m quite sure that’s debatable with every experience being different of course. My daughter is in SF and absolutely LOVES it. One of her best friends is in NYC and loves it… where as her other two friends are in Spokane and Colorado Springs and are board to death. I wouldn’t consider that a checkable fact.
Daughter almost went to Western Washington up in Bellingham. We went on a visit and it was absolutely beautiful. She just felt the town was too small and the school was too big. They have like 26,000 students and the University of SF has like 9,000. Wanted a smaller school/bigger city vibe.
Everyone is different I guess. I just know I loved it in Corvallis and most of my friends that went to PSU, UW and the like all hated it. Have some friends that went to Western and they think it was whatever. I know some people that went to UO and liked it. Idk, I just loved the college town feel. Corvallis also had people that were way nicer than the PDX area. When I moved back I was surprised how dickish people were here compared to Corvallis.
You grew up in a big city?
On the border between Gresham and Portland.
Hmm. Assumed you were in a small town guy. Some people just love big cities I guess. That’s me and my family. But trust me, we love vacationing in the quietest place possible.
Again this is where it doesn't make sense, WSU is the Seattle market, not Pullman/Spokane and Corvallis is the PDX market, not Corvallis, so those schools had to bring added value that schools like Arizona/ASU didn't as they get fewer eyeballs on their games, but what they do have is location and ease of access for most of the rest of the conference. Sorry man, the logic doesn't add up and from what I was told by a couple people I trust, the B12 didn't want the travel and that was the much bigger factor in the States not getting the invite.
Wouldn't trade my time in God's Country on the Palouse for anything and like you, we were very rarely bored between going to hanging out with friends, going to sporting events, out at the bars and making it to class from time to time as well. My thing with going to a school is a major city is that you will always have a chance to live in a big city like SF, but you'll never be able to have the true college experience in a college town. I tell my students, all things being equal, go to the school in the smaller town that is all about the school, where people can't get 'lost' in the city life. Move to the city after college when you're still young and starting out if you want but get the true college experience.
