re: Has the empty South Carolina stadium been discussed?

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It's tough when you know your team is not good/ playing badly to keep people in the stands...throw in some bad weather and poof they leave. It happened to us in 2012.

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I think the expectations SC fans had about their team factor into it. We're doing a good job of filling up Neyland despite our circumstances but we also went into this season knowing that the main goal was 6-6, that the first part of the schedule was going to rough (it was), but that we needed to hold on and support our team through it. We knew how young, lacking in depth, as well as how bad our OL situation was going to be due to the last guy not recruiting any linemen and leaving us in a scenario where we replacing both the OL and DL completely and having to do it with a lack of warm bodies, so we watched to see if our team improved even if they didn't win and to see if they would fight all 4 quarters - they passed those tests with flying colors so fans kept faith.

With SC, and probably Auburn in 2012, the expectations were much higher and so it's looked like a down trend for the season filled with nothing but disappointment.