Best and worse FCS college towns?

[LeadBolt]

Williamsburg is an interesting town, but the streets role up about Sundown.

Green & Gold '75, that was the year that I graduated, I don't suppose we know each other do we?

Unlikely, as the crowd I hung out with weren't football fans. Odds would go up if you 1-worked at the caf or college pub, 2-lived at JBT 43 or Dawson Hall, 3-played a lot of tennis, 4-majored in biology. PM me anytime.

I'm 1 for 4, with the JBT thing freshman year.

[polsongrizz]

Example, I heard the smell at Northern Colorado was horrible.(I cannot confirm this personally).

I am not going to read "8" pages to see the responses to this. In the three times I have been to Greeley the stockyard smell never happened. Had a great time, great breweries, bars, restaurants and even caught a God Smack concert after one game. Not the worse FCS town.

[polsongrizz]

Rating the Big Sky Confrence towns:


4. Northern Arizona: comfortable stadium (dome) where the fan support is minimal. Flagstaff is a great place to visit; near Grand Canyon, Sedona, etc.

8. Idaho State: The only redeeming quality is they play in a dome, so you're out of the cold. Quiet, sleepy town Pocatella will put the best to sleep.

Anybody who thinks playing in a dome makes a great atmosphere or nice stadium cannot be trusted to even make these judgments. So your list is ruled out as null and void.

[89Hen]

Anybody who thinks playing in a dome makes a great atmosphere or nice stadium cannot be trusted to even make these judgments. So your list is ruled out as null and void.

This.

[OSBF]

I can't believe this has gone this long without a youngstown mention. Cleenze, it's waaaay worse than c'dale, unless you're into housing projects and all that they have to offer, such as a virtually unlimited supply of meth and crack whores. C'dale is just dull and boring, y'town is dangerous. Sort of like DesMoines on its worst day.

TerreHaute is awful, the people are ugly and weird, and the paper mill makes the whole town smell.

Springfield was a fun time, nice friendly people, plenty to do, only minor complaint is the tailgating on concrete parking lots.

Macomb, BORING

Charleston(il) BORING

I need to get to UNI, NDSU, and SDSU before I comment on them.

[clenz]

I can't believe this has gone this long without a youngstown mention. Cleenze, it's waaaay worse than c'dale, unless you're into housing projects and all that they have to offer, such as a virtually unlimited supply of meth and crack whores. C'dale is just dull and boring, y'town is dangerous. Sort of like DesMoines on its worst day.

TerreHaute is awful, the people are ugly and weird, and the paper mill makes the whole town smell.

Springfield was a fun time, nice friendly people, plenty to do, only minor complaint is the tailgating on concrete parking lots.

Macomb, BORING

Charleston(il) BORING

I need to get to UNI, NDSU, and SDSU before I comment on them.

I keep wanting to bring Youngstown up, but I keep forgetting too. I've never been there, but the housing, crime, drug, etc.. reports are all pretty bad.


I've also heard that Richmond was a pretty dangerous city in terms of crime, but the Spider fans said that was starting to change.

Thank you for backing me on the Carbondale and Terre Houte though.

I've been through Macomb twice, but I never got out of the car so I couldn't comment on that one, and I hadn't heard any first hand reports on it.

[OSBF]

I can't believe this has gone this long without a youngstown mention. Cleenze, it's waaaay worse than c'dale, unless you're into housing projects and all that they have to offer, such as a virtually unlimited supply of meth and crack whores. C'dale is just dull and boring, y'town is dangerous. Sort of like DesMoines on its worst day.

TerreHaute is awful, the people are ugly and weird, and the paper mill makes the whole town smell.

Springfield was a fun time, nice friendly people, plenty to do, only minor complaint is the tailgating on concrete parking lots.

Macomb, BORING

Charleston(il) BORING

I need to get to UNI, NDSU, and SDSU before I comment on them.

I keep wanting to bring Youngstown up, but I keep forgetting too. I've never been there, but the housing, crime, drug, etc.. reports are all pretty bad.


I've also heard that Richmond was a pretty dangerous city in terms of crime, but the Spider fans said that was starting to change.

Thank you for backing me on the Carbondale and Terre Houte though.

