(11-04-2013 07:31 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  

(11-04-2013 07:18 PM)CajunFanatico Wrote:  

(11-04-2013 07:11 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  On a side note: I am about to declare war on the poster on Bobcat Fans who described Jonesboro as the crappiest town he had ever visited.

He obviously never drove through Ruston, Louisiana.

I didn't ask. Thankfully they got redirected into a speculated belief that Troy is a crappy town, so I didn't have to do much than a cursory defense of Jonesboro.

It seems they were basing the decision off of the quality of hotel rooms available. Which on a football weekend is the dumbest idea I have heard in a while. I don't know about other SBC schools, but our top hotels sell out for game Saturdays.

What's Jonesboro/Craighead County's current stance on the buying, selling, and serving of alcohol?

I went to the Louisiana/stAte game two years ago. Most Cajun fans and the team stayed in Memphis. Heard a lot of talk about Beale street, wasn't impressed.
Jonesboro seemed like an average town. I liked ya'lls campus. I remember it was super windy that day. We walked around a bit to check out the tailgating. Ya'll had a decent amount of people but things seemed a little tame. I wouldn't call it the crappiest place ever, but not the greatest either. I'd say somewhere in the middle.

If this offends, my apologies. That's not the intent. Just giving my honest opinion.

(11-04-2013 07:58 PM)CajunFan3406 Wrote:  

(11-04-2013 07:31 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  

(11-04-2013 07:18 PM)CajunFanatico Wrote:  

(11-04-2013 07:11 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  On a side note: I am about to declare war on the poster on Bobcat Fans who described Jonesboro as the crappiest town he had ever visited.

He obviously never drove through Ruston, Louisiana.

I didn't ask. Thankfully they got redirected into a speculated belief that Troy is a crappy town, so I didn't have to do much than a cursory defense of Jonesboro.

It seems they were basing the decision off of the quality of hotel rooms available. Which on a football weekend is the dumbest idea I have heard in a while. I don't know about other SBC schools, but our top hotels sell out for game Saturdays.

What's Jonesboro/Craighead County's current stance on the buying, selling, and serving of alcohol?

I went to the Louisiana/stAte game two years ago. Most Cajun fans and the team stayed in Memphis. Heard a lot of talk about Beale street, wasn't impressed.
Jonesboro seemed like an average town. I liked ya'lls campus. I remember it was super windy that day. We walked around a bit to check out the tailgating. Ya'll had a decent amount of people but things seemed a little tame. I wouldn't call it the crappiest place ever, but not the greatest either. I'd say somewhere in the middle.

If this offends, my apologies. That's not the intent. Just giving my honest opinion.

Well it's still a dry county, but just about the only food establishments that don't sell alcohol are fast food. Down town has got a lot better the last couple years, but asu fans are still a very fair weather group and so by nature a very tame. And that's mostly because everyone is spread out. Businesses in one place, fans in 2 places, and students in another.

(11-04-2013 07:29 PM)CajunFanatico Wrote:  

(11-04-2013 07:21 PM)bokobobcat1919 Wrote:  

(11-04-2013 07:13 PM)CajunFanatico Wrote:  I gotta say, that loss to a Browning-less ULM at TxState sure looms large today, doesn't it?

you just had to pour salt in there didn't you. ;-)

There's been so much football played since then that I'd forgotten the particulars of the game. From ESPN's recap:

Centarius Donald rushed for a 10-yard touchdown with 18 seconds remaining as Louisiana-Monroe held on to defeat Texas St. 21-14 Saturday night.

Donald's touchdown was the first offensive touchdown for the Warhawks (3-4, 1-1 Sun Belt Conference) in six quarters.

Isaiah Newsome had interception returns of 71 and 75 yards to give ULM a 14-0 lead, and helped snap the Warhawks three-game losing streak.



What were you guys thinking??????

Yep. An argument could be made for our QB to be ULM's MVP for that game. Honestly think that we could've not thrown a single pass that night probably would've won that game.

(11-04-2013 07:58 PM)CajunFan3406 Wrote:  

(11-04-2013 07:31 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  

(11-04-2013 07:18 PM)CajunFanatico Wrote:  

(11-04-2013 07:11 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  On a side note: I am about to declare war on the poster on Bobcat Fans who described Jonesboro as the crappiest town he had ever visited.

He obviously never drove through Ruston, Louisiana.

I didn't ask. Thankfully they got redirected into a speculated belief that Troy is a crappy town, so I didn't have to do much than a cursory defense of Jonesboro.

It seems they were basing the decision off of the quality of hotel rooms available. Which on a football weekend is the dumbest idea I have heard in a while. I don't know about other SBC schools, but our top hotels sell out for game Saturdays.

