I attend every home Cal football and basketball game regardless of how bad the team may be in a given year. I watch every Raiders game. People need to sack up. I think all this talk of micro aggressions has turned too many people into giant pussies. I even put up with that blaring Hip Hop crap when I would much rather it be Led Zep or the Doors. Now Get the F Off My Lawn!

KPG;842562066 said:

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Cal fan here who lives a two mile walk from Memorial Stadium. I have a girlfriend whose not into football but will go if I'm enthusiastic. Not a die-hard fan, not pretending to be one. I've been a big fan of Cal football since I was a kid, and used to love going to games when I was <10, it was a huge highlight. The renovated stadium is not a fun COLLEGE gameday atmosphere for me. Blaring advertisements throughout, barely any band utilization, incredibly cramped bleacher seats - less legroom than before the modernization, and higher prices. I'm 6'3" and I just plain old don't fit. The gameday atmosphere has gotten worse, the price has gone up, and either I've gotten bigger, or the seats have gotten more cramped. I'm not looking to start an argument here - you can tell me the gameday atmosphere is comparable to other venues, and tell me the seats aren't cramped compared to any other venues and the prices are reasonable and it won't change my mind. I'm just letting you know why I don't attend games, even though I'm a Cal fan and could walk to the stadium under different circumstances. I'm a tall grad student, on a budget, looking for quality entertainment that is a decent value, and Cal just isn't offering me that currently, despite my interest. One man's thoughts, no more.

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I agree that some days it is just plain uncomfortable in the stands. There are things they could do to make the stadium more welcoming without a physical change, however. They could intentionally leave unsold seats in the middle of each row, giving everyone the opportunity to spread out a bit. Why pack a section and have 5 empty ones? Over time they could replace the benches with real seats. When I go watch the Quakes at Avaya, they give me a real seat no matter what section I am in. It makes a big difference in my enjoyment of the game. Cal is competing for sports entertainment dollars and frankly not trying all that hard it seems.

KoreAmBear;842562068 said:

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As mentioned earlier this week, there seems to be a one year lag for Cal attendance at CMS.

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I suspect the students are boycotting administration pre-game alcohol testing policy. If drunkenness was a problem, then the admin is right to test for alcohol consumption, but they need to do something to attract the students back. Sitting in the old farts section, it's glaring how few students are attending games now.

On November 8, 1975 #18 Cal beat Washington, at home, in front of about 43,000 people. Joe Roth at quarterback. Chuck Muncie's final home game. One week after having beaten #4 USC 28-14 before about 58,000, on national TV. With an actual Rose Bowl still in play.

Cal's core fan base is about 35,000 - 40,000 - has been for essentially the last 50 years or so. Attendance above that is driven by the opponent and the buzz. Right now we've got a bit of buzz again, and the three remaining football opponents are all higher profile than the first three were (the Grambling Band effect being an entirely separate matter.) So it's all about whether what we do in high profile TV appearances the next two games kills the buzz or hypes it.

bearister;842562231 said:

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I attend every home Cal football and basketball game regardless of how bad the team may be in a given year. I watch every Raiders game. People need to sack up. I think all this talk of micro aggressions has turned too many people into giant pussies. I even put up with that blaring Hip Hop crap when I would much rather it be Led Zep or the Doors. Now Get the F Off My Lawn!

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I was happy for about the 10 seconds they played Led Zeppelin before second half kickoff (at least I think that's when it was). But I agree with the rest.

Fred Clerici;842562214 said:

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The biggest disappointment was the student section. I know all the arguments about modern students being just too busy to attend games.......hogwash. If you don't want to attend then let's give those fantastic 50 yard line seats to paying customers at a reduced price and see how fast they will fill up. An undefeated team charging out of the tunnel and seeing the student section less than 50% full was just plain pathetic. Also complaining about the game day experience and the newly renovated stadium is a poor excuse. if you need luxury go to Levi's Stadium and pay a kings ransom to watch mediocre football.

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I was at the SDSU game and the student section had filled up yet the ESP section was half empty all game. So it's not like we're overflowing with demand at the prices we want to charge for those seats.

Why is it so hard to imagine that today's 20 year olds don't care about college football? If the team is winning, that adds excitement. But just to go watch football? Against Washington State? I didn't want to see that game when I was at Cal. I enjoyed those games AFTER I graduated. I'm much more interested as an alum. And you don't take the seats away from the students. If you do, they'll never come back as alums, because they won't have been there as students. Unless the team is a big winner, it will not sell out. Even big game has had empty seats for five years. Never happened when I was a student. Automatic sell out. TV and DVR and convenience and cost will keep thousands home every game. Sometimes that will be me.

