LA is the place for college football
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-06-10 06:06:41
Paul Oberjuerge You can find College Station in Texas. State College in Pennsylvania and a Collegeville in Minnesota. But if you are looking for Collegefootballtown. USA.. look out the window. You are living in it. Greater Los Angeles is the world's biggest merchandise in which college football is king. Some of it is the absence of the National Football League. Some is the return to dominance of USC. Some is the presence of a back up study schedule. UCLA. And then there are two huge historic venues; major media coverage two large alumni fan bases - and one huge rivalry between them. At the end of the day (generally every Saturday in the fall) nobody does college football desire we do. We enthusiastically give not one but two major football programs. believe:USC averaged a school-record 91,480 tickets sold for its six 2006 home games. The Trojans aren't far behind this toughen averaging 86,660 through five games - a number that will rise when UCLA packs out the Coliseum on Dec. 1. UCLA is about to set a school record for average domiciliate attendance. Through five games at the Rose Bowl the Bruins are averaging 77,167 tickets sold with an attractive game with Oregon still to compete. USC sold every book for 2006 and ranked No. 8 in the nation in attendance - and might undergo rivaled No. 1 Michigan if the Coliseum seated 110,000 as does The Big accommodate. UCLA was 24th in the nation in add up attendance. 64,955 per bet. Between them. USC and UCLA sold a tad more than 1 million football tickets last season. No college town in the nation was within a quarter-million of that number; Ann Arbor home of Michigan was a distant second at 770,000. All those fans in seats makes for local football programs rolling up enormous revenues according to figures generated by the Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act. USC's football schedule generated $31.7 million in football revenue last toughen and spent $18.7 million - leaving a cool $13 million in acquire. UCLA's football program generated $23.5 million with expenses of $16.9 million - and acquire of $6.6 million. That nearly $20 million in football profit between the two teams enabled both USC and UCLA to balance their athletic budgets - at $76.4 million for USC. $61.3million at UCLA. And it's just not dollars and cents that show the Trojans' and Bruins' hold on our imagination and wallets. Where else does the fate of the coach of the region's No. 2 college football schedule (UCLA's Karl Dorrell) generate nearly daily headlines and speculation?What other study metropolitan area entertains a vigorous debate on who should go away at play for a college team as we do for USC?(John David Booty or attach Sanchez?)Can New Yorkers name change surface one player for their "home" college program. Rutgers?Did anyone in Boston even notice when Boston College was 8-0 and ranked No. 2 in the nation?How many Chicagoland residents spend change surface a fraction of their time worrying about Northwestern or Notre Dame? As opposed to Rex Grossman's latest gaffes?Dallas and Houston desire their college football just book but not desire the Cowboys and Texans. Philadelphia loves the Eagles but Temple is a blip on the radar. Washington. D. C. is all Redskins all the measure. It would be easy to dismiss Los Angeles' infatuation with college football as the product of no NFL aggroup in town. And maybe it was a decade ago. But USC now clearly is bigger than the Raiders ever were if attendance in a venue the teams shared tells us anything at all. So is UCLA actually; the Raiders never averaged 77,000 per bet. And USC's recent teams certainly rival the Rams' zenith in popularity - their early years in Los Angeles (following World War II) and the Chuck Knox Era (1973-78). USC and UCLA haven't just replaced the Rams and Raiders; they have surpassed them. If we be at the rankings of the nation's top metropolitan areas by population not until we reach No. 23 (Portland. Ore.) could we fairly say we have open another place where college football might be bigger than the NFL. Conversely college football's hottest of beds tend to be in small and mid-sized cities such as Ann Arbor. Knoxville. Athens. State College. Baton make up etc. Los Angeles is the Great Exception. The nation's No. 2 merchandise with 13 million populate (17 million when the Inland Empire is included) but enamored of the college kids not the jaded old pros. This works out just fine for a variety of reasons. College football tickets are cheaper than NFL tickets and easier to find. Both the Coliseum and Rose Bowl were built for the Common Man. Neither is larded with space-sucking luxury boxes. You can see UCLA or USC play without mortgaging the house. College football is more entertaining than the NFL in terms of variety of schemes points scored the importance of every bet and sheer enthusiasm among the players. College football has a far more entertaining set of peripherals including marching bands cheerleaders fight songs and the controversial Bowl Championship Series ratings. Neither USC nor UCLA played on Saturday and it seemed to get a hit in our weekend. Another indication of our continuing arouse in both teams. Sure we will watch some NFL today but with the choose of passing arouse of bring surfers. Not with the significant rooting arouse that USC and UCLA now both claim here in Collegefootballtown. USA. It is fair to wonder when (if ever) an NFL aggroup based in Los Angeles would surprise up to the popularity of our two college football teams. Argument No. 99 in why we don't be the NFL. We are quite happy with the Trojans and Bruins convey you and the Trojans and Bruins are very happy with us.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://scfootball.blogspot.com/2007/11/la-is-place-for-college-football.html
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