What's Jonesboro/Craighead County's current stance on the buying, selling, and serving of alcohol?

I went to the Louisiana/stAte game two years ago. Most Cajun fans and the team stayed in Memphis. Heard a lot of talk about Beale street, wasn't impressed.
Jonesboro seemed like an average town. I liked ya'lls campus. I remember it was super windy that day. We walked around a bit to check out the tailgating. Ya'll had a decent amount of people but things seemed a little tame. I wouldn't call it the crappiest place ever, but not the greatest either. I'd say somewhere in the middle.

If this offends, my apologies. That's not the intent. Just giving my honest opinion.

We've been working hard in making Jonesboro a more inviting place for years. We are one of the fastest growing cities in Arkansas, so people want to live here, but getting them to come and stay seems to be the problem.

The dry county thing is the first issue, but pretty much every restaurant can now sell alcohol, so as long as you are not a huge fan of gas station beer, you're good.

The other is simply growing pains. There is a big push to keep the small town type feel, while others have been pushing to build a convention center. Most of the new construction and establishments that we are bringing in are on the North side of town, and away from the campus. We get some blow back to in trying to make the town more ASU prominent. A move to rename the main drag that goes to the stadium as "Red Wolf Boulevard" keeps getting held up by a small group of businesses who have city council support. Heck the reason we'll always be a dry county is because many of the churches in the area will make sure it never reaches the ballot. In some places, we are stuck in the 70's, in others we are clearly in the twenty first century.

In the last two years however, we have made a ton of strides.

(11-04-2013 11:02 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  

(11-04-2013 07:58 PM)CajunFan3406 Wrote:  

(11-04-2013 07:31 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  

(11-04-2013 07:18 PM)CajunFanatico Wrote:  

(11-04-2013 07:11 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  On a side note: I am about to declare war on the poster on Bobcat Fans who described Jonesboro as the crappiest town he had ever visited.

He obviously never drove through Ruston, Louisiana.

I didn't ask. Thankfully they got redirected into a speculated belief that Troy is a crappy town, so I didn't have to do much than a cursory defense of Jonesboro.

It seems they were basing the decision off of the quality of hotel rooms available. Which on a football weekend is the dumbest idea I have heard in a while. I don't know about other SBC schools, but our top hotels sell out for game Saturdays.

What's Jonesboro/Craighead County's current stance on the buying, selling, and serving of alcohol?

I went to the Louisiana/stAte game two years ago. Most Cajun fans and the team stayed in Memphis. Heard a lot of talk about Beale street, wasn't impressed.
Jonesboro seemed like an average town. I liked ya'lls campus. I remember it was super windy that day. We walked around a bit to check out the tailgating. Ya'll had a decent amount of people but things seemed a little tame. I wouldn't call it the crappiest place ever, but not the greatest either. I'd say somewhere in the middle.

If this offends, my apologies. That's not the intent. Just giving my honest opinion.

We've been working hard in making Jonesboro a more inviting place for years. We are one of the fastest growing cities in Arkansas, so people want to live here, but getting them to come and stay seems to be the problem.

The dry county thing is the first issue, but pretty much every restaurant can now sell alcohol, so as long as you are not a huge fan of gas station beer, you're good.

The other is simply growing pains. There is a big push to keep the small town type feel, while others have been pushing to build a convention center. Most of the new construction and establishments that we are bringing in are on the North side of town, and away from the campus. We get some blow back to in trying to make the town more ASU prominent. A move to rename the main drag that goes to the stadium as "Red Wolf Boulevard" keeps getting held up by a small group of businesses who have city council support. Heck the reason we'll always be a dry county is because many of the churches in the area will make sure it never reaches the ballot. In some places, we are stuck in the 70's, in others we are clearly in the twenty first century.

In the last two years however, we have made a ton of strides.

Don't you mean south of town? The campus is about as north as it gets.

(11-04-2013 11:16 PM)stAtecamera13 Wrote:  

(11-04-2013 11:02 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  

(11-04-2013 07:58 PM)CajunFan3406 Wrote:  

(11-04-2013 07:31 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  

(11-04-2013 07:18 PM)CajunFanatico Wrote:  He obviously never drove through Ruston, Louisiana.

I didn't ask. Thankfully they got redirected into a speculated belief that Troy is a crappy town, so I didn't have to do much than a cursory defense of Jonesboro.

It seems they were basing the decision off of the quality of hotel rooms available. Which on a football weekend is the dumbest idea I have heard in a while. I don't know about other SBC schools, but our top hotels sell out for game Saturdays.

