The Goat Pen

Glad all is well with you.

I'm not sure about your positive assessment of Fayetteville. There's a reason it's called "Fayette-nam." It's a small city with a Chicago-style murder rate. Just ask Michael Jordan's father.

BTW, Tiger Offspring #2 got accepted to UNC MBA school.

Prof:

hi

Congrats to Tiger Offspring #2

I live in Forest Lakes in Haymont. It's a nice area. You wouldn't recognize Hay St now. All of the titty bars are gone. There are restaurants, shops and lots of town homes. They're building a minor league park downtown. Murchinson Road and Bragg Boulevard are the same (although they're closing down the Bragg Boulevard/Hwy 87 section that runs through Ft Bragh and rerouting it.

I feel a lot safer in Fayetteville than Goldsboro. Goldsboro is the small town version of New Jack City.

Professor Tiger wrote:Glad all is well with you.

I'm not sure about your positive assessment of Fayetteville. There's a reason it's called "Fayette-nam." It's a small city with a Chicago-style murder rate. Just ask Michael Jordan's father.

BTW, Tiger Offspring #2 got accepted to UNC MBA school.

Also, MJ's father was killed on 74 in Robeson County. That's over 40 miles from Fayetteville.

Fayetteville isn't a major city by any stretch, but it has a population of 200,000.

DooKSucks wrote:....

Fayetteville isn't a major city by any stretch, but it has a population of 200,000.

Hell, Jax FL has about 850,000... Add in the beaches and Orange Park and you're about a million and it still feels like it's not a major city by any stretch. It has seemed like the more this area grows in population, the less there is.

Hiya Wiz. How's Nebraska these days?

DS, so you're LIVING in Fayetteville now? I will pray for your safety. A warrant officer in my battalion was murdered at the corner of Bragg Blvd and Honeycutt. A carjacking went bad. Then there was that Major who was shot in PT formation, sniped by a disgruntled soldier in his battalion. Then there was the elderly black couple murdered off post by a white supremacist soldier (my wife almost had to sit on that jury). Then there was the "Green Ramp disaster" air crash, to which I was a first responder. Charred bodies everywhere. Then there was the soldier that shot up a pizza joint and killed 4 people, including the 2 elderly owners. And I was only there 4 years. That place was like a combat tour.

I remember Haymount as a nice area. Glad to hear Hay St. has been cleaned up.

I lived in the College Lakes area. It was pretty nice until the College Lake dam broke and the lake dried up.

If you're still living there if/when kids come along, I highly recommend Fayetteville Academy. My wife taught there, and it is an excellent school. They have an impressive pipeline of their graduates to UNC.

GBJ, why does Jax always smell bad?

My wife went to the academy (as the locals call it) but then went to Terry Sanford for high school. Terry Sanford is a great public school, and if I have a son who wants to play football, he has no choice but to attend public schools. My sister in law and most of our friends in town went to the academy. What grades, subjects and years did your wife teach there?

"if I have a son who wants to play football"

If you have a son, he will be NFL offensive lineman sized by the time he's in middle school...

She taught English there '94-'97. It was a mix and match of 6,7,8 and 10th grade. She also edited the school year book one of those years.

Do you have a concealed carry permit? If not, you may want to consider one.

I wish someone would conceal you in a duffel bag and carry you to Fallujah...

hedge wrote:"if I have a son who wants to play football"

If you have a son, he will be NFL offensive lineman sized by the time he's in middle school...

It's sad to see two Tarheels fighting. Although it's obvious from their posts that DS is the only one that actually attended UNC.

Professor Tiger wrote:She taught English there '94-'97. It was a mix and match of 6,7,8 and 10th grade. She also edited the school year book one of those years.

Do you have a concealed carry permit? If not, you may want to consider one.

I am sure she taught several of our friends then.

Small world.

How's your Dad?

Personally, I think hedge couldn't get into Carolina, so he attended NC State, briefly, before dropping out and transferring to a junior college. Nowadays, he's just piggy-backing on UNC's vastly superior prestige.

Wiz, whazzup?

How are the Huskers doing after Bo Pellini? They've really never been the same since the NCAA started cracking down on the 'roids.

It has gotten much more difficult to get into Carolina these days but I'm pretty sure I would've gotten in today based on my high school stats. Back when I applied it never occurred to me that I wouldn't get in, but times have changed...

The University of Georgia is the same way. When I was applying to colleges in the late '70's, all you needed to get in was >1,000 on your SAT and a B+ GPA, and you were in. Pretty much the same as Auburn.

Last month, we took Tiger Offspring #3, a high school sophomore, to Athens for the prospective student briefing/tour. My God, now they want a 30 on the ACT, 4.00 GPA, top 10% class ranking, several AP courses, and plenty of extracurriculars. Probably the same as UNC. From what I hear, the students are now smarter than the professors at UGA. If I were applying today with my HS stats, I couldn't get near that place.

Hedge, so you were smart enough to get into UNC? I imagine this is what happened to you your freshman year...