I've been through Macomb twice, but I never got out of the car so I couldn't comment on that one, and I hadn't heard any first hand reports on it.

I've got a great DesMoines story. As you know, Drake is in the middle of the ghetto in DesMoines, much as Bradley is in Peoria. 3 years ago we went to Drake for the MVC women's conf tourney with another couple. Friday evening after the last game was played we decided we would like some beer and a deck of cards. The ladies stayed in the room while Marty and I walked to this little mini mart gas station thing we remembered seeing right off the west edge of campus.

SO, we get to the place, and right away notice the fully armed security guard up on this little wooden platform right in the center of the store. Seems a little odd and out of place for a college campus, so, when we get to the check out counter with our playing cards and beer I ask the clerk. The clerk points to this blackish-maroon stain on the floor behind the counter, and tells me that they had an armed robery the night before, and the clerk was shot and killed.

Because we look more than a little out of place by this time, he asks if we walked there from campus, and tells us we best not try to walk back, especially carrying beer. We made the walk back to the Holiday Inn much quicker than the walk to the mini mart. More sort of like on a dead run with our hair on fire scared to death for our lives.

[clenz]

I keep wanting to bring Youngstown up, but I keep forgetting too. I've never been there, but the housing, crime, drug, etc.. reports are all pretty bad.


I've also heard that Richmond was a pretty dangerous city in terms of crime, but the Spider fans said that was starting to change.

Thank you for backing me on the Carbondale and Terre Houte though.

I've been through Macomb twice, but I never got out of the car so I couldn't comment on that one, and I hadn't heard any first hand reports on it.

I've got a great DesMoines story. As you know, Drake is in the middle of the ghetto in DesMoines, much as Bradley is in Peoria. 3 years ago we went to Drake for the MVC women's conf tourney with another couple. Friday evening after the last game was played we decided we would like some beer and a deck of cards. The ladies stayed in the room while Marty and I walked to this little mini mart gas station thing we remembered seeing right off the west edge of campus.

SO, we get to the place, and right away notice the fully armed security guard up on this little wooden platform right in the center of the store. Seems a little odd and out of place for a college campus, so, when we get to the check out counter with our playing cards and beer I ask the clerk. The clerk points to this blackish-maroon stain on the floor behind the counter, and tells me that they had an armed robery the night before, and the clerk was shot and killed.

Because we look more than a little out of place by this time, he asks if we walked there from campus, and tells us we best not try to walk back, especially carrying beer. We made the walk back to the Holiday Inn much quicker than the walk to the mini mart. More sort of like on a dead run with our hair on fire scared to death for our lives.

Yeah, for the most part Des Moines is a nice place. The area right about the Drake campus SUCKS something hard though.

[uncbears8228]

As a current student at UNC I would say it is an ok college town. There are a few things to do there and Denver is only an hour away so you can also go down there. Fort Collins where Colorado State is located is only 40 min away and is a better college town and a good amount of people will go up there on the weekends. The rumor about the smell is false. Yes it smells every now and then but it in not constant. It can be bad some days unfortunately but those days are few and far between. I am interested in seeing how the new Bear Aware program works in making Greeley a better college town. It can work I think, but both the business and school need to be into it cant be a one sided deal. I haven't visited an of the other Big Sky schools, but plan to in the future and hope to have a good time at all of them.

[Skjellyfetti]

As a current student at UNC I would say it is an ok college town. There are a few things to do there and Denver is only an hour away so you can also go down there. Fort Collins where Colorado State is located is only 40 min away and is a better college town and a good amount of people will go up there on the weekends. The rumor about the smell is false. Yes it smells every now and then but it in not constant. It can be bad some days unfortunately but those days are few and far between. I am interested in seeing how the new Bear Aware program works in making Greeley a better college town. It can work I think, but both the business and school need to be into it cant be a one sided deal. I haven't visited an of the other Big Sky schools, but plan to in the future and hope to have a good time at all of them.

Sorry, but if your reasoning is that it's a good college town because it's only 40 minutes away from a better college town, an hour away from a major city, and that the smell isn't constant... just present on some days... it probably falls toward the "worse" side of the college town continuum.

