Another Sellout

Which home games are sold out? Nebraska?
Notre Dame?

when SC gets to town, they pack stadiums because it's a chance for people to see a college dynasty full of future NFL stars in action.

Only the ASU game has tickets left on the SC ticket office page.

ALL home games sold out this season. Ya gotta go through ticket brokers and/or online for 'em. On the road, this team is like the Yankees and Showtime Lakers. Wonder if SC gets a piece of road sellouts.

David,

They're sell-outs because those teams sell-out all their games regardless of the competition. Remember, it wasn't too long ago that USC was playing in front of half-full stadiums, and those were home games. Only the ND and UCLA games were garunteed sell-outs, and it wasn't because of USC.

Huh? Your telling me that all of the teams that USC plays away, sell-out all of their home games?
By the way, ever heard of Spell Check?

FO

once again "huh" becomes Homer Simpson. "Doh!"

"when SC gets to town, they pack stadiums because it's a chance for people to see a college dynasty full of future NFL stars in action."

"Only the ASU game has tickets left on the SC ticket office page."

"On the road, this team is like the Yankees and Showtime Lakers."

Read the over the top statements above. Don't take all the credit for the sell-outs on the road. Just trying to temper the enthusiasm since USC fans might not realize that alot of schools have a history of filling their stadium regardless of who is in town. I realize that this might be a problem for USC fans to grasps since it was just a couple of years ago that USC couldn't fill their own stadium unless it was a big name program or a cross town rival that was the competition. If you're looking for the exact numbers, USC averaged 58,000 in 2001, 67,000 in 2002 (Carson Palmer's Heisman year), and 78,000 in 2003 (a disputed national championship year) in a stadium that seats over 90,000.

As someone pointed out above, its less than a week away from the first game of the year and after three or four years of near dynasty play (and two years of home sell-outs), there are still tickets available for a USC home game. At alot of schools, there aren't any tickets available through the school for any home games, regardless of the opponent.

For a little perspective about a rival... http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/sports/gatech/stories/0830techtix.html

And who's the loser that uses spell check on a freakin' blog comment? Or do comments on Scott Wolf's Inside USC qualify as the writing portion of the SAT? Get a grip, "at4usc".

Huh?
Don't Stanford and Arkansas and Oregon St. and Washington St. wish they had sellouts every game!!!
They are thankful to get any in the course of a season, except for their regional rivalries. Thanks to SC, they get another sellout.
This may be the 3rd or 4th sellout in Arkansas' history since they expanded their stadium - get a grip on the facts before spouting them as fact.

And doesn't USC with they had sell-outs every game, every year! As I have been saying, until a couple of years ago, good seats were always still available for a USC home game, except when Notre Dame or UCLA were on the opposite sideline. And that was even when those programs were in their down years.

Each of those schools you mentioned are either in the middle of no where or have no college football history when compared to the men of Troy. Or have no history of sell-outs. There shouldn't be an expectation that they would sell out every game. But when you compare their attendance to their seating capacity, it doesn't look too bad.

2005 % Cap 2003 % Cap
Stanford 43,500 51 44,900 53
Wash State 31,100 83 33,300 89
Arkansas 63,700 80 63,600 80
Ore State 42,200 102 36,100 88

Let's compare that to the previous examples of USC home football attendance between 2001 and 2003. It looks like some of those schools that you were disparaging in your remarks are doing quite well for themselves in terms of filling their stadiums. The true ugly duckling is another PAC10 school, but that shouldn't be surprising. As John Walter's pointed out in an article, back in 2004, there were 18 schools that had an average attendance of 100 percent of stadium capacity. The PAC10's lone representatives were Oregon and Oregon State, with Washington State close behind at 99%. Oregon State was the only school of that group with a winning record (7-5). The lowest attendance percentage of all Div I schools was Stanford. Even USC was hovering at just over 90%. And that was in the midst of the dynasty, during the national championship year, with Reggie Bush and Matt Leinart on the team. Good work, band-wagon USC fans. And I've got the facts...don't worry.

uh..."huh", you need to do a shot of Jack & loosen up dude, you are way too serious about attendance. Do you count the people in bathrooms just for kicks?

It's Game Time!!! The men of Troy are about to kick some serious Hog - Ass... The Mauler will be makin' bacon in fayeville.

Sit in awe and watch a new wave of Young Assassins inheriting the mantle of the legendary Troy.

Even James Brown had to say "Huh. Hah!"

Boy, you sure do talk pretty.