Great photos from the 2011 FCS NC Game

[SloStang]

If the college experience was any better or bigger at Cal Poly I would most likely be in jail. So much to do. The beach, snow skiing in the mountains and water skiing on the lakes, great night life down town..... Also California has the best looking women in the world and San Luis Obispo has some of the best weather you can find. To top it all off Cal Poly offers a top notch education. No way am I going to give you that the college life on the east coast is bigger or better.

Those activities you mentioned have nothing to do with college. Any schmoe can do that if they live in that area. I'm talking about college activities not college-aged activities. But I'm not saying the average east coast education is better than the west coast's, I'm saying it is more meaningful.

This from a guy who was shoveling 3 feet of snow in January while I was studying at the beach or by the pool surrounded by beautiful women in skimpy bikinis. I just saying....

[Ursus A. Horribilis]

If the college experience was any better or bigger at Cal Poly I would most likely be in jail. So much to do. The beach, snow skiing in the mountains and water skiing on the lakes, great night life down town..... Also California has the best looking women in the world and San Luis Obispo has some of the best weather you can find. To top it all off Cal Poly offers a top notch education. No way am I going to give you that the college life on the east coast is bigger or better.

Those activities you mentioned have nothing to do with college. Any schmoe can do that if they live in that area. I'm talking about college activities not college-aged activities. But I'm not saying the average east coast education is better than the west coast's, I'm saying it is more meaningful.

Sure it is.

[Catattack]

That's some funny stuff. More meaningful more college activities Please enlighten us Rocky Mountain types on what we missed out on. Cause I personally had a fricken blast out here in the sticks.

[Ursus A. Horribilis]

Those activities you mentioned have nothing to do with college. Any schmoe can do that if they live in that area. I'm talking about college activities not college-aged activities.

Gonna have to agree. Skiing, boats, going out "downtown"... shit, we were eating $1 spaghetti nights at Pappy's Pizza and scrounging together nickels to buy a keg of Old Milwaukee.

Sounds amazingly different than quarter beer night (1.75 pitchers) shit beer night or $5 all you can drink night and the $4 all you can eat at the Long John Silvers type place or the the bag of burgers (4 for $2) and so forth.

The college experience is more meaningful there...got it.

I'm sure it seems more meaningful because retarded people can make an exciting event out of finding some gum and pennies on the street let alone a college atmosphere.

[kalm]

Those activities you mentioned have nothing to do with college. Any schmoe can do that if they live in that area. I'm talking about college activities not college-aged activities.

Gonna have to agree. Skiing, boats, going out "downtown"... shit, we were eating $1 spaghetti nights at Pappy's Pizza and scrounging together nickels to buy a keg of Old Milwaukee.

So EC schools must have better pillow fights, pep rallies, and study halls?

[Ursus A. Horribilis]

That's some funny stuff. More meaningful more college activities Please enlighten us Rocky Mountain types on what we missed out on. Cause I personally had a fricken blast out here in the sticks.

Just play along cuz 89 is looking for some fun and we don't want to disappoint him or 89hen2 from ODU.

They're really playin' us and getting in our kitchen so let's keep working that angle.

[Catattack]

Gonna have to agree. Skiing, boats, going out "downtown"... ****, we were eating $1 spaghetti nights at Pappy's Pizza and scrounging together nickels to buy a keg of Old Milwaukee.

Sounds amazingly different than quarter beer night (1.75 pitchers) **** beer night or $5 all you can drink night and the $4 all you can eat at the Long John Silvers type place or the the bag of burgers (4 for $2) and so forth.

The college experience is more meaningful there...got it.

I'm sure it seems more meaningful because retarded people can make an exciting event out of finding some gum and pennies on the street let alone a college atmosphere.

Memory lane. quarter beers on Friday afternoons at the R-Bar. Good times.

[Ursus A. Horribilis]

Sounds amazingly different than quarter beer night (1.75 pitchers) **** beer night or $5 all you can drink night and the $4 all you can eat at the Long John Silvers type place or the the bag of burgers (4 for $2) and so forth.

The college experience is more meaningful there...got it.

I'm sure it seems more meaningful because retarded people can make an exciting event out of finding some gum and pennies on the street let alone a college atmosphere.

