(01-25-2015 05:02 PM)BamaScorpio69 Wrote: Atlanta doesn't suck at all. But it's sure isn't Miami. Miami has beaches!!!
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Well Atlanta does suck to drive in, or even just through. Otherwise Atlanta seems fine when I've stayed there. Haven't found a reason to test out Miami yet.
Atlanta is growing because people driving through get frustrated and just stay.
(01-25-2015 03:58 PM)UNLVFan90 Wrote: Has C-USA announced when they're going to decide whether or not to keep UAB?
Chris Massaro, the Athletic Director at Middle Tennessee, said a final decision on UAB’s future in the league probably would be made at C-USA’s spring meetings in June.
(01-25-2015 11:34 PM)Native Georgian Wrote: Chris Massaro, the Athletic Director at Middle Tennessee, said a final decision on UAB’s future in the league probably would be made at C-USA’s spring meetings in June.
In other words "UAB you have till June to show us something positive".
Kick the can down the road until June... I'm ok with that. Gives ample time for an informed decision. I'm glad UAB will have a little extra time to get their house in order.
(01-24-2015 12:04 PM)ChooChoo Wrote: If it happens, it happens. Presidents, ADs, and comissioners make these decisions based on much larger factors than W-L records. Sure, Georgia State has had an abysmal athletic record the past 50 years, but we havent had the resources, students, down town housing, and commitment to facilities and overall opportunities that we are now being afforded.
Georgia State will have 50k students, multiple intown dorms, numerous new academic buildings, and the Turner Field project all coming to fruition in the next 36 months within a Top 10 market. I'm not saying we are leaving the SBC, but folks have to be very naive to think we aren't positioning ourselves to be a permanent blip on the discussion radar. I have no doubt that many others are as well.
Let's also not minimize the extreme damage that five years under The Levick caused. Charlie Cobb is doing a great job so far of cleaning house and reversing some of her idiocy. He has not been on the job 6 months. Things are definitely different with a President and AD on the same page.
If Charlie Cobb was able to get Georgia State into C-USA in 6 months, after not being able to get App State there after years of trying, there would be a meltdown in Boone. Okay, that might be just enough to convince me.
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(01-24-2015 12:04 PM)ChooChoo Wrote: If it happens, it happens. Presidents, ADs, and comissioners make these decisions based on much larger factors than W-L records. Sure, Georgia State has had an abysmal athletic record the past 50 years, but we havent had the resources, students, down town housing, and commitment to facilities and overall opportunities that we are now being afforded.
Georgia State will have 50k students, multiple intown dorms, numerous new academic buildings, and the Turner Field project all coming to fruition in the next 36 months within a Top 10 market. I'm not saying we are leaving the SBC, but folks have to be very naive to think we aren't positioning ourselves to be a permanent blip on the discussion radar. I have no doubt that many others are as well.
Let's also not minimize the extreme damage that five years under The Levick caused. Charlie Cobb is doing a great job so far of cleaning house and reversing some of her idiocy. He has not been on the job 6 months. Things are definitely different with a President and AD on the same page.
If Charlie Cobb was able to get Georgia State into C-USA in 6 months, after not being able to get App State there after years of trying, there would be a meltdown in Boone. Okay, that might be just enough to convince me.
(01-24-2015 12:04 PM)ChooChoo Wrote: If it happens, it happens. Presidents, ADs, and comissioners make these decisions based on much larger factors than W-L records. Sure, Georgia State has had an abysmal athletic record the past 50 years, but we havent had the resources, students, down town housing, and commitment to facilities and overall opportunities that we are now being afforded.
Georgia State will have 50k students, multiple intown dorms, numerous new academic buildings, and the Turner Field project all coming to fruition in the next 36 months within a Top 10 market. I'm not saying we are leaving the SBC, but folks have to be very naive to think we aren't positioning ourselves to be a permanent blip on the discussion radar. I have no doubt that many others are as well.
Let's also not minimize the extreme damage that five years under The Levick caused. Charlie Cobb is doing a great job so far of cleaning house and reversing some of her idiocy. He has not been on the job 6 months. Things are definitely different with a President and AD on the same page.
