(05-20-2014 11:14 PM)Knightsweat Wrote:  

(05-20-2014 11:00 PM)Tulsafanzz Wrote:  

(05-20-2014 10:46 PM)invisiblehand Wrote:  Best was OSU (Ok State)... they really know how to have a good time. Fun fans... not pompous, plus when they played the return game at our stadium we had a very good time as well.

Worst is for sure OU... they're just terrible people. Probably some of the worst fans in college football next to LSU.

Funny how we can have such different perceptions. I've made the trip to Stillwater & Norman multiple times each, & I've had the complete opposite experience.

I have got along well with OU fans & I have endured OSU fans. The only positive I can say about OSU fans is they are better than Arkansas fans !

OU alum here, and i've had fun in Norman and Stillwater. I tend to believe you make your own luck at away games.

Worst experience with an individual fan was in Louisville. Drunk fat woman who kept pulling out her flapjacks in front of some kids. All while wearing that retarded bird's head mask. The rest of the Cards fans were pretty normal though.

This made me spit my coffee out. Thank you.

(05-20-2014 10:56 PM)Tulsafanzz Wrote:  Best - Notre Dame 2010. Awesome gameday atmosphere. Visited the College Football Hall of Fame - they had a "Tulsa Football" display since Tulsa was the visiting team that week. Notre Dame fans showed us around campus before the game & were still cordial, even after Tulsa pulled the upset win. Easily my favorite road trip.

Worst - Arkansas... almost every time I visit. Fans screamed for injured Tulsa players to "get off the field". My wife & my friend's wife (who are very low-key) got in arguments with hillbilly fans while we were away from the seats.
Worst ref calls I've ever seen ( I've been to 25+ road stadiums over the years, Arkansas is the king of the homer ref calls). Last visit (2012), they replayed every possible play that might show Arkansas didn't get a good call, & even froze the play & circled their disagreement with a yellow highlighter on the big screen. The last several times I've gone to "Fayettenam", I've said I'll never go again...then I get suckered in again!

I have never been to Notre Dame stadium as a fan of a visiting team, but if you ever get the opportunity to go to a game in SoBend...DO IT! ND stadium is magical, it really is. They do Gameday absolutely right.

But the College Football Hall of Fame moved several years back... I think it moved to Atlanta.

(05-20-2014 05:26 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(05-20-2014 02:07 PM)wavefan12 Wrote:  My only bad experiences have been in Baton Rouge. Once saw a group of frat boys spit on a family for absolutely no reason. Baseball games can be the worst.

Not surprised. LSU fans are the pits.

Agreed. I have lived here for 31 years and graduated from LSU Law School but refuse to attend any LSU games.

worst is mississippi. as a visitor you will get stuck with a 12" wide seat, get dog cussed going in and out and have ice, cups, bottles thrown at you in the stadium.

i always enjoyed going to marshall. tulane will be different this year and its going to interesting seeing how west coast fans behave when we play at ucla in september

(05-20-2014 11:14 PM)Knightsweat Wrote:  Worst experience with an individual fan was in Louisville. Drunk fat woman who kept pulling out her flapjacks in front of some kids. All while wearing that retarded bird's head mask. The rest of the Cards fans were pretty normal though.

Sorry about that. I was off my meds for awhile.

(05-21-2014 07:07 AM)TerryD Wrote:  

(05-20-2014 05:26 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(05-20-2014 02:07 PM)wavefan12 Wrote:  My only bad experiences have been in Baton Rouge. Once saw a group of frat boys spit on a family for absolutely no reason. Baseball games can be the worst.

Not surprised. LSU fans are the pits.

Agreed. I have lived here for 31 years and graduated from LSU Law School but refuse to attend any LSU games.

It's a fan base that feels extremely entitled, like they are Alabama or USC, when in fact LSU football has only been a power for about 25 of its 120 years of existence, and it is a fan base with one massive chip on its shoulder. Despite being one of the handful of truly elite programs of the 2000s, they feel disrespected, aggrieved and put-upon (e.g., yes, the SEC's 8-game schedule is stupid but is anyone else whining nearly so much about it?) as if the SEC specifically and NCAA generally are always plotting against LSU, and that is reflected in ridiculously juvenile and churlish behavior like throwing stuff at the visiting team's bus and yelling insults constantly.

It's just football for crissakes.

By far my worst experiences have been at the Carrier Dome with Syracuse fans.

(05-21-2014 08:00 AM)Hank Schrader Wrote:  By far my worst experiences have been at the Carrier Dome with Syracuse fans.

Eh, they're just condescending -- and most of the fans in the game were really polite and interested in discussing the game, etc. Helps that we (RU) won both games I saw in the Dome. Not like they threw anything at us or were nasty to my children.

