re: Aggies thoughts on Alabama

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The best part is flying into luxurious College Station. Waiting on the one cab in town to take you to their Motel Six...ummm I mean the Hilton that still has gold wall paper from the Nixon Administration on the walls in the rooms. You ask if there is something nicer and they get all offended and tell you that it is like their Biltmore or something.

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College Station is an exurb of Houston. The money doesn't stay there. There's no need for nice accommodations there, because there's not much business aside from what leeches from the University and tech companies set up to feed off of the research done there. We don't LIVE in College Station after graduation. We live in Houston, Dallas, and Austin, which are larger and nicer than anything in the South aside from Atlanta (not counting Miami since S FL is not the South).

College Station is what it is - it serves its purpose, as a college town. Most Ags just make the short drive up from Houston and then back down after the game, so there isn't much monetary incentive to build swanky hotels so some Gumps, Grinders, and Cajuns (who wouldn't appreciate nice things anyway) can stay there a few times a year.