If Charlie Cobb was able to get Georgia State into C-USA in 6 months, after not being able to get App State there after years of trying, there would be a meltdown in Boone. Okay, that might be just enough to convince me.
If Georgia State gets into CUSA or does not get into CUSA, I doubt it'll be for far more reasons than just the AD.
CUSA has made it pretty clear that their preference has been on well-rounded athletic departments. The Sun Belt has been more focused on football first schools.
Obviously CUSA has wanted to take schools with good football potential, but I think the additions of WKU, ODU, and Charlotte have shown that they also place a priority on hoops (yes, I'm aware we suck, no need to point it out) and olympic sports.
I'm sure CUSA has also had a preference for large markets, but that obviously isn't the only factor with La Tech and WKU both getting invites.
(01-25-2015 05:02 PM)BamaScorpio69 Wrote: Atlanta doesn't suck at all. But it's sure isn't Miami. Miami has beaches!!!
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Well Atlanta does suck to drive in, or even just through. Otherwise Atlanta seems fine when I've stayed there. Haven't found a reason to test out Miami yet.
Atlanta is growing because people driving through get frustrated and just stay.
Atlanta really isn't that difficult to drive through. Rush hour traffic is a female reality show bi*ch to deal with but outside of that it's not that bad.
(01-26-2015 07:21 PM)BamaScorpio69 Wrote: Atlanta really isn't that difficult to drive through. Rush hour traffic is a female reality show bi*ch to deal with but outside of that it's not that bad.
Actually its dependent on where you drive in Atlanta. When has become secondary as there is traffic 24/7 in Atlanta now.
(01-26-2015 07:21 PM)BamaScorpio69 Wrote: Atlanta really isn't that difficult to drive through. Rush hour traffic is a female reality show bi*ch to deal with but outside of that it's not that bad.
Actually its dependent on where you drive in Atlanta. When has become secondary as there is traffic 24/7 in Atlanta now.
I agree. I have never encountered horrible traffic partly because I know when to travel through downtown and avoid it.
(01-26-2015 09:01 PM)Monarch Homselr Wrote: Is't it confusing to drive when all roads, streets, avenues etc are named Peachtree?
No, that's a common misconception; in reality, other parts of the street adress are used to resolve any ambiguities. For example, you can have a road, street, boulevard, etc. all named "Peachtree". Also, other words like "circle" or "Dunwoody" can be attached to "Peachtree" to provide even more information.
Atlanta-area roads are laid out in a haphazard, seemingly random fashion (especially in the suburbs), but the "Peachtree" thing is not nearly as confusing as the legend would have it. I drive for Uber in my spare time and that has never once been a problem. Like Panama and Scorpion said, the key is knowing when to drive and being familiar with the traffic-patterns. Which (of course) most people are clueless about those things.
(01-26-2015 07:21 PM)BamaScorpio69 Wrote: Atlanta really isn't that difficult to drive through. Rush hour traffic is a female reality show bi*ch to deal with but outside of that it's not that bad.
Actually its dependent on where you drive in Atlanta. When has become secondary as there is traffic 24/7 in Atlanta now.
I've driven 75 through Atlanta and been one of the slowest cars on the road and been stuck going 0.75 mph forever. Miami traffic is bath$hit crazy, first night in Miami,it was hard to sleep for all the horn honking. Birmingham is the place I hate driving. I've been through a dozen times and always been stopped for a wreck. My theory is that it isn't Birmingham drivers but rather people from the rural areas coming in.
(01-26-2015 10:42 PM)Native Georgian Wrote: Atlanta-area roads are laid out in a haphazard, seemingly random fashion (especially in the suburbs), but the "Peachtree" thing is not nearly as confusing as the legend would have it. I drive for Uber in my spare time and that has never once been a problem. Like Panama and Scorpion said, the key is knowing when to drive and being familiar with the traffic-patterns. Which (of course) most people are clueless about those things.
Well not so haphazard as it turns out. Most if the main streets follow trails that existed going back to when Native Americans settled the area. A grid pattern, other than in Downtown and Midtown , makes no sense when you realize how hilly the Atlanta area is. It would have meant cutting through hills and in some instances blasting through granite to have a straight road (which is actually what they had to do when the interstate system came through). You really get a sense of how we are in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains when you play with an elevation app like on veloroutes.org. Downtown is at over 1200 feet elevation. I live less than 5 miles away and it's 900 feet elevation.
