<p>I refuse to be your foil, garland</p>
<p>Hey Garland, the women’s cross country team ain’t exactly chopped liver either.</p>
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<p>That has got to be one of the funniest images ever conjured up on CC or for that matter anywhere else. ROTFL. But then how, pray tell, do UW and Oregon State manage? (Actually, Stanford usually loses to UW when they play them in Seattle and I always figure it’s cuz Stanford players don’t know how to play baseball in light snow or heavy rain)</p>
<p>Well, the Beavers play badly, and the Huskies always cheat. At least that is how us DUCKS would explain it!!</p>
<p>Add Hamilton and I think Kenyon.</p>
<p>What are Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Wake Forest and Rice chopped liver? OK Vandy football may suck but they occassionally have a decent basketball team and you will get to watch all those SEC teams kick your football butts. </p>
<p>Rice won the baseball World Series the year before last and Wake was ranked #1 for a while this year in basketball. Oh and did anyone mention UVa? In fact pretty much any school in the ACC has top notch atheletics and academics - Georgia Tech, North Carolina, Maryland, Duke, Wake, UVa - that is a pretty awesom line up of academic and atheletic horsepower.</p>
<p>Would the University of Miami be considered in this group? Sports are big, but are academics as high? What about USC?</p>
<p>What about Syracuse, UNC, UCLA?</p>
<p>dstark had two of those 3 in his original list.</p>
<p>whoops; Evelyn Wood-ing.</p>
<p>Don’t worry about Evelyn Wood-ing, worry about speed reading.</p>
<p>Least I got “Syrcs” right</p>
<p>LOL…another rapidly degenerating thread. This is what happens when you have a bunch of old timers sitting around peering at their computer monitors…</p>
<p>I’m not just looking for top notch athletics, but an atmosphere on campus where sports are important. Is that the case for Rice, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, UVA, and Wake Forest? I actually have no clue. I will add them to the list unless somebody knows otherwise.</p>
<p>Garland, I am not surprised you made a post like this. So many high school boys I talk to want schools like this. Some girls too. </p>
<p>Concerneddad, I love the visual.</p>
<p>This is my new list.
Michigan, Colgate, Williams, UCLA, Bucknell, Lafayette, Lehigh, Wisconsin, Notre Dame, Boston College, USC, North Carolina, Duke, Stanford, Texas, Georgia, Hamilton, Kenyon, Trinity U in Texas, Bowdoin, Colby, Cornell, Rice, Vanderbilt, Wake Forest, Northwestern, Indiana, Oregon (even without baseball), Illinois (because they are number 1), Syracuse, George Washinton (really?), Georgia Tech, Maryland, Berkeley, Washington, University of Miami, Dartmouth, and Cornell. </p>
<p>How about Trinity in Connecticut, and Bates?</p>
<p>Georgetown and Penn State, we have a disagreement. I don’t know.</p>
<p>What a mixed bag of schools! Maybe this is how those pesky LAC/Research Universities/tiers things start…</p>
<p>If you move outside the big football/basketball powerhouses and consider schools with an athletic culture & lots of participants, I think schools like Dartmouth and Middlebury may work-- very sports oriented (hockey, skiing, etc.) Also schools like Whitman (climbing, hiking.) Were you thinking of spectator sports or a culture that values being physically active/skilled, or both?</p>
<p>Whoops, also Denison is pretty sporty. And Amherst</p>
<p>Berkley is so vast I think the numbers of non-sports-oriented kids blunt the “sporty quotient” somewhat.</p>
<p>Mixed bag of schools is good. Some people like big, some small, some like college towns, some like middle of nowhere. I was thinking Middlebury. Whitman no.
I am looking for campuses where the student body is excited about sports. Could be most people participate, or the stadiums sell out. From what I have read of Whitman, I don’t get that picture at all.</p>
<p>SBmom, yeah, I went to Berkeley. I think that school is a mixed bag.
Denison and Amherst…hmmm.</p>
<p>Well I think there are a lot of hikers & backpackers & intermural people & such at Whitman but I could be wrong. Definitely not a team sport rah rah vibe.</p>