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re: This Auburn team better make a deep run.
Posted on 2/2/22 at 2:37 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Posted on 2/2/22 at 2:37 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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I mean that's just laughably false and absurd, sorry. No other way to put it.
George, I will put my hand on Bibles as high as you can stack them, go to any court in the world, and repeat what I just said. You are normally a good bama fan, but you are out of your fricking mind on this. I drove from Dothan to outside B'ham, there and back, and could go miles without seeing anything bama on a vehicle. It is what it is. To act like yours aren't fair weather is ridiculous.
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Posted on 2/2/22 at 2:42 pm to MrAUTigers
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didn't grow up in Alabama. We would go to family reunions twice a year around B'ham. During the 70's and 80's, four of every six vehicles would have something bama on them. I stopped going to family reunions for about a decade. My Grandma passed away and I went to her funeral. That was at the end of the Shula years. All of the bama stuff on vehicles had disappeared, in the State, not just around B'ham. It was like the vast majority of bama fans had moved out of the State. I saw this with my own eyes...........so your recollection is absolute bull shite.
Again, stop making up shite that never happened. Our stadium was full during the Shula years. Your perspective and the cute little story is entirely contrived Auburn horse shite.
Posted on 2/2/22 at 2:44 pm to Nitro Express
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Again, stop making up shite that never happened.
and stop making up shite about the stadium being packed for every Shula game.........because that is absolute bullshite.
Posted on 2/2/22 at 2:44 pm to MrAUTigers
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George, I will put my hand on Bibles as high as you can stack them, go to any court in the world, and repeat what I just said. You are normally a good bama fan, but you are out of your fricking mind on this. I drove from Dothan to outside B'ham, there and back, and could go miles without seeing anything bama on a vehicle. It is what it is. To act like yours aren't fair weather is ridiculous.
I mean listen man, you are good people, but that's just absolute laughable horse shite. Did the herd thin out some? Maybe. But the idea that all of a sudden the state University of Alabama fanbase just up and disappeared in the early 2000s - all while filling a 83K seat stadium on Saturday's - is absurd.
I mean seriously, it's laughable. And anybody who lived in Huntsville or Birmingham or Gadsden or Demopolis or Mobile or Anniston or Jasper would tell you so.
The University of the state of Alabama has hundreds of thousands of alumni and fans who have been Alabama fans for generations. You think that all of a sudden, after dealing with DuBose and Fran and 2 probations, the Shula era finally made 100,000 of them just decided to be like "well shite, this is stupid, I'm done with college sports now".
This post was edited on 2/2/22 at 2:48 pm
Posted on 2/2/22 at 2:45 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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Auburn is going to be very good again in a few years and then again a few years after that. This is a great team, but it's the NCAA Tournament and great teams lose all the time. No shame in that.
I'm at peace with the reality that to be a sustained basketball program we'll have to get to big games and lose them (just like football).
That said, the tournament in particular is daunting in that respect. In the Final Four we could have easily won it all. But, we objectively weren't the best overall team and in some ways that made it easier (in others, it was harder as we ran through a bunch of blue blood to a winnable F4).
I think it gets a little harder to be content "knocking on the door" if you really might be the best overall. Still lots of season left to see if that's a realistic take on this team. If so, and if you make a deep run, then the pressure will be immense just because of the gauntlet you have to run to get to that point.
Posted on 2/2/22 at 2:46 pm to Warmth in Winter
They’ll lose first or second round.
Book it.
Book it.
Posted on 2/2/22 at 2:47 pm to PaulsBunions
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And they'll abandon it just as quick once this little run is over.
Who are these basketball programs who maintain fan support despite long bouts of of failure/mediocrity?
They don't exist.
Posted on 2/2/22 at 2:47 pm to MrAUTigers
So you didn't live in Alabama, but visited Bham twice a year; yet you think you can assess the whole state from your anecdotal experience.
fricking barn fans.
fricking barn fans.
Posted on 2/2/22 at 2:52 pm to PaulsBunions
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So you didn't live in Alabama, but visited Bham twice a year; yet you think you can assess the whole state from your anecdotal experience.
yes. when your drive over 300 miles, one way, you get a gist of what is going on in any state.
Posted on 2/2/22 at 2:56 pm to CharlieTiger
That is basketball.....
Posted on 2/2/22 at 3:01 pm to MrAUTigers
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and stop making up shite about the stadium being packed for every Shula game.........because that is absolute bull shite.
