Mountain West?

[Da Boyz Mom]

Im guilty if "viewing" it a couple times a day but thats just to un bold it from the main page.

We need an "ignore" feature for certain threads. Some threads I'm not at all interested in from the very beginning, others I was following because the original topic of discussion was interesting, but then the thread goes so far off the rails that it has nothing to do with the original topic and I don't want to keep clicking on it inadvertently. Being able to put threads on ignore and have them unbolded would be huge. At least in my opinion.

 

[GriznMN]

Core 7:
San Jose State
Wyoming
Air Force
Hawaii
UNLV
Nevada
New Mexico

New Additions:
UTEP
Northern Illinois (?) - this one has GOT to go...

Consideration?
Montana
Montana State
South Dakota State
North Dakota State

Great list for a future MWC and I never understood why NIU was brought into the MWC. They should've stayed in the MAC, it's a better footprint and less travel expenses. Kick out NIU and you have a nice round 12 teams.

 

[GriznMN]

I don't particularly like N. Illinois either but I would think flying in/out of Chicago as a major hub would make travel a hell of a lot easier than a lot of other locations...

Uh......HELL NO!

 

[GriznMN]

Kem— think about the fans that want to fire a coach with a 13-2 record. There is a subset of fans that would storm Main Hall if the team went 7-5.

Do you read the pages on eGriz? There’s more babies here than a Salt Lake City maternity ward.

7-5 in the Big Sky, yes. 7-5 in the Mountain West after we moved up from FCS, it would be so small that their voices would be drowned out by the huge majority that support the move up.

 

[GriznMN]

A bunch... it's a pain in the weather! There is always Midway...

Driving in Chicago is the worst, whether from O'Hare or Midway.

 

[5280Griz]

Driving in Chicago is the worst, whether from O'Hare or Midway.

Going south like to the SW suburbs or Michigan Midway isn’t horrible outside of rush hour but Ohare to those areas is always horrible regardless of time. It’s going to get better though as they are planning to build west side access to Ohare which is the main problem because all traffic leaving the airport currently heads southeast toward the city.

 

[GriznMN]

Going south like to the SW suburbs or Michigan Midway isn’t horrible outside of rush hour but Ohare to those areas is always horrible regardless of time. It’s going to get better though as they are planning to build west side access to Ohare which is the main problem because all traffic leaving the airport currently heads southeast toward the city.

With Chicago being the 3rd largest city in the U.S. and being boxed in on the east by Lake Michigan, driving in Chicago is getting worse and worse. Nowadays, the only times outside of rush hour in Chicago are 11pm to 4am and, even then, with construction and the traffic into/out of and through the city, it can feel like rush hour during the 11pm to 4am times as well.

 

[5280Griz]

With Chicago being the 3rd largest city in the U.S. and being boxed in on the east by Lake Michigan, driving in Chicago is getting worse and worse. Nowadays, the only times outside of rush hour in Chicago are 11pm to 4am and, even then, with construction and the traffic into/out of and through the city, it can feel like rush hour during the 11pm to 4am times as well.

I have visited Chicago and southwest Michigan twice a year for most of my life. My extended family are almost all in the southwest corner of Michigan. My girlfriend is from the southwest suburbs of Chicago. Going to Michigan from Midway you can take a toll road which avoids traffic unless it is rush hour. Going to the SW suburbs you take 55 which is usually pretty bad traffic but it isn’t stop and go outside of 11pm-4am.

 

[GriznMN]

I have visited Chicago and southwest Michigan twice a year for most of my life. My extended family are almost all in the southwest corner of Michigan. My girlfriend is from the southwest suburbs of Chicago. Going to Michigan from Midway you can take a toll road which avoids traffic unless it is rush hour. Going to the SW suburbs you take 55 which is usually pretty bad traffic but it isn’t stop and go outside of 11pm-4am.

Tell that to Montana fans who live in Montana year round and who don't drive in rush hour traffic at any time of the year. You expect someone from Montana to be able to navigate Chicago freeways and byways and traffic at any time of the year?

 

[5280Griz]

Tell that to Montana fans who live in Montana year round and who don't drive in rush hour traffic at any time of the year. You expect someone from Montana to be able to navigate Chicago freeways and byways and traffic at any time of the year?

