It's cyclical in that individual teams can go on runs but the spirit and fandom doesn't change. Regardless of how many titles USC wins, they'll never be fanatical about Trojan football like the state of Alabama is about Crimson Tide and War Eagles.Originally Posted by improbus
Because people in Southern California have lives.
There's a lot truth to that. In the south there's not much else. It's college football and NASCAR. I don't disagree with your reason
Very few big time college teams are located in major metro areas. Very fewer that are located in major metro areas that also have a NFL team.
I have experience with Tennessee football and I can tell you that they don't hold the Titans to the same esteem they do the Vols. In fact they don't like their name being the Tennessee Titans because there's only one Tennessee and it's UT. Point being that the presence of an NFL team doesn't change much in the SE. I think a bigger factor is the lack of big cities
The Titans are to the Vols what either the Browns/Bengals are to OSU. There are Bengals/Browns fans in Columbus but the passion is with OSU.
OSU's passion for football compares to the SEC, but the thing is in the SEC even mediocre programs like UT draw 100K every week and have huge passion. In fact I'm amazed at the passion here on RZ for UK football. I always figured they were a BB school and their fanbase didn't really care about football (kinda like IU) but I see that their fans really do care about football
Meh, mediocre programs like Michigan and Nebraska do the same. I think that goes back to the "nothing to do there" response. If UT was located in NYC, LA, San Diego, Miami, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, etc they would not be selling out games right now.
Saturdays in Knoxville = football, because there is nothing else to do.
Last edited by RedTeamGo!; 08-18-2014 at 01:12 PM.
They're so passionate about football in Lexington that their stadium renovations are reducing capacity by 6000 seats in order to make the game day experience more "intimate".
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As a UT alum I'm flattered to be lumped in with Nebraska and Mich but I really don't think we're worthy
I think a number of schools will be considering a similar renovation down the road, swapping some seating capacity to add more club seating and other luxury amenities. The TV product is getting better and better, while CFB attendance has been flat for quite some time and the ticket-buying demographic is aging. Long term, revenue maximization won't be about ever-increasing acreage of mediocre-view seats, it'll be more about maximizing revenue per seat.
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"The SEC doesn't over sign"
That's either laughably ignorant or genuinely dishonest. Either way it's brutally and demonstrably false. It's a stance even the SEC does not take publicly...
http://www.ajc.com/weblogs/college-r...ing-loopholes/
The SEC instituted a 25-person limit per class a few years ago, but even that rule doesn't cover teams over-signing with smaller classes (i.e. signing 15 players with 12 scholarships available) and doesn't address loopholes of early enrollments.
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The average signing class size in the SEC since 2011 is 25.4/class. OSU's since 2011? Yep....25.5/class.
I get the need to be pedantic but admitting the SEC has rules against over signing and posting a story about Jones trying to exploit a loophole and the SEC releasing a statement indicating they are monitoring the situation and will address it once signing day actually occurred seems like weak sauce and something that others could construe as even purposefully misleading.
Last edited by jojo; 08-21-2014 at 07:25 AM.
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I love big time college athletics. However, this looks like hush money that will cost pennies on the dollar to what some revenue sharing arrangement would cost.
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