Colleges with the most school spirit

[warriorchick]

Marquette in at #12. Our fans are ranked higher than most of our sports teams.

Suck it, haters.

http://www.businessinsider.com/colleges-with-the-most-school-spirit-2016-9/#20-university-of-louisville--cardinal-pride-is-universal-at-louisville-students-from-all-corners-of-campus-come-together-to-support-their-student-athletes-1

[HouWarrior]

PRINCETON REVIEW RANKS MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY NUMBER 12  IN USA!!*






*rankings based on packing their stadium and answering question: "How popular are intercollegiate sports at your school?"

(Please prepare 100 Banners, for use in HS's "College Nights")

[Coleman]

Marquette in at #12. Our fans are ranked higher than most of our sports teams.

Suck it, haters.

http://www.businessinsider.com/colleges-with-the-most-school-spirit-2016-9/#20-university-of-louisville--cardinal-pride-is-universal-at-louisville-students-from-all-corners-of-campus-come-together-to-support-their-student-athletes-1

These rankings are quite suspect. What criteria was used?

[real chili 83]

ND sucks

[DUNKS45]

All rankings are suspect, except our own.

[JakeBarnes]

PRINCETON REVIEW RANKS MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY NUMBER 12  IN USA!!*






*rankings based on packing their stadium and answering question: "How popular are intercollegiate sports at your school?"

(Please prepare 100 Banners, for use in HS's "College Nights")

Boom. Banner should also once again read "Beat Duke"

[Coleman]

This should help recruiting

[NorthernDancerColt]

Marquette in at #12. Our fans are ranked higher than most of our sports teams.

Suck it, haters.

http://www.businessinsider.com/colleges-with-the-most-school-spirit-2016-9/#20-university-of-louisville--cardinal-pride-is-universal-at-louisville-students-from-all-corners-of-campus-come-together-to-support-their-student-athletes-1

#2 WVU....."(There's nothing like) singing COUNTRY ROADS with 50,000 of your closest friends (and one of your hillbilly frenemies)!!"

[Archies Bat]

Sorry, I don't know how to post links, but I cut and pasted some exerpts from a similar story I found online:

The 20 colleges with the best message boards
There's a number of ways students and alumni can show pride in their school, but nothing shows school spirit quite like their team's message board.
Whether it's for a basketball, football, or a smaller niche sport, students celebrate their schools by making grandiose predictions, analyzing recruits, critiquing rivals and providing common-sense advice to the coaching staff. They start chats long before the games start and dwell on the ups and downs of the game far longer than the average fan.
Keep reading for the 20 message boards with the most school spirit:
1)   West Virginia University BlueGoldNews.com on Scout  -  Mountaineers love BGN for its balance of academics and athletics. One student describes it: "There's nothing like singing 'Country Roads,' playing the Banjo, and spending time on BGN."
11)  Dayton University UDPride –Dayton fans have a top-flight message board, and use it to provide accurate, thought provoking insight into their Team's and Conference's hierarchy among the national collegiate elite.
19)   University of Wisconsin Buckyville – Self-proclaimed elite message board in the state.  Unusual fascination with in-state rivals.
On the Bubble:
2)    Marquette University Scope – Insightful posters, pertinent topics, lightly moderated, but an unusual fascination with chili, sweatervests and various forms of poetry that do not rhyme.  They also tend to ban high-volume posters with strong basketball skills and coaching wisdom.

[chapman]

2)    Marquette University Scope – Insightful posters, pertinent topics, lightly moderated, but an unusual fascination with chili, right and various forms of poetry.  The also tend to ban high-volume posters with strong basketball skills and coaching wisdom.

Where can I find MU Scope?  Sounds delightful 

I can buy in to whomever came up with this article - they've spent enough time here to drop an entire region of entrants in the Meme Tournament all in one brief tidbit. 

[GGGG]

I want nothing to do with anything called MU Scope.

[rocket surgeon]

I don't mind the ranking and the decent pub and all, but probably about as accurate as who the biggest party schools are or the most physically fit cities, etc...

[wadesworld]

On the Bubble:
2)    Marquette University Scope – Insightful posters, pertinent topics, lightly moderated, but an unusual fascination with chili, sweatervests and various forms of poetry that does not rhyme.  The also tend to ban high-volume posters with strong basketball skills and coaching wisdom.

My back friggin hurts.  Would some posters please step their games up and help me to get Scoop off the bubble?  I'm tired of having to do all the GD heavy lifting myself around here.

[jsglow]

My back friggin hurts.  Would some posters please step their games up and help me to get Scoop off the bubble?  I'm tired of having to do all the GD heavy lifting myself around here.

[real chili 83]

Who has a fascination with chili?

[Galway Eagle]

I don't mind the ranking and the decent pub and all, but probably about as accurate as who the biggest party schools are or the most physically fit cities, etc...

Those party rankings are gospel

[Dawson Rental]

Sorry, I don't know how to post links, but I cut and pasted some exerpts from a similar story I found online:

The 20 colleges with the best message boards
There's a number of ways students and alumni can show pride in their school, but nothing shows school spirit quite like their team's message board.
Whether it's for a basketball, football, or a smaller niche sport, students celebrate their schools by making grandiose predictions, analyzing recruits, critiquing rivals and providing common-sense advice to the coaching staff. They start chats long before the games start and dwell on the ups and downs of the game far longer than the average fan.
Keep reading for the 20 message boards with the most school spirit:
1)   West Virginia University BlueGoldNews.com on Scout  -  Mountaineers love BGN for its balance of academics and athletics. One student describes it: "There's nothing like singing 'Country Roads,' playing the Banjo, and spending time on BGN."
11)  Dayton University UDPride –Dayton fans have a top-flight message board, and use it to provide accurate, thought provoking insight into their Team's and Conference's hierarchy among the national collegiate elite.
19)   University of Wisconsin Buckyville – Self-proclaimed elite message board in the state.  Unusual fascination with in-state rivals.
On the Bubble:
2)    Marquette University Scope – Insightful posters, pertinent topics, lightly moderated, but an unusual fascination with chili, sweatervests and various forms of poetry that do not rhyme.  They also tend to ban high-volume posters with strong basketball skills and coaching wisdom.

awewsome!

Kudo's to UDPride for maintaining even though they have cutoff new registrations.

[tower912]

Scope is an also ran?    Clearly, the moderators aren't very good motivators or in-thread coaches.   The talent is here, they are just using it wrong.   

[jsglow]

We only start the easy threads.

[Frenns Liquor Depot]

I think a poster in the past has compared Scope to jazz and I tend to agree. 

Creative | Improvising | Impulsive | Feeding off each other to create something great - like Lincoln Center on a Saturday night. 

That's like 5% of the time - the other 95% is more like your local Jazz club where a bunch of 'musicians' coming off their day job play the same damn notes over and over again making every song & solo sound the same.  Usually you are forced to pound your drink and head home just after the music starts.

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Where can I find MU Scope?  Sounds delightful 

I can buy in to whomever came up with this article - they've spent enough time here to drop an entire region of entrants in the Meme Tournament all in one brief tidbit.

Scopes monkey trial?

[real chili 83]

Ners was a mod on his high school message board.

[Coleman]

Ners was a mod on his high school message board.

[keefe]

I notice they photoshopped in "The Lone Brother" into the UW Madison picture

[Loose Cannon]

Scope is an also ran?    Clearly, the moderators aren't very good motivators or in-thread coaches.   The talent is here, they are just using it wrong.   

But Great Recruiters.