(09-13-2016 08:57 AM)EigenEagle Wrote:  If I were to pair up the schools in terms of similarity...

App State and Arkansas State
Georgia Southern and Troy
ULL and South Alabama
Georgia State and ULM
Coastal Carolina and Texas State
UALR and UTA

Flame away.

I put us with Troy because we're a football-first, baseball-second school which makes us more similar than we are with App and Ark State.

Is this sports-oriented or university-oriented because if it's about the overall universities, it would be:
App and GS
Ga State and UTA
Coastal and USA
Ark State and ULL
Troy and TXST
UALR and ULM

Based on student body size, type of school, etc

(09-13-2016 09:47 AM)BurlingtonApp Wrote:  

(09-13-2016 09:06 AM)StanMolsonMan Wrote:  

(09-13-2016 08:57 AM)EigenEagle Wrote:  If I were to pair up the schools in terms of similarity...

App State and Arkansas State
Georgia Southern and Troy
ULL and South Alabama
Georgia State and ULM
Coastal Carolina and Texas State
UALR and UTA

Flame away.

I put us with Troy because we're a football-first, baseball-second school which makes us more similar than we are with App and Ark State.

Why us and ULM? I would say more like Texas State.

I'm struggling to think of any similarities you guys have with Texas State, besides the "State name" State.

Student size. Trying to get over the hump in football performance. Has to deal with being in the shadow of a major state school just down the road.

I don't know enough about each school but at this point I would have to guess TXST and ULL have a lot in common.

ArkSt I guess.

(09-12-2016 08:55 PM)Saint3333 Wrote:  used to be Ark St, but then we won an OOC game.

Guess we'll have to dance with the old flame, GS.

One word...Ouch...

Southern.

The hillbilly/redneck/whitetrash/inbred trash talk goes both ways and always cracks me up. Though Southern fans would have you believe that they are the classy, tuxedo t-shirt wearin, type of redneck.

(09-13-2016 11:52 AM)kb325 Wrote:  

(09-12-2016 08:55 PM)Saint3333 Wrote:  used to be Ark St, but then we won an OOC game.

Guess we'll have to dance with the old flame, GS.

One word...Ouch...

Doesn't bother me a bit. It translates to "we didn't get rings last year...wahhhh".

I would say for South Alabama and Louisiana Lafayette it has to be each other.

Similar enrollment
Similar landscape and climate (coastal/swampy, rainy, hot)
National research institutions
Semi-similar cuisine
Mardi Gras
Loves baseball
Loves softball
Loves football
Has a good basketball history
Have become rivals in baseball, basketball, softball, and trending that way in football

There are probably more items I could add to this list, but it has to be Louisiana Lafayette for USA.

(09-12-2016 08:37 PM)GaSoEagle Wrote:  For GS it has to be App. We are very similar in many ways. We came into the Belt together and I have noticed an increasing tendancy for fans of both schools (well maybe except for students) to defend each other vs other Belt schools.

In 2nd place for GS I would say Troy

For shared history...ULL. We also share some characteristics with Georgia Southern. At one point we were probably most similar to ULM but we've been trying to mash the gas pedal hard for most of a decade and they haven't.

(09-13-2016 12:18 PM)HighCountry Wrote:  Southern.

The hillbilly/redneck/whitetrash/inbred trash talk goes both ways and always cracks me up. Though Southern fans would have you believe that they are the classy, tuxedo t-shirt wearin, type of redneck.

We're the tuxedo tshirt, jorts, budlight hat kinda rednecks and y'all are the overalls-with-no-under-shirt, piece-of-straw-sticking-through-a-hole-where-a-tooth-used-to-be kinda hillbillies.

(09-13-2016 12:18 PM)HighCountry Wrote:  Southern.

The hillbilly/redneck/whitetrash/inbred trash talk goes both ways and always cracks me up. Though Southern fans would have you believe that they are the classy, tuxedo t-shirt wearin, type of redneck.

That's why I love/hate App St.

(09-13-2016 12:21 PM)ark30inf Wrote:  

(09-13-2016 11:52 AM)kb325 Wrote:  

(09-12-2016 08:55 PM)Saint3333 Wrote:  used to be Ark St, but then we won an OOC game.

Guess we'll have to dance with the old flame, GS.

One word...Ouch...

Doesn't bother me a bit. It translates to "we didn't get rings last year...wahhhh".

(09-13-2016 12:40 PM)TrueBlueDrew Wrote:  

(09-13-2016 12:18 PM)HighCountry Wrote:  Southern.

The hillbilly/redneck/whitetrash/inbred trash talk goes both ways and always cracks me up. Though Southern fans would have you believe that they are the classy, tuxedo t-shirt wearin, type of redneck.

We're the tuxedo tshirt, jorts, budlight hat kinda rednecks and y'all are the overalls-with-no-under-shirt, piece-of-straw-sticking-through-a-hole-where-a-tooth-used-to-be kinda hillbillies.

From an outsider's perspective, I think of App as an Old Crow song and GS as Hootie's cover of it.

(09-13-2016 12:21 PM)ark30inf Wrote:  

(09-13-2016 11:52 AM)kb325 Wrote:  

(09-12-2016 08:55 PM)Saint3333 Wrote:  used to be Ark St, but then we won an OOC game.

Guess we'll have to dance with the old flame, GS.

One word...Ouch...

Doesn't bother me a bit. It translates to "we didn't get rings last year...wahhhh".

I think it translates to "it was just a joke." A pretty funny one too.

