Miami (FL) Hurricanes (1926-2003)

[BuckeyeNation27]

I know we've deviated from running down the Hurricanes, but to continue...

Columbus isn't really the fucking Arctic, you shovel a couple of times a year and deal with below freezing a handful of times. It isn't really that bad. People talk like we are all Nanooks of the North and that simply isn't the case.

On a side note, I always found it humorous when some of our fans cried about getting some of the southern teams to play up here in "the ice and snow". I know the great snow game vs Michigan before they hired Woody, some snow in a game vs Penn St when Butler By'no'te was our RB, and the ice game vs Michigan with Beanie Wells. Other than that, when has OSU played in the snow? Also, any game vs a southern team would occur pre-B1G season putting it in Aug-Sept. It would be FAR more likely to be 90s and humid than snowing.

the fucking Spring game in 03 or whenever

 

[LordJeffBuck]

Rivals Mike Farrell getting lit up and down twitter for saying "Da U" got hosed in 2002...


lots of fun responses we already know replied to that.

You say "incidental contact".

I say "scoreboard".

Looks like I win!!!

 

[Dryden]

 

[LovelandBuckeye]

You say "incidental contact".

I say "scoreboard".

Looks like I win!!!

 

[Nutriaitch]

One of my friends is from the NO area, and she always says the Orlando swamp weather gets close but still not quite as bad as things could get in her area of swamps. Inland is definitely quite a bit worse than coastal areas as far as the heat and humidity go here in Florida. The weather on the coast is definitely more of a recruiting pitch for Miami than the weather for Gainesville (but still attractive for kids from up north. I know I don't miss dealing with snow and ice!).

i'm about an hour south of new orleans. in the dead of summer, it's like a fucking sauna. and it doesn't cool off at night either.
go outside at 3am and you'll be sweating your ass of before you get off the front porch.

and then if we get s short rain shower shortly after lunch or so, that afternoon will have the devil begging for ice water.

But Louisiana has the cooling effects of the Bayou.



lol

jump in. the best way to cool off.

Columbus isn't really the fucking Arctic, you shovel a couple of times a year and deal with below freezing a handful of times. It isn't really that bad. People talk like we are all Nanooks of the North and that simply isn't the case.

on the half dozen days per year the thermometer dips below 50 and coonasses bundle up like they about to trek across the klondike
let it dip below 40 and we shut down roads and schools.

so yeah, to us ya'll are the arctic

I want to see how those players adapt to the environment and see if it really does matter. Fuck PedSU and BC in the Pinstripe Bowl. Let's see Wisconsin vs LSU or USC.

absolutely it matters.
even if only from a mental standpoint.

if you wake up and every day it's 24°, windy, snow falling, and you're slipping on ice, then you don't even think about it being cold and slippery for the game.
if on the other hand you wake up and wear shorts outside on a sunny 70°+ day every day, your first thought when you step onto a frozen field amid snowflakes is "holy shit this is fuking cold!". and you lost the battle before it starts.

 

[LovelandBuckeye]

i'm about an hour south of new orleans. in the dead of summer, it's like a fucking sauna. and it doesn't cool off at night either.
go outside at 3am and you'll be sweating your ass of before you get off the front porch.

and then if we get s short rain shower shortly after lunch or so, that afternoon will have the devil begging for ice water.



jump in. the best way to cool off.



on the half dozen days per year the thermometer dips below 50 and coonasses bundle up like they about to trek across the klondike
let it dip below 40 and we shut down roads and schools.

so yeah, to us ya'll are the arctic



absolutely it matters.
even if only from a mental standpoint.

if you wake up and every day it's 24°, windy, snow falling, and you're slipping on ice, then you don't even think about it being cold and slippery for the game.
if on the other hand you wake up and wear shorts outside on a sunny 70°+ day every day, your first thought when you step onto a frozen field amid snowflakes is "holy [Mark May] this is fuking cold!". and you lost the battle before it starts.

Which goes the same for that Wisconsin player heading to Baton Rouge not prepared for the humidity and heat. However, Colorado proves is all wrong by being such a shit show even with all of their environmental advantages.

 

[Saw31]

OMG its 44 degrees right now! That cold and wet 44 degrees that goes through your cloths all the way to your bones. In my imo, this is worse than 20 degrees and snow. That's a dry cold. Come on up to Ohio SEC. Hot cocoa and coffee is on the stove.

 

[Nutriaitch]

Which goes the same for that Wisconsin player heading to Baton Rouge not prepared for the humidity and heat. However, Colorado proves is all wrong by being such a [Mark May] show even with all of their environmental advantages.

I know we're talking hypothetically, but when we plays Wiscy down south, it was in a dome.

but yes early season when we play teams from out of the region, their fans at least comment on the heat.

plus we wear white at home, so the visitors are wearing their darker (hotter) unis.

OMG its 44 degrees right now! That cold and wet 44 degrees that goes through your cloths all the way to your bones. In my imo, this is worse than 20 degrees and snow. That's a dry cold. Come on up to Ohio SEC. Hot cocoa and coffee is on the stove.

haven't spent enough time in 20 and snow to say for sure, but low 40s and wet fucking SUCKS!

that's our typical winter day here.
we just don't get a lot of those days.

 

[scarletmike]

haven't spent enough time in 20 and snow to say for sure, but low 40s and wet fucking SUCKS!

that's our typical winter day here.
we just don't get a lot of those days.

