re: College Football Crowd Size

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People aren’t talking enough about this. For decades they’ve played in Lawrence or Waco or Lubbock for 35-50k with tons of your fans there

They are in for an awakening

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It's been talked about ad nauseam. Crowd size is meaningful but not as big of a deal as it's made out to be. I've been to a ton of college games in about 18 stadiums (including Alabama/LSU at Tiger Stadium) and the craziest crowd I ever experienced was in Lubbock in 2008 and it was like 50,000 people. We handled the 100,000 person crowd at Bama just fine. I know games at Jordan-Hare and Death Valley will be another animal but we're well aware.

I think most sooner fans would tell you that we would much rather our team play in these environments than the sleepy current big 12 environments. It's not like we've run from big environments, we were playing the Ohio States, ND's & Tennessee's of the world in the non-con in the BCS and early CFP eras. We were scheduled to have Georgia and LSU on the schedule prior to the SEC announcement.

One thing I've seen in the recent big 12 is how an 11 AM kick with a small crowd size like Kansas can negatively affect a team. The effect might be more significant than the big environments which can be an additional motivation for a team.