Nocleats
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There is no NCAA rule on fan attendance. Most of the NCAA covid rules are about testing requirements and who can be on the field (like no band, no mascots) and who should wear a mask on the sidelines. Nothing about fan seating capacities, the NCAA and SEC both stood back from that knowing the state and local governments would just trump them anyway.Did the Sec mandate the 20% capacity rule or is it up to each school to set their own maximums? At casual glance, UGAs stadium appeared to be almost 50% or more. Maybe they used cut-outs but there were lots of folks there???
23000 x 2 at leastIn September, Georgia Athletic Director, Greg McGarity, said that Georgia would follow the SEC recommendation and allow a capacity between 20-25% or what is between 18,000 - 23,000 for Sanford Stadium. There were no set rules handed down by Sankey, just that recommendation. Georgia clearly had more than 23,000 fans last night.
I would guess that the crowd in Sanford Stadium last night was the largest gathering of people for a public event in the United States since the mandated economic shutdown began on March 23rd. I think it was around 50,000. I'm not necessarily saying they did anything wrong, but that is not what their AD McGarity said they were going to do 3 weeks ago.23000 x 2 at least
23,000 were fans, 18,000 were supporters, 12,000 students, 5,332 were followers.In September, Georgia Athletic Director, Greg McGarity, said that Georgia would follow the SEC recommendation and allow a capacity between 20-25% or what is between 18,000 - 23,000 for Sanford Stadium. There were no set rules handed down by Sankey, just that recommendation. Georgia clearly had more than 23,000 fans last night.