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There will be NO TEA SIPPING going on the banks of the Olentangy my friend. You will feel right at home @ 8 am getting your vitamins in for the day, a little vodka & Orange / tomato juice, whatever your flavor. ESPiN game day should be there so the crowds will be there early. The stadium holds approx. 106K & there will be another 100-200K around the stadium to "soak" up the atmosphere & watch the game on TV. I believe you will be very impressed w/ the game day atmosphere @ tOSU. It is not just a game it is an event! There will bands (not marching) @ multiple locations both before and after the game. I am so pumped for this game. It's going to be ELECTRIC!! Enjoy Texas as I will be in Austin in '06 to take in the Texas hospitality and 'ball atmosphere! Best of luck, w/ the REST of your season! scUM game day & tOSU game day are night & day!
 
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Salt Lick BBQUE....it is one of the best. http://www.saltlickbbq.com

The best location is the one mentioned above..it is in Driftwood, Texas. Located in the middle of no where.

As far as getting to a game at DKR.....take a shuttle. It's the easiest way......You aren't going to find parking on campus anywhere. I went to a high school state championship game there for Austin Westlake vs Midland Lee with over 40,000 fans and there was no parking anywhere....and that wasn't even a capacity crowd.

I love Austin.........very trendy.....very hip.......it reminds me of a twist of Seattle and Boston with some Texas style whipped in.

I don't think Columbus could even come close to meeting what Austin has to offer.
 
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High Lonesome said:
1.) the bbq place that he was refering to is The Saltlick. There are two of them in Austin but the one that you want to go to is a 20 drive south of town. It is tucked back in the hills and it is BYOB(you can roll a keg in there if you feel like it)
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Thanks for coming up with the name. Did I do justice to the food?

As for Michigan fans and tailgating... you have to remember that this school (UM) is the one that sold sweatshirts reading: HARVARD, The Michigan of the East.

Can we say arrogant?

Oh, but they're not into football.

How soon they forget that the President of Univ of Chicago, Robert Hutchins, pulled his school out of Big Ten athletics in the 1930s with a blistering attack on Michigan, its recruiting methods, and its habit of running up the score.

Now then, my host is not unfamilar with bovine fesses, so let me check out some "facts" he laid on me as we wandered the campus: BEVO came about in the 20's when some aggies branded 13 - 0 on the reigning cow's derrerier following an A&M victory and that resourceful UT fans took a free iron and changed the 13 into a B, the dash into an E and put a V before the goose egg. 's that so?

He claimed the burnt orange came when the 1890 something baseball team came back from a huge win and went to town to find some ribbons to use as decorations and all they could find in the quantity they wanted was burnt orange. That one really sounded suspecious, but you tend to leave BSers alone when you don't know for sure what it is you're steppin' in.

Glad to see baseball so huge in Austin. The 'Horns swept the Sooners while I was there including a no hitter. Glad we don't take you on unless we reach the NCAAs.

As for space, OSU is wide open in comparison. The Texas landscapper has done a terrific job with a very limited amount of space (40 acres in the original grant and I didn't see much evidence of further largess on the part of the state). I was told that we were not at the main entrance when we came onto the campus. There was a WWI memorial fountain in front of the grove, then the quad and the tower above the library... which has just been reopened following the Charles Whitman tragedy... the tower dominates the campus and can be seen from the highway, especially at night.
 
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Waco, I can't stand the "trendy, hip" crowd in Austin. Maybe I'm an old soul but I like the laid back bars and lazy rivers. I live in dallas now and the cocain boobjob crowd is driving me insane.
Cinci- I think that you did a great job of describing everything that you wrote about.

the stories that you were refering to about the 13-o and the orange ribbon are the most popular and accepted. Are they true? I don't know. I do know that my grandfather (90 years old) is a very prowd aggie that always talks of the pranks that the two schools pulled on each other.

Baseball is a huge deal in the state of texas and at UT especially. I love our team this year and cant wait for omaha.

As was mentioned earlier (buried in the texas game thread) Game day in Austin is a City wide affair. If you get there early enough you can park by a meeter down town by the texas history museum or a little further out. It is not that long of a walk. Others park across I 35 by the softball field(people tailgate there as well.

The main entrance to the University is on the East side but you would be hard pressed to find many people that use it as such.
 
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LloydSev said:
That's what roadtrips are designed to solve for you.
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I will be there to see for myself what Columbus has to offer. But, from the sounds of all my friends that live there when comparing to Austin. They pretty much say it sucks.

The one huge thing going for Austin is it is the live music captiol of the world. We have the SXSW Music and Film Conference every year and during 3 days over 1,300 bands and artists perform all around the city. These are bands from all around the world.

During normal weeks you can pick any genre of music and hit the town and find it live.

http://www.sxsw.com
http://www.austinchronicle.com/

Here is a shot with downtown in the background. The campus is just north of downtown.

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I know this is heresy on this site, but...as an impartial traveller who's been to Columbus and Austin, there's no contest between the two. Austin has better culture, better nightlife and hotter coeds. Outside OSU, Columbus isn't much different from any other mid-size city. It doesn't "suck," as someone said above, but there isn't any one thing that's great about it, aside from college athletics.
 
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If you go to the oasis, remember, you are there for the atmosphere. The food is over priced and not that great, but the view is breathtaking and they have live band sometimes

BuckeyeBill73 said:
So they get their tits and their asses sculpted?
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yes, Dallas is really the closest thing to LA that the south has to offer.
 
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