There were more UGA fans in the stadium at the end of that dreadful showing vs NTU than there were for the second half kickoff in Tiger Stadium. There is no excuse for that sort of mass exodus so early in an SEC match-up. What a complete embarrassment.
I can't wait for Auburn - A&M. And if they gel by season's end under the new offensive formula, I expect them to give Bama hell in the Iron Bowl for the first time in a while.
Does anybody remember the HORRIBLE game vs. South Carolina in 2007? It was the fourth game of the year on a wet and nasty Saturday afternoon in TS, and Flynn threw for something stupid like 90 yards and no touchdowns. Everybody was saying how exposed we looked and how we'd never get it done if Flynn couldn't even get 100 yards against the cocks. It was BY FAR the worst offensive performance of the regular season, but it was hardly the standard. There are quite a few parallels between the two: first year OCs, a week four battle of unbeatens, rainy conditions, fake field goal, LSU taking a three TD lead and sitting on it only to end up winning by two TDs.... Jes' sayin'.
The AD couldn't sell tickets to the games students aren't attending anyway. I couldn't give away extra tickets these last three weeks. Saturday a scalper wouldn't take my tickets, at no charge, because it was two more he wouldn't be able to sell. Something has changed in the fanbase in general in the last few years. It isn't specific to the students. It seems to me that many folks are more interested in the tailgate than in the game. When the SEZ deck opens the AD is going to be in for a rude awakening.
Not true. This season I bought 6 extra single-game tickets for a friend. The tickets available for the OOC games were all in the upper deck. But tickets available for Arkansas were in section 231, which is in the student section under the scoreboard. The AD knows that many students go home for the holiday and won't be here for that day-after-Thanksgiving game, so they take three or four sections and sell them as individual tickets for that game, which were the only SEC game tickets available. Every SEC game is a sellout. There is a waiting list for season tickets. If the AD takes away a section from the students permanently, they can immediately sell it as season tickets. Some will be to casual fans who often are no-shows and leave-earlies, but we need their money to pay for the facilities and for our highly-paid coaches. In fact, they are moving half of the visitor seats from the lower bowl to the South Upper Deck to free them up for high-surcharge season tickets. The rest of the upper deck seats will sell for a mere $20 a game. That is how they plan to fill it. They hope the folks that are put off by high prices will bite on the cheap tickets.
That was the whole quarter, they never got inside the LSU 42 yard line. For those 13 mins, they never got inside the 42 of LSU, it was never in doubt they were gonna score in the second quarter.