Memory lane. quarter beers on Friday afternoons at the R-Bar. Good times.

The R bar was a very cool place. I wasn't nearly as enamored with it the last time I was there and they had cleaned it up a little.

I didn't like that they had cleaned that dive up. It was pretty much perfect with the "dirty" style it had going.

The Crystal was always a good time too.

Wasn't enamored with the Cat's Paw but holy shit when the good times were rollin' there it was a barrel of fun for sure. I dated a chick that worked at the bar down the street on the other side of the Pizza place right by the old BMX track...can't remember the name but that was always fun as hell too. Good times to be had in Bozeman for sure except when your in handcuffs...in front of the R bar...with a broken front window.

[89Hen]

Gonna have to agree. Skiing, boats, going out "downtown"... shit, we were eating $1 spaghetti nights at Pappy's Pizza and scrounging together nickels to buy a keg of Old Milwaukee.

Sounds amazingly different than quarter beer night (1.75 pitchers) shit beer night or $5 all you can drink night and the $4 all you can eat at the Long John Silvers type place or the the bag of burgers (4 for $2) and so forth.

The college experience is more meaningful there...got it.

I'm sure it seems more meaningful because retarded people can make an exciting event out of finding some gum and pennies on the street let alone a college atmosphere.

I wasn't agreeing with the more meaningful part, that's why I took it out of the quote. I was talking about the activites Slo had mentioned as being college atmosphere. Maybe things are better out there if college students can afford all that extra cirricular activity.

[93henfan]

I feel I'm qualified to pipe in here.

My bachelor's degree was attained on the east coast. I drank a lot, smoked some funny cigarettes from time to time, was laid with some regularity, and it was meaningful God-damned stuff I tell ya. The experience of a lifetime.

My master's degree was attained via internet from a west coast school. I never saw any chicks but my wife, and we don't like each other anymore. I had to juggle classes with work. I rarely had any free time. My drinking was not a social event, but rather an escape from my own sad reality. Bottom line, west coast schools are a terrible experience.

Myth: CONFIRMED!!!

[Ursus A. Horribilis]

Sounds amazingly different than quarter beer night (1.75 pitchers) shit beer night or $5 all you can drink night and the $4 all you can eat at the Long John Silvers type place or the the bag of burgers (4 for $2) and so forth.

The college experience is more meaningful there...got it.

I'm sure it seems more meaningful because retarded people can make an exciting event out of finding some gum and pennies on the street let alone a college atmosphere.

I wasn't agreeing with the more meaningful part, that's why I took it out of the quote. I was talking about the activites Slo had mentioned as being college atmosphere. Maybe things are better out there if college students can afford all that extra cirricular activity.

I didn't even see that you had eliminated that part of the quote.

I just figured you were fishing. We could always go boating and so forth but it was with a friend or a girlfriends parents that had the boat. That would be a pretty good standard to be at if they have their own.

Gotta admit though that a surfboard seems somewhat affordable and a pretty good way to pass the time.

I apologize for including you in the statement above. You obviously are of a higher magnitude than the ODU guy.

[Ursus A. Horribilis]

I feel I'm qualified to pipe in here.

My bachelor's degree was attained on the east coast. I drank a lot, smoked some funny cigarettes from time to time, was laid with some regularity, and it was meaningful God-damned stuff I tell ya. The experience of a lifetime.

My master's degree was attained via internet from a west coast school. I never saw any chicks but my wife, and we don't like each other anymore. I had to juggle classes with work. I rarely had any free time. My drinking was not a social event, but rather an escape from my own sad reality. Bottom line, west coast schools are a terrible experience.

Myth: CONFIRMED!!!

Good points.

[89Hen]

I wasn't agreeing with the more meaningful part, that's why I took it out of the quote. I was talking about the activites Slo had mentioned as being college atmosphere. Maybe things are better out there if college students can afford all that extra cirricular activity.

I didn't even see that you had eliminated that part of the quote.

I just figured you were fishing. We could always go boating and so forth but it was with a friend or a girlfriends parents that had the boat. That would be a pretty good standard to be at if they have their own.

Gotta admit though that a surfboard seems somewhat affordable and a pretty good way to pass the time.

I apologize for including you in the statement above. You obviously are of a higher magnitude than the ODU guy.

Maybe just this time.

