All are either enormous state schools in sparsely populated towns or a catholic school located in a truck stop. Scooter, if you are attempting to question the commitment of SC fans by showing this stat, it's not gonna work. For the ten zillionth time, we are in a major, vastly dispersed, heavily populated metropolis. It's a dynamic that is faced by very few major football schools. Can you name one that over comes this situation to draw large crowds for a spring game? Miami? Nope. BC? Nope. UW? Nope.
It's not the stat that is bothersome. It's what is underneath.

Even though I'm a Bruin fan, all that proves is there is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING OF ANY VALULE going on in spring other than the spring game at those locations.

Scott - Who cares about spring ball attendance other than an underacheiving beat writer who really owes everyting in his life to USC; education, career, identity, etc.

Tradi's happens to be on the money and you know it to be true.

Let's see what options do I have in Southern Cal besides spring football; surfing, fishing, hiking, world class shopping, great restaurants, numerous musuems, the Lakers, Clippers, Dodgers, Angels, Ducks, Kings, Disneyland, Magic Mountain, Knotts, Universal Studios, concerts on a regular basis and so on and so forth.

What to do in the top 5 spring attendance towns - go to the stadium and watch spring football- so sad.

Scott-

Why are you so interested in the attendance for scrimages? USC draws 90,000 for every game that actually counts. That is all that matters when it comes to the issue of support.

Look I'll be critical of Scott as much as the rest of you but, really what else is he supposed to report on USC football at this time of the year?

I love how Scott gets you guys all riled up by just posting some statistics. As long as you keep coming back to read his blog, I'm sure he doesn't really care what you think his intentions are...

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lol. This is funny Scott. You pretty much made this same post a week and a half ago about the Spring game attendances of the SEC.

You should have included LSU's (who may be argueablly the best team going into next season) Spring game attendance of 18,000. Or Arkansas who had even fewer.

You say that USC had about 10,000. However I was there and I have counted the house at Coliseum games for Decades and I can tell you there was approximately 15 to 20,000 folks there.

For USC there were a number of returning players either injured of did not participate. So there was not a big drawing card to bring the fans out anyway.

I hate to voice what the other posters are saying but its a fact there are so many other things people in Los Angeles can do on an early April Sat morning than go to a Spring game. As compared to some of the schools that you named who are in college towns.

You have to give it to USC however. They have sold out all season seats and already have a wait list. That is unheard of in the history of USC, UCLA, or any other NFL team in L.A.

What's the problem. You are reading him so stop complaining. It's tough this time of year to come up with something interesting. Who had the biggest turn out for spring game is interesting.
The Bear is gone but fans still love their Tide. This was very interesting and very newsworthy.

Make all the excuses you wantbut USC fans are not zealots enough to attend a scrimmage and where a lot of players are hurt.

Go Bama

Give all excues

The whole "people in Los Angeles have so many other things to do" argument is pretty lame really. Instead of attending spring practice, how many of you actually did one of the things that was listed, and how many just sat on their asses on Saturday?

Surfing, fishing, hiking, world class shopping, great restaurants, numerous musuems [sic], the Lakers, Clippers, Dodgers, Angels, Ducks, Kings, Disneyland, Magic Mountain, Knotts, Universal Studios, concerts ...

The whole argument that Los Angeles has apathetic sports fans (across all sports/teams) because we can go surfing is a fallacy. Seriously, who went surfing? How many of you have EVER gone surfing in Los Angeles? :P

Lay off on Scott... don't take everything he writes so personally.

As for the attendance, it is certainly understandable why it is so low. SC's practice is always open to fans, so spring game isn't that big of a deal. Californians don't really get a kick out of watching spring game, especially since almost all practices are open to the public.

Lay off on Scott... don't take everything he writes so personally.

As for the attendance, it is certainly understandable why it is so low. SC's practice is always open to fans, so spring game isn't that big of a deal. Californians don't really get a kick out of watching spring game, especially since almost all practices are open to the public.

I went surfing and yes, a large majority of the people in the water were SC fans who normally would have gone to the spring game if they didn't have so many options living here in LA.

Then we all went world class shopping.