Van wrote:Btw, Adel and Wolverine, regarding all your posts about USC's and the Coliseum's crappy fans?
I agree. Can't deny it. Sure, USC enjoys their fair share of true blue Jimmy Meds type fans. We have some real dyed in the wool "lifers", same as every other program. However, by and large USC's fans couldn't hold a candle to those found in Happy Valley, Death Valley (either one), College Station, Tuscaloosa, the Horseshoe, Norman or countless other CF meccas.
For a national power USC enjoys almost no real home field advantage. Compared to rolling into LSU for a night game before that hostile Roman bacchanal road teams coming into the Coliseum simply enjoy the sunshine and the girls and the history of the edifice itself.
They sure don't have to contend with a hostile crowd acting as a twelth man and making life tough on 'em. All they have to contend with is the team on the other side of the field. Lately, that's proven to be too much to contend with but I've always imagined what it would be like to have the kind of home court/field advantage enjoyed by Duke in Cameron Indoor Stadium or by the Chiefs at Arrowhead...
Fuckuva lot of bandwagoners there in the Coliseum, many of whom are merely there just to sport the gear and join in on the current "in thing" in L.A.
When I was growing up in L.A. the USC crowd seemed very different. In the 60s and 70s the "Coliseum faithful" truly were. Now it seems like we have a bunch of fat corporate types yukking it up alongside scores of coeds who just want to make it onto the internet...
These days, the Coliseum crowd looks way too much like Laker Crowd.
And you wonder why I'm not worried about the Rose bowl home field advantage. Isn't it nice when we both agree on the obvious. Too bad when I basically said the same thing you argued with me about it.
Right now the Lakers are down, the Dodgers are down, you have no pro football, and UCLA is...well UCLA. All the rich little bandwagoners have is USC football, well that or fight over Clipper tickets. Anyway its plain to see that even if USC owns 80% of the stadium its not going to be anywhere close to the atmosphere Texas saw at the shoe this year. That was one hostile crowd. I have said all along that if USC wins it will be because they were the better team not because of the hostile crowd or the big-game stage. Frankly put its a lot tougher playing in College Station, the shoe and the Cotton bowl than the Rose Bowl
