(08-02-2020 01:32 PM)schmolik Wrote:  

(08-02-2020 12:55 PM)THUNDERStruck73 Wrote:  

(08-02-2020 11:58 AM)ken d Wrote:  

(08-02-2020 11:41 AM)THUNDERStruck73 Wrote:  

(08-02-2020 10:59 AM)10thMountain Wrote:  Also throw in the fact that the SEC doesn’t do public city schools...

The University of Kentucky, the University of Tennessee, the University of South Carolina, and LSU say, “Hold my beer.”

Is that an inside joke? I don't get it.

UK, UT, USC, and LSU are SEC public and in Cities.

However now that I re-read it, I suppose he meant that the SEC doesn’t do public schools named for the city in which they are located. Lol.

Every SEC public school is in a city. Even Oxford and Starkville are cities. They're not as populous as Lexington or Knoxville but they're still cities.

Some schools are in towns.

Chapel Hill is not a "City" as most understand the broad definition of City. Blacksburg is not a City, nor is Clemson, nor is Charlottesville.

Raleigh, Durham, Syracuse, Pittsburgh, Tallahassee, etc. are cities. Now unless Starkville and Oxford have grown, they are still "towns".

I used to teach urban studies at VT. The way most people understand a city to be, I find that you are not a city unless you have:

1. An active red light/prostitution business
2. An underdeveloped urban slum
3. Periodic shootings from drug folks seeking to maintain territory and clients
4. An incredibly undesirable place to live near a combinations of dumps, heavy industry, sewage treatment, rendering, chemicals, etc.

That sounds jaded. But those types of industries are predicated in part on population density and the economic gravity of the area to draw in activity from a surrounding hinterland. That does not mean you can't score dope in Clemson, or find an escort to come to Charlottesville or Blacksburg - just that those things do not exist at a level that can be supported by the locals.