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USC said it drew about 10,000 for its spring game at the Coliseum. By contrast, seven SEC teams drew more than 17,000 and the league averaged 24,478 fans for its spring games. Here's the complete list of attendance down south.
Alabama - 92,138
Arkansas - 2,000
Auburn - 31,757
Florida - 47,500
Georgia - 21,407
Kentucky - 5,000
LSU - 14,375
Ole Miss - 17,000
Mississippi State – 8,000
South Carolina - 35,153
Tennessee - 17,409
Vanderbilt - 2,000

Comments
Someone needs to write a book about the last year or two in the life of the Arkansas football program. Scott, talk to your boyz down south.
Posted by: EloiPfeiffer
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May 1, 2007 11:27 AM
Well, what else are you going to do on a Saturday in Gainesville, Auburn, Tuscaloosa, or any other city in that conference?
Posted by: TrojanRick
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May 1, 2007 11:46 AM
well the sec does have the best fan. Just accept it. Your just catching on Scott.
Posted by: milk
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May 1, 2007 11:59 AM
well the sec does have the best fan. Just accept it. Your just catching on Scott.
Posted by: milk
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May 1, 2007 11:59 AM
The SEC doesn't have the greatest fan, they just have the fans with nothing else to do. TrojanRick said it perfectly.
On gamedays, USC has as many people at their games and outside tailgating as any other program in the nation.
FIGHT ON
Posted by: Buddha
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May 1, 2007 01:02 PM
There were far more than 10,000 people at the Trojan Huddle.
Posted by: cstory80
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May 1, 2007 01:04 PM
alabama had free admission but asked the fans to donate to the tornado victims and their families and they raised $40K. great idea but that number equates to a donation of $.43 each person that attended. i think they were expecting $100K+.
Posted by: Pablo
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May 1, 2007 01:24 PM
Buddha...you're right...SC does have as many fans as anyone on gameday...but that's after this unbelievable run...how many people were there during Coach Carroll's first season?...that's the true sign of loyalty...everyone that cheers for SC today claims they were there in those lean days but the proof is in the pudding...50K-60K during those days...pretty similar to what we see at UCLA these days...so don't think SC fans are any better...anyone can cheer for a winner.
Posted by: richjh9
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May 1, 2007 01:27 PM
sec has the best fans out there. They have are the real fans.
Posted by: milk
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May 1, 2007 01:51 PM
sec fans are the best. Who cares if they something or nothing to do.
Posted by: milk
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May 1, 2007 01:52 PM
sec fans are the best. Who cares if they something or nothing to do.
Posted by: milk
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May 1, 2007 01:54 PM
"SEC fans are the best. Who cares if they something or nothing to do."
OK. First,that grammar syntax shows the typical SEC education. It should be, "Who cares if they have something or nothing at all to do."
Second, SEC fans are terrible. They are the most fair weather fans on earth. Sure, 90,000 show up at spring practice. As soon as their team loses 1 game, they all kinda fade away...Or sit on a fan board posting about how their team sucks and "wait until next year!"
And lastly, wonderful now we have SEC fans on here. First Notre Lame, then UCLA, now it's SEC. I wonder why these people aren't on their own boards?
Posted by: USC1966
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May 1, 2007 02:23 PM
I’m with USC1966. Why is it that all you “so called” fans of UCLA, the sister of over-rated, underachieving from Southbend, some SEC team or whoever you’re supposedly fans of, spend so much time on a USC blog, obsessing over the Trojans. USC fans are not out on your team’s websites or Blog. So get a clue and go find your own websites, and spend time bitching about the Men of Troy on those sites.
Posted by: kptrojans
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May 1, 2007 04:54 PM
I'm sorry but there's a real difference between the best fans and the most psychotic fans.
If you are showing up 90,000+ strong to watch a spring scrimmage where your mediocre team plays and scores against itself you are psychotic. The new recruits haven't even arrived on campus yet for chrissakes.
SEC fan reminds me of rowdy English soccer fan. Just because you would burn a stadium to the ground or kill a rival fan in defense of your team's honor doesn't make you better. Just more unbalanced and lacking in life perspective.
I will admit that USC has the most 'bandwagon' fans on the planet but that's partly because there's other crap to do in LA on a beautiful Sat. afternoon than obsess over an underachieving team.
I don't really blame some fans for placing a premium on things other than how many fake sacks the USC 3rd string LB had on the starting QB. It's really not that important in the grand scheme of things. When the regular season rolls around however...
