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re: Tennessee Coaching Search - Updated list per the athletic dept.
Posted on 3/23/11 at 12:48 pm to Govt Tide
Posted on 3/23/11 at 12:48 pm to Govt Tide
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You can certainly argue this point and be right. What I and other Bama fans take exception to is that this is supposedly the case when BOTH teams are successful. In other words, does Alabama routinely pack the house out if Anthony Grant goes on the same run at Alabama that Pearl did the last few years at Tennessee? I contend that this is exactly what would happen at Alabama as well.
This year Alabama and UT had pretty similar seasons... and UT averaged about 6K more fans per game
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You and others seem to insinuate that Alabama doesn't pack it out because none of them care about basketball in the first place
I don't think i said that
I did say that schools like Bama, UGA, and LSU are football first and basketball a distant second in fan interest.
But that is just acknowledging the obvious IMO
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Posted on 3/23/11 at 12:52 pm to molsusports
as far as attendance goes, of course Tennessee is going to draw more, they can fit 5 or 6 thousand more in. We are just like almost all SEC schools, fairweather as hell, but from the Kentucky game on we had good crowds pretty much every night and had 6 or 7 sell outs.
Posted on 3/23/11 at 12:54 pm to molsusports
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This year Alabama and UT had pretty similar seasons... and UT averaged about 6K more fans per game
And they were on a 5 year run while Bama was rebuilding. Is it really surprising they had more fans at games?
Posted on 3/23/11 at 12:58 pm to molsusports
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This year Alabama and UT had pretty similar seasons... and UT averaged about 6K more fans per game
Well they do have an arena that seats about 5,000 more than Alabama so that's a contributing factor. The attendance is a bit understanding to. After all, Tennessee was coming off an Elite 8 run the year before with several starters back and a nice home OOC schedule. Meanwhile, Bama's coming off a losing season with an absolutely horrendous home OOC schedule. The circumstances for each team going into the season couldn't have possibly been more opposite.
Once Alabama started showing a pulse early in the SEC conference schedule, Alabama fans showed remarkable fan support. How many other SEC school's arenas were 93% full on average throughout the entire SEC schedule?
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