re: PMAC atmosphere is better than Tiger Stadium under the right conditions- T or F?

Most false statement I've ever seen in my mother fricking life.

if the basketball team is really good and playing a good team vs tiger stadium during a 11:30 plam game against eastern [insert state] tech maybe.

No, but the atmosphere is great when what I call “the football crowd” shows up to a basketball game. The PMAC gets loud and rowdy as hell.

Examples of that are Kentucky 2015, Oklahoma 2016, Tennessee 2019

PMAC was terrific back in the late 70's- early 80's when the Tigers played outstanding basketball, and had a solid lineup. Even during the Stromile Swift year it was lit, and again in 2005-06, and the first year of Trent

GTFO

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Better question is….how does #1 Duke vs #2 UNC at Cameron Indoor compare to LSU vs Bama at night in Tiger Stadium. If your being unbiased that is real damn close!

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so you are saying it may be louder if you pile a bunch of people into your living room and scream, vs going outside and your yard and doing the same thing? Gotcha

It would take years to generate the sort of environment in the PMAC that some of us were able to witness in the 80s and early 90s.

Even if somehow the basketball team were to be great next year, the atmosphere wouldn’t be able to match those years.

Even the 2000 season, the 2006 season and a few of the Wade seasons where the team was good, the student section may have been loud, but the rest of the PMAC wasn’t full or the fans weren’t as into it.

In the late 80s/early 90s, the entire arena was crazy, the students would induce techs from players, throw tennis balls onto the court, etc… one of my favorite things as a kids was to watch the entire student section pretend to read the newspaper during the opposing team starting lineup announcement and then throw the newspapers onto court and never go quiet again throughout the game. That was peak PMAC, and I don’t know if it could ever be recreated

FALSE and it’s not close

it's certainly more intimate.

Tiger Stadium has become comercialized.

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I wouldn't say "better". But there was a time when the PMAC was a mad house (Deaf Dome) and students would camp out on the ramps to get into the game. The people who attend the football games are many of the same people who attend (or would attend) the basketball games. They wouldn't forget how to be loud an energetic simply because they crossed the street.

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If you attended games from 78-92, you would absolutely argue that that Arena at its best is every bit as electric as Tiger Stadium. I was at USC in 79 and many other bigs games including Ole Miss this year. No band or DJ was needed (although there was a pep band), to get the crowd absolutely going nuts.

It was deafening MORE games I could count.