I gave up season tikets two years ago after a very long time and they will never get me back because they make it so easy to not go. We went up for Grambling and will go to SC and ASU but there is no incentive to go to WSU when I can watch it from my couch, beer in hand, and switch to Bama and Georgia through the interminable commercials and breaks. Even my wife when we do go will usually leave at half time retreat to the Faculty Club with a Jameson and watch on TV because for her the visit to campus and the conviviality of the club is more important than sitting still and watching the event live.

Fred Clerici;842562214 said:

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The biggest disappointment was the student section. I know all the arguments about modern students being just too busy to attend games.......hogwash. If you don't want to attend then let's give those fantastic 50 yard line seats to paying customers at a reduced price and see how fast they will fill up. An undefeated team charging out of the tunnel and seeing the student section less than 50% full was just plain pathetic. Also complaining about the game day experience and the newly renovated stadium is a poor excuse. if you need luxury go to Levi's Stadium and pay a kings ransom to watch mediocre football.

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The student section was full, but it was not until after kickoff. So the real problem is that the students come in late. I think it is more noticeable in the student section because it fills up from the bottom to the top since there are no assigned seats. At kickoff, the bottom is full, but the top half is empty. The rest of the stadium doesn't look so bad because it gradually fills since the alumni have assigned seats so the empty seats are not that obvious. I myself did not get in until about 5 minutes after kickoff. There were still a ton of alumni going in with me, so we can't really blame the students -- we were all late.

I went to the game.
Had a great time, since my fraternity had a reunion of sorts.
The weather was great.
We won!

But watching the game was not easy.
I like to control my TV, not have TV control me.

As GB 54 said, "the interminable commercials and breaks", made watching the game a painful experience.

If felt like the play reviews, were made up, to get more commercial time!

A couple years ago (2013), with all of the excitement of a new HC, CMS saw 44,682 for the Cougs. 35,506 in 2011...

The excitement is not what it should be for a 5-0 team, possibly for the reasons Phantomfan postulated. Don't know...

What I do know if that myself and others expected 4-1 or 5-0 at this point.

An improved D we clearly have, and I think we all can agree upon that one. My concern all along, and it was not a popular one, was the prolific, high-powered offense simply stagnating at times, often over long stretches. We should expect some slowing against top Ds for sure, but we rarely see those...

My concerns from 2014 remains. The viability of the TFS at Cal, in the Pac-12, is my number one measuring stick. SD and TF were doing 52 ppg in 2012 at La Tech. This tandem was hired primarily for the promise of such production here.

Hopefully what we saw from the offense yesterday (again) is not continued. Rutgers managed 34 points against the Cougs, and that's with a -3 TO margin. Wyoming found a way to get 14 points by halftime...

I think most of us were hoping the D would keep the Cougs sub 30. Mission accomplished.

The offense likely has the best QB in the nation, one of the best receiving corps, tons of experience... 34 points is what we should hope for next week in Utah, not at home against the Cougs.

Beat the Utes in SLC, and that will be a landmark victory for this team. Do so with a dominating offense, we'll have good reason to think about we can win the North and the Pac-12 title...

Cal89;842562285 said:

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A couple years ago (2013), with all of the excitement of a new HC, CMS saw 44,682 for the Cougs. 35,506 in 2011...

The excitement is not what it should be for a 5-0 team, possibly for the reasons Phantomfan postulated. Don't know...

What I do know if that myself and others expected 4-1 or 5-0 at this point.

An improved D we clearly have, and I think we all can agree upon that one. My concern all along, and it was not a popular one, was the prolific, high-powered offense simply stagnating at times, often over long stretches. We should expect some slowing against top Ds for sure, but we rarely see those...

My concerns from 2014 remains. The viability of the TFS at Cal, in the Pac-12, is my number one measuring stick. SD and TF were doing 52 ppg in 2012 at La Tech. This tandem was hired primarily for the promise of such production here.

Hopefully what we saw from the offense yesterday (again) is not continued. Rutgers managed 34 points against the Cougs, and that's with a -3 TO margin. Wyoming found a way to get 14 points by halftime...

I think most of us were hoping the D would keep the Cougs sub 30. Mission accomplished.

