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Gangsta Pete
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Posted: 10/11/2013 1:35 PM
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GoCats105 wrote:expand_more
Although Akron has made strides with Terry Bowden, I think it's time for them to jump on the Tressel choo-choo train. He has to be itching to get back into football and people in Ohio STILL love him. I'm not sure what the show-cause penalty entails or would entail, but I'd be willing to bet they would take the risk.

Tressel's show-cause expires December 16, 2016 (according to Wikipedia).  Presumably, Bowden would be safe until then.

OT- If Bowden were to fired mid-season, this would likely be the interim coach...



 
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Posted: 10/11/2013 2:34 PM
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OCF, you're helping me make my point, although you're map is even more nuanced. Ohio is greatly diverse in geography if not culturally. Bottom line, some parts align better with Kansas than others.

Glad I could help you make your point about Kansas.  Let me add that after the late Rebellion, there was also a significant migration from Ohio to Iowa.  


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. . . So reading that first line, you are inferring Mrs. TOS didn't know what she had when she resided in SE Ohio!  Thanks for bringing us full circle!


You're more than welcome.  I'm certainly glad that someone picked up on that implication.  I know that I'm often way too subtle in my posts.  You must have been a literature major to read between the lines like that.  I'm impressed.



 
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Posted: 10/11/2013 3:38 PM
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Proud to call/consider myself a Midwesterner. I'll go ahead and pass on associating myself with the economic powerhouse that is Detroit/Toledo/Cleveland*/Buffalo, thank you very much.


*Yes, I realize that Cleveland isn't the basketcase that the rest of those are.
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Posted: 10/11/2013 6:40 PM
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Ohio, like many states, has two many geographic differences to fit nicely in one regional definition. Athens and much of the river counties in Ohio are Appalachia, and completely different from the farmland in northwest Ohio. Both of those areas have very little in common with the New England-like towns in northeast Ohio.

When I think of "rust belt," I think of Cleveland/Detroit corridor. But it doesn't really describe southern Ohio.

Cincinnati has few cultural similarities to Cleveland, which was once on land owned by Connecticut. You can see that influence in some northern Ohio towns.

In many places, southern Ohio was settled by Virginians, and if you drive through western Virginia you get architecture that looks a lot like Appalachian Ohio.
the area in southern Ohio along the river can very well be described as the rust belt. Have you ever been to Ironton or Portsmouth? It doesn't get any more rust belt than that.


Yes, I've been to both towns. To me, they are "coal belt" towns.
it doesn't get more rust belt than Ironton-that rust goes way back, but I see your point. I grew up across from Huntington, and while it has many ties to coal, the heavy industry that has left there is typical of other rust belt areas. I'm guessing much of SE Ohio had manufacturing that is way gone, so I'm not so sure it doesn't qualify for rust belt a little.
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Posted: 10/11/2013 8:42 PM
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Robert Fox wrote:expand_more
Ohio, like many states, has two many geographic differences to fit nicely in one regional definition. Athens and much of the river counties in Ohio are Appalachia, and completely different from the farmland in northwest Ohio. Both of those areas have very little in common with the New England-like towns in northeast Ohio.

When I think of "rust belt," I think of Cleveland/Detroit corridor. But it doesn't really describe southern Ohio.

Cincinnati has few cultural similarities to Cleveland, which was once on land owned by Connecticut. You can see that influence in some northern Ohio towns.

In many places, southern Ohio was settled by Virginians, and if you drive through western Virginia you get architecture that looks a lot like Appalachian Ohio.
the area in southern Ohio along the river can very well be described as the rust belt. Have you ever been to Ironton or Portsmouth? It doesn't get any more rust belt than that.


Yes, I've been to both towns. To me, they are "coal belt" towns.

Seriously? They are two dead towns because the American steel industry died.  It had very, very little to do with coal.  Just look at Ironton's name and it will tell you what the town grew up on.

 
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Posted: 10/12/2013 11:01 AM
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Back on track, Coach's hot seat weighs in on possible openings:
#1. Terry Bowden - Personally I think it's crazy that he's on the list. Yes, Akron isn't winning, but they are sooo much better than they were 2 years ago. iCoach had Akron in pretty sorry territory. Also, I see no 'Fire Bowden' threads on zipsnation.

#5. Ron English - EMU - I'd have to agree his seat is hot

#9. Charlie Molnar - U. Mass - I'd think he's got another year or so

#13. PJ Fleck - WMU - Hard for me to assess

#22. Dan Enos - CMU - He took over a MAC Championship level team, and this is his 4th year

#23. Don Treadwell - Miami - Oops. I guess he should have been higher up the list...
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Posted: 10/12/2013 5:43 PM
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Posted: 10/19/2013 12:45 PM
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To go back off track, and revive a dead thread (I was on vacation, darn it!) - West Virginia features towns settled by Connecticut prospectors and named Hartford and New Haven along the Ohio River (which I found amusing now living in greater Hartford). You may now resume your regularly scheduled programming.
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