Posted by: Tyler
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May 1, 2007 05:02 PM
Oh and I disagree with USC1966 on one thing. The SEC fans complain about their losing teams at the first sign of distress but they do still show up 90,000 strong every Sat. come rain or shine. That does take real dedication. Of course there's also nothing else to do.
Posted by: Tyler
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May 1, 2007 05:07 PM
And by the way "milk", 2,000 fans showing up in Fayetteville, Nashville and especially Lexington is nothing to write home about. Where were all the UK fans at? Oh I guess they were all over in Louisville to watch their spring game. 20,000 showed up for it.
Posted by: kptrojans
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May 1, 2007 05:09 PM
When yer down south and y'all don't have 'lectric lightin' and workin' plumbin', and yer best gal's gone cheatin' on you with yer cousin, 'bout the best thang y'all can do is lace up them shoes and head on over to the ol' scrimmage.
Posted by: 66-19
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May 1, 2007 05:13 PM
SEC fans hardly fade away as soon as one of 'their teams' loses a game. They cry from the rooftops about how 'hard' their conference is and how much the SEC Champion 'deserves' to play in the BCS Championship year-in, year-out. What garbage. Other than the 'usual suspects,' the conference is simply mediocre. Great fan support does not equal high caliber football teams (see Notre Dame). The worst part is that the last two BCS championships won by SEC teams have come at the expense of the Trojans - LSU courtesy of BCS decimal points and Florida courtesy of the loss to you see el eh.
Posted by: uscjd
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May 1, 2007 06:31 PM
USC 1966 I was parphrasing, but thanks for the grammar lesson mom. BTW i'm not an SEC fan, i'm an SC fan. I accept that the SEC does have the best fans. Other than sc fans. The rest of the pac 10 fans are garbage. bruin, cardinal yeah their real hardcore fans. I'm not here to have some kind of elitist attitude like some douche bags on this blog.
Posted by: milk
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May 1, 2007 10:04 PM
milk:
USC1966 dfoes NOT have any business correcting anybody's English. This is what he wrote about Dwaynne Jarrett:
"he should of stayed" instead of should have stayed. Call that stupid sheer arrogance or hypocrisy, take your pick, from a great college graduate, go figure...
Posted by: Door Prize
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May 2, 2007 12:21 AM
There were approximately 18,000 fans at the USC Huddle. However I assume USC didnt count the kids who were admitted for free. On the Other hand Alabama's scrimmage was a free admission. So what do you do add the 8,000 free kids back into USCs attendance to bring it to 18K to get an equitable count?
When you say the SEC had an avg of 24K that is really being scewed by Bama's attendance. I'm surprise with Arkansas with only 2K and LSU a powerhouse expected to challenge USC for the Title this season with 14K. Which is on par with USCs 10K or 18K depending on how you look at it.
So as you can see figures can be misleading. I actually think USC had a pretty decent turnout considering the Huddle was on an early 11 am start on a cool day. Not to mention the fact that USC had a number of returning stars out with injuries.
Posted by: TrojanEncore
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May 2, 2007 07:25 AM
I was there. The attendance figures were closer to 20,000 people.
Posted by: Brian_USC58
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May 2, 2007 07:42 AM
"USC 1966 dfoes NOT have any business correcting anybody's English."
I agree, he dfoes not!
Can we have a moratorium on the grammar corrections on this Blog?
Posted by: JJH4USC
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May 2, 2007 08:27 AM
We'll see how many "fans" show up once football has been put on probation for all the violations over the Slippery Pete era!
Cheat On!
Posted by: Bill
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May 2, 2007 09:49 AM
Wow, you really got us with that zinger Bill!
PS - Congratulations on ZERO Bruin Football Players be drafted in the NFL Draft (kickers don’t count).
Posted by: JJH4USC
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May 2, 2007 10:05 AM
I agree on the grammar moratorium, especially because those correcting grammar in the first instance use (yikes!) poor grammar. I still reserve the right to correct the correctors when they violate grammar rules themselves.
Oh, and fight on.
Posted by: 66-19
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May 2, 2007 12:14 PM
i like the idea of the moratorium on grammar. - big fan. :o)
Posted by: Pablo
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May 2, 2007 04:53 PM
Pablo and 66-19 are double standard idiots and p-ejos., Pablo being the bigger "lloron" selling himself to the redneck anglos...
Pablo you need a lipstick. You are kissing up too many ulos, uto!
Posted by: Door Prize
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May 14, 2007 06:43 AM