[uncbears8228]

As a current student at UNC I would say it is an ok college town. There are a few things to do there and Denver is only an hour away so you can also go down there. Fort Collins where Colorado State is located is only 40 min away and is a better college town and a good amount of people will go up there on the weekends. The rumor about the smell is false. Yes it smells every now and then but it in not constant. It can be bad some days unfortunately but those days are few and far between. I am interested in seeing how the new Bear Aware program works in making Greeley a better college town. It can work I think, but both the business and school need to be into it cant be a one sided deal. I haven't visited an of the other Big Sky schools, but plan to in the future and hope to have a good time at all of them.

Sorry, but if your reasoning is that it's a good college town because it's only 40 minutes away from a better college town, an hour away from a major city, and that the smell isn't constant... just present on some days... it probably falls toward the "worse" side of the college town continuum.

I would agree it is towards the lower end and is just ok. If someone was looking for the college experience like they have in the movies then i would definitely say UNC is no the place for them

[89Hen]

I can't say that I've ever spent any time at Maine or UNH so I will have to leave them out...

CAA (in order IMHO)
UMass - absolutely loved trips to Amherst
Delaware - Now that Chrysler is gone, the UofDel is #1 and #2
W&M - not sure why so many people hate it, one of my favorite CAA trips
JMU - quiet, like a college town should be
URI - only been once and was more inclined to go to Newport than stay in Kinston
Villanova - had fun the couple times I was on campus
Richmond - beautiful campus, but ugly city, will have to see how new stadium affects visit
Towson - not really a town at all, good parking though

[elmer towns]

Richmond has some nice parts in the city, but the majority of it is just your generic virginia town consisting of either rednecks or hood rats. Richmond does have a nice campus, glad they will have a nice stadium to match. VCU is also a good campus

[Ursus A. Horribilis]

Rating the Big Sky Confrence towns:


4. Northern Arizona: comfortable stadium (dome) where the fan support is minimal. Flagstaff is a great place to visit; near Grand Canyon, Sedona, etc.

8. Idaho State: The only redeeming quality is they play in a dome, so you're out of the cold. Quiet, sleepy town Pocatella will put the best to sleep.

Anybody who thinks playing in a dome makes a great atmosphere or nice stadium cannot be trusted to even make these judgments. So your list is ruled out as null and void.

I will never understand how anybody can think that playing in a dome is a good thing. I will never look to him for credible advisement on an issue in the future due to that post alone.

Unfuckingbelievable.

[Screamin_Eagle174]

Hmmm....have you considered a Rorschach eval?

Test is bogus. Plus, my first though driving by was "oh, look at the giant peach." After driving by it about 30 times, you start to notice that it looks like a butt.

Looks like your momma's cooch.





















Before I did my bidness.

[ATL]

Gonna have to go with the ohio towns of youngstown and Toledo as two of the worst I've visited. of course my employer pays a visit to Buis creek NC to play campbell this year and i have a feeling it might be worse.

Some of the best have to include Myrtle beach(coastal) and Here in ATL(Georgia state[no homer]) I enjoyed Lynchburg (liberty) and Suprisingly enough my trip up to culhowee(western Carlolina) was a lot of fun as well. here's my full list:

The good:
Lynchburg VA
Atlanta GA
Conway SC
Culhowee NC
Charleston SC
Williamsburg VA

The Bad:
Boiling Springs NC
Elon NC
Clinton SC

The UGLY:
Toledo OH
Youngstown OH

[Wildcat Ryan]

You want Mountains, Weber's got em

[bandl]

Anybody who thinks playing in a dome makes a great atmosphere or nice stadium cannot be trusted to even make these judgments. So your list is ruled out as null and void.

I will never understand how anybody can think that playing in a dome is a good thing. I will never look to him for credible advisement on an issue in the future due to that post alone.

Unfuckingbelievable.

In BSF's defense, I don't think he was saying that playing in a dome is a good thing at all. He said the 'only redeeming quality is they play in a dome, so you're out of the cold.' That doesn't sound like a sterling review to me, it sounds like he is saying "well....at least you aren't freezing your ass off outside while you have to watch that pathetic excuse of a football team". Nary of mention in his post of ISU being a 'great atmoshpere' or a dome being a 'good thing'. And he did rank ISU #8 out of 9....

