whats the best college town in oklahoma?

[OKCMallen]

oh oh go cry me a river doug, quite your whining about how you love everyone and hey maybe we should all hold hands and sing we are the world, go cry that pathetic crap to someone else. I just simply wanted to know who had the best college town period in oklahoma, i didnt say whos better norman or stillwater, i said oklahoma. And who cares if it sparks up some rivalry ou-osu hate, its all in good fun. No one in here i dont think is gonna go to a bar and start beating people up over the rivalry. So doug go cry some more about, im sure ill get something back that makes you sound like a little 8yr boy who didnt get his candy at the grocery store. Let people answer the question and have fun with it, name your favorite town and quit your crying. If it bothers you so much that people in this state have rival schools and talk smack back and forth about then go live in fairy tale land.

Whoa. Easy. No one talks to The Doug like that.

[Doug Loudenback]

Whoa. Easy. No one talks to The Doug like that.

He he ... not to worry. Nick does it regularly. "I'm a man, I'm 40" ... and a bit more than that. At the least, it was good of him to clarify his original intention when he posted the message which began this thread, don't you think?

[OKCMallen]

Some people are just off-limits. Pete, Doug, Karried, to name three...

[CuatrodeMayo]

oh oh go cry me a river doug, quite your whining about how you love everyone and hey maybe we should all hold hands and sing we are the world, go cry that pathetic crap to someone else. I just simply wanted to know who had the best college town period in oklahoma, i didnt say whos better norman or stillwater, i said oklahoma. And who cares if it sparks up some rivalry ou-osu hate, its all in good fun. No one in here i dont think is gonna go to a bar and start beating people up over the rivalry. So doug go cry some more about, im sure ill get something back that makes you sound like a little 8yr boy who didnt get his candy at the grocery store. Let people answer the question and have fun with it, name your favorite town and quit your crying. If it bothers you so much that people in this state have rival schools and talk smack back and forth about then go live in fairy tale land.

I'm pretty sure this thread was intended at flamebait which I'm pretty sure is against the TOS (which I can't find, incidently). I vote to close this thread.

[metro]

I'm also pretty sure this thread isn't very specific to "OKC metro area", I've flagged it to the mods as it is more of a flame bait, underground type thread.

[Spartan]

He he ... not to worry. Nick does it regularly. "I'm a man, I'm 40" ... and a bit more than that. At the least, it was good of him to clarify his original intention when he posted the message which began this thread, don't you think?

Doug, I didn't have anything to do with this thread other than my posts in it, which I still stand behind. Seriously..I would have used the name "quash" instead of "kwash" c'mon you should know me better than that. Of course, with 1 post from the original poster, I had to disagree that it was a troll..with the original poster's second post now on lovely record, I can't agree more.

Pete can run an IP check. But in my experience, trolls like this usually aren't at all related to your long-term main posters. Oftentimes they don't even live in Oklahoma.

[Doug Loudenback]

Sorry to have misjudged you about being kwash, Nick. Aside from that, I stand behind my other comments also. If the original poster had actually been serious and wanted to learn something, your method did little if anything to contribute and actually detracted from the poster's stated purpose and essentially hijacked the thread.

[Bunty]

Yeah, I don't think anyone was wanting to bad mouth any Oklahoma college town until Spartan showed up.

[Spartan]

Yeah, I don't think anyone was wanting to bad mouth any Oklahoma college town until Spartan showed up.

Are you a moron? I was the 2nd poster in the thread because I happened to be online when it went up. If I hadn't, someone else would have started it 5 seconds later. Here's what I said:

Norman of course. Any other answer, like Sillywater, would just be silly.

Geez, that's not even my best stuff. Does anyone want my best Stillwater jokes? I really don't think OSU jokes from an OU person are that offensive, but maybe they don't teach sense of humor up there in the North Country.

[Luke]

As I said earlier, pokes are sensitive creatures and take offense very, very easily.

[PennyQuilts]

What did Spartan say that was so bad? He was just play trash talkin' they way folks do. Not like that person who attacked Doug. Good lord!

