2023 Week 2: UC Davis @ Oregon State Fresno is just a dump of a city. When the economy went into the crapper so did the standards. A lot of those Fresno State rooters are townie losers who live vicariously through the bulldogs because their lives suck and they live in Fresno.
I hope you did not stay in any of the hotels/motels nearest the campus. Roach motels. It's actually funny to read the reviews and proprietor's responses on
hotels.com . There's one owner/manager who was blaming his place's lack of cleanliness on having to pay high taxes so the US could provide HIMARS to Ukraine.
I occasionally go the Central Valley to see some minor league baseball (Stockton, Modesto, Visalia), , but I tell you I would never go see a Fresno Grizzlies game again. The downtown is all boarded up and the fans are stupid and disrespectful. On one of my trips to Visalia the local news had a story about someone getting off the bus on Blackstone in Fresno and immediately getting stabbed in the neck at the bus stop. I thought "Sounds about right for Fresno" when I heard that.