(09-13-2016 01:14 PM)Pounce FTW Wrote:  

(09-13-2016 12:40 PM)TrueBlueDrew Wrote:  

(09-13-2016 12:18 PM)HighCountry Wrote:  Southern.

The hillbilly/redneck/whitetrash/inbred trash talk goes both ways and always cracks me up. Though Southern fans would have you believe that they are the classy, tuxedo t-shirt wearin, type of redneck.

We're the tuxedo tshirt, jorts, budlight hat kinda rednecks and y'all are the overalls-with-no-under-shirt, piece-of-straw-sticking-through-a-hole-where-a-tooth-used-to-be kinda hillbillies.

From an outsider's perspective, I think of App as an Old Crow song and GS as Hootie's cover of it.

You couldn't be more accurate. GS is definitely the Darius Rucker version of Wagon Wheel.

(09-13-2016 01:25 PM)BurlingtonApp Wrote:  

(09-13-2016 01:14 PM)Pounce FTW Wrote:  

(09-13-2016 12:40 PM)TrueBlueDrew Wrote:  

(09-13-2016 12:18 PM)HighCountry Wrote:  Southern.

The hillbilly/redneck/whitetrash/inbred trash talk goes both ways and always cracks me up. Though Southern fans would have you believe that they are the classy, tuxedo t-shirt wearin, type of redneck.

We're the tuxedo tshirt, jorts, budlight hat kinda rednecks and y'all are the overalls-with-no-under-shirt, piece-of-straw-sticking-through-a-hole-where-a-tooth-used-to-be kinda hillbillies.

From an outsider's perspective, I think of App as an Old Crow song and GS as Hootie's cover of it.

You couldn't be more accurate. GS is definitely the Darius Rucker version of Wagon Wheel.

Aka the better, more popular version

(09-13-2016 01:34 PM)TrueBlueDrew Wrote:  

(09-13-2016 01:25 PM)BurlingtonApp Wrote:  

(09-13-2016 01:14 PM)Pounce FTW Wrote:  

(09-13-2016 12:40 PM)TrueBlueDrew Wrote:  

(09-13-2016 12:18 PM)HighCountry Wrote:  Southern.

The hillbilly/redneck/whitetrash/inbred trash talk goes both ways and always cracks me up. Though Southern fans would have you believe that they are the classy, tuxedo t-shirt wearin, type of redneck.

We're the tuxedo tshirt, jorts, budlight hat kinda rednecks and y'all are the overalls-with-no-under-shirt, piece-of-straw-sticking-through-a-hole-where-a-tooth-used-to-be kinda hillbillies.

From an outsider's perspective, I think of App as an Old Crow song and GS as Hootie's cover of it.

You couldn't be more accurate. GS is definitely the Darius Rucker version of Wagon Wheel.

Aka the better, more popular version

You are the first non-stay at home mom I've ever heard say that.

(09-13-2016 01:11 PM)Saint3333 Wrote:  

(09-13-2016 12:21 PM)ark30inf Wrote:  

(09-13-2016 11:52 AM)kb325 Wrote:  

(09-12-2016 08:55 PM)Saint3333 Wrote:  used to be Ark St, but then we won an OOC game.

Guess we'll have to dance with the old flame, GS.

One word...Ouch...

Doesn't bother me a bit. It translates to "we didn't get rings last year...wahhhh".

Lol

(09-12-2016 08:55 PM)Saint3333 Wrote:  used to be Ark St, but then we won an OOC game.

Guess we'll have to dance with the old flame, GS.

(09-13-2016 01:34 PM)TrueBlueDrew Wrote:  

(09-13-2016 01:25 PM)BurlingtonApp Wrote:  

(09-13-2016 01:14 PM)Pounce FTW Wrote:  

(09-13-2016 12:40 PM)TrueBlueDrew Wrote:  

(09-13-2016 12:18 PM)HighCountry Wrote:  Southern.

The hillbilly/redneck/whitetrash/inbred trash talk goes both ways and always cracks me up. Though Southern fans would have you believe that they are the classy, tuxedo t-shirt wearin, type of redneck.

We're the tuxedo tshirt, jorts, budlight hat kinda rednecks and y'all are the overalls-with-no-under-shirt, piece-of-straw-sticking-through-a-hole-where-a-tooth-used-to-be kinda hillbillies.

From an outsider's perspective, I think of App as an Old Crow song and GS as Hootie's cover of it.

You couldn't be more accurate. GS is definitely the Darius Rucker version of Wagon Wheel.

Aka the better, more popular version

Even though Wagon Wheel has been an automatic skip at pretty much every bar in Boone since at least 2013 I still call Blasphemy.

(09-13-2016 01:14 PM)Pounce FTW Wrote:  

(09-13-2016 12:40 PM)TrueBlueDrew Wrote:  

(09-13-2016 12:18 PM)HighCountry Wrote:  Southern.

The hillbilly/redneck/whitetrash/inbred trash talk goes both ways and always cracks me up. Though Southern fans would have you believe that they are the classy, tuxedo t-shirt wearin, type of redneck.

We're the tuxedo tshirt, jorts, budlight hat kinda rednecks and y'all are the overalls-with-no-under-shirt, piece-of-straw-sticking-through-a-hole-where-a-tooth-used-to-be kinda hillbillies.

From an outsider's perspective, I think of App as an Old Crow song and GS as Hootie's cover of it.

How do I award you rep points. I would rather be the Bob Dylan of that song (who co-wrote it) but we are probably more the watered down pop version of the song, sadly as so astutely noted by my atl night school friend.