[Spartan]

Let's see if we can guess what this is from..

I wanna talk about this thread right herr. This was brought to me by a mother. Of colleges. Think this is worth readin. Lemme tell ya why I wanna talk bout this thread. 3/4ths of this is inackurit. It's ficshin. Aaaand this thread embarrasses me to be involved with OKC Talk, tremendously. And that thread, had to be written by a person that doesn't have a college. And has NEVER had a college that's HAD THEIR HEART BROKEN and COME HOME upset!! And had to deal with a college WHEN HE IS UPSET. AND KICK A COLLEGE WHEN HE'S DOWN! Here's all that college does. He goes to class. He's RESPECTFUL TO THE MEDIA!! AND THE PUBLIC!! And he's a good college. And he's not a professional college, and he doesn't deserve to be kicked when he's down. If you have a college someday, you'll understand. But YOU OBVIOUSLY don't have a college. I do. If your college goes down the street and someone makes fun of him and says he's fat and goes home cryin to his mamma, you'd understand. But you haven't had that, but someone day you will. If you wanna go after a college, one of my colleges, you go after me. I'm A MAN!!! I'm 21!!! That's why I don't read OKC Talk. Because it's GARBAGE!!!! And the moderator that let it come out, IS GARBAGE!! Attackin an amateur college for doin everything right!!!!

[hagrid]

oh oh go cry me a river doug, quite your whining about how you love everyone and hey maybe we should all hold hands and sing we are the world, go cry that pathetic crap to someone else. I just simply wanted to know who had the best college town period in oklahoma, i didnt say whos better norman or stillwater, i said oklahoma. And who cares if it sparks up some rivalry ou-osu hate, its all in good fun. No one in here i dont think is gonna go to a bar and start beating people up over the rivalry. So doug go cry some more about, im sure ill get something back that makes you sound like a little 8yr boy who didnt get his candy at the grocery store. Let people answer the question and have fun with it, name your favorite town and quit your crying. If it bothers you so much that people in this state have rival schools and talk smack back and forth about then go live in fairy tale land.

Hmm. Note the time of the post by kwash. 2:19 AM. <burp> Excuse me, while I put another quarter in the jukebox. I see GO CRY is your favorite song, let's see, ah yes, in the C&W section.

I can't believe no one mentioned Wilburton as the best little ol' college town! Since I think Norman is too big to be considered a town, I have to go with Shawnee. It has both a Catholic and a Baptist University!!! Talk about the makings of a rivalry. That is scarier than Stoops at a Bowl game.

Chickasha? Uh... No, shady Grady!

[Bunty]

Let's see if we can guess what this is from..

I wanna talk about this thread right herr. This was brought to me by a mother. Of colleges. Think this is worth readin. Lemme tell ya why I wanna talk bout this thread. 3/4ths of this is inackurit. It's ficshin. Aaaand this thread embarrasses me to be involved with OKC Talk, tremendously. And that thread, had to be written by a person that doesn't have a college. And has NEVER had a college that's HAD THEIR HEART BROKEN and COME HOME upset!! And had to deal with a college WHEN HE IS UPSET. AND KICK A COLLEGE WHEN HE'S DOWN! Here's all that college does. He goes to class. He's RESPECTFUL TO THE MEDIA!! AND THE PUBLIC!! And he's a good college. And he's not a professional college, and he doesn't deserve to be kicked when he's down. If you have a college someday, you'll understand. But YOU OBVIOUSLY don't have a college. I do. If your college goes down the street and someone makes fun of him and says he's fat and goes home cryin to his mamma, you'd understand. But you haven't had that, but someone day you will. If you wanna go after a college, one of my colleges, you go after me. I'm A MAN!!! I'm 21!!! That's why I don't read OKC Talk. Because it's GARBAGE!!!! And the moderator that let it come out, IS GARBAGE!! Attackin an amateur college for doin everything right!!!!

Good lord, you're 21. Quit acting like a high school kid. Do you think you'll be going out of your way to write junk similar to the above when you're 40?

