Re: OSU AD not happy with their level of recruiting
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2018 1:47 pm
Pony81 wrote:Ummm.... isn’t Notre Dame in Indiana?
And Purdue
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Pony81 wrote:Ummm.... isn’t Notre Dame in Indiana?
SoCal_Pony wrote:To quote a famous American, Waco and Lubbock are 'crap holes'. Stillwater can't be much better, I wouldn't know, I have no desire to visit there. Fort Worth is better but it's still Cowtown. That's a huge advantage to UT.
gostangs wrote:One word - Stillwater.
ponyboy wrote:Below are rankings, best football team to worst, for the SEC last season. In parentheses are the ranking of the college town, based on this voting panel:
Tim Brando, FOX Sports
Dari Nowkhah, SEC Network
Tony Barnhart, AJC/SEC Net
Zac Ellis, Sports Illustrated
Chris Low, ESPN
Wes Rucker, 247Sports
Laura Rutledge, SEC Network
Chad Withrow, 104.5 The Zone-Nashville
Kayce Smith, ESPN/SEC Net
Seth Emerson, Macon Telegraph
Josh Ward, WNML-Knoxville
Braden Gall, Athlon Sports/SiriusXM
1. Alabama, Tuscaloosa (6)
2. Georgia, Athens, GA (2)
3. Auburn, Auburn, AL (7)
4. Miss State, Starkville (14)
5. LSU, Baton Rouge (5)
6. South Carolina, Columbia (13)
7. A&M, College Station (10)
8. Missouri, Columbia, MO (8)
9. Ole Miss, Oxford (3)
10. Kentucky, Lexington (9)
11. Florida, Gainesville (11)
12. Arkansas, Fayetteville (12)
13. Vanderbilt, Nashville (1)
14. Tennessee, Knoxville (4)
As regards this data set, there is a very slight negative correlation (corr coefficient: -0.05) in terms of how nice the town is compared to how good the football team is.