re: Visitor's Sections at Vaught Hemmingway?

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Um.. What sections are the designated "visitor sections?"

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Some tips that they DON'T tell you when they are fellating the "grove".

1. Though football games have been played in Oxford for over a century, Oxford's Finest have still not figured out how to get cars from the highway outside of town, to the parking lots near campus on gameday in any kind of orderly or timely fashion. If you are not already on the campus proper when the sun comes up on game day, good luck getting into that visitors' section prior to kickoff. We were 4 miles from campus 2 hours before kickoff, and it took us another 90 minutes to get to some Piggly Wiggly/JC Penney parking lot a half-mile north of campus.

2. The visitors' section at VH Stadium is the end zone underneath the scoreboard. The brain trust in the OM administration thinks one gate is sufficient to get everyone in that end zone into the stadium. Though the traffic was snarled and we got to our parking place much later than necessary, we were still at the gate as the National Anthem was starting. However, because there was only one gate and one ticket taker, we stood in that line until 3 minutes left in the first quarter.

3. The visitors' end zone is the only section of the stadium that has not been renovated. The aluminum bleachers have a concession stand beneath them - and all food, drink, garbage, etc falls straight from the seats, onto the heads of anyone waiting in line to buy their flat cokes and cold hot dogs.

4. For all the fuss people make about going to Oxford, it is unclear where that comes from. Worst place in the country to see a game. If you're going, be sure to anticipate long waits due to extremely poor organization.