usmgoldeneagle

looks like they already have an app. its $7.99 for the year

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if there is a central hub to get updated scores I would write an app real quick that would update scores every so often and charge $1.49 for it (life time charge). if anyoen wants to help figure out how to parse data quickly and easily i would make it happen for iOS and Android.

anyone interested? Money to check for scores is silly. If you figured out that everyone who was coming to check scores wasn't paying a sub then its stupid to think that those same people are gonna now for over $10 just to check those same scores. Whatever people you do get to cross over will be less than the ad revenue from all the page visits.

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

look i know we dont fill er up but most colleges use tickets sold vs seats anyhow, except a few. to say that we have 20K though at any of our games except the arky st game is ridiculous. ive been going to almost every game for YEARS and i know what 20K looks like.

"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

"The four names they were looking at Jimbo, Muschamp, Nix and Ellis Johnson. They only paid Jeff around $250,000/yr."

it was $350,000 per yr base so yeah still underpaid but the alumni basically got fed up and said, "ya know? we dont have to settle for mediocrity anymore, we are gonna pony up". so only 2 weeks after losing to Rice on national tv they came up with $600,000 and then went to the AD with the money. Done Deal. we have money we just have been knowingly underpaying.

its almost just like SMU in Dallas. they have much more money than we do but most people dont know they have more money than most colleges in the United State. I am not exaggerating. They are about to finalize a deal with Johnson from Navy for about $1.5-$1.8 Million. they can afford ANY amount they want.

USM, within reason, can do the same. the alumni money is there. They just had to finally get their heads out of the sand, quit sitting on the couch eating potato chips and get with the program. we have one of the nice athletic facilities in the country(only 5 years old) and are about to expand to seat around 40K which is an upgrade from 33K but plans are to raise that level and also build in the other side in the future. Hattiesburg has also grown a great deal in the last 5 - 6 years and has been named as one of the most livable cities in the southeast.

is that sarcasm? well if so since there has been various topics discussing USM i thought i would just give you a link.