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re: Top 15 most loyal college fanbases
Posted on 8/11/14 at 2:10 pm to lsufball19
Posted on 8/11/14 at 2:10 pm to lsufball19
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lsufball19
I don't take issue one way or the other on a personal level whether or not you consider 99+% a sell out. I just thought it silly of you to chime in JUST to argue over such a trivial technicality. It's as if you chimed in to say "I'm right, you're wrong... your fans aren't as good as you say they are."
Shoot, we live in a 100k population. The fact we attend like we do and have since always is consistent with the fact I supported to enter the thread and say our fans have earned a moniker of "most loyal."
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Posted on 8/11/14 at 2:11 pm to David Cornwell
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What's sad though, is when Alabama got upset by A&M in '12, the same day Auburn lost to Georgia, you guys decided to roll Toomers. Sad
* Auburn fans rolled Toomers Corner after the 2012 uat-Tex A&M game.
* a uat fan poisoned the Toomers trees after uat lost the 2010 Iron Bowl.
* a uat fan teabagged an LSU fan after winning the 2011 BCSNC
* a uat killed another uat fan because she was not upset enough about uat losing the 2013 Iron Bowl.
One of those statements is not true.
Posted on 8/11/14 at 2:13 pm to Tigerman97
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Basing loyalty on sell outs is faulty at best.
No single factor should be considered conclusive... but, I think sell outs are a very reasonable way to get a broad understanding of how loyal a fan base is, particularly when considering the city's population count.
Take USCw for example.. Southern Cal is in an ULTRA high pop count and they may not even show the type attendance we do. IMAGINE if Bama fans had as much potential in terms of pop count. That would be badass. We'd need 10x the stadium.
This post was edited on 8/11/14 at 2:13 pm
Posted on 8/11/14 at 2:16 pm to CGSC Lobotomy
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If I were a Tennessee fan, I would be upset that my fanbase was measured as less loyal than one of the, if not THE most fair-weather, bandwagon, and ignorant fanbase in college football.
Yeah, I'm gonna get upset about a subjective, completely opinion based list, written by some joe blow on the internet. Makes about as much sense as getting upset about a team you used to play being on that opinion based list.
Posted on 8/11/14 at 2:16 pm to m2pro
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Shoot, we live in a 100k population. The fact we attend like we do and have since always is consistent with the fact I supported to enter the thread and say our fans have earned a moniker of "most loyal."
you attend games like you do because you have won more than anyone. give any SEC team in an area with no other teams to root for, and give them success like alabama has enjoyed, you will see the same type of support. look at kentucky basketball. the state has a population of under 4.5 million people yet they'd sell out tickets to a game on the moon if they played there. why? because there isn't anything else to do in kentucky and they have had unparalleled success. winning always breeds support. no one is impressed with alabama selling out. that should be expected in a small southern town with a program like that.
This post was edited on 8/11/14 at 2:19 pm
Posted on 8/11/14 at 2:17 pm to BigOrangeBri
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Yeah, I'm gonna get upset about a subjective, completely opinion based list, written by some joe blow on the internet. Makes about as much sense as getting upset about a team you used to play being on that opinion based list.
And likely biased in some way like almost all things written by people.
Posted on 8/11/14 at 2:18 pm to lsufball19
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you attend games like you do because you have won more than anyone. give any SEC team in an area with no other teams to root for, and give them success like alabama has enjoyed, you will see the same type of support. look at kentucky basketball. the state has a population of under 4.5 million people yet they'd sell out tickets to a game on the moon if they played there. why? because there isn't anything else to do in kentucky and they have had unparalleled success. winning always breeds support. no one is impressed with alabama selling out. that should be expected in a small southern town with a program like that.
No credit deserved from such a small town during our recent dark era? I think so. But to each his own.
