South Carolina stadium

Not the most aesthetic location. Didn’t even have sidewalks along roadway. The fans, especially the students stayed throughput

Is Columbia nice? I’ve heard it’s hot as hell there. Stadium looks like a dump

Everything you said is pretty much the antithesis of what I've heard from friends and family. All people I know who went said it was a great stadium atmosphere and a very fun game to attend. Also said post game traffic was a cake walk.

It was raining on and off during the morning, but stopped by 9:30, and ended up being a nice day, cooler than I would have expected in mid-September.

USCe is intertwined with downtown Columbia, more so than LSU is with BR. So I ended up parking near their basketball arena, and taking a shuttle to the SC fairgrounds, where a lot of the tailgating was taking place, then walking to the stadium from there.

What you heard was piped in music.
Fans for the most part were fine. They are into their towel waving. They were pumped. And why not stay, the game wasn’t decided till the final play.

Sandstorm is a big part of South Carolina fan culture now. It started with a win against the Black Bears, so I can't be too mad at them for it, they just might have overdone it a bit. But, all the complaints you hear about piped in music at Tiger Stadium apply at least equally to Williams-Brice Stadium, they drowned out both bands with non-Sandstorm music.

I enjoyed Columbia. It’s nice to have downtown attached in a way to the stadium. We sat right behind the Tiger band so I couldn’t hear the SC band much. A lot of piped in music for sure. The mechanical rooster noise was ok. Not a Tiger roar mind you but if you’re a cock you’re a cock. What can one say.

The people are a nice looking group as a whole. Some of the women were beautiful. Nice scenery for sure. The fans were excited and pumped after beating KY but weren’t that upset about losing to us. They knew we had the better athletes. We played poorly and make plenty enough mistakes to lose but they made more mistakes and we squeezed by. I’d go back any year. Food was good.

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Extremely. Incredibly friendly people.

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The city reminds me a lot of Baton Rouge. It's the state capital. The old part of campus (The Horsehoe) is beautiful. Some of the newer buildings are not so aesthetically pleasing. In that respect, it's a lot like LSU's campus.

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stadium-wide back rests,

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All of the seats have back rests? Are you sure? If so, that's pretty new. I went to a game there two years ago with a college buddy who is a USCe alum, and none of the seats in our section had back rests. Nobody does cramped seating like Tennessee. You can only fit one butt cheek in their seats.

South Carolina fans are a strange bunch. I live in Charleston so I’m around them a lot. They basically root and expect 8-4 seasons, that is a good season. So they talk shite but it’s not really because they have no expectations.

The stadium is fine, we are used to tiger stadium….we are completely spoiled. They just yell Go Cocks. There was a 3rd down in the 4th Q where they are rotating between “Go” and “Cocks” cheers in the stadium…well that means 35,000 ppl at one point are quiet. That helped LSU’s communication.

Overall though, average spot for an average team. Columbia is fine, but if you chose to drive back to Charleston that’s the great road trip.

Disagree. I thought it was a great atmosphere. Sandstorm is awesome. Easy to get around outside the stadium and traffic was better than BR leaving. We were back home in Charlotte in less than 2 hours. Agree the limited concessions sucked.