Conference realignment "Rumors" "tweets" "etc"

[smazza]

if orlando school gets an invite to the  big boy table and usf does not

 

i would say time to shut down football program and get back to educating students

 

if usf was winning all these years instead of grossly underachieving we would be in demand

 

but we have stunk for years and our product is barely watchable

 

 

ALL SHOCKING CONSIDERING WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF GAME'S BEST TALENT

[MMW]

 

I don't think anyone beyond the confines of this blog and it's UCF trolls even knows what a "directional school" is. It is a made up concept designed to keep limited minds in their place. Means nothing to anyone else. Is USC a directional school? How about Northwestern? What about North Carolina State University? West Virginia?

 

It's really not a difficult concept to grasp. If the title indicates a directional placement of a school within a state it has a directional nature in title and is therefore a directional school.

 

USC is indeed a directional school; it's a great example of why you cannot blankly say "directional schools are crap." I think we're a pretty good example too.

 

Why directional schools get more flack than, say, metropolitan schools is beyond me. Why isn't Pitt the "University of West Pennsylvania" and why is it OK to only be named after a mere city?

 

P.S. No, North Carolina State University nor West Virginia are *not* "directional" schools. The name of their state has a direction in it! I don't remember seeing the state of "North Texas" anywhere, but "North Carolina" is real.

 

 

 

I always question this comparison.  USC is named after a region of California is it not?  If we were located in Miami I think we could make the same argument about our name.

[JTrue]

 

 

I don't think anyone beyond the confines of this blog and it's UCF trolls even knows what a "directional school" is. It is a made up concept designed to keep limited minds in their place. Means nothing to anyone else. Is USC a directional school? How about Northwestern? What about North Carolina State University? West Virginia?

 

It's really not a difficult concept to grasp. If the title indicates a directional placement of a school within a state it has a directional nature in title and is therefore a directional school.

 

USC is indeed a directional school; it's a great example of why you cannot blankly say "directional schools are crap." I think we're a pretty good example too.

 

Why directional schools get more flack than, say, metropolitan schools is beyond me. Why isn't Pitt the "University of West Pennsylvania" and why is it OK to only be named after a mere city?

 

P.S. No, North Carolina State University nor West Virginia are *not* "directional" schools. The name of their state has a direction in it! I don't remember seeing the state of "North Texas" anywhere, but "North Carolina" is real.

 

 

 

I always question this comparison.  USC is named after a region of California is it not?  If we were located in Miami I think we could make the same argument about our name.

 

You could definitely make that argument for USC since it's not a public school like EMU, WMU, NIU, SIU, UCF, and USF. Southern California is a cultural region, like South Florida. When I have to teach a geography course, I use the example of how if you're in Miami, you're in the south, but you're not in the South.

[FatDaddyBull]

:smazza:

[Sellular1]

I don't think anyone beyond the confines of this blog and it's UCF trolls even knows what a "directional school" is. It is a made up concept designed to keep limited minds in their place. Means nothing to anyone else. Is USC a directional school? How about Northwestern? What about North Carolina State University? West Virginia?

 

It's really not a difficult concept to grasp. If the title indicates a directional placement of a school within a state it has a directional nature in title and is therefore a directional school.

 

USC is indeed a directional school; it's a great example of why you cannot blankly say "directional schools are crap." I think we're a pretty good example too.

 

Why directional schools get more flack than, say, metropolitan schools is beyond me. Why isn't Pitt the "University of West Pennsylvania" and why is it OK to only be named after a mere city?

 

P.S. No, North Carolina State University nor West Virginia are *not* "directional" schools. The name of their state has a direction in it! I don't remember seeing the state of "North Texas" anywhere, but "North Carolina" is real.

 

 

I always question this comparison.  USC is named after a region of California is it not?  If we were located in Miami I think we could make the same argument about our name.

You could definitely make that argument for USC since it's not a public school like EMU, WMU, NIU, SIU, UCF, and USF. Southern California is a cultural region, like South Florida. When I have to teach a geography course, I use the example of how if you're in Miami, you're in the south, but you're not in the South.

