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College Park is one of the crappier college towns I've been to.

I don't even know how to describe it. It's urban but there's nowhere to go. The architecture is ugly (lot of brutalism in the surrounding area). You're close to DC and Baltimore, but both might as well be an eternity away. It's terrible for driving, but public transit is also terrible. The housing quality is bad, and yet everything still costs a fortune. In spite of being a "college town", it doesn't feel like one at all. It doesn't have much of a "culture." All the surrounding cities are also crappy. You really have to go down to DC or up to Baltimore to do anything interesting.

No comparison between Knoxville and College Park. Knoxville wins hands down. Frankly, virtually every SEC and ACC college town beats College Park. (Maybe not Starkville?)
 
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DiderotsGhost said:
College Park is one of the crappier college towns I've been to. I worked there for a year so I know it well.

I don't even know how to describe it. It's urban but there's nowhere to go. The architecture is ugly; lot of brutalist architechture in the surrounding area. You're close to DC and Baltimore, but both might as well be an eternity away. It's terrible for driving, but public transit is also terrible. The housing quality is bad, and yet everything still costs a fortune. In spite of being a "college town", it doesn't feel like one at all. It doesn't have much of a "culture." All the surrounding cities are also crappy. You really have to go down to DC or up to Baltimore to do anything interesting.

No comparison between Knoxville and College Park. Knoxville wins hands down. Frankly, virtually every SEC and ACC college town beats College Park. (Maybe not Starkville?)
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Never been to College Park, nor shall I after reading this. Guess Diderot isn't on their Chamber of Commerce, eh?:)
 
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There's a case to be made that College Park's crappiness holds UMD's football program back. It's actually quite surprising that Maryland isn't better at football than they are given all the talent in the DC region. Plus, they have Under Armour money. They really should have a much better program, but if you're a 17 year old DC kid and you get offers from:

Maryland
Virginia
Virginia Tech
West Virginia
Penn State
North Carolina
North Carolina State
Tennessee
Duke
Wake Forest
Pittsburgh
Ohio State
Michigan

And then you toured all those universities, and rated them all on "college experience", Maryland would be dead last in that group and it's not even close. If I'm an 18 year old college kid, I'd rather spend 4 years at any of those places than College Park, Maryland.
 
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DiderotsGhost said:
College Park is one of the crappier college towns I've been to.

I don't even know how to describe it. It's urban but there's nowhere to go. The architecture is ugly (lot of brutalism in the surrounding area). You're close to DC and Baltimore, but both might as well be an eternity away. It's terrible for driving, but public transit is also terrible. The housing quality is bad, and yet everything still costs a fortune. In spite of being a "college town", it doesn't feel like one at all. It doesn't have much of a "culture." All the surrounding cities are also crappy. You really have to go down to DC or up to Baltimore to do anything interesting.

No comparison between Knoxville and College Park. Knoxville wins hands down. Frankly, virtually every SEC and ACC college town beats College Park. (Maybe not Starkville?)
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Agreed. Love DC, but Maryland is one of the worst overall states I’ve seen. Company I work for is headquartered in Baltimore and I loathe going there for meetings.
 
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DiderotsGhost said:
College Park is one of the crappier college towns I've been to.

I don't even know how to describe it. It's urban but there's nowhere to go. The architecture is ugly (lot of brutalism in the surrounding area). You're close to DC and Baltimore, but both might as well be an eternity away. It's terrible for driving, but public transit is also terrible. The housing quality is bad, and yet everything still costs a fortune. In spite of being a "college town", it doesn't feel like one at all. It doesn't have much of a "culture." All the surrounding cities are also crappy. You really have to go down to DC or up to Baltimore to do anything interesting.

No comparison between Knoxville and College Park. Knoxville wins hands down. Frankly, virtually every SEC and ACC college town beats College Park. (Maybe not Starkville?)
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This is all true.

And the University of Maryland Medical System is one of the most corrupt health systems in the country. Outright corruption and quid pro quo, violating healthcare regulation with impunity. I have zero respect for the University of Maryland first, over the way the let a young football player die during team activities. But even worse is what their health system was doing. While they're making quid pro quo deals with the framing mayor of Baltimore, a huge legal violation, UMMS was trying to push through plans to bilk the community of Baltimore who seems care at UMMS with increased out of pocket costs to access care. Absolutely diabolical people in leadership positions at that health system.

A culture of corruption is what runs business at UM, whether it's athletics or healthcare. Screw that place.

Quick rundown on what's going on right now with UMMS - 5 takeaways from University of Maryland Medical System review of 'self-dealing' practices
 
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Ron Swanson said:
Thanks for the info. And I remember Gurley was a 3 star around this time of his junior season, he was under the radar early in his recruitment.
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Gurley?

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DaddyChad said:
Dude could sell firewood in hell if he can get someone to buy into Maryland over Tennessee
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Correction: THIS is about tradition, NFL aspirations. Shucks to TN, Alabama, Georgia.

This is about the goat uni and reppin' dat Turrapin...wait. Wtf is a Terrapin?

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Geaux_Vols said:
This is all locksley. Dude is a helluva recruiter.
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Hell of a Recruiter to finish last in their division of a crappy Big 10 conference. He should have took Butch for coaching....lol according to some on here he was a great recruiter also and look where that got him.
 
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