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I readily admit that this thread is somewhat of an experiment. It may do well or it may fail miserably.
It would be foolish to start alot of threads on these schools so I thought that I would try one all-encompassing thread.
We all know that Penn State and Pitt are the large schools in Pennsylvania but the eastern half of the state has alot of smaller colleges with only a few larger colleges, like Temple, Villanova, etc.
Maybe you played at one of these schools and you are now an alumni who still follows the team. Maybe you live in the town and you get newspaper or TV reports on that school. Maybe you even attend a few games.
Do you follow Temple, Millersville, Bloomsburg, King's College, Lehigh, Lock Haven, or one of the other smaller colleges in eastern PA? If you do, let us know.
If you lived in PA, or if you had attended one of them, you would have heard of those schools.
Temple may be fairly large but it's not as large as Penn State - and so far, there don't appear to be that many fans here of that college either.
This may not be a successful thread - but I thought that I would give it a try.
Temple is on another level than all those schools - even Lehigh ... their conference is a mess right now with all the realignment and that could end up hurting them and they may not be a good FBS school but they sure aren't a DIII school like Kings
So yeah, if you are from parts of PA those schools may resonate ... however, Temple is known on a much larger scale across the nation
...and if there are several Temple fans here, then they should start a thread.
There are other Philly schools like Penn, La Salle, Villanova, etc. that aren't quite as large. There can't be threads for all of these colleges.
doesn't change that putting a school like Temple or even 'nova or Penn in the same conversation as Kings, Bloomsburg, etc is a bit off - which was all that was pointed out
also, Lock Haven - really? .... they are west of Harrisburg .... why not also include the Mansfield Mountaineers on there
hey, it's worth a shot .... there was a point on a college basketball forum I tried to get a Big 5/City 6 type thread going and pretty much ended up talking to myself for a season .... no harm/no foul so to speak
I just wouldn't expect much chatter about DII & DIII schools in rural PA that no one has ever heard of .... there isn't much chatter about anything not FBS on the whole ..... although the CSU-Pueblo thread has some enthusiasm behind it, so you never know
also, FWIW my college roomates brother played ball at Lehigh and the small college games can be fun to go to and if they're on TV and I have the time I'll give them a view ..... just a bit too much to follow
FL - My point is that IF there was a follower of King's College, Widener, Kutztown, or any other Pennsylvania school, that he or she could have a thread to talk about his team, when otherwise his school would be too small to have a thread on.
In my opinion, ANY college east of State College would be included - large or small - that's exactly in the middle of the state.
In fact, if a Pennsylvanian wants to talk about the football team of his community college, that's fine.
"Eastern Pennsylvania College Basketball Fans" has a nice ring to it - if this thread is even remotely successful.
BTW - This thread, which everone mocks, now has as many posts to it as my Penn State thread. So we'll see what happens.
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