Sorry for another thread, but this is IMO a different angle. I was approaching the Oregon game as a fun one off event, but something has been bothering me about the idea and how the AD has written about both the potential Furd game to 'equalize' odd and even year schedules, and their justification for this Oregon game being on a weeknight so we are shifting the crowd away from Berkeley.

It's pretty obvious our even year home schedules are great for selling SEASON tickets, odd years no so much with only USC to anchor. This was not always the case - in the past before the 9 game schedule, the non CA schools were rotated differently so they wouldn't show up as every other year (we skipped one), so we were never locked into a even year rotation with oregon/washington for instance.

Now look at the 2016 hosting schedule:

Nevada
TEXAS
UCLA
Stanford
Oregon
Washington
either ASU or Utah

No FCS games. 4 bona fide marquee games. +3 that will be of decent interest.

Think someone might want to bump one of those conference games down to Levi's to boost the 'incremental' revenue? Shoot, think the conference wouldn't love to get Cal involved in a THURSDAY game @ Levis?

Just something to think about....

I think in a 3-year cycle we'll have at least 2 games at Levi's stadium. The game against Texas in 2016 would be a good candidate. There are lots of Texas alums in Northern California, and their fans travel very well.

I think the weekday games apply to P-12 games only, not OOC.

Make those texans come to Berkeley.

Golden One;842235057 said:

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I think in a 3-year cycle we'll have at least 2 games at Levi's stadium. The game against Texas in 2016 would be a good candidate. There are lots of Texas alums in Northern California, and their fans travel very well.

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Man, that would be harrible.

The whole point of these OOCs, especially ones like the Texas one, and the Tennessee one, and the Ohio State one, is a merging of cultures.

We get to visit Austin. They get to visit Berkeley.

Seeing all those Tennessee fans was really cool.

Seeing all those Ohio State fans was pretty cool, too -- well, until they took over the stadium.

That's what's so awesome about these "culture clashes."

We get to show them how Cal does it.

And what are we going to do?

We're going to let them bypass Memorial Stadium and Berkeley?

Yeah, we currently suck. But who knows where we'll be in 2-3 years?

If we hold it at Memorial, yes, there's a good chance the Longhorn fans will "Ohio State" our stadium.

But if we hold it at Levi's, we'll totally be playing an away game.

Golden One;842235057 said:

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I think in a 3-year cycle we'll have at least 2 games at Levi's stadium. The game against Texas in 2016 would be a good candidate. There are lots of Texas alums in Northern California, and their fans travel very well.

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We can't force Texas to play on a Friday... P12 can force Cal to play conference games on a weeknight though. If we play a Thursday game at Levi's we'd the get the added bonus of ensuring that we don't have our 'bye' week placed over thanksgiving like the last two years.