Bracketology Starts

[LGR14]

PSU sells every single one of its games.  I'm not sure why all of you think that they won't attend an NCAA regional being hosted on their own campus.

Allentown is 175 miles from State College.  The same distance as Ithaca.

Ah I have been overlooking the "Allentown" part this whole time. I join the calls that it is inane to call PSU (or any team) the "host."

[Robb]

PSU sells every single one of its games.  I'm not sure why all of you think that they won't attend an NCAA regional being hosted on their own campus.

Allentown is 175 miles from State College.  The same distance as Ithaca.

Ah I have been overlooking the "Allentown" part this whole time. I join the calls that it is inane to call PSU (or any team) the "host."

It's not that they are "called" the host - they ARE the host.  As in, their athletics department stepped up to run the actual event, including collecting ticket and concession money from the fans and providing a (guaranteed) payout to the NCAA.

[Dafatone]

PSU sells every single one of its games.  I'm not sure why all of you think that they won't attend an NCAA regional being hosted on their own campus.

Allentown is 175 miles from State College.  The same distance as Ithaca.

Ah I have been overlooking the "Allentown" part this whole time. I join the calls that it is inane to call PSU (or any team) the "host."

175 miles? Sioux Falls is 320 miles from NoDak.

[Jim Hyla]

Oh yeah - this is the area where I usually give Jim grief, not the polls .... I just cannot stand - for decades at this point - the idea of posting "bracketology" articles based on "what it would be if the season ended today" - because ...... it doesn't end today.  I don't see the point in the exercise.

The point is I sit down waiting for dinner, open my phone to a 3 page discussion. Need I say more?

[RichH]

Oh yeah - this is the area where I usually give Jim grief, not the polls .... I just cannot stand - for decades at this point - the idea of posting "bracketology" articles based on "what it would be if the season ended today" - because ...... it doesn't end today.  I don't see the point in the exercise.

The point is I sit down waiting for dinner, open my phone to a 3 page discussion. Need I say more?

The point is there are too many days in between games that we need to find things to obsess about.

Please eliminate Tuesdays.

[Trotsky]

PSU sells every single one of its games.  I'm not sure why all of you think that they won't attend an NCAA regional being hosted on their own campus.

Allentown is 175 miles from State College.  The same distance as Ithaca.

Ah I have been overlooking the "Allentown" part this whole time. I join the calls that it is inane to call PSU (or any team) the "host."

175 miles? Sioux Falls is 320 miles from NoDak.

Those are western miles.  In the west you drive ten miles to your mailbox.

[Trotsky]

Oh yeah - this is the area where I usually give Jim grief, not the polls .... I just cannot stand - for decades at this point - the idea of posting "bracketology" articles based on "what it would be if the season ended today" - because ...... it doesn't end today.  I don't see the point in the exercise.

The point is I sit down waiting for dinner, open my phone to a 3 page discussion. Need I say more?

The point is there are too many days in between games that we need to find things to obsess about.

Please eliminate Tuesdays.

If we'd finished 5th we would have a game in 2 nights...

[Dafatone]

PSU sells every single one of its games.  I'm not sure why all of you think that they won't attend an NCAA regional being hosted on their own campus.

Allentown is 175 miles from State College.  The same distance as Ithaca.

Ah I have been overlooking the "Allentown" part this whole time. I join the calls that it is inane to call PSU (or any team) the "host."

175 miles? Sioux Falls is 320 miles from NoDak.

Those are western miles.  In the west you drive ten miles to your mailbox.

This is true. I'm currently commuting 63 miles each way, three days a week.

[adamw]

175 miles? Sioux Falls is 320 miles from NoDak.

As has been proven time and again, North Dakota fans would travel 10,000 people to Jupiter to see their team play.

[Dafatone]

175 miles? Sioux Falls is 320 miles from NoDak.

As has been proven time and again, North Dakota fans would travel 10,000 people to Jupiter to see their team play.

