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According to Athlon: Clemson #3 college stadium, #2
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According to Athlon: Clemson #3 college stadium, #2
Aug 5, 2013, 11:55 AM
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College Logo, and according to US News Clemson was selected best college town. Usually we rank anywhere from 1 to 3 on best college entrance.
Athlon has South Carolina as #37 stadium, #3 from the worst logo, and I haven't heard how Columbia ranks on college town. For some reason their smoke and recorded music entrance a la wrestle mania, or high school, does seem to rank high on most listings.
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let's be honest though...
Aug 5, 2013, 12:08 PM
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There is no way Clemson is the "best college town." Places like Athens, GA, Ann Arbor, MI, or Chapel Hill, NC, or Charlottesville, VA would all seem to have a lot more to offer than Clemson. Don't get me wrong, I loved being in Clemson, but there's nothing to do there if you're not in school.
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Pay attention - COLLEGE TOWN - not town where college is...
Aug 5, 2013, 12:14 PM
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That's kinda the point dude.
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all the places I listed are college towns***
Aug 5, 2013, 1:31 PM
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Isn't CH a bit of a stretch?***
Aug 5, 2013, 1:35 PM
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the population's 60,000
Aug 5, 2013, 1:39 PM
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and there are 30,000 students at UNC. I'd say that's a college town. A lot more to do there than in Clemson, too.
CH is on just about every list of "best college towns, too: http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/americas-coolest-college-towns/11
Don't really agree with including some larger cities in there, but if you guys were really being honest you'd have to say that Clemson isn't really comparable to the places that always show up in lists like these.
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Chapel Hole is part of the Reserch Triangle...
Aug 5, 2013, 2:20 PM
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and less than 30 minutes form the state capital. It's hardly a "college town". Neither is Knoxille or Charlottesville.
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Charlottesville and Chapel Hill...
Aug 5, 2013, 3:26 PM
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are on everybody's lists of best college towns. If they aren't college towns, then there's no such thing as a college town.
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Re: let's be honest though...
Aug 5, 2013, 12:33 PM
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Well, it probably kept you out of trouble from the way you sound!
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Re: let's be honest though...
Aug 5, 2013, 1:17 PM
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Wait...chapel hill north carolina better than clemson?
Case of the mondays camcgee?
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yep...
Aug 5, 2013, 1:36 PM
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There's a heckuva of a lot more to do in Chapel Hill than there is in Clemson, especially if you're not a student.
Take a look at Southern Living's list: http://www.southernliving.com/travel/best-college-towns-00417000074763/page24.html
Qualifications for "college town:"
•A population under 200,000 (thus excluding favorites like Austin) so that the school has an incredibly strong impact on the town.
•A lively local scene with good, affordable restaurants, independent boutiques, and support of the arts.
•A dedicated and active alumni base.
•A healthy dose of Southern charm
That sounds about right to me. Clemson's population is certainly under 200,000, and it has plenty of southern charm. However, very few people besides students and employees of the university live there, and there isn't any "local scene" to speak of. It was a great place to go to school, but it really doesn't compare to Charlottesville, Athens, Chapel Hill, Knoxville, etc.
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Knoxville? Put down the crack pipe man....***
Aug 5, 2013, 1:38 PM
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a college town with a population of almost a quarter mil!
Aug 5, 2013, 2:10 PM
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come'on now. that's a stretch to even call it a college town.
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under 200k according to last census
Aug 5, 2013, 3:27 PM
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But I agree, that's probably pushing it a little bit as far as population.
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Orange Blooded [3909]
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Clemson is the definition of a college town.
Aug 5, 2013, 1:37 PM
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Athens is a great college town as well.
Bigger, but not sure I'd say it's better (I'm sure UGA grads would, understandably, think Athens is better).
All in the eye of the beerholder.
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Clemson's barely even a town
Aug 5, 2013, 1:39 PM
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I'm not saying it wasn't great to go to school there, but you need a little more than a quarter mile downtown to be among the "great" college towns.
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Orange Blooded [3909]
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Well obviously in your rankings Clemson wouldn't do as well.
Aug 5, 2013, 1:42 PM
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lol.
Gotcha.
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It doesn't do well in almost any ranking
Aug 5, 2013, 1:47 PM
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In fact, the most common complaint I've heard from people, who nevertheless loved going there, was how little there was to do outside of school related stuff at Clemson. If you read through what a lot of football recruits say, the isolation and "family atmosphere" at Clemson is either what sells them on Clemson or makes them go somewhere else. It's a cool place to be in school or if you want to live in a very small town, but it's just not among the better college towns.
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Orange Blooded [3909]
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You obviously have an opinion.
Aug 5, 2013, 1:56 PM
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Not trying to change yours, I just think a lot of people (obviously those doing this ranking included) see the small'ishness as a plus.
I grew up in much larger cities, and the type (small) colleg town Clemson is was a huge reason I went - and why so many I know went (and loved it).
Something in those hills...
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Re: let's be honest though...
Aug 5, 2013, 3:45 PM
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Chapel Hill? That place blows. After having lived and gone to school there for 4 years, I can say Clemson is certainly a better college town. Chapel hill thinks they are, but the school is not as influential on the town as they think they are. That an Raleigh is down the road, and Durham (outside the part they have been revitalizing) is close enough that the riff Raff spills over and brings chapel hill down
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I graduated from Clemson so I spent 4 years there. I worked
Aug 5, 2013, 4:16 PM
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at the university in Athens for two years. While I enjoyed living in Athens, it is not close to Clemson for college town. Athens had government housing projects two blocks from the stadium. It was also just big enough to have a lot of the problems of a big town. Clemson was just pure college atmosphere, college friends, studies, athletics, and everything you want in a college town.
I have also worked at the University of Colorado in Boulder. I would rate Boulder far and away a better college town than Athens, but still wouldn't prefer it to Clemson. I no experience living in Chapel Hill, but have been to games there in 1983, 1994, and 1996. I have never thought their campus was better than Clemson's and can't say if the town is a better college town.
The selection wasn't made by Clemson people.
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so I just actually looked this up...
Aug 5, 2013, 5:29 PM
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and it turns out Princeton Review didn't rate Clemson as the "#1 college town," but as the school with the best "town/ gown relations."
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