Very small crowd for the Pac-12 Championship

[RocketDawg]

Of course, they have a little rain but that wouldn't keep most SEC people away.

And Pia-whoever just hashed the National Anthem up with the best. Surely they don't think that sounds good. It's an atrocity.

 

[mcdawg22]

Are they playing it in Hatteisburg?
http://twitter.com/brian_mcduff/status/274683679769513984/photo/1

 

[The Usual Suspect]

Probably small crowd because same 2 teams played last weekend with Stanford beating UCLA easily...

 

[RocketDawg]

May be, but I'll betcha if Alabama and Georgia had played last weekend, the Georgia Dome would still be packed. And it would be if it was outdoors in a USM-type monsoon too.

 

[InaccuratePredictionsDawg]

Ted Miller must have a sad...

..when MSU played in the 1998 SECCG, the attendance was 74,795 (per wikipedia). Sounds like to me y'all are describing a crowd far less than 74,795. What about it, Ted Miller? Fill me in.

 

[was21]

There's a lot to do in California...football games on Friday night are sometimes an afterthought.

 

[engie]

For everyone here to see... Yet, they wonder why the SEC is superior. Keep in mind, Stanford stadium has a total capacity of 50,000 now, so how many are there? How far back would you have to go to find an MSU game that was less attended?

 

[Uncle Ruckus]

2008

 

[MedDawg]

More to do in Palo Alto than Atlanta?

There's a lot to do in California...football games on Friday night are sometimes an afterthought.

Yes, I know where Palo Alto is.


That argument has always bugged me. There are also millions more people around that could go to the game. Can't find 50k to go to a conference championship out of a metro population of 7 million? They must all be out chilling in jazz clubs and mountain climbing. Those mountains are so crowded nobody goes there anymore.

 

[engie]

More people at the 6A title game at Veterans Memorial?

 

[o_fredgarvin]

Don't read too much in it. The weather is awful in northern California this weekend.

 

[engie]

Don't read too much in it. The weather is awful in northern California this weekend.

If Mississippi State played against Ole Miss in Palo Alto, Ca with a trip to the Rose Bowl on the line for BOTH teams in that driving rain on a Tuesday @ 2AM, that stadium would be damn near full...

It's a championship game. For the Rose Bowl. There is NO good excuse to not sell it out and pack it out. Not like either team is a Rose Bowl mainstay...

 

[RocketDawg]

Looks like it did with 5 minutes to go in the 4th quarter with Jackson State.

Based on the capacity, there's no more than 10,000 there. I don't think we've ever been that low, even back in the 60s when we never won a game.

 

[RocketDawg]

However, the game started at 5 p.m. when most people were still at work or jammed on the freeways. But that's still no excuse.

 

[vhdawg]

For everyone here to see... Yet, they wonder why the SEC is superior. Keep in mind, Stanford stadium has a total capacity of 50,000 now, so how many are there? How far back would you have to go to find an MSU game that was less attended?

The last four games at DWS under 30K announced attendance:

09/15/1990 - Cal State Fullerton - 22240
10/30/1993 - Kentucky - 28607
10/25/1997 - Central Florida - 28621
10/13/2001 - Troy State - 26000 (clearly an estimate)

 

[RocketDawg]

Was the Troy State game the day of the tornado watch and later during the game, a warning? And several inches of rain. The field looked about like the game earlier this year in Hattiesburg. Much more rain than in Palo Alto tonight.

The crowd there is loud though. They must have each fan miked.

 

[patdog]

Really? Stanford was playing at home with a Rose Bowl berth on the line. Any stadium in the SEC could draw twice the capacity no matter how bad the weather was or whether the same teams had played the week before.