The offense likely has the best QB in the nation, one of the best receiving corps, tons of experience... 34 points is what we should hope for next week in Utah, not at home against the Cougs.

Beat the Utes in SLC, and that will be a landmark victory for this team. Do so with a dominating offense, we'll have good reason to think about we can win the North and the Pac-12 title...

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The reason I say that is if you look around College football, marquee teams like most of the SEC, Michigan, etc are having trouble selling out stadiums they NEVER had trouble selling out.

Only the best teams and teams that win big semi-regularly are still selling out.

I had a conversation at the game yesterday with the cal alum I often go with. The gist; neither of us went to games as students, like 2 each, mostly because there was lots and lots of other stuff to do. That's an issue in a place where there's so much going on, all the time. Also Cal wasn't very good during the mid-80s either.

Otherwise, every CFB program is having attendance issues. Alabama with its slew of NCs recently even has issues filling the student section, so it's not just winning.

Phantomfan;842562295 said:

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The reason I say that is if you look around College football, marquee teams like most of the SEC, Michigan, etc are having trouble selling out stadiums they NEVER had trouble selling out.

Only the best teams and teams that win big semi-regularly are still selling out.

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Understood and agreed. Thanks for the clarification.

The student section is a joke compared to any other for a winning Cal team. Cal students are generally pussies these days. Either they got to spend every waking minute studying or they can't attend because watching football sober is unacceptable. As for the alums, the seats are too cramped, we aren't playing a marquee opponent, games are too close, we are not good because we're only 5-0, too much piped in music, wrong piped in music, blah, blah, blah. I guess a lot of the pussie Cal students grow up to be pussie alums.

Once again the student section did not even fill the entire card section. Instead of moving the entire student section, just limit student yard line seating to the card section. The student "overflow" can be moved to an end zone. Install seat backs in the sections on either side of the student card section and sell them cheap. Add a wine and cheese bar near these sections. Result will be a haven for those too economically challenged or philosophically opposed to buying decent seats on west side. Of course, this group will only change complaints to seats aren't wide enough, wrong wine/cheese brands being sold, sun in eyes, students one section over making too much noise cheering.

Just face it, many Cal fans are not much different than Furd weenies. There are just more of us. Personally, I love attending Cal football and basketball games and I plan my social calendar around them. If you know what you're doing, getting there is no more difficult than any other major entertainment event in the Bay area. CMS is a beautiful setting and the prices are very reasonable, retail or stubhub. I hate the piped in music but rarely notice it as I'm usually talking to a buddy about the last or next play. As for who we are playing, that is secondary to the fact that the Cal Bears are on the field. Being able to see and feel the game experience, which TV cannot deliver is worth the trip to the stadium. As for kids, most of my extended family grew up at Stanfurd stadium and CMS in the family sections. We'd pack a lunch and make a day of it. If it got too crowded or cramped we just got up and moved to a section with more room. It's so much better being an active fan than sitting home watching a home game on tv or catching the game later on DVR.

The thing I don't get is a self-described Cal fan posting excuses why they don't attend Cal games. If you live within 50 miles of CMS and you are not bed ridden or under house arrest, the only valid excuse is you choose not to. In that case what good are you as a Cal fan? Unless you give lots of money to the program, you are no help to the players who do not hear your voice or see you in the stands - that's what "fans" are for, support and encouragement. Not sure what to call you, but "fan" is not an appropriate description.

Rant concluded.

MoragaBear;842562069 said:

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Meanwhile, Stanford plays Arizona, UCLA and Washington at home three consecutive weeks, has two of the easier road games in Colorado and WSU then returns home for three straight games again, with Oregon, Cal and Notre Dame. Interesting home games 6 of 8 weeks.

Still wouldn't be surprised to see Cal outdraw them.

As for Cal? Between 9/12 and 10/31? Exactly one home game against WSU. That will build some great fan momentum.

I'd like to know who makes these schedules and if Cal has any say in the final decisions because that's pretty awful. You have to go back to the 90's to find 4 of 5 consecutive games on the road. Just horrible planning.

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Sometimes the scheduling criteria favors you, sometimes it doesn't.

This year, Cal's last non-conference game was on the road (at Texas). It was followed by a conference game on the road (UW), followed by a home game (WSU), followed by two OPac-12 road games (Utah, UCLA), followed by alternating home and away games yielding 3 homes games in the last 5 weeks.

