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Tampa Bay area fans prefer Bulls over Bucs?

...another great blog entry from one of the country's best beat writers, Greg Auman.

All I can say is thank you BigEast for giving us this platform to shine!

Bucs - Bulls = 4,241 actual fans

Perhaps you didn't see the quote in the Times' coverage of Sunday's Bucs win against the Falcons, but here's what Bucs rookie Aqib Talib, who watched the USF-Kansas game Friday from the Jayhawks sideline, had to say:

"It's tough to win in here," Talib said of the Kansas defeat. "South Florida has great fans. It might have been louder on Friday than it was out here today."

Turns out, there almost were more people at Raymond James Stadium to see the Bulls. The announced attendance for the Bucs game was 63,611, while the USF game was announced at 58.755. The actual turnstile numbers, according to the Tampa Sports Authority, are even closer: the Bucs had an actual attendance of 56,868, while the Bulls were at 52,627, for a difference of just 4,241.

Granted, it's a big game for USF with a ranked opponent in town, but should it be close if it's the Bucs' season home opener with a division opponent coming to Tampa? The two teams don't go head-to-head at home on the same weekend again until Oct. 18-19, when the Bulls play host to Syracuse and the Bucs play host to Seattle in prime time. There's one more shared weekend in November when USF has Rutgers on Nov. 16 and the Bucs get the Vikings the next day.

-- Even my dad is forwarding me college football stuff, like last week's top 25 slideshow from Foxsports.com. Get to USF at No. 19 and the comment is "For the second straight year, the Bulls are the second-best team in Florida, and for the second straight year, nobody cares."

-- The Sporting News' Matt Hayes has his new bowl projections, and he has USF in the Orange Bowl against Wake Forest. "There is little doubt now that USF is the team to beat in the Big East," he writes.

-- The Times' Tom Jones led with USF in his weekend "Shooting from the Lip" roundup of the week's action on TV. I wrote down the same Kirk Herbstreit quote he used as well ...

Posted by Greg Auman at 10:56:59 AM on September 15, 2008

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While at the game, my guess for butts in seats (or standing in front of them) was 50K.  Glad to see I was on the low side but would have liked to see the people that bought the 58K tickets show up.

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The announced attendance for the Bucs game was 63,611, while the USF game was announced at 58.755

interesting that they actually had .755 of a person in the stands.

was he an amputee?

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Times are changing. We just need to keep winning.

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I'm not surprised. The Bucs are such a BORING team to watch. Without Graham they would be awful.

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The announced attendance for the Bucs game was 63,611, while the USF game was announced at 58.755

interesting that they actually had .755 of a person in the stands.

was he an amputee?

Even more interesting is that if only roughly 59 tickets were sold, how did 52,568 people sneak into the game?

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The announced attendance for the Bucs game was 63,611, while the USF game was announced at 58.755

interesting that they actually had .755 of a person in the stands.

was he an amputee?

Even more interesting is that if only roughly 59 tickets were sold, how did 52,568 people sneak into the game?

He just decided to write the numbers European style...wait or is it Latin American style...i cant remember

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I went to the Bucs game also and sat in section 147 (the student section at usf games). It felt really weird to get yelled at from behind for standing up. the bulls game was probably twice as loud. That is an unbiased statement, because i'm a bucs fan too.

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I'm not surprised. The Bucs are such a BORING team to watch. Without Graham they would be awful.

Even with Graham they are awful. We just need to kick them out of the stadium and have everything redone in green & gold.

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I'm not surprised. The Bucs are such a BORING team to watch. Without Graham they would be awful.

Even with Graham they are awful. We just need to kick them out of the stadium and have everything redone in green & gold.

That's probably why Glazier hates us.  He knows he put his money into the wrong level of Football in Tampa.

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