Worst is a tie: Ohio State and Pitt - OSU was a game against Miami (of Ohio), the fans were ragging on the Miami fans on the way into the stadium and just belligerent a-holes throughout the game to fans of a school that knew they were going to lose by 35 points. Pitt vs UC in 2009, even little kids were swearing and giving the finger to UC fans during the game. We did walk out singing "Sweet Victory" to the tune of "Sweet Caroline", which helped sooth the poor experience with Pitt fans that day.

Best: UC @ Tennessee in 2011. I was in the UT athletic alumni section (got tickets from a UT running alumnus) and their fans were great. Friendly and fun group.

How has no ECU fan said Arkansas? Or are we just mentally blocking that game? . . . which I am completely cool with. Those were by far the worst fans ever! Between the pig soooieee, the SEC bullcrap, the superiority complex, they were just the most obnoxious, rudest fans ever. They were a little more humbled by the end but still acted like, "wow you're lucky we played our worst game ever". We ECU should have won 5000000 times that game.

Everyone knows UNC fans are awful, they also have 0 knowledge of the sport of football so its hard to take them seriously.

(05-20-2014 01:28 PM)Juan Tibonya Wrote:  So it is the offseason and nothing to talk about. so let's hear about the best away game experience you have had for your program. We have all been homecoming fodder at some point in program history which allows our teams the luxury of traveling to different cities for games. Tell us where the best away game you went to, what the fan experience was and why you rate it so good.

Then the opposite. what was the worst.

I will start:

Best: UCF v. Nebraska 1997. Daunte lead team winning at half. Fans did not let me pay for anything all weekend so long as I was wearing UCF gear. Great atmosphere; great fans. Wisc. close second

Worst: UCF v. GA Southern; 1AA playoffs. Fans were horrible. Town is a dump. Grandma in overalls and no teeth threw bourbon bottles at us in the stands(no exaggeration); Close second UGA

Dear Fans,
We all have had bad experiences . Let us put all of this behind us and let me invite everyone to come to the University of Houston's new stadium for a game . You will be treated well as we believe in Southern Hospitality and Conference Camaraderie . Their will be rivalries that develop but sportsmanship will be foremost . You will even be able to stay in touch and share with fiends via your phone
through our stadium-wide system.Kids will have play areas as well.
Y'all come on down !
Cougaren

(05-20-2014 07:55 PM)JHG722 Wrote:  

(05-20-2014 04:38 PM)adcorbett Wrote:  I do not doubt that Alabama has been known to slide some greenbacks to players. However, in the first place, he found out about the house AFTER the fact, after harrassing the guy. And two, a 25k car is not unobtainable. I used the term "fairly racist" in response to other suggesting he would not have made the assumption about a white kid in the same predicament, to which he did not refute.

Uh, no I didn't. I said it wasn't like some of the other white players at Bama who come from wealthy families, Manziel, etc. Also, I knew the kids' story and the fact that his parents had him in their early teens and he was raised by his grandparents. Odds are, that is not someone in a position to drive a new model year car.

If you're going to accuse me of being racist, at least try not to skirt around it.

Like I said, you've clearly never been to Temple, because you couldn't be a racist and go here.

I didn't accuse you of being a racist. I accused you of not being innocent in the person who was antagonizing you, because of your past statements, which have been listed on this board, and highlighted now on Yahoo. The mere fact that you accuse someone of taking payouts simply because of the median income of his hometown, or because of the estimated value of someone's house, is ridiculous at best. Even a kid signing with Alabama. Especially when said rich white kid (Manziel) is the one actually all but proven to have taken payouts.

Oh and for the record, the median income in Louisville is around 40,000, so I guess I must not be able to afford my new car either. huh? Even though it costs more than the Dodge here in question?

(05-21-2014 10:08 AM)adcorbett Wrote:  

(05-20-2014 07:55 PM)JHG722 Wrote:  

(05-20-2014 04:38 PM)adcorbett Wrote:  I do not doubt that Alabama has been known to slide some greenbacks to players. However, in the first place, he found out about the house AFTER the fact, after harrassing the guy. And two, a 25k car is not unobtainable. I used the term "fairly racist" in response to other suggesting he would not have made the assumption about a white kid in the same predicament, to which he did not refute.

Uh, no I didn't. I said it wasn't like some of the other white players at Bama who come from wealthy families, Manziel, etc. Also, I knew the kids' story and the fact that his parents had him in their early teens and he was raised by his grandparents. Odds are, that is not someone in a position to drive a new model year car.

If you're going to accuse me of being racist, at least try not to skirt around it.

Like I said, you've clearly never been to Temple, because you couldn't be a racist and go here.

