U$C's use of fake crowd noise
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??
by jatteratious on Sep 7, 2006 7:17 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Trojan Pedophiles
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
(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
Nice first post!
by bluestreet on Sep 8, 2006 7:29 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
SolidGoldSound
by drumfool on Sep 8, 2006 10:44 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Didn't know 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
We get jacked in engineering rankings
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
by bruinbabe2000 on Sep 8, 2006 4:58 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Can somebody confirm that they're still doing this
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 ...
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
by McCloskey on Sep 8, 2006 2:34 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Isn't it ironic
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
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
Rack him
You're in the running for the huge call of the day.
by True Blue and Gold on Sep 8, 2006 11:19 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

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