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Originally posted by KSigkid
Maybe I'm not seeing this the right way; a school that has trouble drawing for their own games (10,000 average attendance) wants a school in a higher division, that doesn't even have to play them, to give them a large amount of tickets. It just doesn't make a whole lot of sense from South Carolina's perspective to amp up the number of tickets for SC State.
I understand where SC State fans are frustrated, but the school is getting money for playing the game, and South Carolina is doing SC State a big favor by even agreeing to play them. The money will make a difference at the school. Also, the recruiting help (athletes may go to SC State if they know they can play against at least one D1 school) could be priceless.
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I do agree with you from an economics and policy standpoint. But, I can think of a few 1-AA vs. 1-A games where people from the 1-AA showed up in drones. Even people who had not previously supported the team for whatever reason or who lived far away. If USC gives them more tickets it would really be a favor and nothing more. It would really suck if the SCSU fans didn't attend as predicted, although I think they will.
I'm glad you do at least understand their frustration. You're right that there will be benefits to playing USC. In addition to that, also think of how SCSU wants to keep its supporters happy. Many of these supporters want the here and now of being at the game.
ETA: I just read PerfectVerse and Jitterbug's posts. I agree with both of you.
General statement: All in all, this topic isn't a huge deal but the fact that this thread was presented as "oh, look...another (black) person playing the race card" is a huge deal to me. We have more enough threads like that on GC and more than enough ranting about that in the real world. Instead of assuming, people should take a step back and find what is embedded in such topics and in people's choices of words.
Sorry, T La Rock, LL killed it. 
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