Title Town

[phins]

Isn't that where Grand Valley St is? If so, they dominate EVERYTHING in DII. Of course, the school has like 10 times the number of students as most DII schools, but it's insane how they're dominate in everything.

[TabascoElvis]

Isn't that where Grand Valley St is? If so, they dominate EVERYTHING in DII. Of course, the school has like 10 times the number of students as most DII schools, but it's insane how they're dominate in everything.

NO, GVSU is up here by me. Allendale, MI.

[JL21]

Chapel Hill was a marvelous choice.

/sarcasm

Still better than the town this morning....Valdosta, GA.

Valdosta, GA? Seriously? Apparently their claim to fame is the winningest HS football team in the country, a couple D-II football championships, and....wait for it....the birthplace of JD Drew and Jesse Tuggle!!

I'd put them on par with each other. At least Valdosta isn't a one-trick pony like Chapel Hill.

And I'd just like to say "Kiss my heiney, ESPN, for making me compare the merits of Chapel Hill v. Valdosta, Georgia".

[phins]

Isn't that where Grand Valley St is? If so, they dominate EVERYTHING in DII. Of course, the school has like 10 times the number of students as most DII schools, but it's insane how they're dominate in everything.

NO, GVSU is up here by me. Allendale, MI.

I'm thinking Valdosta St. is in Valdosta, Ga.

Yeah, Valdosta St. has no claim to fame...

[Popeye_Card]

Chapel Hill was a marvelous choice.

/sarcasm

Still better than the town this morning....Valdosta, GA.

Valdosta, GA? Seriously? Apparently their claim to fame is the winningest HS football team in the country, a couple D-II football championships, and....wait for it....the birthplace of JD Drew and Jesse Tuggle!!

They said that their high school and college teams have won 448 state and national championships. Spaced over 100 years (a stretch--I'm not sure they were awarding high school state championships 100 years ago), that's ~4.5 championships per year.

I think they have a case. Actually, I think they blow everyone else out of the water. For goodness sake--Chicago was one of the finalists. OK, I'll give them the Bulls (for one decade). Outside of that, what do they have? I'd rank them higher on the loser list than the title list.

[phins]

Chapel Hill was a marvelous choice.

/sarcasm

Still better than the town this morning....Valdosta, GA.

Valdosta, GA? Seriously? Apparently their claim to fame is the winningest HS football team in the country, a couple D-II football championships, and....wait for it....the birthplace of JD Drew and Jesse Tuggle!!

They said that their high school and college teams have won 448 state and national championships. Spaced over 100 years (a stretch--I'm not sure they were awarding high school state championships 100 years ago), that's ~4.5 championships per year.

I think they have a case. Actually, I think they blow everyone else out of the water. For goodness sake--Chicago was one of the finalists. OK, I'll give them the Bulls (for one decade). Outside of that, what do they have? I'd rank them higher on the loser list than the title list.

State championships are nice, but in MO, I couldn't give two flips about it...

[JL21]

Chicago made me laugh. A town whose most popular sports team hasn't won a title since Moses was in short pants.... IT'S TITLE TOWN!!!

[Popeye_Card]

State championships are nice, but in MO, I couldn't give two flips about it...

I think they're still important though. Their teams win the championships of their sports. A lot. I think that's pretty significant for a "competition" like this.

Four hundred and fourty eight championships. For a city around 45,000 residents. I know cities of 50,000 that are proud of displaying one state championship on a sign when you enter the city. If Valdosta listed them all, they would be in 12 point font on a huge billboard.

EDIT: If this thing was just about huge cities, who cares. Count up the major sports championships and give them the trophy. If this "contest" were interesting in any way, they would be celebrating more small cities/towns like this with incredible sporting traditions.

[Popeye_Card]

Chicago made me laugh. A town whose most popular sports team hasn't won a title since Moses was in short pants.... IT'S TITLE TOWN!!!

Dude, you're totally forgetting about that one Super Bowl the Bears won.

(BTW, I would honestly say that the Bears are more popular than the Cubs in Chicago. That doesn't really take away from your point though that they have 2 MLB teams who have combined for 1 championship in 182 combined years.)

[phins]

State championships are nice, but in MO, I couldn't give two flips about it...

I think they're still important though. Their teams win the championships of their sports. A lot. I think that's pretty significant for a "competition" like this.

Four hundred and fourty eight championships. For a city around 45,000 residents. I know cities of 50,000 that are proud of displaying one state championship on a sign when you enter the city. If Valdosta listed them all, they would be in 12 point font on a huge billboard.

EDIT: If this thing was just about huge cities, who cares. Count up the major sports championships and give them the trophy. If this "contest" were interesting in any way, they would be celebrating more small cities/towns like this with incredible sporting traditions.

Sure, state titles are great, but in a competition like this that is supposed to be national title town, does someone in Springfield, MO even remotely care? I doubt it.

That's impressive, and Ga isn't Fla, Cali, or Tx when it comes to HS sports, but they are pretty strong as well.

Still, I couldn't care less about Valdosta, Ga.