Comments on: The Pizza Bowl? Really?

By: OhNoNotAgain

OhNoNotAgain — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:56:42 +0000

Yeah, thought the little tigger would bounce away once presented with the truth. Sure, the last bowl was bad. But that’s about it.

By: CNSYD

CNSYD — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:42:30 +0000

Statesman, not a class at Clemson that I know about. I do hear that at bottom feeder school at USC aka law school they teach lying 101, cheating 201 and stealing 301. Not to be outdone by the law school, the Moore school of business aka as the Madoff school teaches many of the same subjects.

What exactly did the BOT member resign for recently? Does fraud ring a bell?

By: Statesman

Statesman — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:47:40 +0000

Fromupstate. Them farmers love the government handouts called Farm Subsidies! I know one that gets paid not to grow a crop! Can’t blame him. He has learned to play the government with low interest loans and subsidies. He inherited the land too! Best of all, he can say he is working and not on welfare! He gets cash, not food stamps!

Is that a class they teach at Clemson? Gov. subsidies and loans 101?

By: LIstenUp

LIstenUp — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:47:15 +0000

Fromupstate: here is your quote –
“they historically don’t travel well to bowl games.”

We’ve been to 13 bowl games.
You cite two where attendance wasn’t great. I cite three where attendance was great, and a stated reason for us GETTING those bowl games was we have a fan base that travels well in prior years.

I admit I was guessing and guessed wrong about the Outback Bowl attendance = last year, but I was one of the fans scrambling to get a ticket to the other ones.
Here’s some numbers I pulled up.
Last year’s bowl attendance, wasn’t just us. It was everybody.

“Iowa fans bought 18,000 and 20,000 tickets for the school’s Outback appearances against Florida following the 2003 and ’05 regular seasons. This year Iowa has sold 12,700 tickets.”
“It’s down a lot,” Iowa ticket director Pam Finke told The State, the daily newspaper of Columbia, S.C. “We were out of tickets last time.”
It’s slightly less than 500 miles from Columbia to Outback Bowl site Tampa, Fla., but that doesn’t mean South Carolina fans are stampeding to the ticket windows, either.
Carolina fans bought 25,000 and 20,000 tickets, respectively, to watch USC’s Outback Bowl wins over Ohio State after the 2000 and ’01 regular seasons.
As of Friday, USC had sold about 9,000 of its 11,000-ticket allotment for the Outback Bowl, according to Eric Hyman, the school’s athletics director. That includes up to 1,500 seats the athletics department purchased.

Those reported numbers are just for the tickets bought through each school’s athletics department. USC attendance was estimated as at least 30,000 in the 50,000 plus Raymond James Stadium for the 2000 and 2001 bowls.

And the 87 Gator Bowl had 82,119 fans in attendance. More than half, I’d say, were wearing garnet.

So, to put it in HISTORICAL context, you’re full of beans and so’s your old man.

By: Wallaman

Wallaman — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:15:50 +0000

A bowl game is a bowl game.

Sure a bigger one would be nice but given what the closing stretch was starting to resemble, I’m perfectly happy with the Whipping of Clemson and what could be a bowl victory as well. I’m more interested in carrying the excitement over into 2010 and winning over some recruits versus which fast food bowl we attend.

Fits, keep you sorry a** attitude to yourself. That’s not going to help anything now or in the future.

By: fromupstate

fromupstate — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:18:09 +0000

OhNoNotAgain….. here’s is your quote….”But we got the invite to the Outback Bowl last year, despite being 7-5, because of the reputation from the 2000 and 2001 fans who traveled so well. And I think we traveled pretty well again”…..

and here is reality

USC sold 7,284 of its 11,000-ticket allotment and used another 1,342 tickets as comps for players’ and coaches’ families, athletics department staffers, university trustees and others. Per USC AD

not exactly the “all I see is Gamecocks” scenario you mentioned. I’m not certain, but I believe you guys traveled a little over $5,000 to the Carquest bowl which was obviously your first bowl win and I’m pretty sure also came after a thorough Clemson beatdown (only that one was in Death Valley).

CNSYD…. one other rule about farmers is that they belly ache every single year. Any farmer will tell you that they have never really had a “good year” in farming as they ease into their Cadillac Escalade. Entirely possible the farmer you mentioned really only cleared $10,000 just as you said, that would make him the exception. What he probably didn’t mention was that his net worth is several million dollars because of the land and other assets he owns.

by the way… I wasn’t talking about the guy that raises 100 cattle part-time to finance his 90 acres. I’m talking about a real farmer…. that has hundreds upon hundreds or thousands of acres.

Here, I will say it again. This past Saturday we got DESTROYED by the Gamecocks. No question. We looked Div I 2A at times. The only satisfaction from the game was all the “kick it to Spiller talk” that was silenced 19 seconds into the game……. dang.. I always write really long posts.. my apologies.

By: Toyota Kawaski

Toyota Kawaski — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:36:32 +0000

Keep your sorry tail home fits. Go devote all your energy to getting one of Payton’s jock straps that you can hang on your wall and um…. worship or better yet fits instead of running your pie-hole get your rubber checkbook out and buy some extra tickets to the game and let some local B-ham charity use them.

By: OhNoNotAgain

OhNoNotAgain — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:23:58 +0000

The Clemson fan stating as fact that USC fans historically don’t travel well to bowls speaketh with a forked tongue, kemosabe.
I went to the ’87 Gator Bowl and we had the place packed. They picked us because we traveled well. Bowl officials said so at the time. They considered us in ’88 when we had the same record, but didn’t want the same teams one year after the next. But I understand we packed the Liberty Bowl that year.
That was when USC was 0-8 in bowls. We went to one more in the past century, the Carquest, won it. Don’t know how well attended it was.
But we got the invite to the 2000 Outback Bowl despite being 7-4 because we had a reputation of traveling well. I went to it.
We traveled VERY well. A guy who ran Moses White & Sons BBQ said, “I thought this was a Bucs town, but all I see is Gamecocks.”
We got the invite to the 2001 Outback Bowl because we traveled SO well, and we had a better record, 8-3.
I don’t know how well we traveled to the Independence Bowl and the Liberty Bowl under Spurrier in 2005 and 2006. Just don’t.
But we got the invite to the Outback Bowl last year, despite being 7-5, because of the reputation from the 2000 and 2001 fans who traveled so well. And I think we traveled pretty well again.
I think our inability to move ourselves up into a better bowl slot has a lot to do with what happened on the field last year. We literally stunk up the joint. I hate to admit it, but it’s true.

By: fitsnews

fitsnews — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:11:37 +0000

What could USC have done to go to a better bowl? Let’s recap …

Beat Arkansas (7-5). Beat Tennessee (7-5). Beat Georgia (7-5).

Or hell, take your pick of the three.

We’re going to Papajohns.crap because we “don’t play enough politics?”

PLEASE!

Again, win f*cking games.

-FITS

By: ICEMAN

ICEMAN — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:04:42 +0000

So tell me, what could USC done to get a better bowl? They finished the season with the same record as Auburn, Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia and Arkansas. The only reason USC is going to the Pizza Bowl is geography, and the fact they didn’t play enough politics to get a better bowl.