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re: Best Southern College Town, Go Vote!

Posted on 3/31/16 at 10:38 am to
Posted by The Hurricane
Gulf of Mexico
Member since Aug 2011
9855 posts
Posted on 3/31/16 at 10:38 am to
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If only the LSU/UGA rotation didn't suck arse

You can thank Auburn, Bama, Georgia and TN for that.
Posted by JumpingTheShark
America
Member since Nov 2012
24740 posts
Posted on 3/31/16 at 10:52 am to
The answer to this is Athens, GA, and I went to LSU. BR kinda sucks.
Posted by 91TIGER
Lafayette
Member since Aug 2006
19288 posts
Posted on 3/31/16 at 12:50 pm to
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Athens should and probably will win the whole thing.




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BR is a dump.


Posted by LouisianaLonghorn
Austin, Texas
Member since Jan 2006
15714 posts
Posted on 3/31/16 at 2:06 pm to
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Baton Rouge is not a college town, it's a city that has a college in it.


Every SEC school is located in a city. Some are just smaller than others. When I think of a "college town", I define it in terms of how important the university is to the identity of the place where it's located. While BR would certainly continue to exist if LSU wasn't located there, the culture of the city would most definitely change. LSU is a very strong presence in BR. If you're looking for a quaint small city then Athens would win hands down. Oxford is way overrated.
Posted by Lithium
Member since Dec 2004
64062 posts
Posted on 3/31/16 at 6:00 pm to
Best College Game Day Atmosphere Baton Rouge

Best College Town Athens
Posted by 756
Member since Sep 2004
15789 posts
Posted on 3/31/16 at 6:10 pm to
Done VOTE
Posted by Walt OReilly
Poplarville, MS
Member since Oct 2005
124694 posts
Posted on 3/31/16 at 6:20 pm to
Athens should win it all
Posted by tiger1014
Member since Jan 2011
12687 posts
Posted on 3/31/16 at 6:46 pm to
I refuse to vote for Baton Rouge for anything. shite hole outside of LSU
Posted by tarzana
TX Hwy 6-- the Brazos River Valley
Member since Sep 2015
30791 posts
Posted on 3/31/16 at 7:11 pm to
Best Southern college town: La Plata, Maryland.
Posted by pellietigersaint
Tiger Stadium
Member since Aug 2005
19043 posts
Posted on 3/31/16 at 7:39 pm to
For the life of me I can't understand why these threads pop up. It is an irrelevant internet poll on an obscure worthless site.

Why does it matter? Are you going to print the shirts?

Beetle Miss on the football field, court, and diamond. That is the only place that it matters
This post was edited on 3/31/16 at 7:41 pm
Posted by LSU-MNCBABY
Knightsgate
Member since Jan 2004
25165 posts
Posted on 4/1/16 at 7:21 am to
Athens is by far the best.
Posted by UncleTed
Member since Jan 2016
202 posts
Posted on 4/1/16 at 7:46 am to
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aren't "college towns" supposed to be like Starkville where there is nothing else except the school there?
. Bingo. Baton Rouge is not what I would call a college town.
Posted by BayouBengal
Member since Nov 2003
28288 posts
Posted on 4/1/16 at 9:51 am to
Baton Rouge is a lot of things, college town isn't one of them. I think a basic test would be if you removed the university, what would the city have left? For BR it'd still be the capital of LA with a decent sized industrial center with oil and chemicals. If you removed the schools from Athens, Oxford, Auburn, etc.... you just have a small rural town.
Posted by BPTiger
Atlanta
Member since Oct 2011
6062 posts
Posted on 4/1/16 at 12:02 pm to
Blacksburg is a total shithole. Worst college town I've been to.
Posted by TeddyPadillac
Member since Dec 2010
29842 posts
Posted on 4/1/16 at 12:12 pm to
What the hell is so great about Oxford?
It's a hassle to buy beer there, the bars close too early, and the girls are overrated. Just b/c you dress up all nice and put on makeup doesn't make you some southern beauty.

Ole Piss sucks.

And Athens should be the winner.
Why did they have Norman and Stillwater but not Austin?
Posted by UGATiger26
Jacksonville, FL
Member since Dec 2009
9128 posts
Posted on 4/1/16 at 1:00 pm to
Athens got beat out by Blacksburg?

Bracket automatically invalidated.

Blacksburg?!

I've been there twice. Decent town. Cool campus. But better than Athens? Sorry, but no.
This post was edited on 4/1/16 at 1:01 pm
Posted by weptiger
Georgia
Member since Feb 2007
11640 posts
Posted on 4/1/16 at 1:17 pm to
Tiger or not, I gotta go with Athens.
Posted by Tingle
1173 Tallow Tree Lane
Member since Sep 2013
4558 posts
Posted on 4/1/16 at 6:06 pm to
They're not including cities with over 250k people hence no Austin or Nashville.
This post was edited on 4/1/16 at 6:07 pm
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