I went to almost every home game in the Shula era, and it was full. I was in Bryant Denny, retard. I'm not telling you contrived secondhand stories my grandpappy told me sitting around the outhouse.
This post was edited on 2/2/22 at 3:01 pm
Posted on 2/2/22 at 3:09 pm to PaulsBunions
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So you didn't live in Alabama, but visited Bham twice a year; yet you think you can assess the whole state from your anecdotal experience.
fricking barn fans.
It's so hard for them to believe because AU fans will not show up for a games if AU loses a few. Not unless they're playing Alabama or Gerogia of course. Anyone else, they'll be outside giving away free tickets to boy scouts an hour before kickoff.
Posted on 2/2/22 at 3:09 pm to MrAUTigers
Final Four team had better 3 pt shooting.
Posted on 2/2/22 at 3:19 pm to Nitro Express
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I went to almost every home game in the Shula era, and it was full. I was in Bryant Denny, retard. I'm not telling you contrived secondhand stories my grandpappy told me sitting around the outhouse.
speaking of "contrived secondhand stories my grandpappy told me sitting around the outhouse".
2005 attendance nation wide. The link won't work, so I added a spaces.
https:// fs. ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/Attendance/2005.pd f
This post was edited on 2/2/22 at 3:25 pm
Posted on 2/2/22 at 3:23 pm to Nitro Express
quote:I went to every game in Tuscaloosa from 01-03, which included some Shula games and it was usually only full for big games (AU, UGA, Oklahoma, UCLA). Tickets were pretty cheap and easy to come by. Your defensiveness has you relying on hyperbole.
I went to almost every home game in the Shula era, and it was full. I was in Bryant Denny, retard.
The most consistent tradition besides the bear grumbling over the loud speakers to start the game was Bama fans chunking their plastic cups of bourbon and Coke toward the field for bad plays or perceived bad calls a handful of times per game.
This post was edited on 2/2/22 at 3:27 pm
Posted on 2/2/22 at 3:24 pm to MrAUTigers
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speaking of "contrived secondhand stories my grandpappy told me sitting around the outhouse".
LINK
What's the point here? Maximum capacity in Bryant Denny in 2005 was 81,018 due to the construction of the upper deck. They had to remove about 2,000 seats from the top of the end-zone for the 2005 season to build the deck.
This post was edited on 2/2/22 at 3:27 pm
Posted on 2/2/22 at 3:27 pm to WDE24
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I went to every game in Tuscaloosa from 01-03, which included some Shula games and it was usually only full for big games (AU, UGA, Oklahoma, UCLA). Tickets were pretty cheap and easy to come by. Your defensiveness has you relying on hyperbole.
I go to one or two Auburn games a year and I have never seen JHS full. Auburn season tickets are as easy to get as creating an account on the website and picking your seats.
Posted on 2/2/22 at 3:30 pm to WDE24
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I went to every game in Tuscaloosa from 01-03, which included some Shula games and it was usually only full for big games (AU, UGA, Oklahoma, UCLA).
The only games that weren't completely full during that era were the early season non-opener mid major game. North Texas, Northern Illinois, Utah State one year I think.
Southern Miss was almost always full. All of the SEC games were full. The opener, other than UCLA, was in Birmingham until 2004.
As my parents ticket broker in town during that era through the end of the Shula era and I can pretty accurately tell you the market for tickets.
- Home opener was always good
- The bad home game (ULM/North Texas/Utah State) was always the "Mullet Nation" game, and you generally sold those tickets for around face value (which was $30-40 back then)
- The non-huge SEC games were face value at worst (Vanderbilt) and right above it for most (Ole Miss, State)
- The other SEC games were either very easy sells if we were good or easy sells when we were bad
We have way more empty seats for non-SEC Games now than we ever did back then.
This post was edited on 2/2/22 at 3:34 pm
Posted on 2/2/22 at 3:30 pm to mwlewis
I’m not sure what that has to do with the “full” stadium during the early 2000’s in Tuscaloosa, but I believe you.
Posted on 2/2/22 at 3:33 pm to SummerOfGeorge
quote:that’s like half the games every season and also not true. The stadium was never empty, but there were plenty of seats empty on the upper level and a spattering of seats a around the lower bowl for most games.
The only games that weren't completely full during that era were the early season non-opener mid major game. North Texas, Northern Illinois, Utah State one year I think.
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