(12-28-2013 08:16 PM)GoApps70 Wrote:  

(12-28-2013 07:12 PM)chrisattsu Wrote:  

West Campus Water Tower
next to the Rugby and Soccer fields

Reminds me of our Touchdown Yosef statue.

um, yeah, photoshopped

(12-28-2013 06:11 PM)CatMom Wrote:  I figure this is all that needs to be posted for TXST.

Beautiful campus CatMom. But you guys really need to clean that pool.

(12-28-2013 08:37 PM)MJG Wrote:  

(12-27-2013 07:52 PM)dmacfour Wrote:  Moscow was probably most notable for being a giant party for a couple of decades. Because the drinking age was still 19, every student at Washington State would journey six miles across the border to party. There were 30+ bars and less than 15k residents, and the highway between Wazzu and UIdaho was the most dangerous in the nation. Wazzu are Idaho are still on the list of top party schools, but it's a lot more laid back here. We still have a reputation for being nasty and inebriated, and still have a better bar scene than Pullman (in my expert opinion).

Put to shame by other parts of Idaho isn't that true for just about anywhere .

I don't follow.

(12-28-2013 09:23 PM)CajunFanatico Wrote:  

(12-28-2013 06:11 PM)CatMom Wrote:  I figure this is all that needs to be posted for TXST.

Beautiful campus CatMom. But you guys really need to clean that pool.

Not a pool. It's a river (the San Marcos) and that's natural vegetation. Removing it, unless it's out of control, would upset the eco balance. TXST is all about environmental studies; especially eco systems. There's a nationally recognized center on campus; upstream of this area (Sewell Park)

The Texas Conservation Alliance and the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University

http://www.meadowscenter.txstate.edu/

Won't clean it out as there is the endangered blind salamander and river rice vegetation is endangered too. So it will stay.

I need to use more emoticons. My humor seems to escape many.

(12-28-2013 09:33 PM)dmacfour Wrote:  

(12-28-2013 08:37 PM)MJG Wrote:  

(12-27-2013 07:52 PM)dmacfour Wrote:  Moscow was probably most notable for being a giant party for a couple of decades. Because the drinking age was still 19, every student at Washington State would journey six miles across the border to party. There were 30+ bars and less than 15k residents, and the highway between Wazzu and UIdaho was the most dangerous in the nation. Wazzu are Idaho are still on the list of top party schools, but it's a lot more laid back here. We still have a reputation for being nasty and inebriated, and still have a better bar scene than Pullman (in my expert opinion).

Put to shame by other parts of Idaho isn't that true for just about anywhere .

I don't follow.

Idaho has some beautiful places

(12-29-2013 12:49 AM)MJG Wrote:  

(12-28-2013 09:33 PM)dmacfour Wrote:  

(12-28-2013 08:37 PM)MJG Wrote:  

(12-27-2013 07:52 PM)dmacfour Wrote:  Moscow was probably most notable for being a giant party for a couple of decades. Because the drinking age was still 19, every student at Washington State would journey six miles across the border to party. There were 30+ bars and less than 15k residents, and the highway between Wazzu and UIdaho was the most dangerous in the nation. Wazzu are Idaho are still on the list of top party schools, but it's a lot more laid back here. We still have a reputation for being nasty and inebriated, and still have a better bar scene than Pullman (in my expert opinion).

Put to shame by other parts of Idaho isn't that true for just about anywhere .

I don't follow.

Idaho has some beautiful places

Louisiana reluctantly raised the age from 18 to 21 under threat of federal highway funds being withdrawn. Don't you love your Uncle Sam?

(12-29-2013 12:49 AM)MJG Wrote:  

(12-28-2013 09:33 PM)dmacfour Wrote:  

(12-28-2013 08:37 PM)MJG Wrote:  

(12-27-2013 07:52 PM)dmacfour Wrote:  Moscow was probably most notable for being a giant party for a couple of decades. Because the drinking age was still 19, every student at Washington State would journey six miles across the border to party. There were 30+ bars and less than 15k residents, and the highway between Wazzu and UIdaho was the most dangerous in the nation. Wazzu are Idaho are still on the list of top party schools, but it's a lot more laid back here. We still have a reputation for being nasty and inebriated, and still have a better bar scene than Pullman (in my expert opinion).

Put to shame by other parts of Idaho isn't that true for just about anywhere .

I don't follow.

Idaho has some beautiful places

Ah okay.

Yeah, we have it pretty good here. I'm going to be pissed if I have to move out of the northwest when I start looking for jobs next week.

(12-28-2013 08:37 PM)CatMom Wrote:  

(12-28-2013 08:16 PM)GoApps70 Wrote:  

(12-28-2013 07:12 PM)chrisattsu Wrote:  

West Campus Water Tower
next to the Rugby and Soccer fields

Reminds me of our Touchdown Yosef statue.

um, yeah, photoshopped

Well yeah, of course the Texas State one is.
If you are saying Touchdown Yosef is just a photoshopped image and not real, it does exist.
Been sitting on the App State campus for years....


Doubt you meant the mountain picture the face on the mountain of an old bearded guy is Grandfather Mountain near campus.

(12-28-2013 06:44 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  View of 'A' Mountain and the Organ's:

It was nice of NMSU to honor App State by making the "A" Mountain. Thanks.