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(01-26-2015 07:21 PM)BamaScorpio69 Wrote: Atlanta really isn't that difficult to drive through. Rush hour traffic is a female reality show bi*ch to deal with but outside of that it's not that bad.
Actually its dependent on where you drive in Atlanta. When has become secondary as there is traffic 24/7 in Atlanta now.
I've driven 75 through Atlanta and been one of the slowest cars on the road and been stuck going 0.75 mph forever. Miami traffic is bath$hit crazy, first night in Miami,it was hard to sleep for all the horn honking. Birmingham is the place I hate driving. I've been through a dozen times and always been stopped for a wreck. My theory is that it isn't Birmingham drivers but rather people from the rural areas coming in.
In Atlanta I have been stuck in traffic jams at the weirdest times and in the weirdest places. People always say its Downtown but you are more likely to be stuck in stop and go traffic in Dunwoody or Lawrenceville. Another peculiarity of Metro Atlanta besides not being built on a grid is the number of streets and subdivisions that end in a dead end or cul de sac, especially outside the city core.So whereas in Downtown or Midtown if there is traffic on one street I can try and go one or two street over and take a parallel route there is less of an opportunity to do that in the burbs. All the neighborhoods feed out to one or two main roads. This has lead to every snow/ice/end times Jam this city has ever had. Another thin,g which I think is generational, is that people do not know how to get across town on surface roads. People in Marietta know their slice of Cobb County. People in Conyers know Rockdale County, maybe parts of Dekalb and how to get Downtown on I-20. But people dont know how to navigate from one side of town to the other without getting on the Interstate.
Miami? LOL. Love that city, but they dont call it the 6th borough for nothing. They are laid on a TIGHT grid system ( I have never seen parallel streets so close together) and its a surprisingly compact city so chances are there is a main street or interstate within 1000 feet of your hotel. And Caribbean and South American people have no problem using their horn. LOL
Agree completely on Birmingham and in fact Macon, GA is becoming more like that every time I go down there.
(01-23-2015 10:45 PM)WKUFan518 Wrote: LIsten I love Atlanta, but Georgia St. is an absolute joke....Their basketball team has been good for 2 seasons due to high impact transfers and a coaches son who would or could have played for anyone in the country but wanted to play for his dad...After Hunter JR. is gone so will dad and Georgia St. will go back to their mediocre basketball self....Their gym is an absolute joke on the 3rd floor, WKU's Preston Center for intramural s is nicer..Georgia St's football program is an even bigger joke since its inception..I get the new state footprint and Atl market, but markets are not everything...Ask CUSA how they feel so far of WKU and La. TEch being in conference....
(01-23-2015 10:45 PM)WKUFan518 Wrote: LIsten I love Atlanta, but Georgia St. is an absolute joke....Their basketball team has been good for 2 seasons due to high impact transfers and a coaches son who would or could have played for anyone in the country but wanted to play for his dad...After Hunter JR. is gone so will dad and Georgia St. will go back to their mediocre basketball self....Their gym is an absolute joke on the 3rd floor, WKU's Preston Center for intramural s is nicer..Georgia St's football program is an even bigger joke since its inception..I get the new state footprint and Atl market, but markets are not everything...Ask CUSA how they feel so far of WKU and La. TEch being in conference....
Too bad we don't play this season...Good luck in the NIT!
(01-23-2015 10:45 PM)WKUFan518 Wrote: LIsten I love Atlanta, but Georgia St. is an absolute joke....Their basketball team has been good for 2 seasons due to high impact transfers and a coaches son who would or could have played for anyone in the country but wanted to play for his dad...After Hunter JR. is gone so will dad and Georgia St. will go back to their mediocre basketball self....Their gym is an absolute joke on the 3rd floor, WKU's Preston Center for intramural s is nicer..Georgia St's football program is an even bigger joke since its inception..I get the new state footprint and Atl market, but markets are not everything...Ask CUSA how they feel so far of WKU and La. TEch being in conference....
Too bad we don't play this season...Good luck in the NIT!
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