You know, now that I think about it, I met one of my college girlfriends on a sailboat in the Chesapeake, so maybe these activities aren't just for the rich and famous.

[Ursus A. Horribilis]

I didn't even see that you had eliminated that part of the quote.

I just figured you were fishing. We could always go boating and so forth but it was with a friend or a girlfriends parents that had the boat. That would be a pretty good standard to be at if they have their own.

Gotta admit though that a surfboard seems somewhat affordable and a pretty good way to pass the time.

I apologize for including you in the statement above. You obviously are of a higher magnitude than the ODU guy.

Maybe just this time.

You know, now that I think about it, I met one of my college girlfriends on a sailboat in the Chesapeake, so maybe these activities aren't just for the rich and famous.

They mad a movie out of that called Dead Calm right?

[Silenoz]

Maybe just this time.

You know, now that I think about it, I met one of my college girlfriends on a sailboat in the Chesapeake, so maybe these activities aren't just for the rich and famous.

They mad a movie out of that called Dead Calm right?

I was thinking Swept Away

[EWURanger]

God it just **** KILLS you ECB mo-fos when a team west of Chattanooga wins the title.

Thank God it doesn't happen often.

Touche.

[Grizalltheway]

Those activities you mentioned have nothing to do with college. Any schmoe can do that if they live in that area. I'm talking about college activities not college-aged activities. But I'm not saying the average east coast education is better than the west coast's, I'm saying it is more meaningful.

This from a guy who was shoveling 3 feet of snow in January while I was studying at the beach or by the pool surrounded by beautiful women in skimpy bikinis. I just saying....

Haay now, CAA Flagship had plenty of thexy thailorths to ogle in Norfolk.

[CAA Flagship]

OK. I got a pretty good laugh from some of those comments. It's clear that it's the "off-season" and everyone wants to stay in wit shape. Or you guys don't understand.

The culture is definitely different on the east coast when it comes to college in the post-graduate years. People are often defined by where they went to school more than where they lived in the pre-college days. This difference was pointed out to me years ago by west coasters. One guy I know, after transferring within the same company from LA to Washington said that everyone in the Washington office knew where everyone else went to school. "That's Joe. He's a Wake Forest guy. That's Mike. He went to Maryland. The ywo guys over there went to Penn St." Diplomas were hung prominently in each office. He said it was never a topic of conversation in the LA office. Another guy who went to UCLA said he had more discussions about UCLA between the age of 40 and 45 after moving to Atlanta than he did between 22 and 40 while living in San Diego. There were similar comments from people I know that graduated from San Diego St, Pepperdine, Colorado St., Arizona St., UD Davis, and San Francisco.

[CAA Flagship]

Haay now, CAA Flagship had plenty of thexy thailorths to ogle in Norfolk.

The funny thing is that the girls looked great in September. But by January, after adding 15 pounds and losing the tan........not so good. So it depends on the calendar.

[SloStang]

Haay now, CAA Flagship had plenty of thexy thailorths to ogle in Norfolk.

The funny thing is that the girls looked great in September. But by January, after adding 15 pounds and losing the tan........not so good. So it depends on the calendar.

That is my point. The girls in California work out and tan year round and show off their hard bodies in bikinis at the beach (10 minutes from campus) or pool in Sept. and January. Now that is a BIG college experience.

[AZGrizFan]

OK. I got a pretty good laugh from some of those comments. It's clear that it's the "off-season" and everyone wants to stay in wit shape. Or you guys don't understand.

The culture is definitely different on the east coast when it comes to college in the post-graduate years. People are often defined by where they went to school more than where they lived in the pre-college days. This difference was pointed out to me years ago by west coasters. One guy I know, after transferring within the same company from LA to Washington said that everyone in the Washington office knew where everyone else went to school. "That's Joe. He's a Wake Forest guy. That's Mike. He went to Maryland. The ywo guys over there went to Penn St." Diplomas were hung prominently in each office. He said it was never a topic of conversation in the LA office. Another guy who went to UCLA said he had more discussions about UCLA between the age of 40 and 45 after moving to Atlanta than he did between 22 and 40 while living in San Diego. There were similar comments from people I know that graduated from San Diego St, Pepperdine, Colorado St., Arizona St., UD Davis, and San Francisco.

