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LoKyBuckeye
I give up. This board is too hard to understand.
I'm not so sure USC fans are that nice... I just think Mililani & BB73 are old and couldn't hear the insults being hurled their way.
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My experience has been that fan behavior is a direct function of alcohol consumption. When Texas was here for the most part I saw good behavior. But I park on Summit and returned - at night obviously - via 15th. There were Texas fans going that way also. Behavior ranged from obnoxious to vile to threatening. I crossed the street to walk with a couple of Texas fans just to dilute the Orange a bit.
It ranked with the worst fan behavior I have seen anywhere.
It ranked with the worst fan behavior I have seen anywhere.
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LoKyBuckeye;1262617; said:I'm not so sure USC fans are that nice... I just think Mililani & BB73 are old and couldn't hear the insults being hurled their way.
Well they are both older than me.....
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fourteenandoh
My swing feels like an unfolding lawn chair.
the home and home with texas was the same way, except they came to our town first. i actually had a few texas fans promise me that i would be treated better than they were treated when i came to texas the next year. hopefully more fans go to away games and have expierences like mili had at usc and i had at texas. it sure changed my view.
this applies only to non-conference games. PSU and Wiscy fans will always be assholes, so i am sure to return the favor when i can.
this applies only to non-conference games. PSU and Wiscy fans will always be assholes, so i am sure to return the favor when i can.
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OSUsushichic
Fired up! Ready to go!
BB73;1262606; said:This is why there isn't a new O-H-H-O photo. I couldn't raise my arms.
And I had salmonella, so it was more like O-H-shit.
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I didn't go to the game, but had the opportunity to visit the area and watch it with in laws. My brother-in-law is a Buckeye in SoCal and gets a lot of grief from his work mates there. He was flying his Buckeye flag on the front of his house when he saw the mailman taking a picture of it. It seems he needed to show the other postal workers that Buckeyes do grow in Southern California.
My experience was pleasant and surprising. Wearing my colors, we went to a car show in Ventura on Sunday and met several Ohio transplants there. I met one guy with a custom '51 Ford F-100 from Cleveland, one guy from Toledo who had a nice '57 Chevy BelAir, and another who thought that Buckeyes were a strange name for a team (he rode in on a Segway if that tells you anything).
I personally found the USC fans friendly and polite.
My experience was pleasant and surprising. Wearing my colors, we went to a car show in Ventura on Sunday and met several Ohio transplants there. I met one guy with a custom '51 Ford F-100 from Cleveland, one guy from Toledo who had a nice '57 Chevy BelAir, and another who thought that Buckeyes were a strange name for a team (he rode in on a Segway if that tells you anything).
I personally found the USC fans friendly and polite.
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Best Buckeye;1262623; said:
That's true - if we add our ages together.
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Jake
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OCBucksFan;1262537; said:
I took a buddy of mine (Steelers fan, but not a dick) to Dallas in 2004 when the Steelers played down there. Having attended two Cowboys-Steelers games in Pittsburgh with me - and seeing how I was treated by many Steelers fans - he was apprehensive about how he would be treated in Texas. I assured him most Cowboys fans in Big D were laid back - too much so for me at times when it comes to making noise at the games - and I doubted he would experience anything like I did in the Burgh.
He soon realized I was right. In fact, I was telling some of the locals to give him a little shit because the steel city fans would never be so nice to them. To this day many Cowboys fans in Texas have nothing good to say about the obnoxious, drunken Yunzers who made the trip to the game.
My buddy has tickets for the Cowboys-Steelers game in Pittsburgh this season. I'm honestly not sure I even want to go, because I know the idiots will be there. At some point, it's not worth it. I want to enjoy the game without wondering which asshole will try to pick a fight with me just because I don't give a shit about "his" team.
I'll spend my money and go to Irving for a home game, instead.
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osucollegebuck
Nathan Williams #43
I have to give the SC fans credit they were for the most part pretty cool. I paint my face and always get abused when I go to a visiting stadium. But the fans who seemed to be a part of the University were awesome. The only ones who talked smack were the latino thugs I ran into around the LA area when they saw my Ohio State flags on my car.
