We just took a trip down there last Friday for a tour (my 14-year-old son’s first official college visit…his decision with no input from me). Campus is light years better than it was in the early 90s (when it looked like the “after” set in a Chernobyl movie). The town is actually worse, if that’s possible. Don’t know how else to describe it other than that it just doesn’t have any character. It’s just and endless mess of apartments, chain restaurants and bars where “Jack and coke” is the only cocktail you’d trust them to make (but then maybe they aren’t trying to cater to 50-year-olds?). The lone exception was where we stayed, the Stella hotel in Bryan. Still kinda new, but that may grow into a nice area.
As for the tour, it ended by Kyle Field where they taught the kids and parents how to do a yell. As soon as it was over, my son looked at me and said, “maybe we should go see Oklahoma.”