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re: Your honest first impressions of SEC fans from road trip game experiences

Posted on 8/30/16 at 12:29 am to
Posted by jbrau22
Waco, TX
Member since Jun 2007
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Posted on 8/30/16 at 12:29 am to
Auburn-love the trip (first ever road trip with my dad when I was like 12). Have been back once since. Need to go again. Like the pregame. Fans are cool.

Alabama-awesome experience all 3 times. Last year went solo and just had a good time. General mutual respect among fan bases from what I can tell. The GOTC was the best football atmosphere I have been around ever. Older fans are really awesome...younger fans are (justifiably) entitled and obnoxious (prolly same as everywhere). Still remember the callers on the post game show wondering if they should get rid of Saban bc he couldn't beat miles (2-4 at the time I believe?)...boy how that has changed

aTm - had an awesome time there. I've said it before it's the most similar in passion that I have seen to LSU. I know some people think their cheers/yells are weird (and they kind of are) but it's really cool to see an entire stadium of people moving and yelling cohesively like that. Great people as well. Won't meet a kinder bunch irl

Ms st- one of my fav road trips (record against them and distance helps). Made 6 consecutive trips to starkvegas until this past year. People are great. Town is terrible but getting better all the time.

Ole miss-people were pretty cool, grove people were mostly obnoxious (corn dogs in rope traps...really?) grove is a weird sight, not for me. Walk of champions b4 game is cool but also a bit ironic. There was literally a kkk rally on campus the day of the last game I attended. Weird place. I disagree with a previous poster and say Oxford was overrated.

Arky- LR...wth were we forced to play here for like 20 years. Terrible stadium city and fans. Miracle @ markham doesn't help.
Fayetteville was wayyyy better. The weather kind of dulled the trip (brutally cold and rainy/windy). So did the beat down. Cool fans cool city.

Georgia - best sec city and campus bar none. Love Athens. Will go again. People Friday night were Aweslme. People Saturday were strange. So many men with dog costumes. Guys literally barked at u...like grown men. They were deservedly pissed after the game as that was the aj celebration penalty game. But if u have the chance...go to a game between the hedges.

Florida-meh. May be second least impressive sec city behind Starkville. Fans were disinterested before the game which was surprising. I heard what a hostile environment it could be and I was pumped. Good fans leaving the game (j Lee 2 pick 6 game) and stadium was rocking. But was hoping for more of a bama/Uga feel and was let down

South Carolina-city was cool historically but tailgating scene sucked. Coolest thing was the folks that tailgaited in a train car but those were super private. Worst fan experience I have ever had. Got batteries thrown at us in the stadium. We had just lost to Florida the week before (see above post) and their fans were doing the gator chomp at us...I think uf had beaten them like ten yrs in a row lol. Stadium is pretty cool. Lights for the stadium were awesome. Was what j would expect a quidditch stadium to look like lol.

Tenn-cool sailgating. Bol navy is a class by itself. Fans were turrible tho. Killz is right about the average size and redneckness (which hey I'm a large guy no judging) but I honestly felt like it was the least intelligent fan base I've been around (or maybe least cultured would be a better term). No offense shafty bc u seem to debunk my stereotype of tenn fans.

Vandy-haven't been
Kentucky-haven't been
Mizzou-obviously haven't been
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