(12-19-2012 01:15 AM)makeshifty Wrote:  

(12-19-2012 12:20 AM)UHCougar Wrote:  

(12-18-2012 11:44 PM)blunderbuss Wrote:  Damn this dude has a hard on for UTSA. Unbelievable.

I really don't . . . . . . but I'm am serious about UTSA being among the top choices when you compare objective criteria like attendance, community support, business support, media markets, coaching, potential success on the field, recruiting territory, athletic investment/institutional commitment to athletics, etc. . .

Attendance - new kid in town, still a lot to prove.
Community Support - as proven by attendance?
Business Support - KFC?
Media Market - legit.
Coaching - meh.
Potential Success on field - ????
Recruiting territory - Not covered by the ELEVEN other Texas FBS teams?
Athletic investment - Why because they managed to convince the city to let them use their otherwise EMPTY stadium? I bet they really had to try hard.

The ONLY thing they have going for them is that they are the only football team in the market. I dont think that overcomes forever being branded as "beneath" by the first two letters of their moniker. Or playing in a 20 year old no frills concrete box 20 miles from campus. Or just being in San Antonio in general. Terrible, terrible town. Unless your old and boring, in which case, its great.

And how many times have you guys been to riverwalk? Like really you walk around and everything is overpriced and most of the year its hot as balls. I lived in SA for 4 years and if I ever have to go back it will be too soon.

Awwwww..... some girl dumped you after your 'riverwalk' date?

(12-19-2012 09:18 AM)Gray Avenger Wrote:  

(12-18-2012 12:42 AM)Fireman451 Wrote:  I am amazed at the ability to talk about UTSA for 36 pages. Do they have potential, yes. Are they getting invited, no.

Good. The "NAC" (or whatever we call it), cannot afford to add schools lacking name recognition.

Have you met Tulane's awesomeness? Are you from a country where both SDSU and UCF are known names?

Is it a St. Johns trait to trash all the football playing schools?

Guy's, you're arguing with a C7 Fan. I mean do you seriously think he's going to give options that are relevant for the Football schools going forward.

(12-19-2012 09:26 AM)johnbragg Wrote:  

(12-19-2012 09:18 AM)Gray Avenger Wrote:  

(12-18-2012 12:42 AM)Fireman451 Wrote:  I am amazed at the ability to talk about UTSA for 36 pages. Do they have potential, yes. Are they getting invited, no.

Good. The "NAC" (or whatever we call it), cannot afford to add schools lacking name recognition.

Have you met Tulane's awesomeness? Are you from a country where both SDSU and UCF are known names?

UTSA has come nowhere near having the same name recognition as Tulane.

(12-19-2012 09:30 AM)200yrs2late Wrote:  

(12-19-2012 09:26 AM)johnbragg Wrote:  

(12-19-2012 09:18 AM)Gray Avenger Wrote:  

(12-18-2012 12:42 AM)Fireman451 Wrote:  I am amazed at the ability to talk about UTSA for 36 pages. Do they have potential, yes. Are they getting invited, no.

Good. The "NAC" (or whatever we call it), cannot afford to add schools lacking name recognition.

Have you met Tulane's awesomeness? Are you from a country where both SDSU and UCF are known names?

UTSA has come nowhere near having the same name recognition as Tulane.

I don't know, zero is pretty close to zero.

What would a St. Joseph's fan know about name recognition. Or is it St. John's?

(12-19-2012 09:33 AM)johnbragg Wrote:  

(12-19-2012 09:30 AM)200yrs2late Wrote:  

(12-19-2012 09:26 AM)johnbragg Wrote:  

(12-19-2012 09:18 AM)Gray Avenger Wrote:  

(12-18-2012 12:42 AM)Fireman451 Wrote:  I am amazed at the ability to talk about UTSA for 36 pages. Do they have potential, yes. Are they getting invited, no.

