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Has gone from Home Run hire, to still a good hire, to were not sure but let’s stay hopeful, he’s a great offensive mind but just needs help on D, to a national embarrassment.
The circumstances are particular (heat index, humidity, early start, opponent, track record, usc demographics) but man they walked right into this story and they deserve the criticism. Why not move game til 5/6?
and lol. Now a FR night game against Fresno State? Are they trying to keep people away????
you tell me
winning cures all. Let’s see how this goes
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Why don’t we just do what you said at the end of the post – “Let’s see how this goes”. One game into the season I choose not to panic. Especially given all the new faces out there. Check back after game three and we might have a clearer picture.
I wouldn’t consider myself a sunshine pumper a al 66, but man you’re cuing the doomsday device a little early.
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Yes, winning cures most everything.
In the L.A. sports market, if you’re not the Dodgers or the Lakers, you have to win and dominate in order to draw big crowds. The only time SC football ever did that was during the Pete Carroll era. If you dominate, you’ll draw no matter who you play, no matter what time you play.
Case in point: By the end of the 2002 season, Carroll had things rolling and SC was dominating. The last two home games of the season were against Arizona State and Notre Dame; UCLA was at the Rose Bowl. ASU drew almost 74,000, Notre Dame drew 91,000. The 2003 home opener was a 5:00 game against BYU; it drew 75,000. Why do I mention this? Because this was the first time in the history of SC football that the team had drawn crowds of over 70,000 three home games in a row.
By 2004, SC attendance was where it had never been — sellouts or near-sellouts every game. The home opener drew 85,000. Against Colorado State. Repeat, against Colorado State. Later that year, 90,000 for Cal, 90.000 for Arizona State, 80,000 for Arizona, 92,000 for Notre Dame.
For 30 years before Pete, my family and I would leave our house 2 1/2 hours before kickoff and have plenty of time to park the car, tailgate outside tunnel 18, take leftovers back to the car if necessary, and proceed to our seats with no stress. By 2004, we were leaving the house 5 hours before kickoff, hoping to find a place to park.
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