Last year, Cal technically had 4 home dates in 5 week stretch:
Sep. 27 - vs Colorado (59-56 win in 2 OT)
Oct. 04 - at Wazzu (60-59 win)
Oct. 11 - vs. Washington (7-31 loss)
Oct. 18 - vs. UCLA (34-36 loss)
Oct. 24 - vs. Oregon (41-59 loss; at Santa Clara)

The official Pac-12 scheduling policy includes avoiding any team play more than two consecutive games on the road in conference play. They've been pretty good about that.

The stadium experience is terrible, especially for those of us who experienced the greatness that used to be college football at the original Memorial. On top of that, the system we run counter-intuitively makes games hard to watch because the games are so damn long.

1990GoldenBear;842562279 said:

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The student section was full, but it was not until after kickoff. So the real problem is that the students come in late. I think it is more noticeable in the student section because it fills up from the bottom to the top since there are no assigned seats. At kickoff, the bottom is full, but the top half is empty. The rest of the stadium doesn't look so bad because it gradually fills since the alumni have assigned seats so the empty seats are not that obvious. I myself did not get in until about 5 minutes after kickoff. There were still a ton of alumni going in with me, so we can't really blame the students -- we were all late.

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I do put blame on the students. The west side of the stadium always outdoes the east side. If you check again, the student section never filled up the entire game yesterday. Most games with a 12-2pm start, it usually takes until about halftime to the fill the majority of the student section. I'm not sure why they even bother with card stunts anymore since they look horrible between the empty seats and total lack of interest. I work with a recent alumni. From what he tells me, the earlier the start, the less students you will get. The other thing that is obvious is a lot of people then leave after halftime. I can understand that the sun and heat can be bothersome early in the season, but it was a nice day yesterday.

FiatSlug;842562337 said:

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Sometimes the scheduling criteria favors you, sometimes it doesn't.

This year, Cal's last non-conference game was on the road (at Texas). It was followed by a conference game on the road (UW), followed by a home game (WSU), followed by two OPac-12 road games (Utah, UCLA), followed by alternating home and away games yielding 3 homes games in the last 5 weeks.

Last year, Cal technically had 4 home dates in 5 week stretch:
Sep. 27 - vs Colorado (59-56 win in 2 OT)
Oct. 04 - at Wazzu (60-59 win)
Oct. 11 - vs. Washington (7-31 loss)
Oct. 18 - vs. UCLA (34-36 loss)
Oct. 24 - vs. Oregon (41-59 loss; at Santa Clara)

The official Pac-12 scheduling policy includes avoiding any team play more than two consecutive games on the road in conference play. They've been pretty good about that.

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Cal's scheduling the last 3 years has been horrible. My guess, the toughest in the country over that span. Add to that this year's added touch of playing so many teams coming off bye weeks, when will they ever get a break?

bearister;842562231 said:

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I attend every home Cal football and basketball game regardless of how bad the team may be in a given year. I watch every Raiders game. People need to sack up. I think all this talk of micro aggressions has turned too many people into giant pussies. I even put up with that blaring Hip Hop crap when I would much rather it be Led Zep or the Doors. Now Get the F Off My Lawn!

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Sack up.

I can go into a whole monologue on the concept of "sack" and "how they hanging."

Most of it is based in real physiology.

Attendance for the other P12 games yesterday.

UO @ Colorado: 46K
ASU @ UCLA: 80K
Zona @ Furd: 47K

Phantomfan;842562295 said:

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The reason I say that is if you look around College football, marquee teams like most of the SEC, Michigan, etc are having trouble selling out stadiums they NEVER had trouble selling out.

Only the best teams and teams that win big semi-regularly are still selling out.

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In most (almost all) college venues, THERE'S NOTHING ELSE TO DO.
So they go to college football games ... rah, rah, party time.

But, based upon comments, I think I would have dumped season tickets long ago.
Cal football used to revolve around Cal traditions ... the Band ONLY for music, no commercials.
Silence in the stadium was rare because the noise came from people talking to each other.

I'm surprised people are surprised by the attendance vs WSU. I've been a Cal fan for 35 years. We've never drew well vs the Cougs. I'd guess nobody in the Pac12 does. Its like when the A's play the brewers and have 50 ppl in the crowd...as opposed to the 150 they normally have../burn ;p

As a student in the early 60's, I noted that few of my contemporaries, even Juniors and Seniors, attended football games. I might have attended two a year. Yet, a considerably higher percentage followed the games on the radio. The reason was the unquestioned need to study. Classroom demands were huge, peer competition, grading on the curve, sheer time demand to do the reading and lab work and an awareness of the importance of getting into grad school overrode all other considerations. You would pry yourself away for UCLA, USC and Stanford (when they were at home) and that was it. You still wanted the bears to win. Any of that changed?

