re: Southern Miss offers job to Tyrone Nix

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you can tell BUTCH that we average more than 20K attendance

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and Butch will tell you you're wromg...because you are. While "The ROck" has been sold out on a couple of occasions, it has NEVER been filled to capacity with people.

Having said that, USM is currently adding about 10k seats in a new horseshoe. Talk about delusional - they give bammer a run for their money!

"and Butch will tell you you're wromg...because you are. "

you really need to do your research Don...

in 2006 our total attendance for 6 home games was 173,963 for an average of 28,994. not even close to 20K that he thinks he knows about nor yourself.

this year in 2007 our average has been slightly below 28,000 only because our AD gave us a game against arkansas state that no one cared about on a thanksgiving weekend, not to mention a wed night game, and 2 Sunday night games back to back and we still get almost a 27K average..which is still pretty good considering the egg we have laid this season.

people need to start backing up what they say or they will be called out on it. i am not saying i am proud of our attendance considering the number of people in Hattiesburg now but ill break it down for you, courtesy Hattiesburg American..

1996 24,580 (first year of C-USA)
1997 23,923
1998 24,561
1999 25,834
2000 28,509
2001 25,649
2002 26,962 (six home games)
2003 28,645 (includes record 36,152 vs. Nebraska)
2004 28,964
2005 27,862
2006 28,993 (highest under Bower)
2007 26,768

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you really need to do your research Don...

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no YOU need to do YOUR research and a good reading comp class wouldnt hurt you either! I said they have sold out games and of course they have sold that many tickets you are referencing, but what you don't realize is that the numbers you cite are for tickets sold, not actual asses in seats.

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people need to start backing up what they say or they will be called out on it

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consider yourself called out - and your band sucks for playing the ESPN song even when the game is not on ESPN. Go join the other 6 rednecks on the SoMiss board!

wrong. JSU even had them outside on the grass.

now, I mean JSU the FIRST time they played.

not the second.

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you are telling me that on average 7,000 less people were in the seats than tickets sold?

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yes

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if so how would you or butch know?

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by going to the games

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did you attend any of the games?

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yes

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did you take pictures?

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no

The point is that there are easily 7k people or more still in the district while the game is going on - this has been the case for every game i went to.

Get over the penis envy - you had a higher attendance than Ole Miss, go bark on their boards!

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how do you know there are 7K people in the district while the game is going on? do you just start head counting?

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jesus christ it is like talking to a 4 yr old. bottom line - USM's attendance sucks, period. Always has even when they were good. Period. USM will never get in the Big East b/c you cant put asses in the seats. The sad part is that Hattiesburg is a less than 2 hr drive from like 3 million people and the rock still looks like a high school game at tad gormley.

By the way, will Fr. Tommy remain chaplain of the team now that Bower is gone?

what about Fr. Tommy? Do you know?