re: Longhorn AD Steve Patterson calls College Station a "shithole"

I'm gald you didn't include Lawrence... that's actually a nice town.

Lubbock is an aquired taste. I don't like it, but people from there love it.

Waco truly is awful.

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Any of you Aggies still want to play that game?

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Nope.
Never wanted to.
Good riddance.

plus got on the dream's bad side

Its OK guys, just a misquote

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1. Clarification from Steve Patterson on a quote we had in the War Room.

I quoted a source close who said Patterson said something derogatory about the city of College Station when asked if he would consider renewing the rivalry with Texas A&M.

While Patterson has shown no interest in renewing that rivalry (and had never returned any of my calls since taking the AD job), he told me Saturday at the Texas basketball game vs West Virginia he didn't and wouldn't say anything derogatory about College Station.

Patterson said: "I have friends who work there (College Station) and would never say anything like that."

I told him I would relay that to our subscribers. ... And he knows my phone line is always open

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College Station isn't Athens, Georgia, and people on here don't pretend like it is, but shithole it's not. It's actually really clean and over-policed with new buildings popping up like weeds all over.

Austin is a city. It's not a college town. It's for people who would also like NYU. You don't get the classic American "college experience" at UT - you get big city grunge, hustle, prices, and crowds.

One of my very best and oldest friends is a 3rd generation diehard Horn (also Harvard grad) whose brothers and sister also went to UT and he'll tell you straight up that while he loves UT and will never in any way be an A&M fan, A&M's culture is more his style (i.e. not raging lefty communist) and College Station is a better town than Austin in which to be a college student. We're talking someone who *loathes* A&M here, not at all a neutral party. To him, both UT and Austin have changed a ton since his parent's day (the late 60's) when relative to the nation UT was still pretty culturally conservative and Austin was just a large town, more like B/CS today or Columbia, Missouri, and not so much a city. Back in the '60s-'70s and before, Austin WAS a college town. The metro area has 1,000,000 people in it now though, and the growth mostly happened in the '90s-2000s. It's a medium-sized American city now with national-level draw. Different place than it was.

I personally like the trash talk between both of the programs. Eventually y'all will play again and it's going to amazing.

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But frick the bryan Vikings.

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STVDB

I really dont get the College Station hate. Its really not any different from Gainsville, Tuscaloosa, etc.

Its certainly better than fricking Waco

I live in Austin and its a cool city but it is a city that happens to have a college in it as opposed to a college town. The city doesn't revolve around Texas at all, it's more like the local pro team here. More than that though, the population has doubled in the last 20 years and is growing exponentially. What that means is most of the people that live here didn't grow up here and even fewer have a connection to sip.

CS is more of a true college town experience. Have a buddy from Penn State I took to a game last year and he couldn't get over how much it reminded him of Happy Valley. It has its warts as well but it makes me chuckle when people try to compare it to Starkvegas or Stillwater. CS has a metro of 225k for crying out loud, those cities are under 40k. It's also within 3 hours of Houston, Austin, San Antonio, and the Coast.

One thing I love about CS is it is pretty safe and cheap. For example, I went to Laynes and got a 50 piece chicken tender platter for a group after a game and it was $27. I went to Canes right near the Texas campus and the same 50 piece is $48. It's a lot harder to make your dollars stretch in Austin.