Anyone take a photo mid 2nd qtr when there were lots more people in the stands.

Stadium holds 72,000.?
Announced yesterday around 42,000 approx. Does that count the student section, band, any freebies given to groups?

I looked around 3Q and estimated closer to 50,000+

I have been at the games since 1959. Time for more alums to plan early, get there...all kinds of ways, whether WSU was a blow out or not, no one got bored! for sure!
Blow outs make for nice wins, but yesterday everyone was on the edge of their seats.
Back and forth, back and forth......
A few WSU fans near me were cordial and friendly.
Perfect fall afternoon. What's not to like. ?

oskigobears;842562417 said:

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Anyone take a photo mid 2nd qtr when there were lots more people in the stands.

Stadium holds 72,000.?
Announced yesterday around 42,000 approx. Does that count the student section, band, any freebies given to groups?

I looked around 3Q and estimated closer to 50,000+

I have been at the games since 1959. Time for more alums to plan early, get there...all kinds of ways, whether WSU was a blow out or not, no one got bored! for sure!
Blow outs make for nice wins, but yesterday everyone was on the edge of their seats.
Back and forth, back and forth......
A few WSU fans near me were cordial and friendly.
Perfect fall afternoon. What's not to like. ?

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Cal Memorial holds about 62,467 (officially). Capacity was reduced by about 9,800 seats during the renovation, most of which was on the West Side in the ESP and Benchback sections.

TheSouseFamily;842562389 said:

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Attendance for the other P12 games yesterday.

UO @ Colorado: 46K
ASU @ UCLA: 80K
Zona @ Furd: 47K

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If Cal were number 7 in the country, and had beaten SC several years running, it would be 90% full here as well. Furd has had a top 15 team for five years. Cal has had an unranked team for five years after seven years of being ranked or almost ranked. And Oregon is worth seeing, particularly if you might beat them. Finally, Colorado had a national championship 25 years ago. Only Washington and SC have done that in forever. All three home games you cite have a far different situation than Cal. Other than Tedford for about 7 years, and the last Snyder year, Cal football has been average to bad to awful for about 40 years. Right now most of us are cautiously optimistic, looking for a signature win. I'm happy with the Texas game, even if Texas is awful. Twenty years from now, no one will remember that we didn't beat #6 Texas at Austin in 2015.

Fred Clerici;842562214 said:

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The biggest disappointment was the student section. I know all the arguments about modern students being just too busy to attend games.......hogwash. If you don't want to attend then let's give those fantastic 50 yard line seats to paying customers at a reduced price and see how fast they will fill up. An undefeated team charging out of the tunnel and seeing the student section less than 50% full was just plain pathetic. Also complaining about the game day experience and the newly renovated stadium is a poor excuse. if you need luxury go to Levi's Stadium and pay a kings ransom to watch mediocre football.

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The students on the 50 are a huge part of our home field advantage, not to mention what's left of our college game day experience. But I think there's a way that you could maybe leverage some of those seats better without losing that: 20 minutes before kickoff open them to those with young alumni tickets. That gets motivated, fired up fans who know the recent traditions and history right where they can be best used to motivate and educate up and coming fans. And you'd end up with the section a LOT less empty at kickoff, too.

If enough people end up making the move game after game because the section stays chronically part empty, consider setting aside the top of the center section, above the card area, to recent grads permanently. Discounted tickets, with provisos: no reselling on the secondary market, and after kickoff the area reverts to student GA- so late arriving young alums buying these provisional tickets would only have reserved seats if they get there by kickoff. After that, GA in the student section, as if they were still students.

Honestly it is so frustrating sometimes on the west side, looking over and seeing a half or more empty students section, with all the noise, motion and energy concentrated at the bottom, and then over a few sections another little pocket of noise, energy, and enthusiasm, still trying to follow along. We ought to be making it easier for them to work together, honestly. Mind you, I'm not saying put the whole young alumni section back with the students. Just make it an option for those hard core enough to want it.

