re: Best SEC Town??? Make your case...

I wouldn't say Knoxville is in the top tier, but it's improved by leaps and bounds over the last 5 years and slowly working towards it. We've got a great downtown dining scene, 3 different districts to drink in with over 23 bars between them, and a recent exploding beer culture. There will be 17 breweries in the city by the end of 2016. Over half of which will be part of an Ale Trail linking them all together along a several mile stretch in Downtown North. Close proximity to some of the best outdoors East of the MS river, etc.

The biggest knock forever has been how outdated the Strip is (Bar section of campus). Once that's finally brought into the 21st century (currently underway as I type this) it should add for some much needed ambiance we've been missing.

Lots of moving pieces right now and it's nice to see.