Girls visiting from Indiana obviously.
When Kurt visits KY he raises the average IQ of the whole state.
I am hearing some rumblings on other social media sights, dare I more than hope that
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When Kurt visits KY he raises the average IQ of the whole state.
In all due respect Mr @Courtsensetwo (this is intended as a compliment)you are one of the biggest homers on this site. Your glasses come in one color, but multiple shades of crimson. Further, this is the most subjective subject of any. What, exactly, makes IU campus so superior to another campus? Anywhere in AZ, Cali, Colorado or southeast smokes blooomington from a weather perspective. In those areas, you count the number of consecutive days of sunshine, not grey. The winter sucks in Indiana / Midwest. Surrounding areas of Knoxville Tennessee make lake Griffey and lake Monroe seem like a mundane pond. Not to mention, the Tennessee River and subsequent water activities. This goes double for Clemson. Bars are bars. All college towns have them. They are all open late and they all get people drunk. Again, I love IU and the campus is very pretty. But when you get outside of Bloomington and live in another state or states as I have since graduating which includes Georgia, California, Texas, Tennessee and North Carolina, the rose tinted glasses fade and you begin to see the attributes of other campuses and college towns. Your statement of “not close” eliminates you from the discussion.
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...and Indiana, as well!
Larger (D1 level) US campuses I have visited. I am a chemistry professor so I get invited to give research talks / seminars often.
IU
Purdue
Northwestern
Ohio State
Pittsburgh
Cornell
Dartmouth
Columbia
Yale
Boston College
Boston University
Virginia
UNC
Georgia Tech
Emory
Florida
Florida State
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Kansas
UC Berkeley
UCLA
UC San Diego
BYU
UT Austin
UT San Antonio
Baylor
Rice
Maybe I am missing some.
The most beautiful campuses will depend on when you go (ex. Bloomington or Dartmouth in the fall). In general though, in terms of buildings, walkability, layout, nature, housing, etc I think the prettiest are Cornell, IU, Dartmouth, Virginia, UNC (in no particular order)
Then in terms of what the city has to offer, I guess it's up to what you want. Plays, music, bars, restaurants? Schools in cities with good public transport also have some appeal to me (Boston College, for example).
I may be a bit biased, as an IU grad, but IU always gets a mention in rundowns of most beautiful campuses.
I omitted small schools, since it's not relevant to D1 recruiting, but some of them are very scenic & compact (Wabash College, for example, my undergrad alma mater).
IU
Purdue
Northwestern
Ohio State
Pittsburgh
Cornell
Dartmouth
Columbia
Yale
Boston College
Boston University
Virginia
UNC
Georgia Tech
Emory
Florida
Florida State
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Kansas
UC Berkeley
UCLA
UC San Diego
BYU
UT Austin
UT San Antonio
Baylor
Rice
Maybe I am missing some.
The most beautiful campuses will depend on when you go (ex. Bloomington or Dartmouth in the fall). In general though, in terms of buildings, walkability, layout, nature, housing, etc I think the prettiest are Cornell, IU, Dartmouth, Virginia, UNC (in no particular order)
Then in terms of what the city has to offer, I guess it's up to what you want. Plays, music, bars, restaurants? Schools in cities with good public transport also have some appeal to me (Boston College, for example).
I may be a bit biased, as an IU grad, but IU always gets a mention in rundowns of most beautiful campuses.
I omitted small schools, since it's not relevant to D1 recruiting, but some of them are very scenic & compact (Wabash College, for example, my undergrad alma mater).
Griffy gets closer and closer to a swamp every year. Rowboats only, no motors and no swimming. Monroe is a mudhole. Swim in it and you smell like muddy mold for a week. Everything is contaminated with PCBs; don't eat the fish.
To each his own.
A friend of mine had his daughter visit Bloomington (and Madison) and she hated it. She hated the college campus feel, and went to school in NYC. Not my cup of tea, but that’s just me.
Did you get it from Btown Banners? I noticed they have a guy named Chris who claims to be some sort of insider but appears to be wrong about everything. So if you got it from him take it with a grain of salt he also claimed brad stevens was a done deal. I think he is just a troll.
Also, you don't have to wait until spring for the cleavage in Austin. Who needs stripper pits? Hippy Hollow park is a clothing optional park on Lake Travis.
Chemistry??!! I still have nightmares about organic chemistry!!
Especially the 6-9 pm lab every Thursday night!
Yes, A friend of mine raves about Boston U.
But to me, it's buildings on busy city streets, with traffic, and plopped right in an area so congested that it doesn't feel like a college at all. Few trees. Few places to walk that aren't also city sidewalks. But you can walk to high end restaurants, the subway, shopping, anything. Not my cup of tea, though.
Then I remember at IU some people from big cities being scared of the dimly lit walkways through the woods at IU, thinking "I'll get mugged, at least, if I were back in NYC I would".