[Bunty]

Are you a moron? I was the 2nd poster in the thread because I happened to be online when it went up. If I hadn't, someone else would have started it 5 seconds later. Here's what I said:

Geez, that's not even my best stuff. Does anyone want my best Stillwater jokes? I really don't think OSU jokes from an OU person are that offensive, but maybe they don't teach sense of humor up there in the North Country.

What don't you just go ahead and call me names rather than ask?

Yes, by all means let's hear your Stillwater jokes. You seem to know a lot more about the place than most people and what is so jokeable about 85

[kwash]

wow i never thought i get this response people, but like i said to doug this was not suppose to be a ou/osu football rivalry post. I just wanted you guys to name your favorite college town in oklahoma. As to earlier post that say norman is to big to be a college town lol, austin madison gainesville, do those all ring a bell? those 3 college towns are always in the top 10 on every best college town list ever made and all those cities are over 300,000+, hell austin is close to a million if not over it. Drive into austin and you just feel the longhorn atmosphere, it just oozes with stickers on the cars and billboards that say longhorn country, little do we forget that dang near 70,000 students attend ut-austin, so come on people that whole argument that a city being to be to be a college town dosent hold water. norman and stilwater both oooze with cowboy and sooner pride from the flags you see flying all over both towns, heck in norman they even have a mall called sooner mall, walk into any store in norman and see a huge ou flag hanging inside. its atmosphere not size people. also an earlier post about one school or another being dead on weekends lol, i been to both on a saturday evening when their are no sports events and both stillwater and norman are dead. its no secret that on oth campuses and even talequah that the kids go home on weekends. when is the last time you seen any oklahoma college on any party list in the last 20 years, never!! and thats a good thing too. times have changed people, this isnt the 70's or 80's anymore when the college experience was at its peak. Now kids usually have to go home on weeknds to work not stay around and party, and the greek system is all but dead as we mov einto 2010. but like doug said earlier all the college towns in oklahoma are great and we should be proud of them all from talequah to norman,stillwater to even weatherford!!!!!!!

[Spartan]

What don't you just go ahead and call me names rather than ask?

I did ask, that's what a question mark means.

[dismayed]

wow i never thought i get this response people, but like i said to doug this was not suppose to be a ou/osu football rivalry post. I just wanted you guys to name your favorite college town in oklahoma. As to earlier post that say norman is to big to be a college town lol, austin madison gainesville, do those all ring a bell? those 3 college towns are always in the top 10 on every best college town list ever made and all those cities are over 300,000+, hell austin is close to a million if not over it. Drive into austin and you just feel the longhorn atmosphere, it just oozes with stickers on the cars and billboards that say longhorn country, little do we forget that dang near 70,000 students attend ut-austin, so come on people that whole argument that a city being to be to be a college town dosent hold water. norman and stilwater both oooze with cowboy and sooner pride from the flags you see flying all over both towns, heck in norman they even have a mall called sooner mall, walk into any store in norman and see a huge ou flag hanging inside. its atmosphere not size people. also an earlier post about one school or another being dead on weekends lol, i been to both on a saturday evening when their are no sports events and both stillwater and norman are dead. its no secret that on oth campuses and even talequah that the kids go home on weekends. when is the last time you seen any oklahoma college on any party list in the last 20 years, never!! and thats a good thing too. times have changed people, this isnt the 70's or 80's anymore when the college experience was at its peak. Now kids usually have to go home on weeknds to work not stay around and party, and the greek system is all but dead as we mov einto 2010. but like doug said earlier all the college towns in oklahoma are great and we should be proud of them all from talequah to norman,stillwater to even weatherford!!!!!!!

Austin has some great things going on, like all the businesses around town and of course 6th and 8th Streets downtown. But look at their college campus. It looks like a corporate center. The architecture is atrocious. It's bordered by highways and sky scrapers. It just isn't a real college atmosphere.

That is one thing I like about both OU and OSU, they have a very traditional east coast campus look and feel.

[feconi]

Austin has some great things going on, like all the businesses around town and of course 6th and 8th Streets downtown. But look at their college campus. It looks like a corporate center. The architecture is atrocious. It's bordered by highways and sky scrapers. It just isn't a real college atmosphere.