Good. The "NAC" (or whatever we call it), cannot afford to add schools lacking name recognition.

Have you met Tulane's awesomeness? Are you from a country where both SDSU and UCF are known names?

UTSA has come nowhere near having the same name recognition as Tulane.

I don't know, zero is pretty close to zero.

lol thx, my coffee is all over my monitor now

(12-19-2012 09:28 AM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  Is it a St. Johns trait to trash all the football playing schools?

It's a rule of message board physics that the longer a program gets from its glory days the more bitter and skeptical their fanbase gets.

(12-19-2012 09:49 AM)ultraviolet Wrote:  

(12-19-2012 09:28 AM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  Is it a St. Johns trait to trash all the football playing schools?

It's a rule of message board physics that the longer a program gets from its glory days the more bitter and skeptical their fanbase gets.

He's bitter he never got to tailgate at his alma mater on a Saturday in the Fall

(12-19-2012 09:33 AM)johnbragg Wrote:  

(12-19-2012 09:30 AM)200yrs2late Wrote:  

(12-19-2012 09:26 AM)johnbragg Wrote:  

(12-19-2012 09:18 AM)Gray Avenger Wrote:  

(12-18-2012 12:42 AM)Fireman451 Wrote:  I am amazed at the ability to talk about UTSA for 36 pages. Do they have potential, yes. Are they getting invited, no.

Good. The "NAC" (or whatever we call it), cannot afford to add schools lacking name recognition.

Have you met Tulane's awesomeness? Are you from a country where both SDSU and UCF are known names?

UTSA has come nowhere near having the same name recognition as Tulane.

I don't know, zero is pretty close to zero.

I guess a St. whatever fan would know about obscurity and irrelevance better than most.

(12-19-2012 09:52 AM)NBPirate Wrote:  

(12-19-2012 09:49 AM)ultraviolet Wrote:  

(12-19-2012 09:28 AM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  Is it a St. Johns trait to trash all the football playing schools?

It's a rule of message board physics that the longer a program gets from its glory days the more bitter and skeptical their fanbase gets.

He's bitter he never got to tailgate at his alma mater on a Saturday in the Fall

I actually went to GW (my mother went to St Johns, and fandom starts early). I went to Rice on a prospective-student weekend, and sobered up watching their game. I figured that if I went there, I would drink myself out of college. Then I went to GW back when it seemed like half the freshman class did that, subsidizing my and everyone else's scholarships.

(12-19-2012 10:02 AM)johnbragg Wrote:  

(12-19-2012 09:52 AM)NBPirate Wrote:  

(12-19-2012 09:49 AM)ultraviolet Wrote:  

(12-19-2012 09:28 AM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  Is it a St. Johns trait to trash all the football playing schools?

It's a rule of message board physics that the longer a program gets from its glory days the more bitter and skeptical their fanbase gets.

He's bitter he never got to tailgate at his alma mater on a Saturday in the Fall

I actually went to GW (my mother went to St Johns, and fandom starts early). I went to Rice on a prospective-student weekend, and sobered up watching their game. I figured that if I went there, I would drink myself out of college. Then I went to GW back when it seemed like half the freshman class did that, subsidizing my and everyone else's scholarships.

I used to carouse with a gent like you at the club twice a fortnight. We'd don our tails and sip the finest gin while striking up dialogue with the local ladies. All the while, understanding that these ladies of lower class were not the marrying kind. mwuhahaha

(12-19-2012 10:02 AM)johnbragg Wrote:  

(12-19-2012 09:52 AM)NBPirate Wrote:  

(12-19-2012 09:49 AM)ultraviolet Wrote:  

(12-19-2012 09:28 AM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  Is it a St. Johns trait to trash all the football playing schools?

It's a rule of message board physics that the longer a program gets from its glory days the more bitter and skeptical their fanbase gets.