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osucollegebuck;1264920; said:
They weren't talking about SC. They were just saying "Get the fuck outta here, ese".
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EidoloN
Faces don't get pregnant.
The only flak I got from USC fans weren't really SC fans at all, they just wore the jerseys and shirts around claiming to be from Cali when they were actually not. One guy talking shit was wearing a USC jersey, then his neutral friend says he is a Texas fan, wow, what crap. Thats just one of the instances.
I hate ignorance, if you wanna talk football, I can do it in a civil manner. Don't bash our program, especially since you just started watching Trojan football after 2001.
I hate ignorance, if you wanna talk football, I can do it in a civil manner. Don't bash our program, especially since you just started watching Trojan football after 2001.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Nation's love affair with Trojans now appears to have hit the rocks
Pete Carroll is bemoaning a popularity contest his program took advantage of for years.
John W. McDonough/SI
USC coach Pete Carroll is perplexed. For the fifth time in six seasons, his team has won nine of its first 10 games, yet this time the Trojans seem to have little chance of playing for the BCS championship.
In 2004 and '05, USC was undefeated and ranked first in the country at this point. In 2003 and '06, they were the highest-ranked one-loss team in the BCS standings.
But this year, with just three weekends of regular-season action remaining, the 9-1 Trojans sit a distant sixth in the BCS standings. They've actually managed to fall a spot since the season's first standings release on Oct. 19, despite the fact they've won seven straight games.
Carroll, a longtime playoff advocate, has been unusually outspoken in his frustration of late. He made waves a few weeks ago by saying the BCS "stinks." (He's hardly in the minority there.) But the USC coach got particularly defensive following a 17-3 win over Cal on Nov. 8 when reporters questioned his team's inability to accrue "style points" in the low-scoring game.
"I don't care about impressing anybody," he said. "I don't want to win a popularity contest."
Excuse me? Pete Carroll bemoaning college football's unofficial "popularity" contest? That's like the prettiest girl in school saying she doesn't want to win Prom Queen based on her looks.
No program in the country has received more swooning over the past six years than USC.
? In 2002, USC's breakthrough year under Carroll, the 11-2 Trojans won their last eight games, prompting many fans and media to proclaim them "the best team in the country right now." Never mind the fact that year's national champion, Ohio State, had gone 14-0.
? In 2003, AP voters were enamored enough with the 12-1 Trojans to proclaim them national champions, despite the fact they did not play in the BCS National Championship Game.
? In 2005, ESPN devoted a special series leading up to that year's title game debating whether 12-0 USC was the greatest team of the past 50 years. This was right before USC went out and lost to Texas.
? In 2006, USC suffered its first regular-season loss in three years, 33-31 at Oregon State, and dropped from No. 3 to No. 8 in the BCS . Within two weeks, they were back up to No. 3 and would have played Ohio State for the title before losing to 6-5 UCLA.
? In 2007, the Trojans lost not once, but twice -- including to 41-point underdog Stanford -- yet when SI.com held a "Virtual Playoff" in December, the readers voted USC the projected champ.
? Finally, at the start of this season, the Trojans leapt from No. 3 to No. 1 in the polls on the strength of a 52-7 opening-week rout of Virginia. Following their 35-3 rout of Ohio State, Los Angeles Times columnist Bill Plaschke wrote: "You can stop debating the identity of the best team of the coach Pete Carroll era, because, in four months, everyone will agree. This will be it."
Twelve days later, USC lost at Oregon State again. This time, for whatever reason, the Prom Queen's once-adoring friends couldn't run to the exits fast enough.
The Trojans, media darlings for the bulk of this decade, find themselves in the unusual predicament of flying below the radar. Only one of their past five games has been picked up by ABC, and they rarely come up in discussions about the various BCS championship scenarios.
As of now, they're getting boxed out of the title game by a monopoly of Big 12 (Texas Tech, Texas and Oklahoma) and SEC (Alabama and Florida) teams above them. Adding insult to injury, they may get squeezed out of the Rose Bowl, too, by their tormentors from Corvallis, now 7-3.
And everybody seems to be pretty much fine with this -- even their fans.
