LOL At Oregon's Stadium!!

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billbattle said:
Oregon's a great place with great people. I have a niece I visit that lives across the river in Vancouver. Nice and cool there, a genuine relief from the Georgia heat.
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I agree. Oregon and Washington are to of the most beautiful states in the country. Simply an all around gorgeous region. Only draw back would be the constant rain and drizzle in the fall and winter months.
 
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bluechip68 said:
Gee, let's look at the facts: Over the past decade they are 51-13 at home. That's better than Auburn, Cincinnati, West Virginia, Michigan, Penn State, Wisconsin, Tennessee, Alabama, Pitt, etc. So yes, I would say that it is a difficult place to play in.

What kind of an idiot judges a team by the stadium they play in?
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A whole decade? Why not look at their whole history and determine what a tough a place it has been to win for the opposition. But, correct on the stadium observation.
 
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BigPapaVol said:
fact that they stated them, but was opinions they stated. The post-game hyperbole bandied about it always over the top. So the stadium's loud. Who cares?
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Isn't that evident in your own response? The players and coaches care as evidenced by their statements leading up to and after the games. They are the ones that chose to make the statements that it is a factor.

What are you trying to say? That the coaches and players saying that the crowd at Autzen is a factor is just their opinion and you know better than them what their experience was like?

droski said:
so in your opinion a losing coach mentioning the crowd as an excuse is a more important indication of the difficulty of playing somewhere than actual win loss record?
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Yes. And quite obviously.

There are many factors beyond crowd that could affect win loss records (not that Oregon's modern home record is bad anyway). But, in order to believe your implication, you have to conclude that a lot of people lied about something they had no reason to.

You don't want the crowd to be a factor. It makes you feel better to believe that. I get it. Every player and coach that has talked about preparing for and being affected by the Autzen crowd was just a liar in your view. Ok.

Excuse me if I'll go ahead and believe the very people who we're talking about being affected.

droski said:
oregon drew 15k a game before the 90s. and they still don't travel very well. i very much doubt they would regurally sell out a much larger stadium. they do have some very passionate fans, but let's not argue there are a lot of them (at least not by sec standards).
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It's true that Oregon's population isn't very high relative to other top fan bases. Not much that can be done about that. However, per capita, Oregon does travel and attend very well if not better than the other programs in question.

For example, look at Cal. They have an abundance of population, a larger stadium, larger school, etc. Yet, their game-day atmosphere is pitiful. They have one or two sell-out games a year with millions of people a short drive down the street. You could finish a chess match on a fold-up Hoyle board at one of their games. I've seen it first hand.

DownTheField said:
as it is, we have 65,000 screaming fans whose voices aren't as loud on the field as they would be in Autzen because the sound has to dampen through 35,000 heads of blue hair
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:)
 
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sjrobert said:
A whole decade? Why not look at their whole history and determine what a tough a place it has been to win for the opposition. But, correct on the stadium observation.
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Probably because the game atmosphere in 1915 wasn't anything like it is now.
 
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Anyone ever been to Ann Arbor? I've heard you could hear a mouse fart in there, despite there being 385,000 people. Florida was the loudest place I've ever been. The Georgia dome for an SEC championship game is louder than hell and really quite fun (even though I hate indoor football). Man, it was loud in there.
 
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Eberry said:
Yeah, but have they been able to average 115-120+ each game? No... Autzen averages that much every game. And the fact that it has a partial roof over itself, it keeps the noise in the stadium. Just ask Cal and USC. Best (Cals old RB) Said it was the loudest and hardest stadium he had ever played in....
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When we beat Cal in our house in 200late? (recently...'06?) They claimed it was unreal and the loudest they had ever experienced. Why don't we let that speak for itself?
 
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10essee Refugee said:
No, you'll be watching from your parents' basement.
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Oh, ok. Mods deleted my comment, but not this one. Makes complete sense. Let me reiterate:

"Actually, I plan on being a student there at that time. Classy. Way to make yourself sound like a complete dick."
 
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wheaton4prez said:
Probably because the game atmosphere in 1915 wasn't anything like it is now.
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that is unfair. the game atmosphere would not be anything like it is now if not for the South.

plus, it is not wrong to take pride as a fan in the roots, the tradition- in fact, it is part and parcel of being a fan.

you need both the present and the past. my complaint is with the old and tired fanbase that thinks it can do without the young, loud a$$, crazy fans- it can't.
 
