I'm kind of partial to UCSB (since I go there). We do have Tunnel trail which is way badass and molds some really good DH riders. The team has absolutely no racing or recreational riding going on outside of their spandex-laden road crap or the occasional xc event (DS VERY rarely, and the people who race DH for us just do it for fun on their xc rigs). So basically no cool stuff going on. One guy who races for them occasionaly won the NORBA State Champs (I think) on his hardtail xc rig, but he's pretty crazy and kind of does it individually. I'd go to SLO if you wanted to compete since their team goes to every race and is about ten times the size of everyone elses, but as far as riding goes SB sounds like it has the most fun trails I'd say. Just "watch out" for hikers...he he.