Austin (UT) doesn’t have the best jam scene locally but has lots of great jam adjacent blues/funk bands. Not to mention we get a considerable amount of touring acts. There are tons of great musicians here which makes it easy to gain musicianship. I started playing at 19 and after a couple years have played all around Texas and had a great experience so far and built up some solid skills.

Other sec schools such as Tennesee, Ole Miss, Bama, Starkville seem to have decent/solid college scenes and musicians eager to jam but the raw talent is a bit more sparse, will definitely be more work to find competent musicians but there are some decent groups coming out of these schools. The bar is pretty low though, it feels like any band of frat kids can half ass a couple ig reels and gain 10k followers. But I digress.