We usually get about a week in the 30s in the evenings around here, and I absolutely avoid going near larger bodies of water like the plague on those days. Had to stand around at work one night on the edge of the lagoon at Epcot and between an air temp of about 35 and the blasting wind blowing across the lake I felt like I was back on the Cleveland lake front. But yeah, the wet days in the 40s are nearly as bad as dipping below freezing, IMO.

But enough about the weather. Fuck Duh U!

 

[JCOSU86]

jump in. the best way to cool off.

"And Cajuns eat alligators...the circle of life"

 

[Nutriaitch]

We usually get about a week in the 30s in the evenings around here, and I absolutely avoid going near larger bodies of water like the plague on those days. Had to stand around at work one night on the edge of the lagoon at Epcot and between an air temp of about 35 and the blasting wind blowing across the lake I felt like I was back on the Cleveland lake front. But yeah, the wet days in the 40s are nearly as bad as dipping below freezing, IMO.

yep.
I live only a couple hundred yards from the marsh that ultimately leads to open water and the gulf.
on these 40° mornings with a light misty drizzle i'd rather be dead than have to go outside.

enough about the weather. Fuck Duh U!

also-fucking-lutely!!

"And Cajuns eat alligators...the circle of life"

as well as damn near anything else that comes out of the water (fish, crabs, turtles, snakes, nutria, coon, etc.)

 

[cincibuck]

I know I don't miss dealing with snow and ice!).

There are worse things than Cincinnati winter. One of them is Florida summer.

 

[cincibuck]

I know we've deviated from running down the Hurricanes, but to continue...

Columbus isn't really the fucking Arctic, you shovel a couple of times a year and deal with below freezing a handful of times. It isn't really that bad. People talk like we are all Nanooks of the North and that simply isn't the case.

On a side note, I always found it humorous when some of our fans cried about getting some of the southern teams to play up here in "the ice and snow". I know the great snow game vs Michigan before they hired Woody, some snow in a game vs Penn St when Butler By'no'te was our RB, and the ice game vs Michigan with Beanie Wells. Other than that, when has OSU played in the snow? Also, any game vs a southern team would occur pre-B1G season putting it in Aug-Sept. It would be FAR more likely to be 90s and humid than snowing.

Snowed hard off and on against Indiana in 2013. Whole lotta snow at Minnie last year.

It's not the weather, given that OOC games in the Big Ten are always on the front end of the schedule, but it is certainly a case of getting CSA teams out of their comfort region. Let them do a bit of traveling and dropping a dime or two on our hotel and food industry. Let them discover that there is only one American flag and it isn't the stars and bars.

 

[MaxBuck]

But Louisiana has the cooling effects of the Bayou.

jump in. the best way to cool off.

Oh, that's a great idea.

 

[kujirakira]

I never spent much time in Florida (and never on the coast).
But if it's anything like here on the Louisiana coast, it's hell all summer long.
No such thing as spring or fall.
Winter last about 8 days, but they're scattered across 3 months.

One of my friends is from the NO area, and she always says the Orlando swamp weather gets close but still not quite as bad as things could get in her area of swamps. Inland is definitely quite a bit worse than coastal areas as far as the heat and humidity go here in Florida. The weather on the coast is definitely more of a recruiting pitch for Miami than the weather for Gainesville (but still attractive for kids from up north. I know I don't miss dealing with snow and ice!).

Think there's also a difference between Gulf Coast and Atlantic Coast... Pensacola and Biloxi were awful in the Summer. Those Spring Breaks tho.... made up for it

In three years under Urban the Buckeyes have played seven of their twelve November games with a game time temp in the mid 30s or below. The wind speeds typically rise to 15mph + (30+ when playing in Bloomington or Champaign), and there has been one game played in snow each year (2012 Michigan, 2013 Indiana, 2014 at Minnesota) even if there was minimal accumulation on the field.

As conference realignment has diluted conference schedules, and teams look to book more P5 OOC opponents to boost strength of schedule, I would not be surprised if ADs begin looking at a big picture, national schedule to provide some better OOC games later in the season. The SEC has been playing an FCS/Sun Belt cupcake the week ahead of "rivalry week" for years. If other conferences were not averse to have conference games in September, there would be slots in the back half of the calendar for OOC. It would also solve the problem we've seen for three weeks in a row where the mid season schedule isn't very compelling.

The SEC seems to have it figured out by getting teams to come down for "neutral" games in the same locations bowls are played later on. As long as the Wisconsins of the world are happy with that arrangement, it will continue.
And so long as the bowl games are there later, it's not entirely irrational... may as well get some big game experience down there.

Which goes the same for that Wisconsin player heading to Baton Rouge not prepared for the humidity and heat. However, Colorado proves is all wrong by being such a [Mark May] show even with all of their environmental advantages.

CU's issues start with recruiting imo. Where are they going to get talent? CCSD? Douglas? HS Football just isn't a big deal out here. The band and their parents made up 3/4ths of the audience for games at SHHS. The other quarter was the various cheerleader groups and their parents.
I don't know where they recruited in the 90s... but Corn is facing similar issues. CU wants to recruit Cali... but the entire conference is in on that, and the academic angle won't play as well as it did in the Big8/12. Stanford, USC, UCLA, Cal, UW, etc. are all much better schools than Nebraska and Oklahoma... CU was a big fish in a little pond. Now they're in the Pacific Ocean with quite a few big fish.
UW has similar issues imo... local talent is wanting, and breaking into Cali's market is cyclical at best.