carolinarebel

This game is huge for the Ole Miss season. I've gone back and forth on this game for a while, and like several others I am starting to pick up confidence about the game.

28-16, rebels defense was better against run than most realize, we can hold them to FGs.

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That shite pisses me off so fricking much. If Obama and Oprah can hold a rally in the CLA, we should be able to have fricking NCAA games there. Didn't the SoCon conference move their baseball tourny from Coastal Carolina's park to somewhere in North Carolina for basically the same thing?

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The SoCon baseball tournament I thought had been in Greenville at some point recently. I thought the basketball tourny was at Greenville as well but maybe moved to Asheville NC.

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The Colonial Life Arena was ranked 22nd in the world in ticket sales in 2003. It was also ranked the #1 arena in the Carolinas and was the #2 rated university arena in the world in 2005, based on ticket sales for touring show.

In addition to Gamecock Men's & Women's basketball games, the arena also hosts the SC high school basketball championships. It is the home to major conferences, concerts, and graduations. Some notable concert tours include Taylor Swift, The Eagles, Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, Prince, Pearl Jam, Aerosmith, Journey, and Carrie Underwood. The CLA also hosts live events such as the Circus, WWE (monday night raw), Monster Jam, Winter Jam, American Idol, and Dancing with Stars. Other notable visitors have included Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama, and George W. Bush.

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I guess it gets more than I gave it credit for just off the cuff. All I was trying to get across was that it seems like Cola could have its own place for those things and USC have its own place. Its a nice arena, clearly that was not what I was trying to say. Just that maybe USC would be better off with their own place that fitted their needs more than the cities.

Either way, it does not change the outcome tonight, great game gamecocks.

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are you really from South Carolina?

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No I put it in my handle for shits and gigs...what do you think? And this does not change the fact that when yall moved into the larger arena yall lost the environment that yall had in the old place. Clearly its a nice arena, but I can't help but feel like you would of been better served building a new arena that was smaller more alike the old once similar to what Auburn did, or a total reno on the old place.

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I've never understood why USCe has a 18K arena

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They were good way back in the ACC days...but the move to the new bigger place was a mistake.

What are you saying has some truth, but the fact is South Carolina was just better than Clemson for the most part over the past 4 years. They have matched up with them very well.

LSU pounded Boyd all game, but the difference was that the LSU offense could not stay on the field, South Carolina was able to take advantage of a weak Clemson defense and chew up chunks of the game and keep Clemsons offense on the sideline and out of the flow of the game.

Its easy to get caught up in the defensive side of the game vs their offense but in the games I feel like Clemson has struggled in and esp in the Carolina games is that Clemson could not come close to stopping the other offense from doing whatever they wanted all game.

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From what I've seen of them though, if you rattle Boyd early, he never fully recovers. He doesn't play terribly, but he'll throw that pass he shouldn't or scramble when he should have thrown, etc.

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I think its more about him starting to press and the added pressure that comes from taking away chances. If your offense cant stay on the field its easier for the Clemson offense to get into a groove and establish what they do well. If they can't get the ball back quickly/very often Boyd starts to get frustrated and tends to make mistakes that they dont when things are going well.

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Ole Miss Tickets ?@OleMissTix Get your UT tickets at LINK UK already sold out and MSU follows so could, actually, SHOULD be 5 straight! Need #3inArow

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Glad to see rebel nation getting behind the team. Would be nice to see us get 5 straight sell outs. This reinforces the fact that this fan base will support a winner (or above average) team.

I don't think anyone has called Ole Miss the "black bears"...the endzone says rebels. The whole black bear idea was not to replace the nickname of the teams.

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Today, after the removal of the upper deck, Legion Field seats approximately 71,594 spectators.

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I guess getting a total full house would be a bit out of reach, but it would be nice if we broke ticket sales record for the bowl. Maybe we can get around 40k rebels there or so...having the lower bowl all the way full would not look bad for Ole Miss.

The record is around 45K it looks like, I would think that number is within reach. I don't think Pitt will sell that many tickets since its the 3rd trip in a row, so if it gets broken or even close it will be mostly on the backs on rebel fans.

Ole Miss 35-13

I'll be at Legion Field, hopefully a good number of rebels show up. It would be nice if we took enough to people to fill both sides of stadium.

Anyone know what the capacity is there now without the upper decks?