re: Gator Tailgating opinion of College Station/A&M

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I didn't, but I highly doubt Gainesville=CS.

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BCS Metro-212k and growing FAST.
Gainesville Metro-260k
Starkville Metro-29k

I drove through Gainesville this Summer while on a roadie and went through campus. The towns have a lot of the same feel. Large campus settings with a full service town built around it. I was actually surprised how much Gainesville is kind of out of the way from everything. Not so far that it is too far but it's not right by the coast or just outside of a major city which is similar to BCS. The biggest difference I noticed is the trees are much bigger and plentiful and everything is flat so you can't really see the campus easily. You can see everything laid out a lot more in College Station but that also means you see more concrete, we just don't get as much rain as you folks so trees don't normally get that big without help. Actually if you go back to the early stages of re-alignment Loftin (A&M Pres) has consistently spoken about his relationship with Manchin and how that influenced him, including how they always sat together at AAU meetings. Both schools also put a big emphasis on the "minor sports" and are consistent Top 10 Directors Cup schools.

I have nothing against MSU but they have little in common with A&M other than colors and an Ag history. A&M is just a much bigger and richer school that is 60 miles from Houston and within 3 hours of all the big Texas Metros.

Texas folks will always act as though it is still 1960 though and A&M is an all male military college that is filled with farmers. That's fine, we act like they are all a bunch of rich kids and gay guys but the truth is they have more than their share of folks that are as redneck as can be but both schools really are mostly suburban upper middle class kids.