re: Auburn Fans: Did everyone have a good time in State College/UP?

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Honest assessment that does not need to be interpreted as sour grapes because we lost. Gettysburg—-spent 10 hours… amazing if you are in to history! The area of middle Pennsylvania is beautiful, clean with the Quaker feel. But rivaled by north Georgia, Arkansas and Tennessee. The campus was very impressive and slightly better than Purdue. But is rivaled by Tuscaloosa, Athens, Gainesville, Baton Rouge.
As for Beaver Stadium… it is a myth in my honest opinion. It is an old concrete jungle comparable to a larger Grant Field. Small entrances, out of date restrooms. The lower bowl is small rivaled to Vanderbilt Stadium and Kyle Field prior to their expansion. Your capacity it in that one 3-tiered upper deck. Portable Little League aluminum bleachers in all four corners directly in front of concession stands
With relation to the white out… same thing happens every week in every stadium in the SEC except the colors are different! The Swamp, Red Stick, Sanford, Kyle Field, Columbia, Jordan Hare are much louder. The tailgate area outside the stadium is atrocious, concrete, barren.dull and boring. After all that crap ESPN hyped about Big Ten this, big Ten that. Best atmosphere in college football happens at every campus every week in the SEC! Ya got away with one last Saturday. See ya in Auburn next year.

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Agree mostly. I worked for two companies based in Happy Valley and one of them had the division that designed both the football and baseball stadiums. I had to keep from laughing when they were bragging on how great a stadium they designed.

This time of the year, the campus is pretty nice with the green rolling hills. But, for both companies I had to go to "Christmas Parties" in December and the campus in the winter is stark and pretty ugly. I hate cold weather. Don't miss going there in the winter at all. Getting in and out of town, with their little airport to make connections, can be dicey in Winter

They can be great people for tailgating. I have been to several games, but always with PSU grads, so hard to tell for true visitors. After the pretty wears off, then it is boring to me