Only 65,000 expected for UCLA/Tenn game

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I wish I was going to be there at this game. I will have a good front row seat for the game though.......on my couch :)
 
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it's crazy that on the West coast, Labor Day means less people at a football game.

In the south, it's the exact opposite.
 
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In the same article.....

Kia update: UCLA left tackle Micah Kia had his broken left hand bandaged to the point that it looked like a club, and took reps with the first-team offense for the first time since being injured Aug. 19.
However, his status for the Monday's game remains unclear.
"You can't play with one hand," offensive line coach Bob Palcic said. "They're going to have to change his cast for him to play."
Kia said he will meet with doctors in the next few days to discuss changing to a cast that offers mobility.
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I bet this kid lasts two series on Monday before he gets taken out.
 
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I can hardly remember a game (home or away) where I wasn't packed like a sardine. Maybe at South Carolina but I was in the top row.

Hopefully there will be plenty of space!

So if there are 12,000 Vols fans and 65,000 total fans, we are looking at 18.5% Orange!

EDIT: Posted before I read the article. It says only 7,000 Vols fans are expected. I thought more than that was expected but oh well.
 
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The scary part is...30,000 will be VOL fans :eek: UCLA's fan support is catching up to Miami's if they aren't careful
 
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eloist said:
it's crazy that on the West coast, Labor Day means less people at a football game.

In the south, it's the exact opposite.
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cal sold out last year on labor day weekend and is darn near a sellout this year. and strangely i know a lot of Cal and SC fans who are going to this game because it isn't on a sat. makes you wonder how many ucla fans there will actually be.
 
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I guess a lot of UCLA fans would rather have a BBQ in they're backyard rather than going to the Rose bowl and seeing they're team get BBQed :p
 
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eloist said:
it's crazy that on the West coast, Labor Day means less people at a football game.

In the south, it's the exact opposite.
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Quite frankly, in addition to college football not being as big on the West Coast as in the South, another huge reason for that is that California has a ton more to do than Knoxville does.
 
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One more piece of evidence on why SEC > PAC-10.

65,000 fans in a 92,000 seat stadium on Labor Day night primetime... you got to be kidding. Thats embarrassing.
 
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Where are they getting the estimations on the amount of UT fans coming? I would have assumed more than 7,000 would make it.
 
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I've lived in California for 13 years, and quite frankly west coast football is pathetic. Having grown up in Knoxville and experienced first-hand how college football should be, it has been really disappointing to see how fair-weather a lot of Pac-10 "fans" are. I have a good buddy who "remembered" he was a USC fan in 2002 when they started winning games again. Nobody knew he liked the Trojans until they rose to prominence. You can go up to the average USC, Cal, UCLA fan, and a lot of them don't even know their 2 deep depth chart for their own running backs.

SEC football blows away anything on the west coast.

EDIT: This quote from the original story says it all:

"USC averaged 57,744 in Carroll's first season, but the 92,000-seat Coliseum is sold out this season."
 
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IPorange said:
droski, are you going to go to the game since it is in your backyard?
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No. I considered it, but the thought of waiting 2 hours to get out of the rose bowl lot at the end of the game knowing i have to get to work at 6am the next morning was enough to keep we away.
 
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CaliVol said:
I've lived in California for 13 years, and quite frankly west coast football is pathetic. Having grown up in Knoxville and experienced first-hand how college football should be, it has been really disappointing to see how fair-weather a lot of Pac-10 "fans" are. I have a good buddy who "remembered" he was a USC fan in 2002 when they started winning games again. Nobody knew he liked the Trojans until they rose to prominence. You can go up to the average USC, Cal, UCLA fan, and a lot of them don't even know their 2 deep depth chart for their own running backs.

SEC football blows away anything on the west coast.

EDIT: This quote from the original story says it all:

"USC averaged 57,744 in Carroll's first season, but the 92,000-seat Coliseum is sold out this season."
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Sadly I agree 100%. Even though half of Cal and USCs fans are probably of the new bandwaggon variety the other half tend to be very loyal and very knowledgable. The same can't really be said for UCLA fans. Their core fans are among the most delusional people on earth.
 
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droski said:
No. I considered it, but the thought of waiting 2 hours to get out of the rose bowl lot at the end of the game knowing i have to get to work at 6am the next morning was enough to keep we away.
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Ya, I hate it when that pushy real world gets in the way of fun things. At least you'll get to enjoy the misery of the losers either locally or right here depending on the outcome. I really don't see Tennessee losing this though.
 
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IPorange said:
Ya, I hate it when that pushy real world gets in the way of fun things. At least you'll get to enjoy the misery of the losers either locally or right here depending on the outcome. I really don't see Tennessee losing this though.
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Strangely UCLA fans have been few and far between after the final 4. . . can't imagine why. I see more cal gear in southern california these days than ***LA gear.
 
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There is a similar phenomenon here. Memphis fans are everywhere during basketball season. But now suddenly everyone is a loyal Tennessee fan.
 
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