I TA'd organic a year at IU, where I went for grad school. Alan Henderson (premed) was in my discussion section.
My daughter graduated from BU and loved it. She grew up in Btown and wanted an urban campus, BU delivered. She was an actress so we visited 2-4 times a year. It was an awesome way to fall in love with the city.
She was also there for a hurricane, Sox winning the World Series and was locked down in her dorm while they hunted down the Marathon bombers.
It just depends on what you consider as beauty at a campus.
Such tunnel vision depicting the 4 season climate of southern Indiana as fair/poor. Arizona desert is attractive for 2 months of dead Winter. The drippy tropics south of the Ohio are not desirable to many Americans. There are indeed different different folks everywhere.
Griffy was drained and dredged a few years ago after Griffy Creek silted the east end. It has a pretty nice trail system in its surrounding hills. IU sports fans are lucky to have it so close to the athletic complex. My wife and I are known to “chill” there in the parking lot watching ducks and geese before attending an athletic event.
One thing that bothers me about swimming in Monroe, the Brown Co Board of Health Dept. has warned locals not to wade barefoot or let young children play in the creeks because they all register high in E.coli.m due to too many failing septic fields. Most BC creeks drain into Monroe, yet there its promoted for swimming and other recreation. Middle fork of Salt Creek, the one they dammed to create Monroe Res, courses through my property.
That’s why I don’t visit Florida much. Touristy heat trap. Yuck.
I've always thought of Florida as an upholstered swamp.
It does get mighty toasty down here but the winters make up for it.
It depends. I have lived here for 20 years.
I have taken 35 bike rides so far this calendar year (~3 mo) for a total of 450 miles, never below 60 degrees and never over 80 degrees. Jupiter Florida has free beach parking and some of the best beaches anywhere. I don't go south much, as traffic gets worse. North of me me is mostly citrus orchards, with towns in between. The "swamp" aka the Everglades is ~2 hrs West.
Best kayaking and boating anywhere. Go biking or kayaking through amazing wildlife areas. On my bike ride last weekend on a trail that I get to 0.5 miles from my house, I saw sandhill cranes, osprey, roseate spoonbills, ibuses, deer, raccoons, and of course a gator or two.
Yes, it gets hot and humid in June/July/August. Jupiter is coastal though, so above 92 is rare. Below 60 is rare, anytime even in the winter. It's always breezy in the afternoon. It never feels too hot at the beach, even if it's 90. Or in my pool, used 9 mo/yr. Sunscreen exists. Long sleeves shirts and jackets do not.
For quite awhile I thought I'd end up in Florida (Naples, most likely). But it wore me down with the humidity, gators & snakes, insects, hurricanes, and New Yorkers. I almost forgot their other predator -- time share salesmen.
I ended up in Gilbert, AZ, the largest "town" in America by Phoenix. It's like living in the Beach Boys "Endless Summer" album. I wear shorts 363 days a year. During the hottest times of the year, which usually is very low humidity, I do my yard work and bike rides shortly after sunrise. It's also an easy one-hour escape to northern Arizona where it gets cold enough to have snow. I do get how a lot of people don't like heat; but after fighting snow, ice and overcast in Chicago & Detroit for decades I'm a very happy camper now.
Are we still hearing rumblings ?
might have those in reverse order
I really like Prescott. The climate there would suit me fine. My sister lives in Havasu which I don't much care for.
Chris still says we are getting brad stevens!!! LOL that guy is pure comedy.
Pepperdine is on a hill in Malibu, hard to beat Pacific sunsets
I think of Havasu as East California, but nicer. The whole northern region -- Prescott, Sedona, Flagstaff, Grand Canyon and even closer Snowflake & Payson -- are great escapes in the middle of the summer.
Winslow is interesting too. A girl in a flatbed Ford once slowed down to take a look at me there.
Yeah, there are folks that actually say they prefer the weather in Madison
Someone rename this thread "Climates across America"
The rumbling must have been thunder across the midwest during spring tornado season. Costing us recruits!
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Auto bid to the regular season winner of each conference. The End.
It was a B1G podcast, and somewhere that escapes, though now it seems there is still a belief he will end up in B-town, just not as strong as a week ago.
Trying to gain the extra dollar from the other programs most likely. But he will have a hard time scoring at this level. Has good size and rebounder. Perhaps a Parker Stewart 2.0 with a better coach and system? We shall see. We need someone soon. I seriously doubt the 4 or 5 guys by end of week vbg. That was such bs. I hope i'm wrong!
IU needs a rim protector and a second card of fouls underneath.
Not to upset anyone here, but another aspect of Btown that I think makes it special is the availability of very high quality/low cost theatre, musicals, concerts, choirs, art exhibits, rare book and music collections...performing arts in general produced by Jacobs.
There is nothing in Btown that isn't also found somewhere else, but in the opinion of this "homer" it is the sheer number and variety of different options that makes it unique.