Definitely not the south. More like the north, North Cuba. I was the last person to live in Miami who didnt speak the Espanyol...

[Danm1983]

Anything south of Gainesville isn't considered the South anymore.

 

And the whole directional school thing is closely associated with the other common "insult", commuter schools. But in the end, most of these larger commuter schools like UCF and USF and ECU now have large on campus contingents of students, and because some of these directional schools are so large, the bluebloods better get used to it, because I don't see them stopping anytime soon. (Of course, that leaves open the whole argument about the schools getting so big they just let anyone in and therefore must have crappy academic standards....)

[JTrue]

 

 

 

 

I don't think anyone beyond the confines of this blog and it's UCF trolls even knows what a "directional school" is. It is a made up concept designed to keep limited minds in their place. Means nothing to anyone else. Is USC a directional school? How about Northwestern? What about North Carolina State University? West Virginia?

 

It's really not a difficult concept to grasp. If the title indicates a directional placement of a school within a state it has a directional nature in title and is therefore a directional school.

 

USC is indeed a directional school; it's a great example of why you cannot blankly say "directional schools are crap." I think we're a pretty good example too.

 

Why directional schools get more flack than, say, metropolitan schools is beyond me. Why isn't Pitt the "University of West Pennsylvania" and why is it OK to only be named after a mere city?

 

P.S. No, North Carolina State University nor West Virginia are *not* "directional" schools. The name of their state has a direction in it! I don't remember seeing the state of "North Texas" anywhere, but "North Carolina" is real.

 

 

I always question this comparison.  USC is named after a region of California is it not?  If we were located in Miami I think we could make the same argument about our name.

You could definitely make that argument for USC since it's not a public school like EMU, WMU, NIU, SIU, UCF, and USF. Southern California is a cultural region, like South Florida. When I have to teach a geography course, I use the example of how if you're in Miami, you're in the south, but you're not in the South.

Definitely not the south. More like the north, North Cuba. I was the last person to live in Miami who didnt speak the Espanyol...

 

But it illustrates the point of location vs. region. I don't know if USC is named because its physically located in the south of California or because its the university of the Southern California cultural region.

[JTrue]

Anything south of Gainesville isn't considered the South anymore.

 

And the whole directional school thing is closely associated with the other common "insult", commuter schools. But in the end, most of these larger commuter schools like UCF and USF and ECU now have large on campus contingents of students, and because some of these directional schools are so large, the bluebloods better get used to it, because I don't see them stopping anytime soon. (Of course, that leaves open the whole argument about the schools getting so big they just let anyone in and therefore must have crappy academic standards....)

That's the bigger issue, perception. Though we probably have a larger on campus population than many of the traditional schools have in total population.

[dabull80]

 

 

I strongly believe the B12 will add a couple of schools in the next six months.  I have no idea which two schools that will be.  Lots of candidates.

 

I agree 100% with you on that and if we aren't part of that we may never be part of it.

 

 

 

Way too many people agreeing with me lately (at least two, maybe three).  I'm not quite sure how to react to these unusual circumstances.

 

 

Just go with the blind squirrel theory - will make it easier when no one agrees with you

[Apis Bull]

USC was founded in 1880, there was no, "Southern California" culture at that time.

 

 

History

Los Angeles was a rough-and-tumble frontier town in the early 1870s, when a group of public-spirited citizens led by Judge Robert Maclay Widney first dreamed of establishing a university in the region. It took nearly a decade for this vision to become a reality, but in 1879 Widney formed a board of trustees and secured a donation of 308 lots of land from three prominent members of the community – Ozro W. Childs, a Protestant horticulturist; former California governor John G. Downey, an Irish-Catholic pharmacist and businessman; and Isaias W. Hellman, a German-Jewish banker and philanthropist. The gift provided land for a campus as well as a source of endowment, the seeds of financial support for the nascent institution.

When USC first opened its doors to 53 students and 10 teachers in 1880, the “city†still lacked paved streets, electric lights, telephones and a reliable fire alarm system. Today, USC is home to more than 33,000 students and nearly 3,200 full-time faculty, and is located in the heart of one of the biggest metropolises in the world.

 

http://about.usc.edu/history/