[andy7171]

I can't say that I've ever spent any time at Maine or UNH so I will have to leave them out...

CAA (in order IMHO)
UMass - absolutely loved trips to Amherst
Delaware - Now that Chrysler is gone, the UofDel is #1 and #2
W&M - not sure why so many people hate it, one of my favorite CAA trips
JMU - quiet, like a college town should be
URI - only been once and was more inclined to go to Newport than stay in Kinston
Villanova - had fun the couple times I was on campus
Richmond - beautiful campus, but ugly city, will have to see how new stadium affects visit
Towson - not really a town at all, good parking though

You can't seriously be ranking Towson behind Richmond, Villanova and URI as far as college town. Have you ever venture outside of the TowsonCenter/Stadium area? Fan support for the sports programs aside, Towson is a great place to be with tons of things to do. Anyone who has been uptown will agree.

[LeadBolt]

I can't say that I've ever spent any time at Maine or UNH so I will have to leave them out...

CAA (in order IMHO)
UMass - absolutely loved trips to Amherst
Delaware - Now that Chrysler is gone, the UofDel is #1 and #2
W&M - not sure why so many people hate it, one of my favorite CAA trips
JMU - quiet, like a college town should be
URI - only been once and was more inclined to go to Newport than stay in Kinston
Villanova - had fun the couple times I was on campus
Richmond - beautiful campus, but ugly city, will have to see how new stadium affects visit
Towson - not really a town at all, good parking though

Most folks either love Williamsburg or hate it, depending on what they are looking for. Towson is really Baltimore, which I enjoy.

I will say that I have enjoyed trips to Missoula, great fans, fun but small downtown and good scenery.

Carbondale had very welcoming folks and gracious fans. I know they will enjoy their new stadium.

[Tribe4SF]

I can't say that I've ever spent any time at Maine or UNH so I will have to leave them out...

CAA (in order IMHO)
UMass - absolutely loved trips to Amherst
Delaware - Now that Chrysler is gone, the UofDel is #1 and #2
W&M - not sure why so many people hate it, one of my favorite CAA trips
JMU - quiet, like a college town should be
URI - only been once and was more inclined to go to Newport than stay in Kinston
Villanova - had fun the couple times I was on campus
Richmond - beautiful campus, but ugly city, will have to see how new stadium affects visit
Towson - not really a town at all, good parking though

You can't seriously be ranking Towson behind Richmond, Villanova and URI as far as college town. Have you ever venture outside of the TowsonCenter/Stadium area? Fan support for the sports programs aside, Towson is a great place to be with tons of things to do. Anyone who has been uptown will agree.

Towson is absolutely one of my favorite road trips. I only tailgate, and go to the game and, as 89 says, the parking is the best. The rest of the time in the Inner Harbor and at Fells Point. Great murky blues bar there.

[89Hen]

The rest of the time in the Inner Harbor and at Fells Point. Great murky blues bar there.

IH and FP are not Towson. They are Baltimore.

[89Hen]

Have you ever venture outside of the TowsonCenter/Stadium area? Fan support for the sports programs aside, Towson is a great place to be with tons of things to do. Anyone who has been uptown will agree.

Goucher is closer to town center, no?

[andy7171]

Have you ever venture outside of the TowsonCenter/Stadium area? Fan support for the sports programs aside, Towson is a great place to be with tons of things to do. Anyone who has been uptown will agree.

Goucher is closer to town center, no?

The mall? Yes.

To the rest of the town, no.


When I was bouncing at Towson bars I'd refuse to let Goucher students in. F that lesbian school and the guys who go there.

[Blue Hen Fanatic]

Besides the allure of the big city schools like UMass, Nova and the like ,who has the most to offer its students and recruits ?.

I don't know if anyone posted this, but Umass(Amherst) is not in a big city and either is Villanova(Villanova-Radnor)

Northeastern University is in the big city of Boston, and Nova is near the city of Philadelphia, but Umass is way outside of Boston.

I do not think any of the current CAA football School is actually in a BIG City(absent outgoing North Eastern). Unless you consider Richmond as a Big City???

Incoming football program Georgia State, however, is in the Big City of Atlanta.