(12-27-2013 07:52 PM)dmacfour Wrote:  Moscow was probably most notable for being a giant party for a couple of decades. Because the drinking age was still 19, every student at Washington State would journey six miles across the border to party. There were 30+ bars and less than 15k residents, and the highway between Wazzu and UIdaho was the most dangerous in the nation. Wazzu are Idaho are still on the list of top party schools, but it's a lot more laid back here. We still have a reputation for being nasty and inebriated, and still have a better bar scene than Pullman (in my expert opinion).



Downtown is about half a mile of bars, shops, and restaurants:





Arboretum:



The rest of the Palouse looks like this:



Six miles west (Pullman, Washington):



Moscow is put to shame by other parts of Idaho:

WOW... just gorgeous! I can't wait to cheer my Jags onto victory there (and App State too, btw). God's Country!

(12-28-2013 05:32 AM)GoApps70 Wrote:  

(12-27-2013 08:28 PM)StillGotIt Wrote:  Here's a little video from Erin Burnett at CNN after the Carnival cruise ship was towed into Mobile.

http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/...n.cnn.html

Years ago we were living in South Florida and planned a summer driving vacation; Florida to Texas, up through Oklahoma (where I had trained at Ft. Sill), to Ohio, over to West Virginia, to DC (to see some of her friends), and back to North Carolina (for my sister's wedding), then back to Florida.
She insisted that we spend at least a couple of days in Mobile. She was from Opp, Alabama. I thought she was nuts. Thought Mobile would just not be worth it. She won me over when she mentioned visiting the USS Alabama. Needless to say, she was right. It turned out to be one place I remembered the most. Kind of fell in love with it. Was like a combination of Charleston and Savannah.

VERY good analogy... Charleston (SC), Savannah (GA) and maybe just a TOUCH of Nawlins (French QTR).

(12-29-2013 05:15 AM)airtroop Wrote:  

(12-28-2013 05:32 AM)GoApps70 Wrote:  

(12-27-2013 08:28 PM)StillGotIt Wrote:  Here's a little video from Erin Burnett at CNN after the Carnival cruise ship was towed into Mobile.

http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/...n.cnn.html

Years ago we were living in South Florida and planned a summer driving vacation; Florida to Texas, up through Oklahoma (where I had trained at Ft. Sill), to Ohio, over to West Virginia, to DC (to see some of her friends), and back to North Carolina (for my sister's wedding), then back to Florida.
She insisted that we spend at least a couple of days in Mobile. She was from Opp, Alabama. I thought she was nuts. Thought Mobile would just not be worth it. She won me over when she mentioned visiting the USS Alabama. Needless to say, she was right. It turned out to be one place I remembered the most. Kind of fell in love with it. Was like a combination of Charleston and Savannah.

VERY good analogy... Charleston (SC), Savannah (GA) and maybe just a TOUCH of Nawlins (French QTR).

Mobile has a lot of the same history as New Orleans, or is it New Orleans has a lot of the same histroy as Mobile???

(12-29-2013 09:27 AM)Usajags Wrote:  

(12-29-2013 05:15 AM)airtroop Wrote:  

(12-28-2013 05:32 AM)GoApps70 Wrote:  

(12-27-2013 08:28 PM)StillGotIt Wrote:  Here's a little video from Erin Burnett at CNN after the Carnival cruise ship was towed into Mobile.

http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/...n.cnn.html

Years ago we were living in South Florida and planned a summer driving vacation; Florida to Texas, up through Oklahoma (where I had trained at Ft. Sill), to Ohio, over to West Virginia, to DC (to see some of her friends), and back to North Carolina (for my sister's wedding), then back to Florida.
She insisted that we spend at least a couple of days in Mobile. She was from Opp, Alabama. I thought she was nuts. Thought Mobile would just not be worth it. She won me over when she mentioned visiting the USS Alabama. Needless to say, she was right. It turned out to be one place I remembered the most. Kind of fell in love with it. Was like a combination of Charleston and Savannah.

VERY good analogy... Charleston (SC), Savannah (GA) and maybe just a TOUCH of Nawlins (French QTR).

Mobile has a lot of the same history as New Orleans, or is it New Orleans has a lot of the same histroy as Mobile???

Correct. Mobile was the first Capitol of the French Louisiana. The Capitol was moved to New Orleans about twenty years later.

Pictures from Statesboro:

Bulloch County Courthouse:


Downtown:






Can't find any pictures of our water tower, but you can see the base of it in the top right of this photo:

(12-27-2013 08:28 PM)StillGotIt Wrote:  Here's a little video from Erin Burnett at CNN after the Carnival cruise ship was towed into Mobile.

http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/...n.cnn.html

No doubt Mobile is a neat city but what's up with the University of South Alabama homepage? In need of a serious update.

How far underground is field level GaSo? Does it ever flood?

Wasn't that excited about trips to South Alabama, no long football tradition,
but thinking about Mobile brings a lot of reasons to want to go even more.

(12-31-2013 07:55 AM)GoApps70 Wrote:  How far underground is field level GaSo? Does it ever flood?

Wasn't that excited about trips to South Alabama, no long football tradition,
but thinking about Mobile brings a lot of reasons to want to go even more.

Field level isn't that far below ground level. The hills are built up a little around the field. The worst I've ever seen the flooding get was over the Summer. Lots of rain plus drains being blocked due to construction flooded part of the field but that's the only time I've ever seen it flooded. It survived the Hugo Bowl.

Don't most Sun Belt schools (with the exception of Texas State,Idaho and NMSU) still fly Confederate flags on or near campus? I know Georgia Southern does but I'm not 100% sure about the others.