re: Student fan attendance is a nationwide problem

Screw the students and their "distractions." Gameday is an experience, not a 4 hour wait to find out who won. I'm a fricking Vandy fan -- which means a good game for me was usually one where the cheerleaders didn't weep at the tragedy of it all -- and, while I can't claim to have made every game, I certainly made at least 5-6 a year. Hell, I made at least 3-4 a year when I was in grad school at UNC, and UNC was hardly much better than Vandy. I get the arguments for staying home and watching it on a big-screen TV. That's what I do every Saturday nowadays, and it's quite nice. But if you're a student who can't be bothered to go cheer for your favorite team in person (assuming there are no other factors like physical or economic limitations), you need to go cheer for soccer or something instead because you're missing out on one of the great experiences of sports...filling up on booze and brisket in the parking lot, then cheering your lungs out in the stadium while tens of thousands of obnoxious assholes do the same all around you.

Er...other obnoxious assholes, I meant to say.