Some Home History
USC's home game against Nebraska will be the fifth straight home sellout, and the ticket office claims the Washington, California and Notre Dame games are also sellouts. For some perspective, USC recorded no sellouts from 1998 to 2001, in one of Pete Carroll's first home games, the Trojans only drew 43,508 against Arizona State.
not only that, but the tickets cost 1/3 of what they do today and they still couldn't sell'em....thanks a lot pete...and carson, and regie, and matt, and bmw, and troy, and darnel, and frosty, and lofa, and dallas, and fred, and lawrence, and sam, and keary, and tom, and omar, and ............ !!!
Screw that! I was happy to go to cheaper SC games. I'd rather go to be with 60,000 supporters SC and real football fans than to be shut out by the bandwagon bunch. I just hope they are turning into the hardcore SC fans of the future.
Of course I much prefer the victories over the greater and lesser rivals ND, UCLA, Cal and Stanford. (Miss the PAC 10 champ-Rose Bowl thing). The championships are great too.
Timmy (nice moniker, by the way), bandwagon fans are still fans...Yeah, they don't support when the team's down, but if they're there when we're winning it's all good.
Plus, I do believe they'll see the light and become long-term fans.
Finally, even if they are not, they still shell out the big bucks to pay our coaches, build facilities (hopefully), etc.
Fight On!
Come on. If you haven't been able to get tickets the last few seasons, than YOU are the non-hardcore fan. Even getting tickets this season is easy. Anyone that complains about not being able to get tickets is just griping because they have nothing better to do.
Try getting tickets to the Stanford game this year. Normally it is a full on SC party, we take over SF, take over SC people finally realize that the stadium lost 30k seats and they can't just stroll up for the Weekender they will be pissed.
Thanks MT and you're right of course. Each person through the turnstile helps USC, PAC 10 and the city. And each piece of USC gear the same thing.
It's doable but defintely much harder and more expensive. I'm surely not "hardcore" in that way. I live and work out of area and visit when I can, not when I plan. But I'm sure to make to pick up a game whenever I am in town and SC is playing(or SC is in town). But that means getting tickets for a whole group (of family friends and some kids) which is much more pricey and hard to do. Often though, I'm with the local alumni group at sports bar. And I'm rocking the 'SC gear, flag and car stuff even when things aren't going so well.
And 4 degrees, why don't you lose the attitude. It's real ass-holish and unnecessary. FO!
Where are the invitations to Salute to Troy??
Seriously, it's not hard to get tickets to a game. I don't understand the complaining. Yes, Stanford is very difficult, but I think we all realize that has nothing to do with SC and everything to do with their new, improved, but smaller stadium.
tommy's bro timmay...I'm not sure what you are upset about. I am just speaking the truth. Yes, it's hard to get tickets if you have waited this long. Well, actually not really. But, if someone really wanted tickets s/he could have ordered them months ago. Also, I don't think the profanity or personal attack is necessary, unless it makes you feel that much better.