"The Oregon State loss kind of created this hangover that hasn't gone away," said Ryan Abraham, publisher of the fan site USCFootball.com. "The fans still look out at the national landscape and try to figure out a way where they can go to the national championship [game], but there's not as much complaining [about the Trojans' ranking]. Everyone kind of realizes, all we had to do was beat Oregon State and we wouldn't have these issues."
USC's plight stems from far deeper than just that one game in Corvallis. If that were the case, fans and pundits would rightly point out that 9-1 Florida, currently ranked two spots above the Trojans, suffered a more damning defeat just two days later, losing at home to Ole Miss (currently 6-4).
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Entire article: Nation's love affair with Pete Carroll's USC Trojans has ended - Stewart Mandel - SI.com
Pete Carroll is bemoaning a popularity contest his program took advantage of for years.
John W. McDonough/SI
USC coach Pete Carroll is perplexed. For the fifth time in six seasons, his team has won nine of its first 10 games, yet this time the Trojans seem to have little chance of playing for the BCS championship.
In 2004 and '05, USC was undefeated and ranked first in the country at this point. In 2003 and '06, they were the highest-ranked one-loss team in the BCS standings.
But this year, with just three weekends of regular-season action remaining, the 9-1 Trojans sit a distant sixth in the BCS standings. They've actually managed to fall a spot since the season's first standings release on Oct. 19, despite the fact they've won seven straight games.
Carroll, a longtime playoff advocate, has been unusually outspoken in his frustration of late. He made waves a few weeks ago by saying the BCS "stinks." (He's hardly in the minority there.) But the USC coach got particularly defensive following a 17-3 win over Cal on Nov. 8 when reporters questioned his team's inability to accrue "style points" in the low-scoring game.
"I don't care about impressing anybody," he said. "I don't want to win a popularity contest."
Excuse me? Pete Carroll bemoaning college football's unofficial "popularity" contest? That's like the prettiest girl in school saying she doesn't want to win Prom Queen based on her looks.
No program in the country has received more swooning over the past six years than USC.
? In 2002, USC's breakthrough year under Carroll, the 11-2 Trojans won their last eight games, prompting many fans and media to proclaim them "the best team in the country right now." Never mind the fact that year's national champion, Ohio State, had gone 14-0.
? In 2003, AP voters were enamored enough with the 12-1 Trojans to proclaim them national champions, despite the fact they did not play in the BCS National Championship Game.
? In 2005, ESPN devoted a special series leading up to that year's title game debating whether 12-0 USC was the greatest team of the past 50 years. This was right before USC went out and lost to Texas.
? In 2006, USC suffered its first regular-season loss in three years, 33-31 at Oregon State, and dropped from No. 3 to No. 8 in the BCS . Within two weeks, they were back up to No. 3 and would have played Ohio State for the title before losing to 6-5 UCLA.
? In 2007, the Trojans lost not once, but twice -- including to 41-point underdog Stanford -- yet when SI.com held a "Virtual Playoff" in December, the readers voted USC the projected champ.
? Finally, at the start of this season, the Trojans leapt from No. 3 to No. 1 in the polls on the strength of a 52-7 opening-week rout of Virginia. Following their 35-3 rout of Ohio State, Los Angeles Times columnist Bill Plaschke wrote: "You can stop debating the identity of the best team of the coach Pete Carroll era, because, in four months, everyone will agree. This will be it."
Twelve days later, USC lost at Oregon State again. This time, for whatever reason, the Prom Queen's once-adoring friends couldn't run to the exits fast enough.
The Trojans, media darlings for the bulk of this decade, find themselves in the unusual predicament of flying below the radar. Only one of their past five games has been picked up by ABC, and they rarely come up in discussions about the various BCS championship scenarios.
As of now, they're getting boxed out of the title game by a monopoly of Big 12 (Texas Tech, Texas and Oklahoma) and SEC (Alabama and Florida) teams above them. Adding insult to injury, they may get squeezed out of the Rose Bowl, too, by their tormentors from Corvallis, now 7-3.
And everybody seems to be pretty much fine with this -- even their fans.
