SFalco
You make this much too easy...
1)Unless you don't have a life... leaving at dawn to go to a football game in order to beat traffic is the biggest waste of time since the Rubics Cube... but... I get it now... because you Ugag fans are there so early and subsequently leave so late you only see UGag football on Saturdays and are in no position to realize that you aren't going to win the National Championship this year or any year... and I thought all the barking on the local radio was stupid... it's not stupid it's just plain ol' ignorance... SILLY ME...
and by the by... going back to Athens wouldn't be a big deal if no one had a reason to leave in the first place... why exactly do you live in Atlanta if Athens is "SO" great???... Geez this is so simple it pains me to explain it to you...
2) Again if you have to tell anyone where the nice house(singular) is... then again you prove my point... people come to Atlanta to see Buckhead or Midtown, or Inman Park etc. if I need to ask you where your nice house is it probably isn't worth my time... and the swim club on the TECH campus happens to have hosted the Olympic swim and diving events in the 1996 Centennial Olympics... yes, you have a really big stadium... I tend to compare it to the guys with big wheels on their trucks syndrome...
3) Oh yes, Athens the cultural mecca of the South... don't even waste your breathe... 5 blocks north of the TECH campus is the HIGH Museum of Art... that's NOT "lets get HIGH and go to the museum to view art"... it's hosting the collection from the Russian State Pushkin Museum
not a bunch of folksy 'Panic' braid and fade artists...
and again REM and Wide Spread Panic although top shelf they are not world beaters and couldn't hold a candle to the combo hip-hop, film, and Media empires that claim Atlanta as their home...
You may get 'Panic' twice a year and REM whenever Stipes comes out of his 'depressed/ repressed' condition but I wouldn't trade it for the 3 day Music Midtown ever!!! Or a summer of Chastain...... oh yeah and don't forget places like The Northside Tavern off 17th, and then there's Blind Willies... or if those don't suit you we can check out The Roxy or maybe The Tabernacle...
4) *sigh* And yes Athens smells... maybe you're just used to it... Scrubbers won't help... trust me I've fallen in crap before and it don't go away until your skin falls off... Dawgs still there??? Skin ain't fallen off yet... Get it???
The smell in the ATO house is different... that's money... it's what makes TECH grads so much more attractive to female candidates than UGag grads...
5) Yes I went to Southern Cal... but my daddy is a TECH grad... I was tailgating in November of '62 when Dodd's boys stopped Bear's boys on the goal-line to preserve a 7-6 victory... if I remember correctly the only Tide loss in twwo years...
And don't even try to compare Ugag to USC... we got National Championships to match anything that a Dawg has done and we got 4 no 5 Heisman trophies in Heritage Hall... one of 'em even belongs to a homicidal maniac... top that!!!
6) 136 students caught cheating and not a single coach lost his or her job... nuf' said...
7) the only good reason to go to Ugag is to get away from your Mom and Dad for a few years... there are hundreds of campuses all over the country that offer exactly what you say Athens is good for yet none of those seem to think that their campus is the end all beat all that so many UGag alum and fans believe Athens to be(you all are like the Islamic fanatics and their adoration for Mecca)...
You mock me for growing up on the Left coast yet I've been to Corvalis, Tacoma, College Station, Lincoln, South Bend, Palo Alto, Berkeley, College Park, Austin and others... Athens has got nothing on these towns... and every where I go people have heard of TECH or know of a TECH grad that they work with... nobody knows anything about UGag except Herschel Walker, and if they don't know sports they don't know who he is i.e. they don't know Ugag...
Yes I'll concede that UGag has gotten stronger recently in their academic environment but it's weak, weak, weak and only time will bear the fruit of current academic progress ... of course it's been around for more than 100 years so if all you're known for is beer and football so be it and yes!!! Eureka, I remember now...Hydrangeas.... if your happy with that 'level of excellence' then you're doing what makes you happy... and I'm not one to judge that...
go ahead ... make my day... by the way, I signed your paycheck and left it in your cubicle... I'm on my way to vacation... won't be back for a couple of weeks... try not to hump any legs while I'm gone it bugs the secretaries
To Hell With Georgia...