Posted on 8/11/14 at 2:19 pm to m2pro
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No credit deserved from such a small town during our recent dark era? I think so. But to each his own.
this is such a misleading and ignorant point you've been trying to make. tuscaloosa is a short drive from birmingham, a city with a metro area of over a million people. stop using tuscaloosa's size as a mark of the impressive attendance alabama has. many atlanta residents have a longer daily commute to work than it takes to get to tuscaloosa from birmingham.
This post was edited on 8/11/14 at 2:20 pm
Posted on 8/11/14 at 2:23 pm to lsufball19
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this is such a misleading and ignorant point you've been trying to make. tuscaloosa is a short drive from birmingham, a city with a metro area of over a million people. stop using tuscaloosa's size as a mark of the impressive attendance alabama has. many atlanta residents have a longer daily commute to work than it takes to get to tuscaloosa from birmingham.
Ok.
Posted on 8/11/14 at 2:26 pm to m2pro
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Ok.
what do you dispute? this is college football. do you really think the majority of fans that go these games live in the college towns where the teams play? you think the majority of the 90k+ that attend UGA games live in the small town of Athens? No, they live all over, probably the majority in Atlanta over an hour away. This is not something uniquely impressive about Alabama. It's a very short drive for a large amount of that fan base to get to Tuscaloosa.
This post was edited on 8/11/14 at 2:27 pm
Posted on 8/11/14 at 2:27 pm to lsufball19
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what do you dispute? this is college football. do you really think the majority of fans that go these games live in the college towns where the teams play? you think the majority of the 90k+ that attend UGA games live in the small town of Athens? No, they live all over, probably the majority in Atlanta over an hour away. This is not something uniquely impressive about Alabama. It's a very short drive for a large amount of that fan base to get to Tuscaloosa.
I don't care to keep disputing, regardless of fine points I may have because convincing you is something I'm uninterested in... it must suffice that we are #2 in some article on the internet that some guy wrote that you take issue with, clearly.
This post was edited on 8/11/14 at 2:29 pm
Posted on 8/11/14 at 2:28 pm to m2pro
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regardless of fine points I may have
enjoy living in your plastic bubble
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it must suffice that we are #2 in some article on the internet that some guy wrote that you take issue with, clearly.
eh, not really, you just seemed to first say that my factual statistical argument was just a matter of semantics, haha. then you tried to use tuscaloosa being small as if that is even relevant. no one disputes alabama has good attendance, but i just find it funny when people think that's just something special to alabama fans innate loyalty to their team. it has much more do do with the fact that people enjoy to watch winning more than you'd care to admit.
This post was edited on 8/11/14 at 2:35 pm
Posted on 8/11/14 at 2:30 pm to NYCAuburn
nm, this whole argument is dumb.
This post was edited on 8/11/14 at 2:41 pm
Posted on 8/11/14 at 2:32 pm to lsufball19
nm... not worth it. :/
This post was edited on 8/11/14 at 2:34 pm
Posted on 8/11/14 at 2:35 pm to m2pro
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nm... not worth it. :/
most intelligent thing you've said this entire thread
Posted on 8/11/14 at 2:36 pm to lsufball19
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most intelligent thing you've said this entire thread
One thing we agree on today. I knew there'd be something.
Posted on 8/11/14 at 2:37 pm to lsufball19
Thought the subject was loyalty not attendance or size of fanbase.
Posted on 8/11/14 at 2:39 pm to VU fan 43
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Thought the subject was loyalty not attendance or size of fanbase.
Well, I was arguing that the size of the fan base's city vs their avg game attendance was a good measuring stick for gauging loyalty. Then a guy came in and wanted to tell me how our fans aren't worth praising as loyal, and I ended up having to end the pointless endeavor to have intellectual discourse... so as to keep it less painful for others reading.
Posted on 8/11/14 at 2:40 pm to skrayper
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#8 LSU
How did they define loyalty?
Posted on 8/11/14 at 2:41 pm to skrayper
South Carolina should be in the top 5 for sure.
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