LunchTime said:
kal kommie said:
ColoradoBear said:
kal kommie said:
LunchTime said:
kal kommie said:
JSC 76 said:
Sometimes, I get philosophical and try to take the long view: I imagine our ancestors were annoyed when we stopped serpentining after a win, or stopped doing the "Oski-Wow-Wow" cheer. Things change.
But then I come to my senses. These are *my* traditions and they've been in place for 50 years, dammit. Quit screwing with them.
There didn't used to be a hideous deck replacing the architecture of the south end in service of wealthy people who can't drink while sitting in normal stadium seats like normal people
This has nothing to do with "wealthy people" and everything to do with filling the quarter of the stadium that is covered in tarps with something so its not so obvious Cal is at 30% capacity of a 25% tarped stadium.
They didn't tarp off the south end zone before they put up the premium suite deck.
Thing is the outdoor suites are not that expensive. Especially compared to the club seats. Maybe $125/ ticket?
I'm positive they wanted to tarp the endzone first and thought what could they do with that space so they didn't take as much heat for tarping. So premium outdoor boxes is what we got. It also helps create some false sense of scarcity in that once they sell any of those tickets, they can't take them down all year.
Remember the marketing people calling Miami and the Big Game as sellouts last year @ 52428?
$125 (if indeed that is the price) is a lot for what is essentially minor league pro football. It's 3x the GA price of a seat on the north end zone and more than what a 4-ticket family plan costs. And originally you couldn't even buy them on a single game basis. "Wealthy" is relative but for a working-class family, attending the game on the terrace would be a large expense.
As for whether the deck was just pretext for the tarps, they didn't seem to need a pretext in the past but who knows, maybe you have it right. Regardless, the deck is unsightly independent of the tarps (which obviously are also unsightly) and is antithetical to what used to be the culture of Cal football at Memorial Stadium.
It really is something that not too long ago I would have expected Stanford to do and us to ridicule. In my eyes, it's just another unwelcome change (though more minor than most of the other unwelcome changes).
$125 per ticket is the rate for the back of the endzone to the 15 yardline from Cal.
For the terrace or for general admission?
All of the seats in the north end zone are between $37 and $47. The only general admission tickets over $100 are between FF and H on the west side.
