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re: So Cock fans, how many UK fans invade the building
Posted on 1/19/15 at 4:41 pm to DorchesterGamecock
Posted on 1/19/15 at 4:41 pm to DorchesterGamecock
Not to mention, I've been to your coliseum and it seats about 5 million people. What was the thinking behind that.
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Posted on 1/19/15 at 4:48 pm to STUPIDFACE
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Not to mention, I've been to your coliseum and it seats about 5 million people. What was the thinking behind that.
Meant to hold more people for larger events like concerts/NCAA tourneys/etc. If we could only get the damn confederate flag situation resolved and gone Columbia would have already hosted such things.
i wish we had a smaller arena for sure for bball. It's tough to get real loud when an entire upper bowl in barely full (that's even given the lower bowl is filled to capacity)
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Posted on 1/19/15 at 5:42 pm to STUPIDFACE
You'll get no argument from me.. It's definitely too big.. but like a previous poster just said, it's not just a bball arena. We host concerts, commencement, Ringling Bros. Circus, etc there. I think when we built the CLA, the Univ wanted it as big as possible because we were planning on immediately getting rid of our old Coliseum in favor of academic or residential space.... TEN years later, our old Coliseum is still standing so now we have TWO arenas on campus. We're just now getting around to figuring out what to do with it (future student union).
Posted on 1/19/15 at 7:31 pm to STUPIDFACE
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5 million people
Kenny Chesney, Jimmy Buffet, Taylor Swift etc.
Posted on 1/19/15 at 8:30 pm to STUPIDFACE
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Not to mention, I've been to your coliseum and it seats about 5 million people. What was the thinking behind that.
The real answer to that is that, when we are winning, we are huge basketball fans.
When we were building that place, when the floor area was being dug out, when Mike McGee gave me my Gamecock hardhat, he said it would be a place for us to gravitate to for the next 100 years. It's a palace .. our women lead the nation in attendance. When Martin gets our men on track, we'll pack the place as well.
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