How does a team with a lousy history and a mediocre team like South Carolina continually sell out a 80,000 seat stadium and create excitement? I know football is big in the South and all, but teams like this selling so many tickets and getting fans so worked up amaze me. Many teams out West can't sell 40,000 tickets to big games and have far better histories than the Gamecocks, which have an all-time losing record and gone 3-8 in bowls?
I know the argument people have lots to do out West, but still there has to be something to this. I am trying to figure it out. What ties these people to football even when the program has done little to show it deserves this sort of support? Shouldn't some of these Universities be studying this and at least coming up with something? I can tell you one thing, even when your team is getting demoralizingly beat like USC is tonight at home, there still remains a better atmosphere than having your team win in a half-empty stadium.
I know the argument people have lots to do out West, but still there has to be something to this. I am trying to figure it out. What ties these people to football even when the program has done little to show it deserves this sort of support? Shouldn't some of these Universities be studying this and at least coming up with something? I can tell you one thing, even when your team is getting demoralizingly beat like USC is tonight at home, there still remains a better atmosphere than having your team win in a half-empty stadium.