Yeah, it looks like Cal's current undergrads are loyal and generous alums in the making. After 4 years they will leave town with a diploma in one hand, flipping the bird with the other, and never to be seen or heard from again.

While I provided evidence that 42K is not out of the norm in recent years for the Cougs, average pretty much, the previous two times in CMS, to say that we never draw for the Cougs would not be correct either:

2009: 55K (4-2 before the game)
2007: 56K (5-3 before the game)
2005: 53K (5-2 before the game)

SonOfCalVa;842562399 said:

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In most (almost all) college venues, THERE'S NOTHING ELSE TO DO.
So they go to college football games ... rah, rah, party time.

But, based upon comments, I think I would have dumped season tickets long ago.
Cal football used to revolve around Cal traditions ... the Band ONLY for music, no commercials.
Silence in the stadium was rare because the noise came from people talking to each other.

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But even in those other venues, like Bama, like Tennessee, like Michigan, etc, they are having trouble selling out.

1979bear;842562443 said:

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Other than Tedford for about 7 years, and the last Snyder year, Cal football has been average to bad to awful for about 40 years.

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I would say that with the exception of several seasons that can be counted on less than 10 fingers - Pete Elliott's Rose Bowl season, Ray Willsey's one good season, a couple of seasons during Mike White's tenure, Bruce Snyder's last season, and a few seasons during the first half of Tedford's tenure, Cal football has varied from somewhere between mediocre to awful for the past 60 plus years.

On the surface it seems that over the last 60 plus years Cal has had the worst football program of any major conference team in the country. I know that's probably not true (some team such as Rice has probably been even worse), but as a Cal fan it just seems that way.

cjbarker;842562461 said:

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The students on the 50 are a huge part of our home field advantage, not to mention what's left of our college game day experience. But I think there's a way that you could maybe leverage some of those seats better without losing that: 20 minutes before kickoff open them to those with young alumni tickets. That gets motivated, fired up fans who know the recent traditions and history right where they can be best used to motivate and educate up and coming fans. And you'd end up with the section a LOT less empty at kickoff, too.

If enough people end up making the move game after game because the section stays chronically part empty, consider setting aside the top of the center section, above the card area, to recent grads permanently. Discounted tickets, with provisos: no reselling on the secondary market, and after kickoff the area reverts to student GA- so late arriving young alums buying these provisional tickets would only have reserved seats if they get there by kickoff. After that, GA in the student section, as if they were still students.

Honestly it is so frustrating sometimes on the west side, looking over and seeing a half or more empty students section, with all the noise, motion and energy concentrated at the bottom, and then over a few sections another little pocket of noise, energy, and enthusiasm, still trying to follow along. We ought to be making it easier for them to work together, honestly. Mind you, I'm not saying put the whole young alumni section back with the students. Just make it an option for those hard core enough to want it.

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If getting students on the 50 is so important (enough so that I can't think of another P5 program that gives up THAT much prime real estate for the students) then I suggest making the student sections the bottom half of the east side, roughly between the 20's. The upper half seats can be sold for way more than what students pay - and maybe the extra revenue gives us a little bit of a break from the constant advertisements and gimmicks at every single break (okay, that may be going too far).

If you sold those upper half seats between the 35 yard lines for $2-300 more per season than what you sell seats in the adjacent sections for now - I believe you'd have fuller midfield sections and better revenue per game and the most die-hard students will still be where they are now, 20 minutes before kickoff.

Selling club seats is a whole different price point - so I won't even try to imply we could sell those student seats for anything approaching what club members pay. On the other hand, I have to believe there are plenty of people on the east side who would be willing to pay $2-300 more per season to sit between the 35's?

Our student section should be full
For many years in 90's-00's it was consistently full and usually on time.
Be nice to see that now.
We have so many students.
They provide the energy
There are obviously reasons they don't attend as well as the past.
The admin needs to identify the issues, and then fix them.
Real incentives and rides from the frats up in little shuttles will help.

GoldenBear1;842562686 said:

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Our student section should be full
For many years in 90's-00's it was consistently full and usually on time.
Be nice to see that now.
We have so many students.
They provide the energy
There are obviously reasons they don't attend as well as the past.
The admin needs to identify the issues, and then fix them.
Real incentives and rides from the frats up in little shuttles will help.

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Athletics will have to figure out what the right balance is between the alcohol checkpoint and getting students into the game before kickoff. Our players deserve a full student section, if not a full stadium, as they are running out of the North Tunnel.