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That fucking gif.

Well this was supposed to be a thousand years from now...maybe by then they'll have technology to keep people from aging/dying?

BINGO

If Emma Watson is going to be giving me my hearts desire, I'm going to need her to be a little bit more solid than a ghost...

...or Adonis Alexander (A-A-AINT)

Turns out no one wants a school that brings absolutely nothing to the table.

Posted. It's interesting to see that Blacksburg has a two lane road that is Main St, but State College actually took the next parallel road and make two one-way streets as their 'Main Streets', and everything in between the two is downtown. DT Blacksburg, I always felt while I was in school 00-05, was pretty much anything on Main St and Main St only (aside from the few crossing streets that extended towards campus with TOTS, Souvlaki, theater, etc)

They were on the rise, but this move eliminating their chances of joining a big boy conference absolutely guts them and cuts off that momentum at the knees. They may still be good for a couple years or so, but long-term, they just took a massive hit that will have impact.

Make no mistake, there was a reason ECU came off as overly desperate to get into the Big12. They knew this was likely their last chance to capitalize on the momentum. Now, they're going to have to get used to life as a permanent mid-major rather than a possible power conference addition.

Holy heck imgur made this so much more difficult with their new UX

Ok, so here is your legend, fernley. Not all of this is 100% correct but I it's pretty close:
RED - the roads that delineate campus, the whole NW corner of this image
DARK BLUE - the roads that delineate residential areas, including local folks, rentals, and frats, the whole SE corner
LIGHT BLUE - multi-story hotels that have been converted to apartments, all near the NE end of the downtown district
PURPLE - local gov't and businesses that are not retail storefronts
YELLOW - empty circles are 4+ floor parking garages, solid circles are pay parking lots. There are also metered spaces all up and down both sides of the road (GREEN LINES)

Ok so now on to downtown:
Everything between the GREEN LINES is considered downtown State College between COLLEGE and BEAVER Avenues (both are one-way streets, COLLEGE heads from NE to SW, BEAVER heads from SW to NE. Almost every building between the two thick green lines consists of the following:
At street level: Retail shops, hair & tattoo, banks, restaurants, and bars
Below street level: Retail shops, restaurants, and bars
Above street level (floor 2): Retail shops and restaurants, some of which are the second floor of the same store, some are different entities altogether, and some apartments
Above street level (floors 3+, where applicable): Apartments
The THIN GREEN LINES are alleys that connect cross-streets. There are some bars and restaurants on these alleys as well as some back-door entries to stores with storefronts on College Ave, but it's mostly dumpsters and utility areas.

As much as I hate ECU, I have to agree with this. Their program is definitely on the rise, as evident by the hiring of their new head coach and stadium renovations set to kickoff. Plus, one of my most memorable college tailgating experiences involved leaving super early, driving 5 hours to ECU while drinking in the backseat, making friends with many attractive co-eds in a parking lot not interested in the game, not remembering how I got to the stadium and somehow walking out with a win. The problem has been that its always a lose-lose situation for us. But they have seen several ranked seasons lately and I predict if they are not off the schedule soon, we will be happy to have them as a quality opponent, just wish it wasn't every year.

The problem is that eventually, the fans and alumni are going to grow tired of seeing the same 2 OOC opponents on our schedule every year, and are going to start to demand things to be shaken up a bit. Right now, we can swing it because we still get 3 or 4 other games we can have flexibility on scheduling, but if that flexibility goes away, suddenly the novelty of those 2 series wears away fast.