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the public schools weren't good there back in the late 90s

It's in Mississippi, so....

i think Austin has outgrown college town.  Honestly it feels more like Nashville or Columbus than Madison to me, and mostly for worse than for better.

Stop doing 94's job for him

I've never heard anyone argue that Columbus is a professional sports town before. 

I definitely don't view Lincoln or Madison as college towns anymore.    Too much non Univ growth and development as it's the trough for the pigs as the Capital city, respectively. 

Doesn't make them lesser places just not what I think of as a college town.

I thought they were presidents.

I think we'd all agree that at some point a city becomes to large to be a real "college town".  My guess is that limit is something like 200,000 metro area.  Above that, the university influence is too diluted, though the area around said U probably will seem collegy.  It could still be fine for students, it's just that five miles away you wouldn't have any/much evidence there is a large U nearby.

If you can walk through downtown of a city and see little evidence there is a large U nearby, it's not, to me, a college town.  It's a city that has a U in it, like Cincinnati.

Drive 20 miles outside of downtown Athens and you might see a few Dawg signs somewhere, but it would look pretty much like the outskirts of any smaller city.

Even ten miles.  Campus influence is probably more like five miles from Sanford Stadium, maybe a bit more.  Outside of that, it looks like Gainesville, GA or Rome, GA.