It's not that we out here don't understand. It's that we're just not arrogant, pompous blowhards trying to impress someone constantly with a piece of paper hung on the wall. I've gotten to interview LOTS of people in my line of work, many with VERY shiny, impressive resumes. I've hired literally hundreds of people in the past 15 years and there is virtually NO difference between a Portland State Grad and a "Wake Forest guy"....they're just as likely to succeed or fail, just as likely to be a douche or be a good guy...just as likely to be knowledgeable or to have faked their way through their degree (and that happens WAAAAAAYYYY more often than anyone would like to admit)....but out here you RARELY see a diploma stuck up onto a wall....that's called an "I love me" wall and that pompous shit don't fly out here.

[Ursus A. Horribilis]

OK. I got a pretty good laugh from some of those comments. It's clear that it's the "off-season" and everyone wants to stay in wit shape. Or you guys don't understand.

The culture is definitely different on the east coast when it comes to college in the post-graduate years. People are often defined by where they went to school more than where they lived in the pre-college days. This difference was pointed out to me years ago by west coasters. One guy I know, after transferring within the same company from LA to Washington said that everyone in the Washington office knew where everyone else went to school. "That's Joe. He's a Wake Forest guy. That's Mike. He went to Maryland. The ywo guys over there went to Penn St." Diplomas were hung prominently in each office. He said it was never a topic of conversation in the LA office. Another guy who went to UCLA said he had more discussions about UCLA between the age of 40 and 45 after moving to Atlanta than he did between 22 and 40 while living in San Diego. There were similar comments from people I know that graduated from San Diego St, Pepperdine, Colorado St., Arizona St., UD Davis, and San Francisco.

It's not that we out here don't understand. It's that we're just not arrogant, pompous blowhards trying to impress someone constantly with a piece of paper hung on the wall. I've gotten to interview LOTS of people in my line of work, many with VERY shiny, impressive resumes. I've hired literally hundreds of people in the past 15 years and there is virtually NO difference between a Portland State Grad and a "Wake Forest guy"....they're just as likely to succeed or fail, just as likely to be a douche or be a good guy...just as likely to be knowledgeable or to have faked their way through their degree (and that happens WAAAAAAYYYY more often than anyone would like to admit)....but out here you RARELY see a diploma stuck up onto a wall....that's called an "I love me" wall and that pompous shit don't fly out here.

That's exactly it. We have one guy at our Griz tailgate that was always talking about Harvard. He is a friend (not Cleets) and I took him apart in front of all in attendance about why that doesn't mean shit to anyone there.

He references it quite often as a learning experience. He's a good guy and now sees the humor in it.

The fact that some assholes want to believe they mean something because of where they went to school doesn't mean shit to me or hardly anybody that I know.

It's very funny to me that this is considered part of what anybody's school experience was and that the vapid nature of your culture greatly elevated your school experience.

You are an asshole...you think that because you went to school where other assholes went and they guage the level of assholiness on where they went to school is something that adds to it all in the long run?

Good for you.

[CAA Flagship]

I'm just pointing out the culture. I'm not saying anything about one school being better than another. Yeah there are people that take that angle. I'm saying that in the post-graduate years, many on the east coast use alma maters as a means to identify with people. Often times it is used more than home states. Private school, public school, large school, small school, New England, Deep South, etc. Many times, the colleges are choices that people make so that choice may tell you a little bit more about the person rather than saying "he is from Connecticut".

I'm not saying this is good or bad. It can be both. I'm just pointing out that the correlation between alma mater and the person is more prevalent on the east coast. This is probably the result of the connection that is maintained between the graduate and the school. Most of this is through athletics obviously. Like every one of us on this board.

[bandl]

When did ODU join the Uppity, er, Ivy League? Such pomposity for double fall back school!

[blazerbird]

Interesting conversation. In the Pacific Northwest, it's important to know people no matter who they are. A University diploma doesn't mean as much as a relationship with someone who's throwing a party, owns a boat/cabin, or has a house you can stay at. When I see someone flying a Griz, Cat, UW, Oregon, or Eastern flag, I know more about their personality than their academic affiliation or experience. Our geography dictates that you make nice with everybody. That said, I would've killed for SloStang's college way of life this winter and spring.