Baseball Is NOT DEAD at Furman

[youwouldno]

I regret to inform you that Lillington, Fuquay-Varina, and Dunn are the middle of nowhere.

[Roundball]

Campbell has 3,696 undergraduates and is in the middle of nowhere.

Lillington, Fuquay-Varina, and Dunn are all nearby. Raleigh, Durham, Fayetteville, and Chapel Hill are all within an hour. Not middle of nowhere.

You are right affirm. Buies Creek is only 28 miles to Raleigh, and is located inside the Research Triangle area. Not exactly the middle of nowhere.

[apaladin]

Campbell has 3,696 undergraduates and is in the middle of nowhere.

Lillington, Fuquay-Varina, and Dunn are all nearby. Raleigh, Durham, Fayetteville, and Chapel Hill are all within an hour. Not middle of nowhere.

You are right affirm. Buies Creek is only 28 miles to Raleigh, and is located inside the Research Triangle area. Not exactly the middle of nowhere.

When you have to drive an hour to get anywhere, yes its in the middle of nowhere.

[Roundball]

Campbell has 3,696 undergraduates and is in the middle of nowhere.

Lillington, Fuquay-Varina, and Dunn are all nearby. Raleigh, Durham, Fayetteville, and Chapel Hill are all within an hour. Not middle of nowhere.

You are right affirm. Buies Creek is only 28 miles to Raleigh, and is located inside the Research Triangle area. Not exactly the middle of nowhere.

When you have to drive an hour to get anywhere, yes its in the middle of nowhere.

You made our point. Buies Creek is only 45 minutes from Raleigh or Fayetteville, and is only 50 minutes to Cary. Heck, it takes me longer than that to get from where I live in Greenville to the Woodruff Rd. area.

[FUBeAR]

As a native of the City of Oaks, the Capital City of the Old North State, FUBeAR is uniquely qualified to opine regarding Buies Creek, NC and its proximity to a figurative, but contextually very real place called “Nowhere.”

At one time and/or viewed from a certain perspective, Buies Creek is/was most certainly and truly smack dab in the middle of Nowhere. Literally, Buies Creek is almost in the middle of Harnett County, NC which abuts Wake County, NC’s (the county in which Raleigh lies) southern border and Cumberland County’s (the home of Fayetteville & Fort Bragg (soon to be Fort Liberty), one of the largest military installations in the world) northern border.

Framed by a couple of counties with large “Somewheres” in them, Harnett County is as good an example of Nowhere as you will find anywhere. It’s county seat is the aforementioned Lillington (pop. 4735) and it’s largest city is the also aforementioned Dunn (pop. 8,446). Thus, sitting almost in the middle of a county that can clearly be described as Nowhere, it is certainly fair to characterize Buies Creek as being in the middle of nowhere.

BUT…if we expand our field of view out just a wee bit, our perspective might change. If we haven’t already, we also need to update our reference point to June 29, 1990, when the final section of I-40 connecting California to the East Coast in Wilmington, NC was opened. This extended from Raleigh (AKA “Somewhere”) and crossed I-95 (Miami, FL to Maine) about 14 miles from Buies Creek. So, this nearby access to a network of interstates that span the length and breadth of the United States and a slightly expanded field of view brings Buies Creek from accurately being described as the “middle of nowhere” to also fairly being termed as residing on “the outskirts of somewhere.”

In fact, FUBeAR recently entered, “Buies Creek, we’re on the outskirts of somewhere…really” as his submission to a tagline contest for Buies Creek that the local Chamber of Commerce is holding. Pretty sure that submission is in the finals. Please go here and vote for FUBeAR’s entry https://youtu.be/xvFZjo5PgG0

[MidlandsPaladin]

The only thing worse than having to watch Clemson v. Georgia on a beautiful spring evening because there is no Paladin baseball is having to watch Clemson’s Rob Hughes pitch to Georgia’s Ben Anderson - both Furman transfers.

[Fred Garvin]

The only thing worse than having to watch Clemson v. Georgia on a beautiful spring evening because there is no Paladin baseball is having to watch Clemson’s Rob Hughes pitch to Georgia’s Ben Anderson - both Furman transfers.

God Bless E.D. and Club WOLAX

[Yadkin]

Kudos to former Paladin Jay Jackson, who made his debut tonight with the Blue Jays.

[Frmrdin22]

Hoping to see baseball return in the coming years. Had a lot of friends on the teams from 99-04. Ron Smith was good to me as well.

[apaladin]

Hoping to see baseball return in the coming years. Had a lot of friends on the teams from 99-04. Ron Smith was good to me as well.

Fingers crossed. Hope FU does the right thing and brings it back. Would be a huge positive to the Greenville community riding on the coattalis of the basketball season. Could not be a better time to have a baseball is back announcement.

[MidlandsPaladin]

The tourney started today in Greenville and it’s a member of our broadcast team serving as color guy on ESPN+.

This sucks.

[Sad Din]

Not to pick a scab... but...

watching the baseball selection show... UVA Vandy and Wake are top 8 seeds with wake being #1. Most of the top 8 from southeast. In Socon, woofy, sammy and uncg have had success

If these schools had good programs, why were the Dins not successful in baseball... eva. HIgh academic stds dont count if UVA Vandy and Wake are good

1. Lack of admin support?
2. coaching?
3 facilities?

[FU Hoopla]

Not to pick a scab... but...

watching the baseball selection show... UVA Vandy and Wake are top 8 seeds with wake being #1. Most of the top 8 from southeast. In Socon, woofy, sammy and uncg have had success

If these schools had good programs, why were the Dins not successful in baseball... eva. HIgh academic stds dont count if UVA Vandy and Wake are good

1. Lack of admin support?
2. coaching?
3 facilities?

I think Wofftard has only won the SoCon tourney once back in 2007, a league that is generally not very good overall, I would not call that very successful...................

[FU Hoopla]

Why does UTC not have baseball?

[Sad Din]

Why does UTC not have baseball?

Masterful deflection...