He's bitter he never got to tailgate at his alma mater on a Saturday in the Fall

I actually went to GW (my mother went to St Johns, and fandom starts early). I went to Rice on a prospective-student weekend, and sobered up watching their game. I figured that if I went there, I would drink myself out of college. Then I went to GW back when it seemed like half the freshman class did that, subsidizing my and everyone else's scholarships.

So you didn't choose Rice because of their football? Cool, I'm not alone then!

Same reason I turned down Brown, Cornell, Duke and Dartmouth. No way was I going to waste my weekends at those places.

Let's have a drink.

(12-19-2012 10:23 AM)Fireman451 Wrote:  

(12-19-2012 10:02 AM)johnbragg Wrote:  

(12-19-2012 09:52 AM)NBPirate Wrote:  

(12-19-2012 09:49 AM)ultraviolet Wrote:  

(12-19-2012 09:28 AM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  Is it a St. Johns trait to trash all the football playing schools?

It's a rule of message board physics that the longer a program gets from its glory days the more bitter and skeptical their fanbase gets.

He's bitter he never got to tailgate at his alma mater on a Saturday in the Fall

I actually went to GW (my mother went to St Johns, and fandom starts early). I went to Rice on a prospective-student weekend, and sobered up watching their game. I figured that if I went there, I would drink myself out of college. Then I went to GW back when it seemed like half the freshman class did that, subsidizing my and everyone else's scholarships.

So you didn't choose Rice because of their football? Cool, I'm not alone then!

It was their best team in forever, they were almost bowl eligible. The problem was that I was sobering up after getting very very drunk, and it was 2 in the afternoon.

If you can't hang with Rice students and alumni . . . . you're a light weight. Sorry dude, you know it's true.

See you at Valhalla's for a cup of beer and chess. Usual time?

(12-19-2012 10:28 AM)Fireman451 Wrote:  If you can't hang with Rice students and alumni . . . . you're a light weight. Sorry dude, you know it's true.

See you at Valhalla's for a cup of beer and chess. Usual time?

Also, perspective. I was 17, and didn't really factor in that every day wasn't going to be like homecoming weekend with frat boys playing "get the prospective drunk."

(12-19-2012 10:02 AM)johnbragg Wrote:  I actually went to GW (my mother went to St Johns, and fandom starts early). I went to Rice on a prospective-student weekend, and sobered up watching their game. I figured that if I went there, I would drink myself out of college. Then I went to GW back when it seemed like half the freshman class did that, subsidizing my and everyone else's scholarships.

Rich boy, eh? Thought about Rice but it was too much of a party school so you settled on GWU.

(12-19-2012 10:46 AM)blunderbuss Wrote:  

(12-19-2012 10:02 AM)johnbragg Wrote:  I actually went to GW (my mother went to St Johns, and fandom starts early). I went to Rice on a prospective-student weekend, and sobered up watching their game. I figured that if I went there, I would drink myself out of college. Then I went to GW back when it seemed like half the freshman class did that, subsidizing my and everyone else's scholarships.

Rich boy, eh? Thought about Rice but it was too much of a party school so you settled on GWU.

Yes, much much irony there. 'Swhat happens when you don't really get the concept of "homecoming" or "college weekends start on Thursday night" and figure that's an ordinary day.

Merit scholarship to GW--I told you, half the freshman class drunk their way out after paying their $20,000 back in the day, funding the scholarships for everyone else. I have no idea how I thought we'd pay for Rice. GW was free for me, just room and board baby.

(12-19-2012 10:43 AM)johnbragg Wrote:  

(12-19-2012 10:28 AM)Fireman451 Wrote:  If you can't hang with Rice students and alumni . . . . you're a light weight. Sorry dude, you know it's true.

See you at Valhalla's for a cup of beer and chess. Usual time?

Also, perspective. I was 17, and didn't really factor in that every day wasn't going to be like homecoming weekend with frat boys playing "get the prospective drunk."

Which frat were the boys from?

Rice doesn't have fraternities or sororities.