What's Jonesboro/Craighead County's current stance on the buying, selling, and serving of alcohol?

I went to the Louisiana/stAte game two years ago. Most Cajun fans and the team stayed in Memphis. Heard a lot of talk about Beale street, wasn't impressed.
Jonesboro seemed like an average town. I liked ya'lls campus. I remember it was super windy that day. We walked around a bit to check out the tailgating. Ya'll had a decent amount of people but things seemed a little tame. I wouldn't call it the crappiest place ever, but not the greatest either. I'd say somewhere in the middle.

If this offends, my apologies. That's not the intent. Just giving my honest opinion.

We've been working hard in making Jonesboro a more inviting place for years. We are one of the fastest growing cities in Arkansas, so people want to live here, but getting them to come and stay seems to be the problem.

The dry county thing is the first issue, but pretty much every restaurant can now sell alcohol, so as long as you are not a huge fan of gas station beer, you're good.

The other is simply growing pains. There is a big push to keep the small town type feel, while others have been pushing to build a convention center. Most of the new construction and establishments that we are bringing in are on the North side of town, and away from the campus. We get some blow back to in trying to make the town more ASU prominent. A move to rename the main drag that goes to the stadium as "Red Wolf Boulevard" keeps getting held up by a small group of businesses who have city council support. Heck the reason we'll always be a dry county is because many of the churches in the area will make sure it never reaches the ballot. In some places, we are stuck in the 70's, in others we are clearly in the twenty first century.

In the last two years however, we have made a ton of strides.

Don't you mean south of town? The campus is about as north as it gets.

We're building even farther north than campus now. The new hospital and several new hotels are going up on the road to Paragould. Pretty soon we'll be at the Brookland city limits we're building so far that way.

Once we fill that up, we'll likely move South of town.

(11-04-2013 11:22 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  

(11-04-2013 11:16 PM)stAtecamera13 Wrote:  

(11-04-2013 11:02 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  

(11-04-2013 07:58 PM)CajunFan3406 Wrote:  

(11-04-2013 07:31 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  I didn't ask. Thankfully they got redirected into a speculated belief that Troy is a crappy town, so I didn't have to do much than a cursory defense of Jonesboro.

It seems they were basing the decision off of the quality of hotel rooms available. Which on a football weekend is the dumbest idea I have heard in a while. I don't know about other SBC schools, but our top hotels sell out for game Saturdays.

What's Jonesboro/Craighead County's current stance on the buying, selling, and serving of alcohol?

I went to the Louisiana/stAte game two years ago. Most Cajun fans and the team stayed in Memphis. Heard a lot of talk about Beale street, wasn't impressed.
Jonesboro seemed like an average town. I liked ya'lls campus. I remember it was super windy that day. We walked around a bit to check out the tailgating. Ya'll had a decent amount of people but things seemed a little tame. I wouldn't call it the crappiest place ever, but not the greatest either. I'd say somewhere in the middle.

If this offends, my apologies. That's not the intent. Just giving my honest opinion.

We've been working hard in making Jonesboro a more inviting place for years. We are one of the fastest growing cities in Arkansas, so people want to live here, but getting them to come and stay seems to be the problem.

The dry county thing is the first issue, but pretty much every restaurant can now sell alcohol, so as long as you are not a huge fan of gas station beer, you're good.

The other is simply growing pains. There is a big push to keep the small town type feel, while others have been pushing to build a convention center. Most of the new construction and establishments that we are bringing in are on the North side of town, and away from the campus. We get some blow back to in trying to make the town more ASU prominent. A move to rename the main drag that goes to the stadium as "Red Wolf Boulevard" keeps getting held up by a small group of businesses who have city council support. Heck the reason we'll always be a dry county is because many of the churches in the area will make sure it never reaches the ballot. In some places, we are stuck in the 70's, in others we are clearly in the twenty first century.

In the last two years however, we have made a ton of strides.

Don't you mean south of town? The campus is about as north as it gets.

We're building even farther north than campus now. The new hospital and several new hotels are going up on the road to Paragould. Pretty soon we'll be at the Brookland city limits we're building so far that way.

Once we fill that up, we'll likely move South of town.

This is true. I guess I still think of that being farhville lol there is a lot of construction south of town also though. The north of town stuff is because of the hospital.

(11-04-2013 11:24 PM)stAtecamera13 Wrote:  

(11-04-2013 11:22 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  

(11-04-2013 11:16 PM)stAtecamera13 Wrote:  

(11-04-2013 11:02 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  

(11-04-2013 07:58 PM)CajunFan3406 Wrote:  What's Jonesboro/Craighead County's current stance on the buying, selling, and serving of alcohol?