That is one thing I like about both OU and OSU, they have a very traditional east coast campus look and feel.

To each his own. I personally prefer UT's campus to OU or OSU's, partly because of the architecture (except for the engineering "quad" which, yeah, is a collection of 10-18 story brick monoliths). But it's mostly the campus atmosphere that I love--UT is blessed with a very diverse and active student body, and the campus just feels so much more busy and "alive" than OU or OSU. A major plus is the way campus connects with midtown and downtown, giving Austin a very large and connected walkable urban core. If anything, UT has the ideal college atmosphere.

BTW, kwash, there's about 37,000 undergrads and 13,000 grad students here--nowhere near 70k. And I'd definitely argue that outside of central Austin (and the newspaper), the city doesn't exactly "ooze" Longhorn pride when you drive in. I'd agree that Madison is a college town, but Austin--at 1.7 million in the metro area--is simply too big to qualify for such a status.

[HVAC Instructor]

You guys beat each other up worse than the political forums!

[Bunty]

I did ask, that's what a question mark means.

So Spartan you failed miserably in answering my question. So once again I ask: What don't you just go ahead and call me names rather than ask?

Meanwhile, I'm still waiting on your jokes about OSU and Stillwater. Why not Norman, too, if any?

[Bunty]

I'm pretty sure this thread was intended at flamebait which I'm pretty sure is against the TOS (which I can't find, incidently). I vote to close this thread.

Not me. I found the majority of the postings, except when they were totally about a poster, to be interesting and informative.

[bluedogok]

To each his own. I personally prefer UT's campus to OU or OSU's, partly because of the architecture (except for the engineering "quad" which, yeah, is a collection of 10-18 story brick monoliths). But it's mostly the campus atmosphere that I love--UT is blessed with a very diverse and active student body, and the campus just feels so much more busy and "alive" than OU or OSU. A major plus is the way campus connects with midtown and downtown, giving Austin a very large and connected walkable urban core. If anything, UT has the ideal college atmosphere.

Yes, the area around the campus is very much a "college area" just like it is is Norman and most other cities that have large universities located in them. The reason why it feels busier is the sheer number of students crammed in to the original 40 Acres (and a little bit more now), West Campus and other close-in areas. I do like the campus but I for one have grown to hate the faux Spanish/Tuscan style of architecture that is all over the campus because that is what developers all around town want to replicate. Let's just say that I am a bit tired of rehashing the same style over and over on projects. What do you think it would have been like if they had moved over to the 503 acres of the Brackenridge Tract when it was proposed in the early 1900's?

BTW, kwash, there's about 37,000 undergrads and 13,000 grad students here--nowhere near 70k. And I'd definitely argue that outside of central Austin (and the newspaper), the city doesn't exactly "ooze" Longhorn pride when you drive in. I'd agree that Madison is a college town, but Austin--at 1.7 million in the metro area--is simply too big to qualify for such a status.

Yep, you see bits of it around town at some bars and restaurants but nothing like around the campus. There are way more people here (like my wife and I) with absolutely no connection to UT...but many of the UT people like to think Austin is still the sleepy little college town they once lived in or envisioned.

[lasomeday]

It's also a matter of what kind of person you are. If your passions in life are skeet shootin and hog raisin and beer drinkin then Stoolwater is your place. If you like learning, music, and art, then Norman is your place.

Well, since you put it that way, if you are a frat boy doing cocaine, then Norman is for you.

OU is a clicky school, and OSU is not. It is night and day different. IF you have never gone to OSU then you can't compare OU and OSU.

[lasomeday]

Stillwater really is a nice little college town. I just like the area around OU better.

BTW, the "college town" thing is almost a completely foreign concept on the west coast. Most schools here are in bigger urban areas... And I personally don't care for that at all.

Pete,

My favorited all time college town is in California. San Luis Obispo (sp?). I love that town! The beach is right there and it still has a small town atmosphere and the great Cali climate.

I also love Corvalis! That is a great college town too. I love the downtown next to the Willamette River.