They will be lost if they think Reserve Street has bad traffic. I can’t tell you how many times when I lived in Missoula I heard Missoula traffic is horrible. You can take I90 to get to the other side of town in 5 minutes at any time of the day. Reserve Street might take 25 mins to drive the whole length in rush hour traffic. Brooks Street from what I remember was never that backed up and what I usually took to go north and south from the U district instead of Reserve anyway.

 

[get'em_griz]

Tell that to Montana fans who live in Montana year round and who don't drive in rush hour traffic at any time of the year. You expect someone from Montana to be able to navigate Chicago freeways and byways and traffic at any time of the year?

I’ve driven in Seattle, Los Angeles and Houston, all of which are some of the worst cities to drive in anywhere. It’s honestly not difficult to navigate major city traffic if you know how to drive somewhat aggressively, match with traffic flow, and Google Maps to get you from point a to b.

 

[5280Griz]

I’ve driven in Seattle, Los Angeles and Houston, all of which are some of the worst cities to drive in anywhere. It’s honestly not difficult to navigate major city traffic if you know how to drive somewhat aggressively, match with traffic flow, and Google Maps to get you from point a to b.

This rarely happened when I lived in Montana with people in front of me trying to merge onto I90. They didn’t understand you are supposed to get up to highway speeds before merging over.

 

[CDAGRIZ]

Traffic talk, woo! I live in Southern California and end up driving all over it for youth sports. Most backups make sense. Construction, wreck, ball game, etc. The traffic engineers seem to know what they’re doing for the most part. I’ll tell you this: the most pointless traffic I’ve ever experienced is hwy 95 northbound in CDA. No reason for it. It’s like the light schedules haven’t been revisited since the 80s. Three cars through on the arterial to let one on from a side street, and then sit there at a red light for 90 seconds with a clear intersection, repeat. And every speed limit on the thoroughfares in that area is 15mph too slow.

 

[Griz Addict]

I’ve driven in Seattle, Los Angeles and Houston, all of which are some of the worst cities to drive in anywhere. It’s honestly not difficult to navigate major city traffic if you know how to drive somewhat aggressively, match with traffic flow, and Google Maps to get you from point a to b.

Seattle is a damn nightmare. Id much rather drive in Atlanta, St Louis, Nashville, Birmingham etc. Seattle is the worst I've experienced and it's not close.

 

[HelenaHandBasket]

LA is hands down the worst. I have never had a problem with Seattle traffic.

 

[AZGrizFan]

LA is hands down the worst. I have never had a problem with Seattle traffic.

IMHO Seattle is top 5 in the country for worst traffic. LA as well. Houston is bad. Atlanta is bad. Chicago is bad. SF is bad.

 

[HelenaHandBasket]

IMHO Seattle is top 5 in the country for worst traffic. LA as well. Houston is bad. Atlanta is bad. Chicago is bad. SF is bad.

I agree with your Houston and Chicago takes. I found Atlanta to be fine.

 

[GriznMN]

IMHO Seattle is top 5 in the country for worst traffic. LA as well. Houston is bad. Atlanta is bad. Chicago is bad. SF is bad.

The 10 U.S. Cities With the Worst Traffic - According to this article, Chicago is #2 worst traffic, followed by LA, Boston, and Philly. Seattle is a distant 10.

 

[Ursa Major]

Traffic talk, woo! I live in Southern California and end up driving all over it for youth sports. Most backups make sense. Construction, wreck, ball game, etc. The traffic engineers seem to know what they’re doing for the most part. I’ll tell you this: the most pointless traffic I’ve ever experienced is hwy 95 northbound in CDA. No reason for it. It’s like the light schedules haven’t been revisited since the 80s. Three cars through on the arterial to let one on from a side street, and then sit there at a red light for 90 seconds with a clear intersection, repeat. And every speed limit on the thoroughfares in that area is 15mph too slow.

So true! My days are controlled by 4 way stops with 85% of the traffic going north & south during rush hours. Huge backups because “it’s the way we’ve always done it.”

So many smaller, growing communities lack infrastructure, I get it. But the biggest sin is a lack of adaptability.

 

[kemajic]

Austin, TX