Ole Miss spring game (Grove Bowl) brings small crowd...

What a pathetic excuse for a fan base (but is on par with the program). I know things aren’t looking very bright for them, but that is ridiculous (although not very surprising).

Just another reference to reflect upon when obnoxious bandwagon OM fans fluff up their chests and act like their program is relevant.


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It's sad but Ole Miss has brought this on themselves... they are lucky the sanctions weren't even more severe ... ... Remember just a couple of years ago the arrogance coming from their fans! They had just beaten Bama and they were heading for multi national championships! Then the bottom fell out!!!

Looks like the bowl ban hit their spring game too.

Auburn laughably announced a crowd of 28,033 for their spring game. Based on the photos I have seen most were hiding under their seats.

danb said:

What a pathetic excuse for a fan base (but is on par with the program). I know things aren’t looking very bright for them, but that is ridiculous (although not very surprising).

Just another reference to reflect upon when obnoxious bandwagon OM fans fluff up their chests and act like their program is relevant.


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I don't know man. There is supporting your team through bad seasons but I believe it's a fan's right to condemn a university's actions with a lack of support. To each his own, but if I was an Ole Miss fan I'd be letting them know through my attendance and participation that the type of crap they pulled didn't sit right with me as a fan. I get both arguments for attending or boycotting.

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Intl.Aperture said:

I don't know man. There is supporting your team through bad seasons but I believe it's a fan's right to condemn a university's actions with a lack of support. To each his own, but if I was an Ole Miss fan I'd be letting them know through my attendance and participation that the type of crap they pulled didn't sit right with me as a fan. I get both arguments for attending or boycotting.

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Their fans aren't condemning them at all. They still believe everyone is just out to get them and they are squeaky clean, so that is not the reason for them not showing up.

Intl.Aperture said:

I don't know man. There is supporting your team through bad seasons but I believe it's a fan's right to condemn a university's actions with a lack of support. To each his own, but if I was an Ole Miss fan I'd be letting them know through my attendance and participation that the type of crap they pulled didn't sit right with me as a fan. I get both arguments for attending or boycotting.

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I totally understand that, but I think that message could be sent by OM fans/alum to the university by keeping their wallets in their pockets, and still show support of the kids by attending a free game.

I know more OM alum and fans than I like to admit, and even work for a family owned business that are all big OM fans. The constant I see with all of them, is that they are church mouse quiet when the team is normal, (being subpar) and stark raving obnoxious when they went on the run during Eli years and the Freeze years. They defended the actions of OM and Freeze to the end, and only spoke bad of him when he resigned and they thought the NCAA was fixing to drop the hammer on the program. They were more concerned over being caught, than what was done. That’s why I believe it’s more about “well, we’re gonna suck this year, so why bother going” rather than “We won’t tolerate these shady dealings from our beloved university so we are going to boycott”.


Maybe they were supporting the team in spirit(s) partying in the grove!


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DzynKingRTR said:

Their fans aren't condemning them at all. They still believe everyone is just out to get them and they are squeaky clean, so that is not the reason for them not showing up.

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Based on what I have read, I totally agree. But spring games have very different meaning to different programs. I am not going to get on the fans for a poor turnout here unless they typically turn out tens of thousands for this game.

B1GTide said:

Based on what I have read, I totally agree. But spring games have very different meaning to different programs. I am not going to get on the fans for a poor turnout here unless they typically turn out tens of thousands for this game.

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Whereas I will readily get onto any program's fans who don't typically turn out tens of thousands for their Spring game! :biggrin2:

crimsonaudio said:

I will - here's their Grove bowl attendance over the last 5 years:
2014: 10,000
2015: 15,000
2016: No spring game, VH under consturtion
2017: 8,000
2018: 1,000

Talk about fair-weathered fans...

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Thanks - so, one in ten showed up for the game. Certainly weak, even for a program that clearly doesn't care about the spring game. Up here many schools don't even have spring games - probably because they just don't have enough fan turnout to warrant a wasted practice.

There is NO WAY that is 1,000 folks. I've seen AHSAA 1A football games with more than that...

230kv_barehand said:

There is NO WAY that is 1,000 folks. I've seen AHSAA 1A football games with more than that...

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I've seen AHSAA 1A High School plays with more attendance than that.

uafan4life said:

I've seen AHSAA 1A High School plays with more attendance than that.

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Our 1A school's drama production last week had more ACTORS in it than that.

I guess the biggest issue is the fact that they are a sec school. Still can't believe it.

crimson fan man said:

I guess the biggest issue is the fact that they are a sec school. Still can't believe it.

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They are one of the original members. Pretty easy to believe.


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