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re: Spinoff thread: Which SEC campuses have you been to and which ones do you want to visit?

Posted on 7/25/18 at 11:42 am to
Posted by twk
Wichita Falls, Texas
Member since Jul 2011
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Posted on 7/25/18 at 11:42 am to
Arkansas--Been there several times for baseball and once for football. Fayetteville has come a long way in the last 30 years. Campus is just OK, but the setting in the hills is a plus. Good place to visit.

LSU -- Two baseball trips, and two football trips. Sorry, but the LSU campus just doesn't do much for me. The stucco architecture reminds me of Texas Tech (maybe that's why). The roads around BR are a nightmare, as the infrastructure is woefully lacking. It's an interesting place to visit, no doubt, for both football and baseball.

Ole Miss -- Three football trips. A nice enough campus, but tailgating at the Grove is overrated, although I will concede that the weather has been a negative all three times I visit, and would like to see it once, in warm, dry, conditions. I also need to make the baseball trip (hopefully, I will take care of that this spring)

Mississippi State -- Two baseball trips, two football trips. The campus is OK, but the street plan (if you can call it that) is one of the strangest I've seen. I like going to Starkville for baseball, not so much for football.

Alabama -- Two football trips, one baseball trip. A nice campus, and the proximity of the Strip to the football stadium is a plus for folks who aren't tailgating. I've heard some folks say that the tornado actually improved Tuscaloosa--sort of a forced urban renewal. I enjoyed the town and campus on my baseball trip.

Auburn -- One football trip. I liked this campus. Not much to complain about. Need to make it back for baseball.

Georgia -- One baseball trip. Athens is a great college town. The only nit-picking is that the architecture is perhaps a little lacking (the old part of the campus is attractive, but not in the way that some other really old schools are). Great place to visit, and I'm looking forward to the football trip in 2019.

Florida -- One football trip. Nice campus, but it overwhelms the town and threatens to strangle it. Not a great place for visitors. I will probably put off a baseball trip until the new park is built.

Went to a football game at South Carolina, but never made it to campus, which says a whole lot in and of itself. Having an off campus facility is unfortunate.

Edit: Sort of the same story at the other Columbia--went to the football game, but didn't really see the rest of campus or the town (view from the stadium was not impressive).
This post was edited on 7/25/18 at 11:45 am
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