Strongest chapters?

[Firehouse]

OK. This is fun. I'll take a shot too.
First, unfortunately we have not had a chapter at U-Arizona for several years, but they used to be great. Likewise at Emory: used to be great but we're gone now until 2008 or thereabouts.
If you look at the entire 20th Century, the top two Pike chapters overall for the 100-year span were probably Florida and Auburn. Florida got in trouble recently and are trying to hold on right now. I hope they'll come back quickly. Auburn has never been bad or even average. I don't know if we're the best at Auburn, but Upsilon is a mainstay of our Fraternity's strength.

Yes to the University of Illinois. It's the largest fraternity system in the country and we're probably the top chapter there. I've heard great things about Zeta at tennessee, and they would have to be included with Florida and Auburn as one of the Fraternity's top chapters over 100 years.

Yes to Purdue: awesome house and consistently powerful chapter. Yes to Arkansas State: not a big name school, but the chapter's always been large and first class with great achievement.

Missouri used to be better than they are now; likewise Kansas State and Iowa State. With a little aggressive effort, Missouri could jump back into head-to-head competition with Beta and ATO like they used to. Kansas State I think had to re-build the chapter because of house rennovations. They were down for awhile but seem to be coming back strong. Iowa State has a beautiful house but they never got their numbers back up to where they were when they were dominant.

I have nothing against Berkeley, but I have a hard time believing that they are that good.

We have a lot of really excellent chapters at smaller schools like West Georgia, Florida Tech, Presbyterian College, Chapman College (in California) and others including Bobby-the-Don's chapter in California.

I'd say, if I was trying to identify more Pike chapters that have very high prestige on Division I campuses, look to these:
Tau @ North Carolina;
Gamma Omega @ Miami of Florida;
Alpha @ Virginia;
Eta Alpha (colony) @ Clemson;
Gamma Iota @ Ole Miss;
Beta Tau @ Michigan;
Beta Zeta @ SMU;
Epsilon @ Virginia Tech
Gamma Eta @ Southern California
I'm sure I've missed some and i don't mean to leave anyone out. Don't intend to offend, and I'm sure someone else will point out the ones I've missed.

I'm a Florida State alum so I'm not commenting on us.