I didn't accuse you of being a racist. I accused you of not being innocent in the person who was antagonizing you, because of your past statements, which have been listed on this board, and highlighted now on Yahoo. The mere fact that you accuse someone of taking payouts simply because of the median income of his hometown, or because of the estimated value of someone's house, is ridiculous at best. Even a kid signing with Alabama. Especially when said rich white kid (Manziel) is the one actually all but proven to have taken payouts.

Oh and for the record, the median income in Louisville is around 40,000, so I guess I must not be able to afford my new car either. huh? Even though it costs more than the Dodge here in question?

You accused him of "fairly racist Twitter comments." That's pretty much calling someone racist. I guess because you included "fairly" it doesn't count...? And like JHG said, not even a "fairly racist" person would ever attend a school like Temple.

(05-21-2014 09:41 AM)EastCarolinaU. Wrote:  How has no ECU fan said Arkansas? Or are we just mentally blocking that game? . . . which I am completely cool with. Those were by far the worst fans ever! Between the pig soooieee, the SEC bullcrap, the superiority complex, they were just the most obnoxious, rudest fans ever. They were a little more humbled by the end but still acted like, "wow you're lucky we played our worst game ever". We ECU should have won 5000000 times that game.

Everyone knows UNC fans are awful, they also have 0 knowledge of the sport of football so its hard to take them seriously.

I will second Arkansas. I met a lot of their fans/went to some games while I lived in Memphis. It's easily the most racist, prejudice, and classless residents/fan-base that I have ever encountered. There is a seriously delusional superiority complex going on there as well. It wasn't everyone, but many that I encountered. JMO.

(05-21-2014 10:19 AM)HuskyU Wrote:  

(05-21-2014 10:08 AM)adcorbett Wrote:  

(05-20-2014 07:55 PM)JHG722 Wrote:  

(05-20-2014 04:38 PM)adcorbett Wrote:  I do not doubt that Alabama has been known to slide some greenbacks to players. However, in the first place, he found out about the house AFTER the fact, after harrassing the guy. And two, a 25k car is not unobtainable. I used the term "fairly racist" in response to other suggesting he would not have made the assumption about a white kid in the same predicament, to which he did not refute.

Uh, no I didn't. I said it wasn't like some of the other white players at Bama who come from wealthy families, Manziel, etc. Also, I knew the kids' story and the fact that his parents had him in their early teens and he was raised by his grandparents. Odds are, that is not someone in a position to drive a new model year car.

If you're going to accuse me of being racist, at least try not to skirt around it.

Like I said, you've clearly never been to Temple, because you couldn't be a racist and go here.

I didn't accuse you of being a racist. I accused you of not being innocent in the person who was antagonizing you, because of your past statements, which have been listed on this board, and highlighted now on Yahoo. The mere fact that you accuse someone of taking payouts simply because of the median income of his hometown, or because of the estimated value of someone's house, is ridiculous at best. Even a kid signing with Alabama. Especially when said rich white kid (Manziel) is the one actually all but proven to have taken payouts.

Oh and for the record, the median income in Louisville is around 40,000, so I guess I must not be able to afford my new car either. huh? Even though it costs more than the Dodge here in question?

You accused him of "fairly racist Twitter comments." That's pretty much calling someone racist. I guess because you included "fairly" it doesn't count...? And like JHG said, not even a "fairly racist" person would ever attend a school like Temple.

I also stated WHY the comments were fairly racist, and his own reasoning for what he said... But calling someone's comments fairly racist is not the same as calling someone a racist. Just like saying someone's comments are stupid is not calling that person stupid

(05-20-2014 11:09 PM)megadrone Wrote:  

(05-20-2014 03:48 PM)ECUGrad07 Wrote:  WORST: Easily @ NC State in '08. Got a beer dumped on my head by a 350lbs redneck in overalls as he said "Pirates suck" from one row behind me. This was during a timeout! I hadn't said a word to him the entire game. As I was about to swing at the guy, 2 cops damn near yanked him out of his overalls.

Also had a bad experience (wearing a WFU shirt) at the Meinike Car Care Bowl vs UCONN back when they had Donald Brown. The students were awful. Constantly trying to start fights with anyone wearing a WFU shirt in the bathrooms @ Bank of America Stadium.

Wait until you go to Rentschler Field to see a game. The animals are even worse in their native environment.

I've been there for a WVU game and it was not bad at all.

(05-21-2014 10:34 AM)Tigeer Wrote:  

(05-20-2014 11:09 PM)megadrone Wrote:  

(05-20-2014 03:48 PM)ECUGrad07 Wrote:  WORST: Easily @ NC State in '08. Got a beer dumped on my head by a 350lbs redneck in overalls as he said "Pirates suck" from one row behind me. This was during a timeout! I hadn't said a word to him the entire game. As I was about to swing at the guy, 2 cops damn near yanked him out of his overalls.