I went to the Louisiana/stAte game two years ago. Most Cajun fans and the team stayed in Memphis. Heard a lot of talk about Beale street, wasn't impressed.
Jonesboro seemed like an average town. I liked ya'lls campus. I remember it was super windy that day. We walked around a bit to check out the tailgating. Ya'll had a decent amount of people but things seemed a little tame. I wouldn't call it the crappiest place ever, but not the greatest either. I'd say somewhere in the middle.

If this offends, my apologies. That's not the intent. Just giving my honest opinion.

We've been working hard in making Jonesboro a more inviting place for years. We are one of the fastest growing cities in Arkansas, so people want to live here, but getting them to come and stay seems to be the problem.

The dry county thing is the first issue, but pretty much every restaurant can now sell alcohol, so as long as you are not a huge fan of gas station beer, you're good.

The other is simply growing pains. There is a big push to keep the small town type feel, while others have been pushing to build a convention center. Most of the new construction and establishments that we are bringing in are on the North side of town, and away from the campus. We get some blow back to in trying to make the town more ASU prominent. A move to rename the main drag that goes to the stadium as "Red Wolf Boulevard" keeps getting held up by a small group of businesses who have city council support. Heck the reason we'll always be a dry county is because many of the churches in the area will make sure it never reaches the ballot. In some places, we are stuck in the 70's, in others we are clearly in the twenty first century.

In the last two years however, we have made a ton of strides.

Don't you mean south of town? The campus is about as north as it gets.

We're building even farther north than campus now. The new hospital and several new hotels are going up on the road to Paragould. Pretty soon we'll be at the Brookland city limits we're building so far that way.

Once we fill that up, we'll likely move South of town.

This is true. I guess I still think of that being farhville lol there is a lot of construction south of town also though. The north of town stuff is because of the hospital.

I know there has been talk of building a convention center, but I am not sure where it would go. That is really the last major step that needs to be completed. It would open up the city to host major conferences and events that ASU cant handle. That is a lot of revenue.

(11-04-2013 11:26 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  

(11-04-2013 11:24 PM)stAtecamera13 Wrote:  

(11-04-2013 11:22 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  

(11-04-2013 11:16 PM)stAtecamera13 Wrote:  

(11-04-2013 11:02 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  We've been working hard in making Jonesboro a more inviting place for years. We are one of the fastest growing cities in Arkansas, so people want to live here, but getting them to come and stay seems to be the problem.

The dry county thing is the first issue, but pretty much every restaurant can now sell alcohol, so as long as you are not a huge fan of gas station beer, you're good.

The other is simply growing pains. There is a big push to keep the small town type feel, while others have been pushing to build a convention center. Most of the new construction and establishments that we are bringing in are on the North side of town, and away from the campus. We get some blow back to in trying to make the town more ASU prominent. A move to rename the main drag that goes to the stadium as "Red Wolf Boulevard" keeps getting held up by a small group of businesses who have city council support. Heck the reason we'll always be a dry county is because many of the churches in the area will make sure it never reaches the ballot. In some places, we are stuck in the 70's, in others we are clearly in the twenty first century.

In the last two years however, we have made a ton of strides.

Don't you mean south of town? The campus is about as north as it gets.

We're building even farther north than campus now. The new hospital and several new hotels are going up on the road to Paragould. Pretty soon we'll be at the Brookland city limits we're building so far that way.

Once we fill that up, we'll likely move South of town.

This is true. I guess I still think of that being farhville lol there is a lot of construction south of town also though. The north of town stuff is because of the hospital.

I know there has been talk of building a convention center, but I am not sure where it would go. That is really the last major step that needs to be completed. It would open up the city to host major conferences and events that ASU cant handle. That is a lot of revenue.

They keep filling out the places that would be perfect. I don't know where it would go either.

(11-04-2013 11:39 PM)stAtecamera13 Wrote:  

(11-04-2013 11:26 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  

(11-04-2013 11:24 PM)stAtecamera13 Wrote:  

(11-04-2013 11:22 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  

(11-04-2013 11:16 PM)stAtecamera13 Wrote:  Don't you mean south of town? The campus is about as north as it gets.

We're building even farther north than campus now. The new hospital and several new hotels are going up on the road to Paragould. Pretty soon we'll be at the Brookland city limits we're building so far that way.

Once we fill that up, we'll likely move South of town.

This is true. I guess I still think of that being farhville lol there is a lot of construction south of town also though. The north of town stuff is because of the hospital.

I know there has been talk of building a convention center, but I am not sure where it would go. That is really the last major step that needs to be completed. It would open up the city to host major conferences and events that ASU cant handle. That is a lot of revenue.