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Basketball Men’s
Rank School GAttendance Average
1. Kentucky 18 433,989 24,111
2. Syracuse 19 420,890 22,152
3. Louisville 19 368,537 19,397
4. Tennessee 16 306,680 19,168
74. Oregon 19 135,322 7,122

Basketball Women’s
Name Home TTL Avg
1 TN 15 209991 13999
55 ORE 15 33280 2219


Football
Rank School TTL % Avg Cap # State Population
1 Michigan 871464 102.57 108993 84960 8 9,969,727
2 PennState 856066 99.87 107008 858256 8 12,604,767
3 Ohio State 736830 102.87 105261 716303 7 11,542,645
4 Texas 607049 107.50 101175 564678 6 24,782,302
5 Tennessee 793760 99.21 99220 800088 8 6,296,254
31 Oregon 409806 108.41 58544 378000 7 3,825,687

Oregon would be 10th in SEC attendance, barely above UM & MSU at 35/36 (TN-5, GA-6, LSU-7, AL-8, FL-9, AU-13, SC-17, KY- 22, AR-24, MS-35, MSU- 36, VU- 67)
TN men’s basketball almost had more that Oregon’s football, but they have a pretty track stadium.
 
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LordieLee said:
Basketball Men’s
Rank School GAttendance Average
1. Kentucky 18 433,989 24,111
2. Syracuse 19 420,890 22,152
3. Louisville 19 368,537 19,397
4. Tennessee 16 306,680 19,168
74. Oregon 19 135,322 7,122

Basketball Women’s
Name Home TTL Avg
1 TN 15 209991 13999
55 ORE 15 33280 2219


Football
Rank School TTL % Avg Cap # State Population
1 Michigan 871464 102.57 108993 84960 8 9,969,727
2 PennState 856066 99.87 107008 858256 8 12,604,767
3 Ohio State 736830 102.87 105261 716303 7 11,542,645
4 Texas 607049 107.50 101175 564678 6 24,782,302
5 Tennessee 793760 99.21 99220 800088 8 6,296,254
31 Oregon 409806 108.41 58544 378000 7 3,825,687

Oregon would be 10th in SEC attendance, barely above UM & MSU at 35/36 (TN-5, GA-6, LSU-7, AL-8, FL-9, AU-13, SC-17, KY- 22, AR-24, MS-35, MSU- 36, VU- 67)
TN men’s basketball almost had more that Oregon’s football, but they have a pretty track stadium.
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Wow, you're ignorant. You might take a look at avg. capacity. Oregon's is 108.41%. Tennessee's is 99.21%.
 
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wheaton4prez said:
For example, look at Cal. They have an abundance of population, a larger stadium, larger school, etc. Yet, their game-day atmosphere is pitiful. They have one or two sell-out games a year with millions of people a short drive down the street. You could finish a chess match on a fold-up Hoyle board at one of their games. I've seen it first hand.





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Yeah the atmosphere is so bad your qbs get rattled every time they play there. Wake me up when you get within double digits at Berkeley.
As for our for our fanbase its far larger than oregons and travels in far larger numbers.
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DownTheField said:
that is unfair. the game atmosphere would not be anything like it is now if not for the South.

plus, it is not wrong to take pride as a fan in the roots, the tradition- in fact, it is part and parcel of being a fan.

you need both the present and the past. my complaint is with the old and tired fanbase that thinks it can do without the young, loud a$$, crazy fans- it can't.
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totally agree
 
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DuckinTN said:
Wow, you're ignorant. You might take a look at avg. capacity. Oregon's is 108.41%. Tennessee's is 99.21%.
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Oregon's stadium is 50k because they don't have the fanbase to support a larger stadium.
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DuckinTN said:
Talk to me when you guys sell out your place on a consistent basis.
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Our stadium holds over 30,000 more people. Is this really hard to understand? we had a higher attendance than oregon's stadium for our last 3 games against div 1aa opponents.
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the architects claim that Autzen can't be expanded much past 70k without killing the acoustics, we can support that easily if season ticket requests are accurate. personally, i'd rather see 60-70k and full of believers than 100k and docile.
 
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DuckinTN said:
Wow, you're ignorant. You might take a look at avg. capacity. Oregon's is 108.41%. Tennessee's is 99.21%.
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hmm.. something's fishy here. it appears that we should reduce our capacity so that our 100K+ figures out to be over 100% capacity because apparently capacity doesn't mean capacity.

maybe we should just say our capacity is 65000, then our capacity is around 160%- so we've got you beat by a boat load
 
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Canard said:
I said for the better part of three hours because our TOP is usually at or near last in the NCAA.

And no, it only gets that loud for that long on every opponent's offensive snap in a game with a big name opponent, not for the New Mexicos of the world.
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Guess that sucks for your Opponent! Since you'll be our opponent in Neyland could be a little different.
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droski said:
You must also think USC and washington have small and uninterested fanbases.
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UW and USC's fanbases are much stronger than Cal's.

A little weird, considering that you guys are located in one of America's largest metro areas. Meanwhile, Oregon's in a city of about 150K.
 
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droski said:
oregon drew 15k a game before the 90s. and they still don't travel very well. i very much doubt they would regurally sell out a much larger stadium. they do have some very passionate fans, but let's not argue there are a lot of them (at least not by sec standards).
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Interested to see how they travel in the 2011 opener against LSU in Arlington.
 
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