Sure. I just hate them.

[Trotsky]

175 miles? Sioux Falls is 320 miles from NoDak.

As has been proven time and again, North Dakota fans would travel 10,000 people to Jupiter to see their team play.

Sure. I just hate them.

Plenty of fan bases out there to really hate (Minny, BC, Maine, Michigan).  NoDak always seems to me to be just really into their team and really know the sport well.  Like Wisco fans.  I mean, plus the whole Nazi thing.

[Beeeej]

175 miles? Sioux Falls is 320 miles from NoDak.

As has been proven time and again, North Dakota fans would travel 10,000 people to Jupiter to see their team play.

Sure. I just hate them.

Plenty of fan bases out there to really hate (Minny, BC, Maine, Michigan).  NoDak always seems to me to be just really into their team and really know the sport well.  Like Wisco fans.  I mean, plus the whole Nazi thing.

Several years ago when we played a two-game series out there, a bunch of Cornell fans left the arena to find that someone had poured water all over their cars in deeply sub-freezing weather.

[Dafatone]

175 miles? Sioux Falls is 320 miles from NoDak.

As has been proven time and again, North Dakota fans would travel 10,000 people to Jupiter to see their team play.

Sure. I just hate them.

Plenty of fan bases out there to really hate (Minny, BC, Maine, Michigan).  NoDak always seems to me to be just really into their team and really know the sport well.  Like Wisco fans.  I mean, plus the whole Nazi thing.

Several years ago when we played a two-game series out there, a bunch of Cornell fans left the arena to find that someone had poured water all over their cars in deeply sub-freezing weather.

Plus the whole Nazi thing. And, living in South Dakota where there's a significant Native population, I don't like North Dakota for a bunch of mascot/symbol reasons.

[RichH]

175 miles? Sioux Falls is 320 miles from NoDak.

As has been proven time and again, North Dakota fans would travel 10,000 people to Jupiter to see their team play.

Sure. I just hate them.

Plenty of fan bases out there to really hate (Minny, BC, Maine, Michigan).  NoDak always seems to me to be just really into their team and really know the sport well.  Like Wisco fans.  I mean, plus the whole Nazi thing.

Several years ago when we played a two-game series out there, a bunch of Cornell fans left the arena to find that someone had poured water all over their cars in deeply sub-freezing weather.

You know those scenes in movies when the protagonists, usually modern-day city-folk walk into a Western saloon or some other "fish-out-of-water" situation and everyone in the bar stops what they're doing and follows them with their heads and usually one old guy chews really slowly?  THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED TO US IN GRAND FORKS when we went to bars and restaurants with our red gear on. Eventually one brave guy came over to ask us an innocuous question and saw that we weren't assholes then it was mostly all good and we made friends with a few tentative groups who still looked at us with suspicion.

[Swampy]

175 miles? Sioux Falls is 320 miles from NoDak.

As has been proven time and again, North Dakota fans would travel 10,000 people to Jupiter to see their team play.

Sure. I just hate them.

Plenty of fan bases out there to really hate (Minny, BC, Maine, Michigan).  NoDak always seems to me to be just really into their team and really know the sport well.  Like Wisco fans.  I mean, plus the whole Nazi thing.

Several years ago when we played a two-game series out there, a bunch of Cornell fans left the arena to find that someone had poured water all over their cars in deeply sub-freezing weather.

You know those scenes in movies when the protagonists, usually modern-day city-folk walk into a Western saloon or some other "fish-out-of-water" situation and everyone in the bar stops what they're doing and follows them with their heads and usually one old guy chews really slowly?  THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED TO US IN GRAND FORKS when we went to bars and restaurants with our red gear on. Eventually one brave guy came over to ask us an innocuous question and saw that we weren't assholes then it was mostly all good and we made friends with a few tentative groups who still looked at us with suspicion.

Is there anything else you want to tell me about 'em?