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Post by The Cats on Oct 21, 2018 12:28:22 GMT -5
Since we've been talking about the facilities, I think many of us would like to see where WCU actually stands in the conference with facilities. Here's your opportunity to rank the SoCon schools based on their facilities. (I'm not including UNCG since they don't have a football stadium). I know this will take a little time on your part but will be worth if we get a good sampling.
Looking at the current facilities (for the big 3 - football, basketball, & baseball), how would you rank each school's facilities? We're using a 9 point scale, so the best stadium would get 9 points - the worst gets 1 point (in baseball the top facility get 8 points since UTC does not play).
(Now I know we have the most scenic, and beautiful location for our three facilities in Cullowhee, but what we're looking at is the actual facility, not location.)
Football: The Citadel Chattanooga ETSU Furman Mercer Samford VMI Western Carolina Wofford
Basketball: The Citadel Chattanooga ETSU Furman Mercer Samford VMI Western Carolina Wofford
Baseball: The Citadel Chattanooga ETSU Furman Mercer Samford VMI Western Carolina Wofford
Add your numbers up for each school, then rank in order of the combined scores (i.e. each will have a score on football, basketball, & baseball, add the three together for that school's score), Then list in order, the highest number to lowest. With a good sampling of folks making the survey, that should give us a good sampling of how WCU's facilities stack up.
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Post by The Cats on Oct 21, 2018 12:46:34 GMT -5
My rankings.....
Football: The Citadel - 4 Chattanooga - 9 ETSU - 8 Furman - 6 Mercer - 7 Samford - 1 VMI - 3 Western Carolina - 2 Wofford - 5
Basketball: The Citadel - 2 Chattanooga - 8 ETSU - 5 Furman - 4 Mercer - 4 Samford - 6 VMI - 1 Western Carolina - 7 Wofford - 9
Baseball: The Citadel - 8 Chattanooga N/A ETSU - 7 Furman - 5 Mercer - 6 Samford - 3 VMI - 1 Western Carolina - 2 Wofford - 4
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My overall ranking ETSU - 20 Wofford - 18 Chattanooga - 17 Mercer - 17 Furman - 15 The Citade l - 14 WCU - 11 Samford - 10 VMI - 5
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Post by The Cats on Oct 23, 2018 12:38:47 GMT -5
I guess this one was just too hard?
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Post by wcugrad95 on Oct 23, 2018 12:51:44 GMT -5
I don't know about the others, but I have only been to 5 of the 9 football stadiums (and I have not been to any of the other school's current basketball or baseball venues). I could take a stab at what I have seen or can look up, but I don't have enough personal knowledge to really rank them. Of the 5 football stadiums:
Chattanooga - 5 Citadel - 2 Furman - 3 Mercer - 4 Western - 1
I put Mercer higher than Furman because it is so much newer - quite a bit smaller, but it fits well and is a very nice construction (seems to be relatively close to what was done at ETSU, but the Bucs seems to have a nicer pressbox/club seats). Citadel can move up the ladder if they ever go through with the visiting stands. Chattanooga has a nice stadium, but of course it is not theirs (and I don't see them filling it up any time soon). ETSU (from seeing it on TV) could really be nice as they grow if they fill-in more stands, and the design was done to accommodate that when/if needed.
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