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  1. I used to go to a lot of road games. It would be a weekend trip designed around soaking in the game day experience of that school, with little time for exploring the greater locale. I would much rather do this in a place like Baton Rouge than Palo Alto. The amount of fun I had in a trip had a lot to do with the game itself and experience around it. I travel around the US as much as I can, and my actual vacations rarely overlap with places that have major colleges.
  2. Then take the trip? This is about football and not fan vacations, football is far and away the most important cultural touchstone. The Pac 12 didnt put sports at the top of their priority list and now they don’t exist.
  3. Texas’s schedule in the Big 10 would look a lot more like its Big 12 schedule than its SEC schedule. You guys complained about having schools like us and the Kansas schools on your schedule every year, but that’s basically what you’d have got in the Big 10. Maybe one of Pedo/OSU/Mich per year. A lot fewer helmet schools than the SEC.
  4. I'm moving this direction. The last few times I've done 3-2-1 it was too long. Not sure if my thermometer is off or what, but the ends of the rack were getting too dry.
  5. I'm slightly exaggerating, but all you left off the list were white-ass Mexican restaurants and liquor stores.
  6. Kind of. A good analogy might be like Ann Arbor to Detroit. Basically part of the same MSA, but a distinct and separate character and feel due to the university presence.
  7. Ankeny and Huxley are basically attached at this point. If Ames had grown to the south as much as it's grown to the north and west the past 30 years, it would be one unbroken urban area already.
  8. They did. They come to Ames in '26, and then in '27 the game finally won't be played (unless we both make CCG). It will be 5 years without Farmageddon in Manhattan. A lot of KSU folks aren't real thrilled about it. This is nothing but a boon for us.
  9. Check back in 10 years. There's about 5 miles of real open country between the south end of Ames and the northern most Des Moines suburb. It's not yet, but it will happen in my lifetime.
  10. We're all going to be in the same giant ass conference when the SEC and Big 10 raid the ACC in a few years anyhow.
  11. I could live in Ames again. It's only 40 minutes to downtown Des Moines, and while Des Moines isn't a truly big city, it's really urban for it's size (metro around 800K). But I'm a small town guy. I grew up on a farm between a town of 150 and a town of 20ish. I live in a town of 3900 currently. It takes an incredible level of isolation for me to feel truly isolated.
  12. That’s what I like about those places. You get that classic “college town” atmosphere because the community utterly revolves around campus. Ive been to TCU, and it’s a beautiful campus in a great city, but it’s a totally different experience than a college town.
  13. The whole thing about them both being 2-3 hours from Kansas City was more to my point.
  14. Do you know where Ames, Iowa and Manhattan, Kansas are?
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