U$C's use of fake crowd noise

by solidgoldsound on Sep 7, 2006 4:40 PM PDT Comment 15 comments

This had to have been a topic on this board at some point.

Is USC's use of fake crowd noise at the Coliseum during its home games legal?

Having gone to several UCLA-USC games at the Coliseum, I couldn't get over the fact that the fake crowd noise was giving USC an unfair edge at home. If you've never heard it before, they run simulated crowd noise through the stadium loudspeakers on every opposing team's play after the opposing team breaks the huddle until the ball is snapped.

I found some articles in the NCAA rulebook that might make this practice illegal. If anybody else can help out, I think the results would be interesting.

From 2004 NCAA Football Rules and Interpretations

Persons Subject to the Rules
Rule 1-1-6. All players, substitutes, replaced players, coaches, trainers, cheerleaders in uniform, band members in uniform, mascots in uniform, commercial mascots, public-address announcers, audio and video system operators, and other persons affiliated with the teams or institutions are subject to the rules and shall be governed by the decisions of the officials.
Affiliated persons are those authorized within the team area.

Rule 1-2-1-b5 Persons subject to the rules, including bands, shall not create any noise that prohibits a team from hearing its signals (Rule 1-1-6).

PENALTY--Dead-ball foul. 15 yards [S7, S27] from the succeeding spot. Flagrant offenders, if players or substitutes, shall be disqualified
[S47].

Bottom line is: A team like 'SC doesn't need additional help from fake crowd noise. What the heck are they doing? If this is illegal, we can spring it on them next year at the rivalry game.

Go Bruins!

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Do they really??

If so.. that definitely needs to be brought up! But with who?

by jatteratious on Sep 7, 2006 7:17 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Trojan Pedophiles

Looks like those pedophiles from South Central are not all that happy for you bringing this up.

Check out the picture of that girl from the Trojies post. She looks like she is 14.

by bluestreet on Sep 8, 2006 7:03 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

How stupid

Haha you'd think that when they compared themselves to us, they'd just stick to football. I mean, cmon... But nope. Apparently our biggest flaw is our stupidity. That definitely makes sense. I mean, we've gotta be pretty stupid to have 20+ departments in the top 20 nationally.
(All except for engineering are better than SC)

They should just focus on drafting more thugs, and keep away from the intelligence factor.

by jatteratious on Sep 8, 2006 7:19 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Freaking hillarious

to see how those douchebags are getting so defensive over this. Clearly solidgoldsound hit a nerve/

Nice first post!

by bluestreet on Sep 8, 2006 7:29 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

SolidGoldSound

who are you? this is jamie the drummer, are you in the band now?

by drumfool on Sep 8, 2006 10:44 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Didn't know name was taken

Sorry Jamie, didn't know the name was taken.
I'm long gone from the band (graduated 1998).

As for USC's Engineering being ranked ahead of ours, any engineer will tell you that it's a joke. They do pump a lot more money into their program than ours, and they recently hired a lot of big guns, but they inflate their numbers to look good in the rankings. When I looked last, they only looked good in the US News rankings.

by solidgoldsound on Sep 8, 2006 12:36 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

the name wasn't taken...

by drumfool on Sep 8, 2006 12:38 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

We get jacked in engineering rankings

because of lab space...we just don't have it. That will change with the opening of the nano-tech center that is currently under construction. Our legacy in that department is solid (we "co-invented" the internet with Stanford). In any case, a good engineer is not measured by his ability to do lab work (a monkey can do that), but rather, his ability to adapt and innovate, which I believe UCLA helps develop with a curriculum steeped in a broad range of fundamental aspects of each department.

There's a much simpler way to put it: How many morons do you know from HS that went to SUC engineering? Yeah, I know a couple...they are a lower class of brains. Case closed.

by scittles on Sep 8, 2006 2:06 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

We might know some of the same people

I graduated in 2000, but a few of my sorority sisters were in that bad at that time.

by bruinbabe2000 on Sep 8, 2006 4:58 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Can somebody confirm that they're still doing this

My bad, drumfool.

On the SC boards, it seems like their own fans don't know they run fake crowd noise through the loudspeakers. It probably gets really loud in there these days, so fake noise isn't a factor. I remember whe it didn't get so loud in there and on some plays, the loudspeaker was the only crowd noise going.

I didn't go to last year's rivalry game, but I'm assuming they sill do that. Can somebody confirm?

by solidgoldsound on Sep 8, 2006 1:54 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

We may have to wait ...

one more week to find out when the Huskers came in.

may be someone who attended any of the SuC games last year will able to confirm or deny?

by bluestreet on Sep 8, 2006 2:00 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

They set a Pac-10 attendance record last year

over 90,000 per game. See page 69 here. I don't think any fake crowd noise is going to be heard over that.

by McCloskey on Sep 8, 2006 2:34 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Isn't it ironic

That they attack us on their boards for being "obsessed with them" when they rake the time to go on a UCLA blog and bitch about our content?

I guess it can't be irony because that's the kind of thing I'd expect from them.

by True Blue and Gold on Sep 8, 2006 5:27 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, they're hypocrites

They know it, we know it. We don't pretend that we don't take pleasure in their misery, because we do. They'd like to do the same, but we just don't have as many fuck-ups as them, so they pull that card out to try and make us feel bad about laughing at their misfortune, when all it really proves is that THEY are the ones that obsess with what WE think of them.

So to all the lurker trOJans that I KNOW are reading this (because you jackasses just can't help yourselves), I bring you this message: Go Fuck Yourselves. LOL.

by scittles on Sep 8, 2006 6:29 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs