Tour = Cool, However Corvallis < Portland

[crunchyoverseas]

Corvallis is not Portland...nor will it ever be.

Yes, I will drag my ass down to Corvallis and back at least once, but it is over 2 hours from Portland. Why would you trade a 1/2 million+ city for a 50K village? Next stop Drain? wtf?:confused:

How about I get you guys set up here at Reed College instead? As it is, during finals week we set up a guitar hero PS2 in the library lobby so students can unwind from studying. We are clearly the superior choice to some random mall in Flipping Corvallis...I am sure I can get you set up with superior diggs here. Check out our campus if you doubt me...

Reed (http://www.reed.edu)
The Campus (http://www.reed.edu/facilities_and_grounds/)

let me know, I will have my people call your people...:D

[jq71586]

Well it seems they are really trying to hit up the college/university student demographic. Isn't Oregon State University in Corvallis, OR? This could be why they chose that area.

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[crunchyoverseas]

OSU is in corvallis and WOU is in Monmouth...

But PSU, PCC, Reed, Lewis & Clark, Concordia, and University of Portland are in Portland.

Again, town of 50K versus 500K. People will drive from Corvallis to Portland, vice versa not so much.

Plus Portland has guitar hero tournaments on a regular basis, corvallis has, well, nothing really. I think there is 7-11 but that's about it.

[crunchyoverseas]

Also if you are thinking you will get UofO students to come to Corvallis or vice versa, think again. Neither place can quit *****ing about the other. The UO, OSU football game is called the civil war game for christ's sakes.

Face it, you need Portland. And Portland needs you.

I live here, have lived in all three towns and know the state. I'm telling you straight up to come to Portland if you want any kind of real turn-out. Corvallis isn't even on the I-5 corridor.:eek:

[jq71586]

Yeah....I live in Massachusetts and don't really know much about the geography of the state, I only knew OSU was in Corvallis because I follow football very closely and yeah that whole Civil War thing would not work. But it was just the only reason I could think of for choosing Corvallis.

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[crunchyoverseas]

Personally I never understood it. Who cares? UO and OSU are both decent schools with different priorities. OSU is more engineering and UO is more liberal arts. But people really get caught up in the whole us versus them thing, it's so dumb. Lived in both towns, have friends from both schools.

Whatever, off-subject rant over...

[Riboflavin]

i think driving up on one major campus of your target audience makes sense. they pull the bus up in the Quad and can hit a ton of college kids without having to recruit them from several different colleges.

the MU at OSU is fairly large as well and events there always attract a ton of kids. i wont be able to drive down there since its on a Thursday, but ohwell. i'll send my band mates there to scope it out.

as far as the civil war thing...i attended both schools (graduated from UO) and the "hate" really only stems over football (and prolly baseball when it comes back to Oregon). i doubt many UO kids would have a problem going to Corvallis if they wanted to check it out.