They keep filling out the places that would be perfect. I don't know where it would go either.

Most likely location for a convention center is where the Arkansas Services Center was - between Race and the "Bypass."

2nd most likely location for a convention center is on Race and Fair Park Blvd - just north of the Hilton.

OK tying up various odds and ends.

Convention Center. The logical place is on campus where the track used to be. Done correctly the convention hotel can sell its own space while bidding for bigger events that would require the Fowler Center or Convention Center. That sort of flexibility would make it far more competitive in the small market meeting business than any similar sized city and quite a few larger ones.

Staying dry. Over the past couple years some counties I thought were locks to remain dry have gone wet. Years back the booze folks wanting to keep their alcohol monopoly got Lu Hardin to carry the water on a bill that requires a large number of signatures (like 38% of the votes cast in the last election) to get on the ballot. Since it passed, every wet/dry vote has gone wet. The reason is if you can get enough signatures to get on the ballot you've got enough votes to pass it. Right now there seems to be little interest of going wet since every decent restaurant has a bar now and most of the population of the county can be at a package store in 15 minutes.

Downtown. There is no valid contradiction to the statement that downtown Jonesboro is one of the better renovations that has happened. Downtown now has a lot of quality restaurants and there are some great housing options down there now. I think Jonesboro downtown beats Little Rock's downtown because the private club law requires a high ratio of food sales so you don't have places solely dedicated to getting trashed so in turn you don't have the crime issues the Rivermarket or Beale have nor do you have trash and other rubble on the sidewalks in the morning. The main thing lacking downtown is a hotel.

As to the Browning comment. Duh. The point was you can't stack 8 in the box against a typical Sun Belt QB and that applies to him as well. The only difference between Browning and the typical Belt QB is that you are rarely well served putting pressure on him unless you are winning the scrap across the line and can apply even pressure. That doesn't happen often, normally pressure comes unevenly and Browning can exploit that better than anyone else in the league today.

I think the bye week for TXST is going to be a huge advantage. This is going to give Tyler Jones the extra time he needs to continue to learn and develop chemistry with the WRs, he has started to come into his own on the field so I have confidence he will be even more sound with the extra practice. If you make this offense two dimensional it has the skill players to be scary good, pair that with our outstanding defense and stAte better watch out.

I cannot think that an extra week to heal, and focus on the opponent can be anything but good.

Clearly I will pull for what helps UL the most, and Louisiana will be helped the most by a TxSt victory regardless of the outcome of stAte and ULM.

I think it's about time to jump back on this thread. Even after the big win over ULM, I like TxSt to win this in a close one. (also I want to see some realistic predictions, I'll take TxST 27-24. And thats with a defensive TD)

realistic prediction: ASU shows up in UCA's uniform combination. Scared to death and remembering their inability to beat their old Arkansas conference rivals, Texas State chooses to save face and forfeit.

Oh...okay, the teams will play a football game and points will be scored.

As much as I want to see you guys succeed in your first year in the Belt, stAte is playing really good ball and is really motivated to finish second in the league.

Tough row to hoe.

Good luck to both teams and NO INJURIES!

(11-10-2013 07:49 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  realistic prediction: ASU shows up in UCA's uniform combination. Scared to death and remembering their inability to beat their old Arkansas conference rivals, Texas State chooses to save face and forfeit.

Oh...okay, the teams will play a football game and points will be scored.

You just had to go there, didn't you?

(11-10-2013 07:58 PM)ThaGinga Wrote:  

(11-10-2013 07:49 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  realistic prediction: ASU shows up in UCA's uniform combination. Scared to death and remembering their inability to beat their old Arkansas conference rivals, Texas State chooses to save face and forfeit.

Oh...okay, the teams will play a football game and points will be scored.

You just had to go there, didn't you?

Its hard not to. There will be more than 1 ASU fan who will ignore all of your successes this year because you couldn't beat UCA. We tend to look down on schools that can't beat the Bears. Its an Arkansas thing.

It's cute to see how confident Texas State fans are, but unfortunately for them, we've finally gotten the kinks worked out of this new offensive scheme, and we're hot right now. This game could potentially look like the MTSU game in Jonesboro last season...... 45-0 stAte

(11-10-2013 09:17 PM)gostAte870 Wrote:  It's cute to see how confident Texas State fans are, but unfortunately for them, we've finally gotten the kinks worked out of this new offensive scheme, and we're hot right now. This game could potentially look like the MTSU game in Jonesboro last season...... 45-0 stAte

It's even more cute to see how confident you are, If you really think you can put up 45 on the Bobcat D then you haven't watched a single TxSt game all year.