Also had a bad experience (wearing a WFU shirt) at the Meinike Car Care Bowl vs UCONN back when they had Donald Brown. The students were awful. Constantly trying to start fights with anyone wearing a WFU shirt in the bathrooms @ Bank of America Stadium.

Wait until you go to Rentschler Field to see a game. The animals are even worse in their native environment.

I've been there for a WVU game and it was not bad at all.

Certain fan-bases unleash the dogs. UCONN always got along well with WVU. I've only had great interactions with the Mountaineer fans.

(05-21-2014 05:28 AM)ShoreBuc Wrote:  Best, not one I would have expected but it was Miami fans at the old Orange Bowl. I bought a parking pass and ended up in the Miami fans tailgate lot right outside the stadium. I was literally the only ECU fan in the lot but the fans were all nice to me and my family, invited us over for food and drinks and I had a lot of great conversations with the Miami fans who were very curious about ECU and had a healthy respect for our program. A few even brought up the year they won the National Championship and even admitted it was only a bogus call by the refs that helped them win that close game in the Orange Bowl. Close second would be my trips to UCF. I have been going to games there for a while now and have always known to avoid Memory mall and the students. The adult fans in the tailgate lots have always been cool to me and I have always enjoyed having a few beers at the bar by the stadium with UCF fans before and after the game.

Worst is probably a tie. USF fans in Birmingham were absolutely horrible. The Stadium is an absolute dump and because of the huge old stadium and the bad date of the game they put fans from the two schools on the same side of the stadium. It was USF first Bowl game and a lot of their fans celebrated it by being completely drunk and obnoxious the whole time, hurling insults at anybody wearing ECU gear from little kids, to moms standing in concession lines etc.. It was almost weird to have that many sloppy drunks screaming at you when you had little history and no animosity towards them. ECU was just recovering from the nightmare John Thompson years and despite the Bowl being a crap Bowl I went to support the group of seniors that Skip Holtz managed to squeak out a bowl eligible season for.
Close second if not winner would be WVU fans. I actually like WVU and have family in Morgantown but the last ECU vs WVU game I went to was with my pregnant wife and the WVU fans were beyond rude and obnoxious and one group took to insulting my wife and our yet to be born son. I have been to plenty of WVU games when ECU was not playing and had a great time and amazingly enough when I visit Morgantown in the summer I always wear ECU gear and the fans are really nice to me and even buy beer for me but holy cow on game day Morganton turns into a crap storm for visiting fans.

I was at that game. It wasnt our first bowl game we had been to the Charlotte Bowl vs NCSt the year before. Yes many of our students acted like idiots but trust me ECU had their share. As you said we were all in the same sidelines and to get to the concessions stand as a USF fan you had to walk in front of the ECU fan section. There was a large group of ECU students that chanted "whores" to any female fan wearing USF colors including kids that walked past them. It was the worst bowl fan experience I have had as a USF fan and I have attended every bowl game the Bulls have played in.

(05-20-2014 04:11 PM)KittyHawkPirate Wrote:  UCF by far. I’ve been to WVU, VT, UNC, NCSU and numerous others, but have never seen fans as bad as when I went to UCF 4-5 years ago. I took my wife and 5 year old son to the game. We parked at a public lot across campus from the stadium and decide to walk through campus to get to the stadium with about 6-8 others friends (shortest route with a younger kid). My 5 year old must of heard the F-Bomb thrown at us two dozen times and given the middle finger more times than I can count. All I have to say is it is not a family atmosphere and don’t take young children. Go with adults and stick to the main roads. I do have to say the adult alumni I meet were fine and it was mostly students.

I have to admit that UCF has its fair share of douchebag fans. Especially on the memory mall where the students get drunk and the usual "you suck" cheer abounds. I wonder if it will be better this year after the Fiesta Bowl win. Kind of like right after you finish sex you are placated and happy for a while

(05-21-2014 07:07 AM)TerryD Wrote:  

(05-20-2014 05:26 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(05-20-2014 02:07 PM)wavefan12 Wrote:  My only bad experiences have been in Baton Rouge. Once saw a group of frat boys spit on a family for absolutely no reason. Baseball games can be the worst.

Not surprised. LSU fans are the pits.

Agreed. I have lived here for 31 years and graduated from LSU Law School but refuse to attend any LSU games.

LSU fans act like A holes on the road too, at least the ones that havent passed out in their talgate spot before the game. They even act like A holes at baseball games. Its kinda funny