"The Oregon State loss kind of created this hangover that hasn't gone away," said Ryan Abraham, publisher of the fan site USCFootball.com. "The fans still look out at the national landscape and try to figure out a way where they can go to the national championship [game], but there's not as much complaining [about the Trojans' ranking]. Everyone kind of realizes, all we had to do was beat Oregon State and we wouldn't have these issues."
USC's plight stems from far deeper than just that one game in Corvallis. If that were the case, fans and pundits would rightly point out that 9-1 Florida, currently ranked two spots above the Trojans, suffered a more damning defeat just two days later, losing at home to Ole Miss (currently 6-4).
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Entire article: Nation's love affair with Pete Carroll's USC Trojans has ended - Stewart Mandel - SI.com
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calibuck
Too soon old, too late smart
For such a small campus, the tailgaters were incredibly dense (as in packed together). Probably more of the older grads than the students (the grads had the pop-ups and the china, and the better booze). Plenty of students, plenty of drinking, and pretty well patroled by the campus seki's. No one was abusive (at least to me but I'm 6'6" and about 280, but gray-haired) that I could see, but all were intent upon having a good time. My host (USC grad & minister) showed me around, and there was plenty to see, but we got there about 1 1/2 hours before kick-off. Even when I kidded about taking the OJ Heisman, scratching out his name and inserting Maurice Clarett's name (security eye-balled me a bit though).
Worst time was getting to the parking garage, with the drivers cutting off and forcing themselves into too small spaces - but that's ALL of Los Angeles, not just around the campus. Plenty of OSU fans, most of them carrying their favorite beverage, no one seemingly hassling them. Every OSU fan answered IO to my OH. (It took minister about 4 blocks before he said he 'got it'.). In the stands, ALL season ticket holders and long-time, very nice and knowledgeable, and didn't rub it in when USC did their break away. AND, no backsass or comments when an OSU fan (me) stood up on every first down and signaled 'down-the-field' - only done early when OSU was moving the ball pretty well.
OSU has the biggest fan base in the land, and was very well represented at the game, which (I was told) was like a bowl game atmosphere. There are several thousand(s) of Buckeye alums in Southern California, much less the rest of California, and environs north, south, east and west. I'd be very surprised if USC will travel that well to C'bus, as Cali residents/natives don't tend to live outside of sniffing distance of the Pacific Ocean, and the USC enrollment is much, much smaller than OSU, subsequently fewer alumni. Treat 'em well, as it seems that the USC fans treated the OSU fans pretty well. There's always some 'hangers-on' that want to purport to be 'fans' but aren't, and I've run into some 'rough-necks' at the Varsity Club upon occasion.....Go Bucks and let's pay USC back for the 'clown-stomping' (their words, not mine) that we received.
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Worst time was getting to the parking garage, with the drivers cutting off and forcing themselves into too small spaces - but that's ALL of Los Angeles, not just around the campus. Plenty of OSU fans, most of them carrying their favorite beverage, no one seemingly hassling them. Every OSU fan answered IO to my OH. (It took minister about 4 blocks before he said he 'got it'.). In the stands, ALL season ticket holders and long-time, very nice and knowledgeable, and didn't rub it in when USC did their break away. AND, no backsass or comments when an OSU fan (me) stood up on every first down and signaled 'down-the-field' - only done early when OSU was moving the ball pretty well.
OSU has the biggest fan base in the land, and was very well represented at the game, which (I was told) was like a bowl game atmosphere. There are several thousand(s) of Buckeye alums in Southern California, much less the rest of California, and environs north, south, east and west. I'd be very surprised if USC will travel that well to C'bus, as Cali residents/natives don't tend to live outside of sniffing distance of the Pacific Ocean, and the USC enrollment is much, much smaller than OSU, subsequently fewer alumni. Treat 'em well, as it seems that the USC fans treated the OSU fans pretty well. There's always some 'hangers-on' that want to purport to be 'fans' but aren't, and I've run into some 'rough-necks' at the Varsity Club upon occasion.....Go Bucks and let's pay USC back for the 'clown-stomping' (their words, not mine) that we received.
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